The (political) world awaits the announcement of Republican Fred Thompson that he’ll enter the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination sweepstakes.
Provocative and thought provoking articles and posts abound for those interesting in reading various perspectives. Here are a few of the best and most timely ones:
Blake Dvorak at Real Clear Politics believes Thompson’s strategy of waiting before formally jumping into the fray is a sound one that will pay off and not a mistake as some have suggested. (See our previous post on that issue HERE.)
Crooks and Liars’ John Amato says Thompson looks terrible and is pandering to the party’s far right.
The Washington Post reports that Thompson was abolutely mobbed at the Iowa State Fair (yours truly is writing this while performing at a fair in Idaho, by the way).
Firedoglake thinks Thompson has an identity crisis.
The AP interviewed Thompson who defends his career as a Washington lobbyist.
The Blogway Boys wonder: how conservative IS Fred Thompson?
Practical Reasoning wonders if Thompson is too lazy to walk.
Blogs for Fred Thompson assesses his chances in Iowa.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.