Fred?
GOP Star Debut! Go Fred?
Friday, June 01, 2007 1:11 AM
May 31, 2007
WASHINGTON - Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson - who stars as Manhattan DA Arthur Branch on NBC’s “Law & Order” - is quitting the show and will file papers this week to begin raising the millions needed for a White House campaign, supporters said yesterday.
“There is a vacuum to be filled,” said former Georgia Sen. Mack Mattingly, who helped lay the groundwork to launch a nationwide Thompson campaign overnight.
“People are still looking for that Ronald Reagan candidate,” said one early supporter. Thompson’s formal announcement could come in the first week of July, supporters said.
Even before launching any sort of campaign, Thompson runs a comfortable third or fourth place in polls among a Republican field of more than 10 candidates.
It will be nice to have Fred join the pack. Good luck to him. Perhaps he will team up with Duncan Hunter?
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