Good news from the Thompson campaign: "Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States.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."
Yes, thanks for the effort. We're also ready to thank Rudy Giuliani and Ron Paul.
[CNN]
When our Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin founded this country, what they had in mind was a leader like Mike Huckabee. Here’s a guy with a history of obesity and slightly totalitarian ideas like quarantining HIV positive gays who reinvented himself as a lovable goof with a distaste for fast food and a good sense of humor.
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• The election that started way too early is finally happening. The Iowa Caucus is tomorrow. If you're not excited now, it maybe time to re-take high school civics.
• Pete Wentz is not engaged, and is still looking for that high school sophomore who understands him totally. CONTINUED »
Don’t tell the dog, but Fox News has acknowledged that despite the innovative and unique stances Ron Paul has taken, he’s not going to be president. And the network has not invited him to speak at their GOP candidate forum in New Hampshire on Sunday. CONTINUED »
That crazy and crazily influential butter lady has made a butter bust of Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton and John Edwards should just withdraw now. [Caucus]
Young women today aren’t bound by questions of what they can or cannot do as women; they want to know how they can do it better. We’ve shattered so many barriers, but we’re not stopping here. Not when women still earn 77 cents to every dollar that men earn, not when all of the progress we’ve made on reproductive health stands to be threatened by the current administration. Come Inauguration Day, we’re going to shatter one more, but these young women are interested in pushing beyond the barriers. They’re looking at women’s “firsts” and aiming for “bests.”
-Hillary Clinton for Glamour's Glamocracy, a politics blog
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Ron Paul has accepted a $500 campaign donation from a white supremacist. Hey, it's a free market, baby!
Fortunately, the decision has no political consequences because Ron Paul can’t be bought. Also Ron Paul can’t win this presidency.
Jesse Benton, a Paul spokesman said:
Dr. Paul stands for freedom, peace, prosperity and inalienable rights. If someone with small ideologies happens to contribute money to Ron, thinking he can influence Ron in any way, he's wasted his money. … Ron is going to take the money and try to spread the message of freedom.
Yeah, what is a small ideology like hate is nothing compared with the message of freedom?
Seems like everyone wants to be the most powerful person in the free world these days.
Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has added her name to the ballot for the Green Party. But she’s still a hopeful delusional third party candidate. Jared Ball, Elaine Brown and everyone’s favorite spoiler, Ralph Nader are also running for the Green nomination.
It’s nice to know that some people never give up their dreams, even in the face of insurmountable obstacles, like the two-party voting system
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FAMILY VALUES Tonight, Katie Couric's presidential candidate series asks the tough questions. Namely, questions about adultery. Awkward! For Hillary! [Drudge]
… just how coincidental it is that the National Enqurier – owned by American Media Inc., which Clinton family friend Ron Burkle is looking to buy – pieces together a "secret love child" story about John Edwards just in time for the Iowa primary.
If the 2008 Campaign were a Shakespearean play, John Edwards would be one of the side characters you don’t care about, but know you will be tested on later because he acts as a foil or something.
Anyway, as is our duty, the woman The National Enquirer claims John Edwards was inside is pregnant and has relocated to Chapel Hill. The baby is John’s, according to sources at The National Enquirer.
In case you forgot, getting some chick knocked up while you’re cheating on your cancer-ridden wife is considered bad form.
Andrew Young, an ex-key official in Edwards’s campaign with a young family of his own, says he’s Rielle Hunter’s baby-daddy. The Edwards campaign seems like one big party, a losing party, but still a party.
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Running for president is exhausting, and Ron Paul is ready for his nap. But the libertarian candidate is sticking out until Super Tuesday, if only because he has to:
"Nobody would understand if I faded out before Feb. 5," he told the AP yesterday.
Ok, so his insane supporters would be disappointed if he quits before Super Tuesday, but we would understand. Why maintain the pretense of a candidacy?
After the Iowa caucus, many candidates will have to admit their adolescent aspirations for president are both absurd and financially unfeasible. But before they go back to political obscurity, we’re taking a quick look at a few of the wackos who want to rule the free world this week.
Who: Joe Biden
Current Job: Democratic Senator from Delaware.
Currently Polling: 4% [CNN]
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After the Iowa caucus, many candidates will have to admit their adolescent aspirations for president are both absurd and financially unfeasible. But before they go back to political obscurity, we’re taking a quick look at a few of the wackos who want to rule the free world this week.
Who: Ron Paul
Current Job: Republican Representative from Texas.
Currently Polling: 6% [CNN]
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After the Iowa caucus, many candidates will have to admit their adolescent aspirations for president are both absurd and financially unfeasible. But before they go back to political obscurity, we’re taking a quick look at a few of the wackos who want to rule the free world this week.
Who: Mike Gravel
Current Job: Currently retired, former Senator and House Speaker from Alaska.
Currently Polling: 1% [CNN]
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After the Iowa caucus, many candidates will have to admit their adolescent aspirations for president are both absurd and financially unfeasible. But before they go back to political obscurity, we’re taking a quick look at a few of the wackos who want to rule the free world this week.
Who: Tom Tancredo
Current Job: Republican Representative from Colorado.
Currently Polling: 3% [CNN] CONTINUED »
Let’s take a trip in the way back machine, when George Stephanopoulos was a political consultant, not an ABC correspondent, when weathering marital infidelity was a big deal, not just a sign of character.
Back then, Gennifer Flowers threw a wrench into the 1992 campaign with her whole 12-year affair with Bill Clinton thing. Since then, the Clinton marriage has gotten more “professional” and America has moved on.
Sadly, political catastrophes never really die, they just stop being interviewed. An enterprising reporter over at the A.P. looked up G. Flows, and found she’s both still alive and even considering voting for Hillary:
Mitt Romney Doesn’t Flip-Flop On God The most anticipated speech on the 2008 campaign is coming today. Mitt Romney will finally give his John Kennedy speech, explaining to Iowa voters that Mormonism is actually a form of Christianity. (Get out!) Iowa voters will decide on January 3 if Romney earnestness is more electable than Huckabee irony. [Washington Post]
We still have 11 more months in the longest presidential campaign ever. If CNN is going to make 2008 interesting, they’re going to need good co-hosts.
So the network has hired Carl Bernstein, you know, Dustin Hoffman from All The President’s Men, for the 2008 campaign. Bernstein is also the author of the recent best seller, A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Just saying: it’ll be kind of awkward for CNN if Obama gets the nomination.
Not too long ago, Mike Huckabee was just a fat governor from Arkansas.
One hundred pounds, a New York Times profile and a Chuck Norris endorsement later, he’s posed to win Iowa. The guy whose border control policy is “two words: Chuck Norris” has a 5% lead over Romney according to the Des Moines Register poll. He’s picked up 17% since the last Iowa Poll two months ago.
If irony is as popular in Iowa as it is in Brooklyn, maybe we’re just one America after all.
