January 22nd, 2008 2:16 PM Eastern
BREAKING NEWS: Thompson to Quit
by Fin Gomez
Per Carl Cameron:”FOXNEWS has learned that Fred Thompson is returning to his home in McClean VA and plans to withdraw from the race. He has begun calling friends, family and supporters and telling them his campaign is over.”
Statement from Sen. Fred Thompson
McLean, VA -
Senator Fred Thompson today issued the following statement about his campaign for President:”Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States.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.”
I predicted this. As I told Fred, last week, he should move to a retirement community and consider running for Neighborhood Watch Captain. Read it here: http://politiporn.com/2008/01/14/dawn-of-the-fred/#more-43
Open letter to Fred Thompson supporters:
http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?p=37
i hope he endorses mitt!!!!!!!!!!
Looks as though about 70% of Thompson supporters favored Mitt as their second choice, look for Mitt to take florida!
Go Romney 08 and beyond!
Romney ‘08!!!
let’s hope fred doesn’t endorse mccain. but from what i hear he and mccain are good friends.
hope his supporters don’t follow suit. i’m with the rest of you. my vote will go for Mitt but not Juan.
go mitt 08
Sorry to see Fred go; he was the one candidate I could support without reservations. McCain will not get my support, I don’t care who his friends are. He lost me with Campaign Finance Reform (incumbent Protection Act), Terrorist Bill of Rights and McKennedy-let-everyone-in-to vote democrat. Huckabee scares me - I don’t trust him. Romney might be the next best choice, but he’s got baggage too. No matter who gets the nomination, we have to make sure he can beat the dems. Even if it’s a Obama/Hill ticket, we can’t afford to get either one of those in the White House!
If Mitt is such a conservative, why did he not endorse the Bush tax cuts?
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Representative Barney Frank of Newton asked the governor whether he had spoken against the $726 billion worth of tax cuts the president is currently pushing at the federal level. Coming on top of $1.6 trillion worth of tax cuts in 2001, Democrats argue that the next round will expand the budget deficit, drain the US Treasury of money for social programs, and prevent the federal government from assisting states facing revenue losses caused by the downturn in the economy.
Romney said he had not publicly opposed the cuts, according to one observer at the meeting, prompting Frank to ask, “Will you?” Romney replied that he probably would not. The answer triggered laughter in what both sides described as an otherwise bipartisan session.
“I was very pleased,” Frank said afterward. “Here you have a freshman governor refusing to endorse a tax cut presented by a Republican president at the height of his wartime popularity.”
Key,
Why is it that you are quoting a nut job democrat and saying this is evidence against Romney. Look up Frank and you will find some interesting stuff. So who cares what his opinion is?
In Congress, Frank is an ardent supporter of medical marijuana. He was the author of the States’ Rights to Medical Marijuana Act (H.R. 2592), an attempt to stop federal government from intervening with states’ medical marijuana laws.[10] Frank consistently voted for the Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment, annually proposed by Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), that would prohibit Department of Justice from prosecuting medical marijuana patients.[11]
Frank has also been a critic of aspects of the Federal Reserve system, partnering with some Republicans in this opposition.[12] Frank says that he and Republican Congressman Ron Paul “first bonded because we were both conspicuous nonworshipers at the Temple of the Fed and of the High Priest [Alan] Greenspan.”[12]
In 2006, Frank was one of only three Representatives to oppose the Respect for America’s Fallen Heroes Act, which restricted protests (notably those of Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church) at soldiers’ funerals. He opposed the bill, which passed unanimously in the Senate, on civil liberties and constitutional grounds. Frank said of the vote, “I think it’s very likely to be found unconstitutional. It’s true that when you defend civil liberties you are typically defending people who do obnoxious things… You play into their hand when you let them provoke you into overdoing it. I don’t want these thugs to claim America is hypocritical.”[
CIAO EVERYONE. MSN & CNN JUST READ THE SLANDEROUS QUOTE FROM FOX EMBEDS re. 1. Obama is a Mulim 2, when he was sworn into office he DID NOT use the Holy Bible, but instead the Koran. 3, Obama refuses to salute the flag , et. al
Great God Almighty, ALL LIES. ALL LIES. ALL LIES. AS THE ANCHORMAN SAID, “IT DOES PROVE ONE THING, HOW LOW PEOPLE CAN STOOP. WHOMEVER WROTE THE TRASH IS WORSE THAN ANY CHARGE THEY WROTE.
HERE’S HOPING BRILLIANT HACKERS CAN TRACK DOWN THE DESPICABLE TWEEBS & THEY CAN BE TRIED FOR SLANDER. IT FOR SURE WAS NOT “SATIRE” OR “PARADY.”
HELLO. THE END DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE MEANS. PERHAPS YOU BELONG WITH THE LIKES OF LENIN, STALIN, JIM JONES . IT REALLY IS–THE WAY YOU PLAY THE GAME THAT TELLS THE WARRIOR HEROES IN THIS WORLD.
YAHOO. IT IS NOT NOT NOT TRUE; ALL WRITTEN BY SOME PITIFUL, TWISTED.
EVER ONWARD AND UPWARD ! EMPOWER AMERICA!