Mark Klein (politician)

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Dr. Mark Klein is a 65-year-old former physician and psychiatrist that is currently "testing the waters" for a campaign to win the GOP presidential nomination for 2008.

1 Early Life Before Politics
2 Politics
3 External links
4 Sources

[edit] Early Life Before Politics

Klein grew up on Long Island in a working class family of Eastern European descendants. His father was a butcher and his mother a homemaker.

Klein attended medical school at the State University of New York in Brooklyn. After graduation, Klein went on to practice medicine in New York and California, specializing predominantly in psychiatry. He has also been involved in the academic world, serving in faculty positions at Cornell Medical College, Long Island University, Hebrew University, and the University of California.

[edit] Politics

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In 2006, Klein began "testing the waters" for a bid for the Republican party presidential nomination. His website gives the reason as being "concerned about the heartless destruction of stable, affordable American middle class family life". He has never held an elected office. As his trademark, Klein is known as "The National Shrink", and his campaign slogan is "It's Time for a Grown-Up in the White House."

Klein's platform includes a number of pro-life, pro-family policies. In particular, Klein notes the alarming link between the housing bubble and abortion rates in America. He has been known to advocate a steady diet of Thiamin-rich foods, such as salmon, as vital to the health of Americans."^[1]

Klein consider's himself a "Sam's Club Republican", which he defines as Middle Class Republicanism - though his relationship with the company itself remains unclear.^[2] Klein's campaign team is attempting to drive home the Sam's Club theme, carefully choreographing its videos to show Klein in Sam's Club calibur clothing.^[3]

Dr. Klein is believed to have leaked the first negative ad of the 2008 season, an October 2006 affront to Governor Mitt Romney, entitled "Romney bad for dads."^[4]