Fred Thompson Gives Up In New Hampshire

CNN:

Fred Thompson has decided to abandon the Granite State, and will campaign in Iowa full-time until the January 3 caucuses.

The former Tennessee senator is planning to begin a bus tour of the Hawkeye State next week that will run through the end of the year, with a brief break for the Christmas holiday, campaign spokesman Jeff Sadosky tells CNN.

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Comments

[Dandy12]

sugarmoes hit the nail on the head! Go back home with your hot looking wife and get the hell out of Dodge. Fred could use a good workout instead of an exercise in futility or conducting an idiotic side show!

[Rockwell]

Bless him. It's just so much work campaigning in two tiny little states at once.

Goodness. What happens if he gets the nomination. He'll have to run a nation-wide campaign. So much work!

Of course, the job he says he wants is to run the world. So the fact that Iowa and New Hampshire are too much for him might be a factor in some voter's minds.

[sugarmoes]

he should just give up the whole thing.

[Liberal2]

OTOH, would Thompson be better for the nation than Huckaboob? Instead of Grandpa, we may get Torquemada.

[CARTERJ]

Fred, we harly knew you. And not a moment too soon.

Sounds like he's not really interested in the job of representing the whole country, doesn't it? He needs a nap.

[conservativeoriginalist]

All the candidates should give up in NH, Ron Paul is going to win, hands down. They may as well spend their waning campaign funds in other states; they'll need it to combat next week's LiberTea Party money bomb for Ron Paul's campaign coffers.

[Grannysue]

You mean he's actually running?

[BJohnM]

There is one of two scenarios going on here.

1. Fred Thompson is really running for VP. He's not really attacked anyone, and is playing it very safe.

2. Fred's hoping to be (or been promised to be) the nominee at an old fashioned brokered convention. There's no real clear front runner, and Rudy and Romney are battering each other to death. Huckabee's too out there to be electable (I hope).

I'm betting on number 1.

[Blutus]

And I thought this guy was going
to be the Republican nominee.

No more lottery tickets for me!

[SeaOats]

Soon, the headline will be "Thompson gives up."

[leftbehind2000]

wow - and he worked so goddam hard to win it. the guy's obviously presidential material.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

The jet lag -- all one hour from central to eastern -- was just too much for the old geezer.

Politics aside, can't we rule out candidates who will be fossils in nine years -- IF NOT ALREADY?

[studlyguy]

didn't even know he was still running ,

[Qbear]

Thompson in a Santa beard and his trophy wife nude pulling a sleigh won't win one more Iowa delegate at this late date...Fred that ship sailed...to Huckabee.

[Qbear]

"Running" for office...is too much exercise for po' OLD Fred the fizzler.