Posted on 01/22/2008 11:17:25 AM PST by 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.
End of the GOP as we know it!
Wear black!
Where have all the conservatives gones? I guess nobody can reply South Carolina anymore?
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Let the wailing and gnashing begin...
i would vote for a romney/thompson ticket...no way would i ever vote for rino mcain
sad...McCain scares me.
Pretty soon the parties will get what they want - races between two identical leftists vying for welfare state votes with the other half of the country "disenfranchized" & watching from the sidelines.
"Just shut up & pay your taxes".
foxnews.com also says that D’Amato is dropping his endorsement and moving over to McCain (against Giuliani, no shocker there).
Face it folks. Fred lost to Ron Paul in NH and MI and, I think, Nevada. He managed to squeak by Ron Paul in SC (where freepers thought he was going to win with his “surge”) and in Iowa. I don’t recall what happened in Wyoming. Fred is a joke as a campaigner. He won’t even make it to the top of the also-rans. Ron Paul has outraised him and out campaigned him and will last in the race longer. (I’m just observing here....I’m NOT for Paul).
But here’s the point.
Conservatism in the GOP doesn’t die with any particular candidate. Fred, as it turns out, was an incredibly poor vehicle to attach anything to. But that doesn’t mean that we are done. We will live to fight another campaign cycle and hopefully we will find somebody good next time, or, ideally, several good guys and let the best man win. Being right on the issues is not enough. You have to be able and willing to campaign. And Fred was NOT the man in that regard.
What is a shock?
They’ve been saying this on Fox News all moring during Fox and Friends.
Fred’s website hasn’t had a press release posted since Jan 18.
Fred’s walk is over.
I didn’t leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party has left me.
Sad thing.
Very, very sad. I’m going to miss his voice, his wit, his wisdom and his ACTUAL straight-talk (as opposed to the PHONY straight-talk of McCain).
I’m sorry you’re gone from the campaign, Fred.
I wish you well.
ED Hill
I HOPE SOME IDIOT DOESNT SAY SOMETHING STPID ABOUT HER TOO!
Drudge flash.
Fred Thompson drops out.... Developing...
An endorsement of McCain will put the lie to his conservative credentials.
Well, it’s official, Mitt is about as good as we are gonna get this year. Time to suck it up, hope the flipper stays flipped and doesn’t flop back later.
The republican party is so screwd up now
I think this proves several points in glaring clarity.
The first and most important being that this is NOT the powerful forum that many Freepers believe it is.
Yes, we do hold some sway with a press that is sometimes desperate for storys and FACTS, but we do not influence The Party, or the voters very much.
The left has succsessfuly demonized us, it seems, as just another “Right-Wing hate site” in the eyes of many...
If we want to WIN, we have to work WITHIN the Party Processes, and COMPROMISE with those we call RINO’s to advance any kind of a conservative agenda. We are but a small slice of a much bigger pie, and we must all work together to stop the advance of Democrat Corruption and Socialism...
FRED is/was definately my first choice in this circus, but now I am forced to move on to Mitt...
I just wish he would have stayed in to at least knock Hucks teeth down his throat.
I HATE the fact that Huck lasted longer than Thompson, Tancredo and Hunter.
Our only hope is that Dick Cheney gets in the Race Tomorrow.
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“In other news, police in dozens of cities and towns across America are investigating mysterious ‘heads exploding’ deaths.
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There is no need for this. Failed campaigns hurt. Rubbing it in does not help whoever your candidate it.
I have been backing Romney for some time. I hope the Romney people are kind to the Thompson folks, whose support will be welcomed.
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