[John Valentine]

Maybe you missed my point, Vet.

My complaint wasn’t with what Senator Thompson did, it was a complaint about what he DIDN’T do: persevere.

You can take fair umbrage at my tone, maybe. Fair enough. But you can’t really take issue with my point.

In fact you make it yourself, indirectly, when you criticize “the sheep that dutifully did the media’s bidding and voted for McCain and Huckabee”. The point is that the sheep would not have been able to do that for much longer - maybe a week or ten days. Giuliani was already dying, Huckabee already dead, and McCain a bloated gasbag of foulness that was about to burst on its own. The field was about to clear out for Fred.

And Thompson didn’t give Conservatives a choice - at least not this conservative. My primary comes late.

Like you I was nearly maxed out - over $2,000 moved from my bank account to the Thompson campaign.

Frankly, I’d like it back.

[Clara Lou]

Just wondering: Did you factor in his mother and her illnes? What would you do in his sitation?

[NavVet]

I got your point, and I would have liked Thompson to stay in it until at least Super Tuesday as well, just so that every conservative in the country would have at least had the option to vote for a conservative candidate. However, Fred and his advisors had to do a realistic assessment and they apparently determined that going on would have been the political equivalent of “tilting at windmills”. So, while you and I both disagree with Thompson’s decision to withdraw, I respect that decision and still consider my donations money well spent. Taking our frustrations out on the man that at least tried to save us from ourselves is counter productive.

[#1CTYankee]

"In fact you make it yourself, indirectly, when you criticize “the sheep that dutifully did the media’s bidding and voted for McCain and Huckabee”. The point is that the sheep would not have been able to do that for much longer - maybe a week or ten days. Giuliani was already dying, Huckabee already dead, and McCain a bloated gasbag of foulness that was about to burst on its own. The field was about to clear out for Fred."

I agree, Thompson withdrawal only helps the Democrats. (and Romney to an extent.)

[P-Marlowe]

Like you I was nearly maxed out - over $2,000 moved from my bank account to the Thompson campaign. Frankly, I’d like it back.

did it ever occur to you that at this point he decided that he really didn't want to waste anybody else's money.

For whatever reason he was going nowhere. I suppose he could have lied and made promises that he could never keep, like Romney did in Michigan. He promised us one thing, that he would be Fred Thompson. Republicans wanted their special interests, and voted for their own special interests (Military - McCain; Economy - Romney; Abortion - Huckabee; War on Terror - Giuliani; Insanity - Paul).

The republican party has been Balkanized. We needed a candidate like Thompson, but then we didn't vote for him.