Breaking news on FOX: Fred Thompson quits

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[tpanther]

Carl Cameron says it'll become offical sometime later this week.

Oh well, we're doomed. Let's hope it'll be minimal damage until 2012.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Cheney's heart could barely survive the past two elections. He'll never run in another.

But I fear the talk of "not supporting" the candidate because the only way democrats can win is by the entrance of a third party.

If a third party candidate emerges, the fix is in for Hillary to tell you and me how to tie our shoes for the next eight years.

[xzins]

His heart is not an issue. It’s just normal stuff that can be covered by docs and has been all along.

FWIW, the Constitution Party considers Ron Paul the leading contender for their nomination.

[Miss Didi]

So Michael Reagan was on Fox this morning with Pat Cadell to discuss the after-Fred factor. Fred was barely mentioned, instead Michael kept repeating “brokered convention” and concluded that the base is just dying for Newt who will be chosen at a brokered convention. (rrrrrright...) Poor Pat didn’t get a word in edgewise and then the topic turned to the age factor and McCain.

[conservativegramma]

I’m with Michael. I am praying my heart out right now for a brokered convention.

[pianomikey]

That was an entrancing video.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

I think most all voices, especially those who are so grounded in the Constitution, should be heard and discussed.

But once a candidate is chosen, it's a two-party system, or the democrats win.

[SuziQ]

I never said you sabotaged anything. I was commenting on the reality of the press coverage. Fred didn't do things the way THEY wanted him to do them, so they either trashed him, or ignored him. I didn't have a problem with the way Fred campaigned. He got out there and met with voters almost every day after he announced, but folks would be forgiven if they didn't know it. His own publicists might have filed reports with the media every day, I don't know, but it would be my guess that they were ignored, if they were filed.

Fred did take his issues seriously, but it seems, although conservatives talk a lot about wanting smaller government, lower taxes, a real reduction in abortions, and stronger security for this country, they didn't bother to vote for the one candidate who espoused all those views. Their loss.

[xzins]

Not necessarily. TR came within a whisker of winning by calling his 3rd party (officially) “Progressive Republicans.”

I don’t really trust Romney or McCain to be conservatives, so I’m ambivalent about it.

It’s “Dole” all over again.

Better for conservatism to have to endure 4 years in the wilderness than let these phonies win.

[Miss Didi]

RUSH: Brooks, Barnes, Kristol Want Us to Join the McCain-Lieberman Party

[Arcy]

I’ve given up on this presidential race. nothing to see here now.

Except this...

[SuziQ]

I honestly don’t think any of the RINO’s can beat her

Yes, they could, if folks will actually get out there and vote for them. I don't espouse the "let's let the Republicans lose and we'll teach them" frame of mind. I fear for our country's security with ANY Democrat in the White House, but especially Her Heinous. I also fear for this country's laws since the first thing that will happen after she's sworn in is that at least two, and possible three, of the Supremes will retire so SHE can name their replacements.

Thanks to President Bush's two newest justices, we've only just begun crawling out of the hole the liberal activist Supremes have been digging for the last 40 years. At least a Republican, even a RINO, who wants to be re-elected, might be responsive to his constituency and select Conservative justices. Of course, this hinges on our getting more conservatives in the House and Senate in order to fight the liberals who would be arrayed against ANY Republican president. We conservatives, who no longer have a favorite Presidential candidate for whom we might have worked, can now concentrate on the Congressional races.

[Arcy]

Fred Thompson’s entrance into this race is only now revealing the damage to the Republican chances of a win against the Demorats. He took votes away from more viable candidates that and allowed McCain to win S.C.. Thompson is the Ross Perot of this race. We’re screwed!!

[MaxMax]

He took votes away from more viable candidates

Who?

[Arcy]

you know who.

[prairiebreeze]

At least a Republican, even a RINO, who wants to be re-elected, might be responsive to his constituency and select Conservative justices.

"Might" makes me feel so much better....

Look, I'm really not arguing with your points, but how many conservatives are going to swallow all their pride and vote for what amounts to a liberal in sheeps clothing? RINO at best? It's not even the mindset of crawling through broken glass.....more like being dragged through it to the polls.

You trust the standing crop a lot more than I do. But maybe one of them will earn my vote. That's the ONLY way that candidate can get it. Period.

[onyx]

Looks like she may just get that chance, I honestly don’t think any of the RINO’s can beat her. Giuliani probably has the best shot at that. But who wants to vote for him??

Giuliani should be history after FL and he couldn't beat her inside NY where they know him best...lol. She has to be defeated --- those two cannot inhabit the WH ever again. They're already trying to skirt the 22nd Amendment. Just think of the bad actors we'll have to once again endure: ann lewis, harold ickies, lanny davis, strobe talbot, well hubbell, and the cast of smarmy lawyers, david kendall --- no, no, no.

[MaxMax]

No I don't! Now stop that.

/s

[prairiebreeze]

Well, the current crop of RINO’s better get busy earning my vote. That’s the only way one of them gets it. So far, I haven’t heard much that impresses me.

I’ve never contemplated sitting out an election in my entire life. It’s an uncomfortable meditation, yet one that keeps presenting itself.

Maybe time will help.

[Alex Murphy]

Fred proved one thing. He was never in this race to win, so why was he there?

"I am not consumed by personal ambition. I will not be devastated if I don't do it," he said. "I'm not particularly interested in running for president."

Even Fred Thompson doubts he'll be president

[cake_crumb]

"The is the same defeatist baloney the GOP has been employing for years. It has only brought incremental socialism to the party"

Beats voting for Hillary. Or Obama.