The effort to sideline Tommy Thompson

In the two weeks since Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl announced his plan to retire in 2012 and Thompson signaled his interest in running for his seat, the former four-term Wisconsin governor once heralded as a conservative superstar has come under sustained attack from an unlikely source — other conservatives.

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