Video: Fred Thompson’s RNC Speech
Fred Thompson Drops Out Of Presidential Race
Republican Fred Thompson announced this afternoon that he’s dropping out of the Presidential race.
“Today, I have withdrawn my candidacy for president of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort,” the former Tennessee senator said in a brief 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.
-Chris Jones
Fair And Balanced: MSNBC Hosts Continue To Laugh At GOP Speeches
From Media Bistro:
Remember when MSNBC laughed at John McCain’s victory speech in New Hampshire?
Well, Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann (and the MSNBC folks that can be heard in the background) were equally unimpressed with Fred Thompson’s speech:
Thompson charges Fox News is biased against his campaign
Former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) suggested on Sunday that Fox News is biased against his campaign, charging that the network highlights commentators who have been critical of his run for the presidency.
In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” host Chris Wallace pressed Thompson on how some conservatives have lambasted Thompson’s campaign and showed clips of Fox conservative commentators Charles Krauthammer and Fred Barnes criticizing the former senator.
Thompson said, “This has been a constant mantra of Fox, to tell you the truth.” He noted that other conservatives have praised his bid for the GOP nomination and took issue with a Fox promo that focused on polling in New Hampshire, where Thompson is registering in the single digits.
Thompson went on to scold Wallace:
”…for you to highlight nothing but the negatives in terms of the polls and then put on your own guys who have been predicting for four months, really, that I couldn’t do it, kind of skew things a little bit. There’s a lot of other opinion out there.”
Of course it’s impossible that Fox News is biased against Thompson, because we all know that Fox News is in the tank for Republicans.
Thompson Aide Resigns After Drug Dealing History Revealed
Phil Martin, a businessman who has lent Fred Thompson his Cessna to fly around the country, was one of four campaign co-chairman for the ‘08 Republican candidate. The Washington Post reported Sunday that Martin also posted a guilty plea in 1979 for selling 11 pounds of marijuana and a no contest plea in 1983 for cocaine trafficking and conspiracy.
“I have decided to resign my position as chair of ‘First Day Founders’ of ‘The Friends of Fred Thompson’. The focus of this campaign should be on Fred Thompson’s positions on the issues and his outstanding leadership ability, not on mistakes I made some 24 years ago. I deeply regret any embarrassment this has caused,” Martin said in a statement.
Thompson said Sunday that he wishes he had known earlier that one of his key presidential campaign advisers pleaded guilty to drug charges but he still thinks Phil Martin is “a good man.”
The GOP Debate Wrap-Up
Fred Thompson made his debate debut of the Republican presidential campaign on Tuesday, and said that while the economy is strong, the government is “spending money of future generations and those yet to be born.”
The former Tennessee senator and actor said, “We are spending money we don’t have,” but he advocated no changes to shift course.
Sen. John McCain said President Bush was right to veto a children’s health expansion bill, and he urged him to reject a multibillion- dollar public works measure as well.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said it was inexcusable that Michigan seemed locked in a “one-state recession,” and said the president should be open to suggestions from an auto industry that has shed hundreds of thousands of jobs in recent years.
He criticized Democratic Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm for raising taxes, and drew laughter when he said he was afraid she “was going to put a tax on this debate.”
Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani clashed over tax and spending cuts Tuesday, each saying he was more committed than the other as they vied for conservative support in a debate in the nation’s manufacturing heartland.
Romney said they were in agreement about tax cuts, then criticized Giuliani for having filed a court challenge to a law that gave President Clinton the right to veto spending items line by line. “I’m in favor of the line item veto,” he said, adding he exercised it 844 times while governor of Massachusetts.
Giuliani called the Line-Item Veto “unconstitutional” and said he took Clinton to the Supreme Court on that issue and won.
Romney also said that while mayor, Giuliani “fought to keep the commuter tax, which is a very substantial tax … on consumers coming into New York.”
Tommorow’s Debate is Put-Up or Shut-Up for Thompson
Tomorrow night’s YouTube debate this time for the Republicans is gonna be Fred Thompson’s night to finally show the voting public where he actually stands on the issues.
Most people are aware that Fred Thompson is an actor who claims to be a conservative, but beyond that he hasn’t really contributed much at this point.
Although nine Republicans will take part in the forum, which begins at 4 p.m. EDT in Dearborn, Mich., the focus will be on Thompson, a former Tennessee senator.
A late entry into the race, Thompson has sometimes struggled to answer questions on the campaign trail in his initial weeks as a full-fledged candidate.
Over the past two weeks, Thompson has held seven to nine debate sessions at his McLean, Va., campaign headquarters outside Washington, aides say. In each session, Thompson would answer timed questions on a variety of subjects. Aides then would stop and review answers with him.
By Chris Jones
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