Announcement: I’m Not Running for President

Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 26 January 2007 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[WinOne4TheGipper]

That's it. I'm in.:)

[You Dirty Rats]

Today I found out my daughter is supporting Obama. She's a bright but politically clueless sophomore psych major. That's just one example of what I alluded to about Obama weeks ago -- he'll have the JFK factor where a lot of women will vote for him and could not care less what his actual positions are on the issues.

[GoldenPup]

John "Gong Show" Kerry fails...again. What else is new? Pathetic jerk!!!

[WVNan]

Good on you Cong. Billybob. I say, don't run for congress. Run for the Senate and start now. We must get more decent Senators, and I can't think of anyone better for the job than you. Whatever you do, God be with you.

[Man50D]

I decided I am not going to run for president either.

Whoa, I didn't see that one coming! Now I stand a chance! ;o)

[Man50D]

Today I found out my daughter is supporting Obama.

Would she change her mind if you threatened not to pay her tuition? ;o)

[TigersEye]

One less for Hillary. Don't discourage her just feed her any stories you find about Hillary's dirty tricks on Obama. Slowly poison the well and let your daughter pass it on to her liberal friends.

[Congressman Billybob]

That IS true. A significant minority of preppies "repeat" their senior years after they have graduated. The goal is to give them a leg up in the Ivy League competition. Kerry was one if those "repeats."

True story.

John

[rlmorel]

"...It would have been more prudent to fill that jacuzzi with penicillin...."

LOL...only if Paris Hilton was in there...

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

a bright but politically clueless sophomore psych major.

My oldest graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and her husband has a PhD. And they are in their mid thirties and are still politically clueless.

It's all over the place, I'm tellin' ya. I met a guy a week ago who talked enough politics to learn I am Republican, and said, "I'll bet you think that journalism isn't objective." My reaction at his insinuation that journalism obviously is objective was just to laugh. On reflection, I should have just asked him how journalists get the wisdom to be able to be objective. I figure objectivity and wisdom are pretty much synonyms, because I have never heard of "unwise objectivity."

And I don't think it will be easy to explain why journalists are any wiser than you or me . . .

[ThomasThomas]

I would like to thank John Kerry for brave move and encourage all Democrats to follow this example.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I am ill-equipped to run. If I ran, I would be defeated. Therefore, I won’t run. Still, it is galling to me to see people run for President who have less knowledge, experience, and integrity than I and tens of thousands of other Americans have. We would have better public officials if fewer candidates offered only “talents for intrigue and the little arts of popularity,” as Hamilton, Madison and Jay warned in the Federalist. But that’s a story for another day.

I can't help thinking that out of 300 million Americans there has to be not tens of thousands but hundreds of thousands of adults whose integrity and wisdom would match the best of the candidates so far on offer.

It is a bitter joke when people speak of "the best person for the job." It would be nice, but mostly we have had "adequate" - at best. Ronald Reagan might actually have been the best person for the job. In all other cases we have been voting for the lesser evil (naturally, since Reagan was probably the best man for the job every year since 1960 or so).

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

I add Sherman’s words: “If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve.”

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I consider the stableboy's advice about leading a horse to water--and wonder, how can I put salt in your oats...


Good column and better you than old John catsup-for-conscience, any day.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Hey, there's always Congress.

Your reminisces of Kerry always entertain me. In 2005 he came to a friend's funeral. I had been caught outside the police cordon and got in by joining Kerry's small entourage. He was ostentatious about making himself seen for the cameras, but oddly enough didn't speak to the members of the family, nor the 100+ combat veterans at the funeral.

If I didn't know better, I'd think he was avoiding us. I didn't think we were radioactive?

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[doug from upland]

Well done, as usual, John.

Great line: That’s because I’d skipped the First Grade, and he’d repeated the Twelfth Grade.

[Edgerunner]

I admire you, and I agree that the nation would have to reform greatly before they would elect a man like you. Don't give up, we NEED people like you in ANY office. Keep us informed of your endeavors...

[El Gato]

he’d repeated the Twelfth Grade.

And his supporters always went on about how dumb George W. Bush is? ROFLMAO!

[hosepipe]

Good points.. Who, who has lived a normal life, would run for president.. The fish bowl would be nakedly open to lies and the truth.. Look at Newt.. he is discounted on FR for moral mistakes, totally discounted.. Only liberal republicans are offered a modicum of cover by various media.. Newt would be gutted like a fish..

Little wonder few qualified REAL republicans will enter the race..
Pretty smart of them actually..