Daub dips his toe in

Today Hal Daub announced that he’s thinking about running for the U.S. Senate.

Sporting a blue button down shirt, next to his wife, at the Benson Community Center (where he said he and his brother used to sell fruit at the firehouse as a kid), Daub said he is not a candidate today, but...

• Is going on a "listening tour" of all 93 of Nebraska’s counties;


• Is going to raise, money, but will put all raised funds into a trust fund, which won’t be spent unless he formally announces, and if he doesn’t, he’ll return all the contributions;


• Hasn’t decided whether or not he would run if Hagel stays in the race (since no one else has actually announced either);


• Is not going to hatchet any other pseudo-candidates (like someone else we know), and will be “respectful” of the incumbent, Hagel;


• Does not agree with Hagel that the GOP has been hijacked.

He has a new website – www.HalDaub.com – and if you want to see how informal his campaign is at this point, take a look. He lists his personal email address at Blackwell Sanders (helllllo SPAM…) and has a resume that must be four pages long. There’s a decent chance he put the site together, literally, by himself.

Unfortunately, the lone photo he has up, which says he’s a “Lifelong Nebraskan”, shows him in front of the D.C. cherry blossoms with the Washington Monument in the background. C’mon Hal! Chimney Rock! Get your melon in front of Chimney Rock! Ah well…

The presser was vintage Hal, with him machine-gunning off all the issues that need to be fixed. He was also pretty relaxed though and did a nice job bantering with the reporters. If nothing else, the guy is a veteran of the process, and has definitely mellowed with age -- he actually seemed to think and consider before answering the questions. And he did have a good line in response to a question about Jon Bruning’s poll showing Bruning walloping him: There was also an early poll that showed Dave Heineman losing to Tom Osborne by forty points…