News Item: Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer weighing presidential run
It's become an established phenomenon in recent years for politicians that everyone forgot about years ago to pursue a quixotic presidential run, with the intention of getting on the lecture circuit, increasing visibility, etc. But Roemer's an especially strange case- I went to an event during the '08 election at which Roemer appeared as a surrogate for John McCain, and I got the strong sense that Roemer hadn't paid much attention to politics in the past 15 years or so and was just doing a favor because McCain's a friend of his.
Then again, Roemer having once run against David Duke will make his opponents in the GOP field not quite as loathsome as they would be to some.