Left Wing Group Files FEC Complaint Against Thompson
I’m thinking this complaint has more to do with Thompson not choosing to get into the Presidential race as drastically early as all the other candidates have. The candidates this year have started their official campaigns terribly early, and by holding back Thompson has kept certain advantages over them.
And, naturally, all those other candidates don’t like that. So they’re going after him. The Republicans aren’t going to do it to one of their own guys, but the Democrats aren’t above using one of their puppet groups to file a complaint.
Remember that during the 2004 campaign John Kerry, who went on to become the Democrats’ nominee, didn’t officially announce his candidacy until September 2nd, 2003, after announcing it in December 2002. That’s actually a longer exploratory timeline than Fred Thompson has run (he didn’t really get started until March), yet nobody on the left seems concerned about that tid-bit of information.
