Opinion: A non-campaign shakeup

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The Associated Press is reporting that former senator and pretend prosecutor Fred Thompson has just shaken up the staff of his presumptive race for the GOP presidential nomination.

He’s not even in the race yet, but he’s changing the people around him who are running the unofficial campaign.

Tom Collamore, the former vice president of food and tobacco giant Altria, is out as acting campaign manager and in is an old Washington face, Spencer Abraham, another former senator and energy secretary. Florida GOP strategist Randy Enright will also be advising at the top.

Next thing you know there’ll be rumors about Thompson dropping out of the race he has yet to enter.

--Andrew Malcolm