Fred Thompson Ends Bid For White House
Posted on January 22, 2008
Just announced on Fox News.
Update from GF: Fred’s statement
“Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States.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.â€
Michelle Malkin wonders where his supporters will go. Many will sit out. Many will split in all different directions. Huckabee won’t get many though. I don’t know what I’ll do yet. Jay’s vote has already been sent in absentee for Florida for Fred. I guess we will just listen closely and decide when it’s time. He will go down as a personal hero, a Goldwater of sorts, in my personal book for standing up for conservative values.
Hot Air chalks it up to disorganization. At least he killed the Huckaboom.
Rusty says its time to get behind Mitt. I’ll see if I can get past his hair.
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Condolences.
Idiot, idiot Republicans. Our one good shot at salvaging the election. At this point it doesn’t really matter who gets elected…they’re all the same.
Just great. Now all we have left a flip-flopping Mormon and a bunch of Rinos.
Fred Retires His Presidential Campaign…
Fox News Channel and The Drudge Report are both reporting that Fred Dalton Thompson is dropping his bid for the GOP Nomination for President of the United States. One of the reports on television suggests that his mother is gravely ill. Before I drop m…
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Fred’s Out…
More from Michelle… As Brian and I had both been pulling for Fred, this comes as a disappointme…
Popularity: unranked [?]……
Fred was right. We need to deserve to lead…and we don’t…..where are teh differences with the left?
mccain? open borders - free speech = D
rudy? social liberal + 9-11 = mccain
(no difference between those two
huck? higher taxes + God + social liberal = political version of oral roberts with a bucket of Mao tossed on top
paul? brings home the troops and hands us a big fat “L” scoreboard in War, just like hill and hussien says they will…..
none of these SOBs will really secure the border, they will raise taxes (except paul, who may very well try to gut the government) they will not prosecute the GWOT and a few of them may well usher in a more socialist system with healthcare leading the way.
If we are going to hand the country over to socialist statists that pander, tax and over spend, let them have a D after their name.
Maybe it is time for a new party.
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First Duncan Hunter, then this.
However, I’m not going to give up on America just because the candidates aren’t perfect. Although, of course, things could change, for now I will consider Huckabee. I will write his campaign as often as possible and lobby for a change to conservatism, explaining that this will win my vote. I will also lobby Chuck Norris. It’s not time to quit yet. It’s time to stand up for America!
Never Say Never…
Well, now. Fred Thompson … my candidate since the day after the November 2004 election … dropped out of the race today.
Oh, well.
Some — not all, but some — of Thompson supporters are sounding like some of the nuts that support …
I am still gonna back Fred for President.
Fred Flintstone that is.
Fred! Withdraws. Who Do I Support Now?…
Statement by Fred!
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 s…
*sigh*
Time to start focusing on lower officeholders/candidates. The presidency is lost to fake liberals and/or fake liberals “lite”. Time to focus on pressuring congresscritters more and more and more and to lect state officials who will stand up to the feds on encroachment on state authority (and/act or in place of the feds’ lack of fulfilling its primary responsibilities in security–Oklahoma and Arizona acting to make illegals’ lives less comfortable, for example).
The Republican party–at the very least at the national level–is now Dhimmicrap-Lite, for the most part. Once again, As R.L. Dabney observed concerning 19th Century “conservatism”:
“Conservatism’s history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution, to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward to perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It tends to risk nothing serious for the sake of truth.â€
Goldwater was a libertarian and most likely would support homosexual marriage and maybe even genocide through abortion. Hilary did not have far to fall when she became a liberal.