FRED THOMPSON DROPS OUT!!
Fred Thompson dropped his presidential bid Tuesday.
Republican presidential hopeful and former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn.,is joined by his wife Jeri Thompson and daughter Hayden, 4, as he makes a campaign stop to talk to supporters Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008, in Prosperity, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
From the Fred Files:
Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. Jeri and I will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful people.Breitbart reported:
Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson quit the Republican presidential race on Tuesday, after a string of poor finishes in early primary and caucus states.It looks like Molly Henneberg was right the other night describing the mood in the Thompson room as "like a funeral."
"Today, I have withdrawn my candidacy for president of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort," Thompson said in a statement.
Thompson's fate was sealed last Saturday in the South Carolina primary, when he finished third in a state that he had said he needed to win.
In the statement, Thompson did not say whether he would endorse any of his former rivals. He was one of a handful of members of Congress who supported Arizona Sen. John McCain in 2000 in his unsuccessful race against George W. Bush for the party nomination.
HotAir is updating this news.
The Anchoress offers advice to a party running itself unto madness.
It is a must read.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 1/22/2008 11:59:00 AM
17 Comments:
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yes, and i believe he's either endorsed, or will
be endorsing McCain (again), go figure.. :(
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right or wrong i have to say this, as it has been bothering me for some time now.. i started thinking that Thompson was only in the running in order to take votes away from other contenders ie: Romney and/or Rudy to boost McCain's percentages..
if Thompson does endorse McCain, i
will be convinced i was right.. :(
worse yet, if McCain wins & chooses Thompson as his running mate.. the supposed on my part gig will be up for certain..
and i was rooting for either a Romney/Thompson or Rudy/Thompson ticket.. *sigh*
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btw, forget the "mood".. i have never seen Thompson looking as "happy" as he does in his "withdrawal" pix..
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Thompson did not have my vote, but I am sorry to see him drop out. Our primary system washes people out too early.
Valerie
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Interesting, my earlier comment doesn't appear.
Here's an interesting article.
My how soon we forget.
Fred's out. Mitt's in.
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just for fun..
Barack Obama (missed 166 votes)
Hillary Clinton (missed 103 votes)
John Edwards (no missed votes readily
listed, but there's tons of "not voting")
John McCain (missed 247 votes)
Ron Paul (missed 333 votes)
Mike Huckabee
I CAN'T FIND HIS (fil in the blank) RECORD!!
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy doesn't have a voting record..
hence, the opinion piece above..
Mitt Romney
btw: i didn't count the "not voting" or "present" votes, but heard Obama voted "present" at least 130 times..
ps: Anti-Amnesty Romney Leads Poll in Next Primary in FLORIDA
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I find it interesting that Romney was not a tax cutter in Mass., and there are four sanctuary cities in that state.
Now he's a tax-cutting, anti-amnesty candidate, that is suddenly pro-life and pro-family.
I find it amazing that pro-Fred's would support Mitt.
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okay, managed to find this on Huckcrybabee
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Mitt Romney on Tax Reform
* Raised $240M in MA fees, but only covering cost of services. (Jan 2008)
* Zero tax rate on capital gains, for incomes up to $200,000. (Jan 2008)
* Lowering taxes, like Bush tax cuts, grows the economy. (Jan 2008)
* FactCheck: Never opposed 2003 Bush cuts, but never supported. (Jan 2008)
* Reduce the tax burden on middle-income families. (Dec 2007)
* Signed no-tax pledge; Dems pledge to raise taxes. (Sep 2007)
* Commission studied FairTax and found serious flaws. (Aug 2007)
* Pledges no new taxes in 2007 after refusing pledge in 2002. (May 2007)
* FactCheck: Did not raise MA taxes, but DID raise MA fees. (May 2007)
* End taxes on interests, dividends & capital gains. (May 2007)
* My pledge: no freeze on tax rollback. (Mar 2002)
* Pledges not to raise taxes. (Nov 1994)
Messatwoshits (Kennedy & Kerry), where intellectual elites beg to be taxed (not their University's though, oh no) & invaded by illegals, go figure.. :D
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The Achoress is way to new to politics to know this, but I've heard all of that before: demanding our loyalty to Gerald Ford (which we gave and lost) and to Richard Nixon(who damaged the party for decades as the crook we conserv atives knew him to be). Each of the current crop of candidates, now that Fred is gone, has at least two serious flaws each. But I'll support anyone but Huckabee or Paul.
But it will do no good; any one of them wil get run over come November. We WILL have a democrat in the WHite House. Simply because the current GOP crop is too uninspiring to stop the 'change' (which in Hillary's case will be all about gender).
If things are locked up by the time the GOP comes to Texas, might end up voting for Obama to assure the less dangerous (through inexperience and lack of vindictiveness) of two evils
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re: 'change'
here's an excellent piece by Thomas Sowell..
Dangerous Demagoguery
excerpts:
[Yet we seem to be no more aware of a need to be on guard against demagoguery today, in the 21st century, than those people who looked up with open-mouthed adulation at Adolf Hitler in the 1930s and at numerous other demagogues, large and small, around the world throughout the turbulent 20th century.
Many people find it thrilling that the mantra of "change" is ringing out across the land during this election year. But let's do what the politicians hope that we will never do -- stop and think.]
[ What is scary is how little interest the public and the media have in the actual track record of political saviors and the cry of generic "change."
America is not czarist Russia or Iran under the shah, so that people might think that any change was bound to be for the better. Yet even in those despotic countries the changes -- to communism and to the ayatollahs -- made them far worse.
The time is long overdue for voters to demand specifics instead of rhetoric that turns their emotions on and their minds off.]
unfortunately, i'm pretty sure most of it will fly over bumper-sticker Dhimmi Dems bobble-heads..
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Well, this certainly explains a lot about Fred's campaign.
The Fred Thompson Story-Now It Can Be Told.
I never knew a bridesmaid that didn't want to be the bride.
"However, the fact that Chuck Baldwin and the Club for Growth conveniently overlook is that Governor Huckabee refused to sign that tax increase. He [Huckabee] complained that it was “maximum taxes for minimum reform.” Another fact overlooked by those making the attacks is that during this time the Democrats held complete control of the state legislature. That is especially important to remember in this case, because although Mike refused to sign the tax increase, the Democratic super-majority was able to override the Governor, and the tax increase became a law without his signature. That one example explains $400 million of the $550 million in tax increases that Baldwin and the Club for Growth attribute to Mike Huckabee. You can read about the other increases here.
Aside from the tax increases, another overlooked fact is that when not under Court order to increase funding, he cut taxes more than 90 times, including pushing through one of the largest tax cuts in the state’s history. In fact, with the taxes he had control over, he was so fiscally conservative that Americans for Tax Reform (A conservative anti-tax lobbying organization founded in 1985 at the request of Ronald Reagan) awarded Mike Huckabee the “Friend of the Taxpayer” award during his time as Governor."
This link has many links, a veritable link fest.
Mitt proposed one major tax cut plan, to reduce the income tax from 5.3% to 5.0%, and he couldn't get that pushed through, even though he only had a 80% controlled donk controlled state legislature, while Mike had a 90% donk controlled legislature.
no2liberals,
thanks for that last update and links. It proves that both sides will go to great lenghts to destroy their opponents.
Huckabee I believe can defeat and disarm the hyper liberal. People overreact at all cost. I've seen some people say they will not vote if Thompson dropped out.
That is simply detestable. We go with the winner, we demand of the nominee all the conservative values that Reagan tapped. If anyone noticed, they all bow to the Reagan agenda. We forget that we do have the power to force all these candidates to listen to We the People.
They all got the message on the Border. Close the Border First!
Joshua
Joshua,
You are welcome.
It really burns my biscuits when misrepresentations are made, and others just accept them with out looking into the details themselves.
Mike doesn't have the funds to run out and buy ad time to refute every lie that is told about him, even if he wanted to. He's not a whiner, like some think. I've met the man, at a casual setting before he decided to run, but just before his time as Governor was over, and I spent nearly an hour with him, talking about everything from family, high school football, and politics. I'm a vet, an independent business person, and nobodies fool, with a well tuned BS detector, and nothing about him made the needle move. Not his hand shake, his eye contact, or his body language. I have actually made an effort to find out as much about the GOP candidates as I could, only using media reports and rivals attacks as reference points for research.
That said, I was for Hunter first, with Fred and Mike as my fall back choices, as they are to me the only conservatives in the race.
I do believe Mitt will win, because he has the money, and the issue that will dominate the Presidential debates is the economy, and Mitt certainly has excellent business acumen.
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