And the likelihood of Romney winning is about the same as President Bush parachuting out of Airforce One and landing on your head in drag.

Giuliani is the only Republican candidate who has a reasonably good chance of winning at this point, and only if he can get past the rabid fundie hatemongers in the primaries. He’s the only Republican running that doesn’t make me throw up (much). Don’t really know enough about Thompson yet to have an opinion either on him or his chances.

A couple days after he left, 21 people were killed at the same location.

The other guy from Tennessee, however, may just have a shot…

Once in office, the unthinkable happened: Thompson began working to make good on his word. As a member of the Governmental Affairs Committee, he helped pass the Congressional Accountability Act, making Congress subject to the same labor laws as other businesses. He also sponsored a constitutional amendment to establish term limits, introduced legislation to overhaul the budget process, and co-sponsored a smart, comprehensive campaign finance reform bill that would have, among other things, banned PAC money and required 60 percent of individual contributions to come from a candidate’s home state. Not surprisingly, the three measures failed–as did most of the substantive reform efforts of the 104th Congress. Undaunted, Thompson continued beating the reform drum during this year’s campaign. One of his ads featured the senator recounting all the measures that narrowly failed during his first term, concluding with the hopeful message: “It’s a good start” The press seems to agree, frequently praising Thompson for having the courage to stand firm on tough reform issues–even those that could hurt his popularity among fellow legislators. Of course, congressional reform enjoys strong public support; so as long as Thompson doesn’t rally enough votes to seriously threaten incumbents’ power, he’s unlikely to be tarred and feathered for providing senators an occasional opportunity to appear reform-minded.

Conservatives loved Reagan. Sounds like they could fall for another actor. And I mean that in a good way. Politicians need to be good communicators, and actors understand communication better than anybody, at least to an audience.

And personally, I like the reform message that Thompson was running on back in 94. But what will his message be this time around? I think Bush tired the voters out on the folksy route, and that’s basically Thompson’s schtick.

It’ll be interesting to watch.

I still hope Gore runs…a Gore/Obama ticket would be unbeatable

As you know Sleipner, I don’t credit you with Mensa credentials between the ears. But this statement is the kind of drivel that gets one a special guest appearance on The View.

The fact is, the Democrats do not yet have a serious contender that could beat Giuliani, Romney, or, (and talk about having one’s fingers crossed) Fred Thompson. Sorry, keep looking and good luck, but as it stands, the Dems are not going to win in 2008.

McCain is already a lame duck candidate, he’s too old and has done too much flipflopping and pandering to be considered seriously. People used to think he had integrity but he has ruined that image over the past few years.

I still hope Gore runs…a Gore/Obama ticket would be unbeatable, and would set Obama up for a 2016 presidency…ahh, 16 years of dem presidents…I’m salivating thinking about what that could do for the Supreme Court, especially with a dem controlled Senate. Failing that, my next choice is Edwards, then Obama. I’m against Obama only because I don’t think he’s quite ready yet, other than that I have no real problem with the man, and think he’d be the perfect VP.