Fred Thompson Pulls Out of the Race

I am proud to say that I was a Fred Thompson supporter, and will always be a Fred Thompson supporter. I do not understand what the H*** is wrong with my party. McCain, and Huckabee are not conservatives yet conservatives from South Carolina(which is a hugh part of the Republican part down there) voted for them over Thompson. I do not know what would be worse a Liberal Republican or a Liberal Democrat. When Democrats destory the counrty we can blame the Dem, but when our own party does it who do we blame. Now I must figure out who I am going to vote for by Feb 5, man where has my party gone to.

I was very disapointed with Fred Thompson dropping out of the race. Like you I thought he was the one true Conservative in the group and he is not a career politician like McCaine. A sad day for the Republician Party.

Any candidate I support is doomed. I, too, liked Fred Thompson. Hey, wait a minute. This gives me a great idea. I'll just come out in support of Hillary. That way she'll have to lose.

He was too conservative for me. He gets more coverage than Ron Paul, however...at least through CNN/Fox. At least he is considered a candidate in most newspaper articles about the results of caucuses. Most that I have seen list McCain, Huckabee, Romney, Thompson, and Giuliani, but conveniently leave out Dr. Paul...although Dr. Paul almost always did better in caucuses and primaries than both Thompson and Giuliani. Oh well, it's all about who the press wants to be the next president, not about the people want. I guess we should all get used to that, but I agree that it gets very frustrating and irritating to see your candidate of choice doing things to further his campaign, yet getting no press for it while Romney, McCain, and Huckabee can scratch their noses and get a front page article on it.

Strangely enough, as liberal as I am, I could have voted for Thompson; despite his anti gay stance, because he was honest. I feel the man said what he felt and honesty is a rarity in a political candidate. I actually voted for bush, don't tell anyone, lol, for the same reason.

thats too bad. although not an american (canadian here) i live rather close to the us (an hour away from buffalo, ny) i believe that he would have been a good president, probably better than hillary or the other dude!

Thompson was my choice for President, however, he made several crucial mistakes during his campaign. One of which was that he wasn't active enough. A typical candidate does several speeches or town hall meetings a day, greeting voters, shaking hands, and doing what it takes to get his name out there. Thompson was relying heavily on two factors: 1) He was an actor and noticeable and 2)The groundswell that happened to get him into the race. His townhall meetings were often a short speech followed by a quick exit. He didn't spend the time to actually seem friendly. Case in point- Governor Huckabee plays with his band at many campaign stops. Mayor Guiliani often sticks around for hours after a meeting to answer questions one on one. John McCain doesn't do formal speeches very often. He dresses down (read khakis' some sort of button down shirt instead of suit and tie) and makes jokes at his speeches. Thompson would have clearly been the best hope to revive the Reagan Revolution days, but unfortunately he wasn't quite up for the task.

I had no idea. I thought he was a very carismic guy. I didnt see him trashing the others like many of the politicians resort to so maybe this is why the tv was not covering him. He wasnt good enough ratings I guess. I figure we will see more dropping out as the race tightens up. That is something I could never do. I sont have the personal strength.

I'd watch out now if I were McCain, you take Thompson out of South Carolina and Huck & Chuck win that state with the evangelical vote. Now Huck & Chuck have the entire south (Bible Belt) to themselves for Super Tuesday. If they had a little more $ I think they could pull this off. This might get a little more interesting. I wonder if Chuck Norris will be at the upcoming debates. Huck can use him to intimidate his opponents.

I wasn't planning on voting for him if he did make it but out of some of the other candidates out there he was higher on my list as a hopeful then say Mitt or Obama.