Thompson Adds Foreign Policy Talent
Written by Mark Harris on June 14th, 2007FRED THOMPSON IS adding more big-name policy talent as his testing-the-waters committee continues to grow into a real presidential campaign. Among the new additions: Mark Esper, national security adviser to former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist; Joel Shin, a top policy staffer on Bush-Cheney 2000; and Elizabeth Cheney, a former top official in the State Department’s Near East and South Asia department.
h/t: Weekly Standard (btw the new employer of sometime STG contributor, John McCormack)
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Thompson is surrounding himself with a great many Reagan/GHW Bush/Baker guys. It remains to be seen what effect they will have on his policy and stance on the issues. Like any politician I am watching Fred Thompson like a hawk. Now is the time to nip questionable stances on issues and poor policy in the bud at a grassroots level. If he figures out early that certain things won’t fly then it will make his path to the WH 1000x easier.