Tommy Thompson has decided to run... and news leaked of it on April 1st.  I wonder how much of that was on purpose.  That way when things go bad... he can just say he was kidding.  Here are some more details from the article:

Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson yesterday declared his intention to leverage his fame as former secretary of health and human services into a 90-day run for the U.S. presidency.

Mr. Thompson also hopes to garner an initial flurry of campaign dollars until donors figure out that he's not former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, the actor who stars in NBC's Law & Order, who has not yet indicated his presidential intentions.

By announcing on April 1, Mr. Thompson takes advantage of the full 2nd-quarter fundraising cycle before his planned news conference in early July 2007, at which he'll withdrawal from the race because "the political process is too focused on big money donors and special interest groups and not enough on the people," according to a leaked draft of his scheduled July remarks.

Oh... did I forget to mention it was coming from Scrapple Face?  The ironic part is that every line in that parody news article is the damned truth, but it was written to be funny.  Life really does imitate parody... either that or politics has become just that pointless.