This article at The Caucus made me chuckle a little. As he tests the waters for a presidential campaign, Fred D.
Thompson is changing his floaties before wading all the way in. The Times’s Susan Saulny reports that in addition to questions about his preparedness to run, this week’s broad staff turnover “also ignited speculation in Republican circles about who is really in charge, and in particular about the extent of the role being played by Mr.
Thompson’s wife, Jeri Kehn Thompson, a former political operative.”
Meanwhile, some campaign watchdogs are starting to say
that Mr. Thompson has been using the Federal Election Commission’s ‘testing the
waters’ status for just a little too long. From The Boston Globe:“This is supposed to be a grace period by the [Federal
Election Commission] to explore a candidacy, and it certainly appears he has
gone beyond that,” said Mary Boyle, spokeswoman for Common Cause, which
advocates strict enforcement of campaign finance laws. What Thompson “avoids
right now is the scrutiny that other candidates get from campaign finance
reports. That is part of the vetting process of running for president.”
I've heard that a few times now. He may get into legal trouble for stretching his testing-the-waters phase for political reasons: avoid scrutiny, let others self-destruct, and so forth.
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