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| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 2:25 PM
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We can only hope... |
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| markusmaximus 
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1/22/2008 2:26 PM
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We can only hope... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 263764
...not until he gets trounced in Florida.
Don't Panic.
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| SHR 
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1/22/2008 2:27 PM
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We can only hope...
...not until he gets trounced in Florida. Quoting: markusmaximus
Don't bet the rent on that......
yep looks like Fred is gone, From Dudge.
Fred Thompson drops out.... Developing...
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In a different time, when the words didnt rhyme, you could never quite be sure.
Then on with the change, it was simple but strange, and you knew the feeling seemed to say it all.
It cries for you. It's the least that you can do. Like a spiral on the wind.
I can hear it screaming in my mind... |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 2:27 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
We can only hope... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 263764
Who is he backing? |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 2:28 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
We can only hope...
...not until he gets trounced in Florida. Quoting: markusmaximus
From your fingers to God's ears.
I'm in St. Pete, and I haven't seen him anywhere.
I'm a former New Yorker, and I wouldn't vote for that corrupt s.o.b. if he were the only guy running. |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 2:29 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
We can only hope...
Who is he backing? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 284011
I was wondering the same thing....who do you think?
Romney? |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 2:29 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
Thank you God!
Now 3 more to go! |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 2:30 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
We can only hope...
Who is he backing?
I was wondering the same thing....who do you think?
Romney? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 263764
I have heard that he is friends with McCain. |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 2:30 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
[link to www.nytimes.com]
The Long Run
In Matters Big and Small, Crossing Giuliani Had Price
By MICHAEL POWELL and RUSS BUETTNER
Published: January 22, 2008
Rudolph W. Giuliani likens himself to a boxer who never takes a punch without swinging back. As mayor, he made the vengeful roundhouse an instrument of government, clipping anyone who crossed him.
The Long Run
A Mayor’s Battles
This is part of a series of articles about the lives and careers of contenders for the 2008 Republican and Democratic presidential nominations.
Members of Housing Works, a nonprofit group that had challenged Mr. Giuliani’s AIDS policies, marching near City Hall in 1998. The police placed snipers atop City Hall during the march and monitored it by helicopter.
In August 1997, James Schillaci, a rough-hewn chauffeur from the Bronx, dialed Mayor Giuliani’s radio program on WABC-AM to complain about a red-light sting run by the police near the Bronx Zoo. When the call yielded no results, Mr. Schillaci turned to The Daily News, which then ran a photo of the red light and this front page headline: “GOTCHA!”
That morning, police officers appeared on Mr. Schillaci’s doorstep. What are you going to do, Mr. Schillaci asked, arrest me? He was joking, but the officers were not.
They slapped on handcuffs and took him to court on a 13-year-old traffic warrant. A judge threw out the charge. A police spokeswoman later read Mr. Schillaci’s decades-old criminal rap sheet to a reporter for The Daily News, a move of questionable legality because the state restricts how such information is released. She said, falsely, that he had been convicted of sodomy.
Then Mr. Giuliani took up the cudgel.
“Mr. Schillaci was posing as an altruistic whistle-blower,” the mayor told reporters at the time. “Maybe he’s dishonest enough to lie about police officers.”
Mr. Schillaci suffered an emotional breakdown, was briefly hospitalized and later received a $290,000 legal settlement from the city. “It really damaged me,” said Mr. Schillaci, now 60, massaging his face with thick hands. “I thought I was doing something good for once, my civic duty and all. Then he steps on me.”
Mr. Giuliani was a pugilist in a city of political brawlers. But far more than his predecessors, historians and politicians say, his toughness edged toward ruthlessnessand became a defining aspect of his mayoralty. One result: New York City spent at least $7 million in settling civil rights lawsuits and paying retaliatory damages during the Giuliani years.
After AIDS activists with Housing Works loudly challenged the mayor, city officials sabotaged the group’s application for a federal housing grant. A caseworker who spoke of missteps in the death of a child was fired. After unidentified city workers complained of pressure to hand contracts to Giuliani-favored organizations, investigators examined not the charges but the identity of the leakers.
“There were constant loyalty tests: ‘Will you shoot your brother?’ ” said Marilyn Gelber, who served as environmental commissioner under Mr. Giuliani. “People were marked for destruction for disloyal jokes.”
Mr. Giuliani paid careful attention to the art of political payback. When former Mayors Edward I. Koch and David N. Dinkins spoke publicly of Mr. Giuliani’s foibles, mayoral aides removed their official portraits from the ceremonial Blue Room at City Hall. Mr. Koch, who wrote a book titled “Giuliani: Nasty Man,” shrugs.
“David Dinkins and I are lucky that Rudy didn’t cast our portraits onto a bonfire along with the First Amendment, which he enjoyed violating daily,” Mr. Koch said in a recent interview.
Mr. Giuliani retails his stories of childhood toughness, in standing up to bullies who mocked his love of opera and bridled at his Yankee loyalties. Years after leaving Manhattan College, he held a grudge against a man who beat him in a class election. He urged his commissioners to walk out of City Council hearings when questions turned hostile. But in his 2002 book “Leadership,” he said his instructions owed nothing to his temper.
“It wasn’t my sensitivities I was worried about, but the tone of civility I strived to establish throughout the city,” he wrote. Mr. Giuliani declined requests to be interviewed for this article.
His admirers, not least former Deputy Mayor Randy M. Mastro, said it was unfair to characterize the mayor as vengeful, particularly given the “Herculean task” he faced when he entered office in 1994. Mr. Giuliani’s admirers claimed that the depredations of crack, AIDS, homicide and recession had brought the city to its knees, and that he faced a sclerotic liberal establishment. He wielded intimidation as his mace and wrested cost-savings and savings from powerful unions and politicians.
“The notion that the city needed broad-based change frightened a lot of entrenched groups,” said Fred Siegel, a historian and author of “The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life.” “He didn’t want to be politic with them.”
He cowed many into silence. Silence ensured the flow of city money.
Andy Humm, a gay activist, worked for the Hetrick-Martin Institute, which pushed condom giveaways in public schools. When Mr. Giuliani supported a parental opt-out, the institute’s director counseled silence to avoid losing city funds. “He said, ‘We’re going to say it’s not good, but we’re not going to mention him,’ ” Mr. Humm said.
“We were muzzled, and it was a disgrace.”
Picking His Fights
Mr. Giuliani says he prefers to brawl with imposing opponents. His father, he wrote in “Leadership,” would “always emphasize: never pick on someone smaller than you. Never be a bully.”
As mayor, he picked fights with a notable lack of discrimination, challenging the city and state comptrollers, a few corporations and the odd council member. But the mayor’s fist also fell on the less powerful. In mid-May 1994, newspapers revealed that Mr. Giuliani’s youth commissioner, the Rev. John E. Brandon, suffered tax problems; more troubling revelations seemed in the offing.
At 7 p.m. on May 17, Mr. Giuliani’s press secretary dialed reporters and served up a hotter story: A former youth commissioner under Mr. Dinkins, Richard L. Murphy, had ladled millions of dollars to supporters of the former mayor. And someone had destroyed Department of Youth Services records and hard drives and stolen computers in an apparent effort to obscure what had happened to that money.
“My immediate goal is to get rid of the stealing, to get rid of the corruption,” Mr. Giuliani told The Daily News.
None of it was true. In 1995, the Department of Investigation found no politically motivated contracts and no theft by senior officials. But Mr. Murphy’s professional life was wrecked.
“I was soiled merchandise — the taint just lingers,” Mr. Murphy said in a recent interview.
Not long after, a major foundation recruited Mr. Murphy to work on the West Coast. The group wanted him to replicate his much-honored concept of opening schools at night as community centers. A senior Giuliani official called the foundation — a move a former mayoral official confirmed on the condition of anonymity for fear of embarrassing the organization — and the prospective job disappeared.
“He goes to people and makes them complicit in his revenge,” Mr. Murphy said.
This theme repeats. Two private employers in New York City, neither of which wanted to be identified because they feared retaliation should Mr. Giuliani be elected president, said the mayor’s office exerted pressure not to hire former Dinkins officials. When Mr. Giuliani battled schools Chancellor Ramon C. Cortines, he demanded that Mr. Cortines prove his loyalty by firing the press spokesman, John Beckman.
Mr. Beckman’s offense? He had worked in the Dinkins administration. “I found it,” Mr. Beckman said in an interview, “a really unfortunate example of how to govern.”
Joel Berger worked as a senior litigator in the city corporation counsel’s office until 1996. Afterward, he represented victims of police brutality and taught a class at the New York University School of Law, and his students served apprenticeships with the corporation counsel.
In late August 1997, Mr. Berger wrote a column in The New York Times criticizing Mr. Giuliani’s record on police brutality. A week later, a city official called the director of the N.Y.U. law school’s clinical programs and demanded that Mr. Berger be removed from the course. Otherwise, the official said, we will suspend the corporation counsel apprenticeship, according to Mr. Berger and an N.Y.U. official.
“It was ridiculously petty,” Mr. Berger said.
N.Y.U. declined to replace Mr. Berger and instead suspended the class after that semester.
‘Culture of Retaliation’
The Citizens Budget Commission has driven mayors of various ideological stripes to distraction since it was founded in 1932. The business-backed group bird-dogs the city’s fiscal management with an unsparing eye. But its analysts are fonts of creative thinking, and Mr. Giuliani asked Raymond Horton, the group’s president, to serve on his transition committee in 1993.
That comity was long gone by the autumn of 1997, when Mr. Giuliani faced re-election. Ruth Messinger, the mayor’s Democratic opponent, cited the commission’s work, and the mayor denounced the group, which had issued critical reports on welfare reform, police inefficiency and the city budget.
So far, so typical for mayors and their relationship with the commission. Mr. Koch once banned his officials from attending the group’s annual retreat. Another time, he attended and gave a speech excoriating the commission.
But one of Mr. Giuliani’s deputy mayors, Joseph Lhota, took an unprecedented step. He called major securities firms that underwrite city bonds and discouraged them from buying seats at the commission’s annual fund-raising dinner. Because Mr. Lhota played a key role in selecting the investment firms that underwrote the bonds, his calls raised an ethical tempest.
Apologizing struck Mr. Giuliani as silly.
“We are sending exactly the right message,” he said. “Their reports are pretty useless; they are a dilettante organization.”
Still, that dinner was a rousing success. “All mayors have thin skins, but Rudy has the thinnest skin of all,” Mr. Horton said.
Mr. Giuliani’s war with the nonprofit group Housing Works was more operatic. Housing Works runs nationally respected programs for the homeless, the mentally ill and people who are infected with H.I.V. But it weds that service to a 1960s straight-from-the-rice-paddies guerrilla ethos.
The group’s members marched on City Hall, staged sit-ins, and delighted in singling out city officials for opprobrium. Mr. Giuliani, who considered doing away with the Division of AIDS Services, became their favorite mayor in effigy.
Mr. Giuliani responded in kind. His police commanders stationed snipers atop City Hall and sent helicopters whirling overhead when 100 or so unarmed Housing Works protesters marched nearby in 1998. A year earlier, his officials systematically killed $6 million worth of contracts with the group, saying it had mismanaged funds.
Housing Works sued the city and discovered that officials had rescored a federal evaluation form to ensure that the group lost a grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Martin Oesterreich, the city’s homeless commissioner, denied wrongdoing but acknowledged that his job might have been forfeited if Housing Works had obtained that contract.
“That possibility could have happened,” Mr. Oesterreich told a federal judge.
The mayor’s fingerprints could not be found on every decision. But his enemies were widely known.
“The culture of retaliation was really quite remarkable,” said Matthew D. Brinckerhoff, the lawyer who represented Housing Works. “Up and down the food chain, everyone knew what this guy demanded.”
The Charter Fight
The mayor’s wartime style of governance reached an exhaustion point in the late 1990s. His poll numbers dipped, and the courts routinely ruled against the city, upholding the New York Civil Liberties Union in 23 of its 27 free-speech challenges during Mr. Giuliani’s mayoralty. After he left office, the city agreed to pay $327,000 to a black police officer who was fired because he had testified before the City Council about police brutality toward blacks. The city also agreed to rescind the firing of the caseworker who talked about a child’s death.
In 1999, Mr. Giuliani explored a run for the United States Senate. If he won that seat, he would leave the mayor’s office a year early. The City Charter dictated that Mark Green, the public advocate, would succeed him.
That prospect was intolerable to Mr. Giuliani. Few politicians crawled under the mayor’s skin as skillfully as Mr. Green. “Idiotic” and “inane” were some of the kinder words that Mr. Giuliani sent winging toward the public advocate, who delighted in verbally tweaking the mayor.
So Mr. Giuliani announced in June 1999 that a Charter Revision Commission, stocked with his loyalists, would explore changing the line of mayoral succession. Mr. Giuliani told The New York Times Magazine that he might not have initiated the charter review campaign if Mr. Green were not the public advocate. Three former mayors declared themselves appalled; Mr. Koch fired the loudest cannonade. “You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Mr. Mayor,” he said during a news conference.
Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr., chairman of a Charter Revision Commission a decade earlier, wrote a letter to Mr. Giuliani warning that “targeting a particular person” would “smack of personal politics and predilections.
“All this is not worthy of you, or our city,” Mr. Schwarz wrote.
Mr. Mastro, who had left the administration, agreed to serve as the commission chairman. He eventually announced that a proposal requiring a special election within 60 days of a mayor’s early departure would not take effect until 2002, after both Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Green had left office. A civic group estimated that the commission spent more than a million dollars of taxpayer money on commercials before a citywide referendum on the proposal that was held in November 1999.
Voters defeated the measure, 76 percent to 24 percent. (In 2002, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg advocated a similar charter revision that passed with little controversy.)
Mr. Green had warned the mayor that rejection loomed.
“It was simple,” Mr. Green said. “It was the mayor vindictively going after an institutional critic for doing his job.”
None of this left the mayor chastened. In March 2000, an undercover officer killed Patrick Dorismond, a security guard, during a fight when the police mistook him for a drug dealer. The outcry infuriated the mayor, who released Mr. Dorismond’s juvenile record, a document that legally was supposed to remain sealed.
The victim, Mr. Giuliani opined, was no “altar boy.” Actually, he was. (Mr. Giuliani later expressed regret without precisely apologizing.)
James Schillaci, the Bronx whistle-blower, recalled reading those comments and shuddering at the memory. “The mayor tarred me up; you know what that feels like?” he said. “I still have nightmares.” |
| Little Star
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1/22/2008 2:31 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
We can only hope...
Who is he backing?
I was wondering the same thing....who do you think?
Romney? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 263764
Romney will be the next presie.
I saw a vid on CNN of old mad man Bush, and he mouthed the words"He is the chosen one". |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 263764 (OP)
1/22/2008 2:32 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
I was wondering the same thing....who do you think?
Romney?
I have heard that he is friends with McCain. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 284011
Oh great...McCain is just dying to push that little red
button. |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 2:32 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
he'll probably back mccain because he agrees that we need to be in iraq for the next 100 years....  |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 2:33 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
Ha, I guess we can look forward to seeing Senator Thompson resume his film career!  |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 2:36 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
We can only hope...
Who is he backing?
I was wondering the same thing....who do you think?
Romney?
Romney will be the next presie.
I saw a vid on CNN of old mad man Bush, and he mouthed the words"He is the chosen one". Quoting: Little Star
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| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 2:37 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
So this leaves the Repubing Pack with Romeny, McCain, Huckabee, Paul and Rudy. Did I miss anyone? |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 2:38 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
His physical health is fragile. |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 2:40 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
I HAVE AN AQUAINTANCE WHO'S SKULL AND BONES AND HE SAID THAT ROMNEY WAS A DONE DEAL ABOUT 6 MONTHS AGO. HE SAID THE PICKS COME WAY AHEAD OF TIME AND EVERYTHING ELSE IS THEATER.
:DUNNO: |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 2:40 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
Romney will be the next presie. Quoting: Little Star
I disagree. The evangelicals and conservatives I know will NEVER support a Mormon, they think Mormonism is a "cult".
I think Mitt's winning the republican (via manipulation) because they actually want to put Hillary into power.
If it comes down to it, the evangelicals may vote for a democrat over a cultish Romney. |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 2:41 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
I doubt he will be making any new film, I imagine it takes all his energy to satisfy his trophy wife...like Mc Cain...it is one or the other, they just are too old to do both...Not so for ron paul who has fifty years into his relationship with his wife...they lend each other energy.
I hope they all jump ship, like the CFR rats they are, when the going gets tough these girly men will run back to their warm fuzzy comfort zones and leave the truly WISE to restore what made America great
Hang in there Ron Paul, it won't be long now and you are the only one that stands a chance of giving the hildabeast a run for the gold (standard)
LONG LIVE RON PAUL! |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 2:41 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
Ron Paul wins through attrition, crafty old fukcer aint he? |
| dinosaurex
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1/22/2008 2:42 PM
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Don't give up until you're dead. Then get serious about it!
This ad sponsored by Ghouls For Ghouliani |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 2:44 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
Lots of funny stuff in this article.
Huckabee is a nut case...
[link to www.alternet.org]
..../....
Huckabee, who in recent years has lost 100 pounds, has the roundish, half-deflated physique of an ex-fatty. With his button nose and never-waning smile, he looks slightly unreal, like an oversize Muppet. I was so taken aback by his appearance that I checked his hands to make sure they had the right number of fingers. After the Richards tale, he went on to tell me about the band he plays bass for, and how he has jammed with the likes of Percy Sledge and Grand Funk Railroad, and how he prefers John Entwistle to Flea's slap-and-pop style of bass-playing. Ten minutes later, driving away from the fund-raiser, I caught myself thinking: Hey, this guy doesn't seem like a total dickhead. I can almost see him as president. ...
..../....
But Huckabee is also something else: full-blown nuts, a Christian goofball of the highest order. He believes the Earth may be only 6,000 years old, |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 2:46 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
Ron Paul wins through attrition, crafty old fukcer aint he? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 356360
I heard Russert saying after Nevada that Ron Paul will make it to the GOP convention. |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 2:53 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
[link to www.msnbc.msn.com]
BREAKING NEWS
Thompson drops out of GOP race
updated 13 minutes ago
NAPLES, Fla. - Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson quit the Republican presidential race on Tuesday, after a string of poor finishes in early primary and caucus states.
"I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort," Thompson said. "Jeri and I will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful people."
Thompson's fate was sealed last Saturday in the South Carolina primary, when he finished third in a state that he had said he needed to win.
In the statement, Thompson did not say whether he would endorse any of his former rivals. He was one of a handful of members of Congress who supported Arizona Sen. John McCain in 2000 in his unsuccessful race against George W. Bush for the party nomination.
The actor-politician best known as the gruff district attorney on NBC's "Law & Order" placed third in Iowa and South Carolina, two states seemingly in line with his right-leaning pitch and laid-back style, and fared even worse in the four other states that have held contests thus far. Money already tight, he ran out of it altogether as the losses piled up.
Thompson departs the most wide open Republican race in half a century; three candidates each having won in the six states that have voted.
In Florida, McCain, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani are battling for the lead ahead of its Jan. 29 primary, while former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee evaluates his next steps amid money troubles of his own.
Thompson's withdrawal capped a turbulent 10 months that saw him go from hot to not in short order.
He began toying with a presidential run last March, emboldened by a fluid Republican nomination fight and a restive conservative GOP base. He also was charmed by resounding calls for him to get into the race -- and his meteoric springtime rise to the top of national and state polls.
Fans trying to draft him as a candidate launched an online effort, seizing on his conservative Senate voting record as well as his lumbering 6-foot-5 frame and deep baritone as they argued that he was right out of central casting. They painted him as the second coming of Ronald Reagan and the would-be savior of a Republican Party demoralized after electoral losses in 2006 at all levels of government.
Expectations rose higher — and his standing in polls started to fall as he failed to meet them.
Thompson played coy about his intentions all the while taking steps to prepare for a formal entrance into the race with a flourish. He cut ties with NBC, visited early voting states and delivered high-profile speeches. And, he started raising money and set up a preliminary campaign organization.
He delayed his expected summertime entrance in the race until fall, perhaps missing an opening created by McCain's near campaign implosion.
As he prepared to officially join the race, Thompson was plagued by lackluster fundraising; high-profile staff departures, including some prompted by the deep involvement in the campaign of his wife, Jeri, and less-than-stellar performances on the stump. Thompson also endured repeated questions about his career as a lobbyist and his thin Senate record.
Thompson formally announced his bid in early September but hit a rocky patch from the get-go.
His easygoing style and reputation for laziness translated into a light campaign schedule that raised questions about whether he wanted to be president badly enough to fight for it. A spate of inartful answers to campaign-trail questions — on everything from the Terri Schiavo case to Osama bin Laden — didn't help matters.
Though his star had faded, Thompson earned positive reviews for a series of debate performances last fall and earned an endorsement by the National Right to Life Committee. He made a strong effort in Iowa as the year ended with a bus tour of the lead-off caucus state.
But he finished third and went South Carolina, where he hoped to turn around his fortunes — but a win, like the nomination, did not materialize.
This breaking news story will be updated.
© 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 2:55 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
In Florida, McCain, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani are battling for the lead ahead of its Jan. 29 primary, while former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee evaluates his next steps amid money troubles of his own
Why do they never mention Ron Paul?
I hope Paul kicks ass in Florida! |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 2:57 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
That blurb suggests that Huckabee is considering quitting! Is that true? |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 3:00 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
That blurb suggests that Huckabee is considering quitting! Is that true? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 358956
He's broke. |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 3:03 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
Not even by a nano second loser. |
| bob
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1/22/2008 3:03 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
We can only hope... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 263764
oh man lets hope so............. |
| Anonymous Coward
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1/22/2008 3:06 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
Mean while Ron Paul Racking up endorcements :)
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P.S. For those of you who haven't heard, Mike Huckabee's campaign is broke. Don't let the same thing happen to Ron Paul. After all, where else would Mike Huckabee get all of his ideas? Contribute today! |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 73927
1/22/2008 3:10 PM | | Re: THOMPSON QUIT, WILL GUILIANI BE NEXT? | Quote |
Huckabee is going broke and might not make it too much longer.
McCain ain't fairing any better financial wise.
On the other hand, Ron Paul raised $1 million on MLK day and the $$$ keeps rollin' in!
Ron Paul is the only one down the stretch who will be able hang win Romney.
It will be Romney and Paul going the the convention!! |
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