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I started this post a month ago, so it isn’t exactly news, but nevertheless. (BTW, I said I would veer away from politics, but I guess outside of my family and technology, there isn’t much else I spend as much time reading and cogitating over.)

At he end of June, former US Senator Fred Thompson appeared to be on the verge of officially announcing that his flirtation with running was more than that, that he would be a candidate for the GOP nomination.

Personally, I was pleased. I found him to be an intriguing figure (I met him in 1998 at the Biloxi SRLC) and certainly as truly conservative, at least for the things I want, as any of the other candidates. (I won’t go on about my predilections, but suffice it to say if you want to see flip-flopping as high art, search for Mitt Romney on Youtube; and I was never a fan of McCain, since he appears to be totally opposed to our Senator McConnell on one of the more important issues – free speech; but I digress.)

But from the tech side what I found interesting is how he was able to build his team up and get a web site that was pretty nice looking in only a week. I realize he probably was laying the ground work for a bit longer. However, only 4 years ago, the web site would have been an afterthought and certainly wouldn’t have been so high on the agenda. Moreover, I was impressed with the quality of the site in the time frame it appeared from germination to execution of his nascent campaign.

I hope, at least from the techy side, he continues to use this forethought to his advantage. The GOP seemed to have been the first movers on the Internet, as a way to gain an advantage over the mainstream leftist media, but since Dean in 2004, we seem to have lost our way and our current presidential candidates and the national committee may be throwing money at it, but certainly aren’t making all the right moves that the Dem candidates are (see Clinton ad, Obama MySpace).