22
Jan
RIP, The Thompson Campaign (aka, The Great White Nope)
Sources are claiming Fred Thompson is dropping out of the race:
Ex-Sen. Fred Thompson has told several Republicans that he has decided to drop out of the presidential race and will make public his intentions by close of business.Thompson does not plan to endorse any rivals for now, even though one of his best friends is Sen. John McCain.
I am not surprised to see this happen, although I am surprised the Thompson campaign did not get more enthusiastic support. If anything, his campaign resembled Terri Schiavo- listless, inert, and with no signs of life, so I really don’t know why it was not greeted with more enthusiasm by our friends on the right. Maybe one Schiavo affair was enough.
zzyzx
My guess is that this helps out Mitt. Here’s hoping for a brokered convention where the conservatives demand their pound of flesh…
Arsenio Billingham
What are the odds of two blogs making two different Terri Schiavo jokes about Fred’s exit?
It’s like they’re the same person or something.
ThymeZone
Good riddance. I never could figure out why he ran in the first place, he never seemed particularly interested in the job. Or maybe he thought it was just another role?
Oh well. Go Mitt.
Jen
Well, sooner or later he was going to have to place ahead of Ron Paul if he wanted to stay in this thing.
Ditto Guiliani, in my opinion.
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
im lawled.
im goin 2 hell.
Krista
He had a campaign? Huh—I guess you learn something new every day.
mrmobi
Fred Thompson dropped out?
How do they know?
apologies to H.L. Mencken
Dreggas
There go my folks hopes for a Romney/Thompson ticket.
I know, hard to tell I was their offspring. I worked hard to deprogram myself.
Garrigus Carraig
Done deal.
A few months back my brother predicted an eventual Thompson victory in November. I think I’m gonna take the high road & not snark him.
I always thought Thompson was the natural GOP candidate this year. He’s the only one who doesn’t have a huge, obvious mark against him in the eyes of Republicans. That being said he doesn’t have much going for him either.
4tehlulz
I think Josh Marshall captured the Fredgeist perfectly:
Tim (the other one)
Thompson’s wife wanted him to be Preznit. Fred, not so much.
Jay
Bill Frist saw Thompson on TV and said
Bubblegum Tate
If only somebody had been allowed to give Fred a sandwich and a bottle of water, he’d have been sprinting from caucus to caucus and winning each one!
Scotty
Will he endorse anyone?
Sensitive Pony Tailed Girly Man
Can I borrow his pickup truck then?
Dennis - SGMM
Chris Matthews will be so crushed!
Jake
If only somebody had been allowed to give Fred a sandwich and a bottle of water, he’d have been sprinting from caucus to caucus and winning each one!
We have a winna!
OMG, I’m going to hell too.
Bombadil
Dibs on the golf cart!
Dreggas
Chris Matthews will be so crushed!
and the scent of old-spice mixed with cigar smoke lingered in the air as the door closed. Matthews, a shell of a man, was left kneeling in the middle of the floor screaming “Noooooooooo”!
Sstarr
Will Pajamas Media please stop putting Fred’s mug and really insightful quote about the internets on their ad? Please?
Jake
No worries. That slut will be sniffing Mittens before the week is out.
4tehlulz
You mean he wasn’t before this?
The Other Steve
In other news.
Fred Thompson has been nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his work in the Republican 2008 Presidential nomination.
Also nominated were Jeremy Piven and Kevin Dillon from Entourage, Neil Patrick Harris from How I Met Your Mother, and Rainn Wilson from The Office.
Grumpy Code Monkey
I’m one of those people who thought Grandpa Fred would wind up on top (based solely on personality and personability, understand), so you can snark on me instead.
Besides, Flipper and Huckabee have turned out to be far more entertaining. My wife’s still holding out hope for a Huckabee/Keyes ticket.
Tsulagi
Not so sure. No doubt Rudy would still attempt an affair with her. Get NYC to pay for it too.
Funny was watching the Fredcapades at RedState. For months before Fred announced the patriot warriors there were waving their panties and keys at him to answer their calls. But it dragged on. And on. Till when Fred finally said yes, they were too tired and had a headache.
Pretty much epitomized after SC’s primary in a post by RedState’s resident self-certified homophobe detector. Said he had been tired of Fred’s “flirtations” and now just wished he’d leave.
The RS Fredheaders were agape. Many climbed up all over the homophobe detector’s ass. No, not for the usual. As the title of the post implies, Not with a bang, but a whimper.
The Other Steve
He looks so Presidential. The jaw, the hair, the manly shoulders.
Dreggas
Matthews, a shell of a man, was left kneeling in the middle of the floor screaming “Noooooooooo”!
You mean he wasn’t before this?
hard to scream with Thompsons’ “cigar” in your mouth.
Sirkowski
Red State is grieving. So sad. But so funny.
Grand Moff Texan
That’s a crying shame. He had the best tits in the race.
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AkaDad
On the bright side, Fred can stop renting his pickup truck now.
Ninerdave
You sure he dropped out? Not, just fell asleep?
Dennis - SGMM
I heard that Mitt bought him off with a top-of-the-line Barcalounger.
Don McArthur
“Thompson Succumbs To Electile Dysfunction”
Dreggas
I’d also like to note this is indeed a sad day for the Order Of Dagon and its hopes to finally elect one of its own….This is a sad day for fish-men everywhere.
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA applause
/(new yorker)
They still have money to do that? I thought they were keeping tight lips because librulz have horded all da letturz in da alfabett.
Punchy
Does your brother wear a helmet, even when not riding his bike?
demkat620
That’s a crying shame. He had the best tits in the race
We’re all going to hell, now.
RandyH
So when will they remove his feeding tube? Or have they already?
Jen
Unleash the Mittmentum!
Zifnab
WIN
Davebo
Apparantly hiring Jon Henke on to your campaign really is the kiss of death!
It’s a shame cause Jon is a reasonable enough feller considering the company he keeps.
The Other Steve
Redstate is right. What the Republicans need right now is a champion of further tax cuts, and further “You are on your own” rhetoric to the masses of people fucked by this economy.
Dennis - SGMM
So I went over to Redstate (Must slow down and look at car crash). They’re onto berating Huckanomics now.
End U.S. dependency on Middle Eastern oil by January, 2019
How in God’s name will that stimulate the economy? Please explain.
They go on to suggest that Huck hire a supply-sider to help him with his economic platform. Like that has worked out so well.
Is Redstate a parody blog or did someone in a sanitarium find some speech-to-text software. No one that stupid could possibly even type.
Tom Hilton
Fixed.
demkat620
I have a friend who still loves W. I just emailed him to raz him about Thompson. He emailed me back to ask me which of the dem candidates I would like to see Mittens beat because the economy is teh best its ever been and every body knows it.
He was not kidding.
Gregory
How do they know?
apologies to H.L. Mencken
Wasn’t that Dorothy Parker referring to Calvin Coolidge’s death)?
Jake
According office buzz, we have to stop giving a fuck about everything because Heath Ledger is dead.
Man, some days I hate this place.
Dreggas
According office buzz, we have to stop giving a fuck about everything because Heath Ledger is dead.
Man, some days I hate this place.
beat me to it…they were talking about possible drug overdose, I commented to a friend:
“For some reason I now have this picture in my head of Heath looking at a big ol’ pile of coke and saying ‘I just can’t quit you.’”
Punchy
Who the fuck is he?
stickler
Gregory beat me to it:
Yes, and she actually said, “how can they tell?”
Let’s all try to get our pithy jazz-age quotes correct, shall we?
Dreggas
Who the fuck is he?
starred in some big movies like Brokeback Mountain.
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
LOL i no its lik ther stuipd or sumthin hahaha u sound hot wanna cyber?
Jake
And that’s one more ticket for the HellBound Express.
Thanks. Really. Between laughing at that and the Terri Schiavo jokes I’m going to wind up in the same room with Strom Thrumond a la Huis Clos.
grumpy realist
Hee—-OT, but the NYTimes has opened a can of whoop-ass on the “little man in search of a balcony”. Will see if this punches a (bigger) hole in the S.S. Giuliani Florida.
Otto Man
I’m surprised Fred was able to muster the energy to withdraw from the race.
Dreggas
I’m surprised Fred was able to muster the energy to withdraw from
the racehis wife.fixed..
The Other Steve
It’s too bad they did this during primary season. It would have been more fun in the general.
bob
Cue Curtis Mayfield: “Freddie’s Dead”.
Maassive
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Stop on by!
The Briscoe Kid
His campaign was dead on arrival. It would take a quart of re-animator fluid to pump some life into that listless SOB.
Zuzu
I guess the Law and Order folks are happy that they can run re-runs again.
Or could they anyway? I get mixed up.