Tommy Thompson Bows Out of the Race

Real Clear Politics ^ | 8/12/07 | Tom Bevan

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

BTTT (guffaws under breath)

[Darkwolf377]

WHOAH! This changes EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

;)

[Old Sarge]

How did he poll? What results?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Tommy could have and should have ran for President in 2000. He had 3 terms as WI Governor under his belt, and he turned the state around from a crappy welfare hell-hole into a great state (now it's back to a crappy liberal hell-hole under Governor Doyle). He was a real Republican, and there's no doubt that he would have cut spending and reduced the size of government as well.

My guess is that the establishment told Tommy not to run because they were grooming Bush to run.

[cripplecreek]

He didn’t dump enough money into it. Some blew the whole ball of wax on the Iowa poll and it wasn’t enough.

[Sir Hailstone]

Now if only Ron Paul would disappear.

[My Favorite Headache]

Breaking on CNN right now.

[doug from upland]

If he throws all his support to Ron Paul, Paul would manage to get up to 2.5%.

[My Favorite Headache]

My bet is his support goes to Romney or Thompson.

[mazza]

He sorta reminded me of a circus ringmaster. He would make some borderline conservative statement and then strut for a few minutes. lol

[over3Owithabrain]

Who is going to get his family’s votes??

[Darkwolf377]

He sure didn’t make much of an impact when he had a cabinet position and could have made a huge positive impression on the American people. He squandered that golden opportunity.

[Dragonspirit]

I’m more interested to see if he will actively campaign for the GOP in Wisconsin in the actual Presidential race. Wisconsin is the most likely state to flip our way in 2008.

[RDTF]

lol

[oakcon]

“my campaign was completely shocked. We absolutely thought we were coming in second [at the Iowa Straw Poll]. We had no doubt in our minds. The worst we thought we’d come in was third and it didn’t happen that way. Something happened between the 50-yard line and the goal line. They pulled a reverse on us and we didn’t see it coming.”

It is very very sad to see self-delusion this entrenched.

[fish hawk]

Who dat?

[deport]

Weeks ago, he told supporters and the news media that if he did not do well in the Iowa Straw Poll, he would step aside and leave others to work for the Republican nomination.

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He’s been around the track a time or two and thus apparently knows when you don’t stike an accord with the voters it’s time to fold tent and move to something else. That’s something I don’t think others in this field for 2008 have learned yet or may never learn.

[cripplecreek]

He went in thinking he could do very well and blew his money on it. Others went in without thinking they would beat the big money and can stick around because they didn’t blow all they had.