Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson delays Senate race announcement

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MADISON — Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson said Friday that he'll wait until after summer recall elections targeting Republican state lawmakers to announce whether he'll run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Democrat Herb Kohl.

Thompson has repeatedly toyed with the idea of running again for public office since he left the governor's office in 2001 to become President George W. Bush's secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. In a Friday statement, the Republican left open the possibility of his running for the Senate next year, but he won't officially announce his plans any time soon.

"For the next two months, I will be focused on the unprecedented recall elections happening in Wisconsin," Thompson said. "Once we are through this critical period of recall elections, it will be appropriate to talk about 2012, and I will make my intentions clear then — but not sooner."

In a sign that he may be running, Thompson has hired Madison-based consulting firm Persuasion Partners Inc., said its president Darrin Schmitz. His firm released the statement from Thompson.

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011106110580

[sybylla]

1. Tommy's just wailing on his tool - like he does every election cycle.

But nothing ever comes of it - if you get my drift.

He knows he'd lose not only his ass but whatever remnants exist of his reputation in the minds of pukes. He left HHS a failure. He made a debacle of handling the anthrax mailings. He left the governorship of WI just before the shit hit the fan after 14 years of conning voters into thinking he knew what he was doing.

It will all come back to bite him in the ass if he even tries. But he won't because nothing means more to a has-been puke than his trumped up reputation.

[elocs]

2. Tommy can leap if he feels froggy, but I think he likes the attention of toying much better.

He clings to the myth of his glory days, but when push comes to shove he fears putting it to the test.

[Alexander]

3. The author apparently forgot Thompson's short-lived White House bid in 2008.

Actually, it was 2007. Tommy Thompson didn't even make it to 2008.

"Thompson has repeatedly toyed with the idea of running again for public office since he left the governor's office in 2001 to become President George W. Bush's secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services."