I'm back, and the wait is nearly over!!!

I am back from an extended break from blogging to get my leisure time in before the 2008 Campaign starts gaining steam. Just like Fred, I found that jumping into the center of the Presidential Campaign in the summer of an odd numbered year to be pointless.

With a September 1st deadline looming to register as a candidate to the West Virginia Republican Party Convention, Fred Thompson has approximately 48 hours to register here.

My prediction is that he WILL participate in the West Virginia Convention, and I suspect his internal meeting today may be to inform his troops that his FEC papers are in the mail and that he will be announcing the day after the September 5th debate. He may even tell them the papers to participate in West Virginia are on their way also.

Did our state's deadline encourage him to set things in motion now so that he could participate here? I don't know, but that would be cool. It is hard to get used to WV as a key battleground state in Presidential politics. After all the defining moment of the 2004 Presidential Election took place in Huntington.

Guliani, Romney, Huckabee, McCain, and company have all been in the race for several months now, and the only significant developments has been the very predictable collapse of McCain and the emergence of Ron Paul as the official GOP hippie magnet (anti-war and pro-drug legalization)

Newt was right, it is pointless to have spent all of this Spring and Summer criss-crossing the country begging for attention.