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sixpackrt
10-12-2007, 08:11 AM
Posted: 2007-10-12 08:09:21
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani will pick up the endorsement Friday of former GOP rival Tommy Thompson, a one-time Midwestern state governor.

"Rudy Giuliani has shown that he is a true leader. He can and will win the nomination and the presidency. He is America's mayor, and during a period of time of great stress for this country he showed tremendous leadership," Thompson, the former Wisconsin governor, said in a statement obtained by the Associated Press.

The former New York mayor is to accept the endorsement in South Carolina later Friday.

Thompson is the first former 2008 Republican presidential candidate to endorse in the race, and officials familiar with details of the political courting involved said Giuliani's top rivals also sought his support. But Thompson recently told Giuliani he'd get the nod after several weeks of conversations.

Thompson, the Health and Human Services secretary in President Bush 's first term, entered the crowded GOP presidential field early this year only to spend several months struggling to raise money and gain traction in early voting Iowa, New Hampshire and elsewhere. He was overshadowed by another, unrelated Thompson who was not even in the race at the time, but who was polling far stronger than the ex-governor, former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson.

The lesser-known Thompson dropped out of the race in August after finishing sixth in an Iowa test vote measuring organization and popularity in the state that holds the leadoff caucuses.

Unclear is the impact of Thompson's support for Giuliani. On one hand, Giuliani could use the endorsement to try to mollify skeptical Iowans and other Midwesterners who are concerned about his moderate-to-liberal stances on social issues, pointing out that a prominent Republican from their backyards is supporting him.

On the other hand, Thompson left the race because voters weren't gravitating toward him and he doesn't bring with him much support in early voting Iowa and elsewhere. He languished in single digits in polls there, and barely registered in national surveys while in the race.


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steph3n
10-12-2007, 08:13 AM
what does it matter he had all of what, two voters?

Sematary
10-12-2007, 08:16 AM
It's ok - Ed Thompson endorsed Ron Paul. :-)

Mitt Romneys sideburns
10-12-2007, 08:17 AM
Well, there goes tens of votes. Its all down hill from here.

JosephTheLibertarian
10-12-2007, 08:21 AM
I bet he's doing it for political reasons ;) for a place in government later on.

LibertyEagle
10-12-2007, 08:31 AM
Tommy Thompson is a scuz bucket. Mr. RFID "Chipper". He can take his 10 votes and go jump in the Potomac, for all I care.

Question_Authority
10-12-2007, 08:33 AM
We're doomed. Let's just hang it up folks. Party's over.

BLS
10-12-2007, 08:35 AM
Hey Tommy......

http://tn3-1.deviantart.com/fs9/300W/i/2006/040/6/8/fuck_you_because_i_loved_you_by_mirrorkills.jpg

Original_Intent
10-12-2007, 08:44 AM
He endorsed him only because he thinks he is the winner.
The weeks of discussion was probably about what Tommy is going to get for his endorsement.
The only endorsement that could be more meaningless would be John Cox.

anewvoice
10-12-2007, 08:46 AM
News flash - I endorse Ron Paul for president.

There, effect totally neutralized.

nullvalu
10-12-2007, 08:47 AM
News flash - I endorse Ron Paul for president.

There, effect totally neutralized.

LMAO nice ;)

Tin_Foil_Hat
10-12-2007, 09:37 AM
I'm worried. This is really going to tip the scale! :D

yongrel
10-12-2007, 09:39 AM
Tommy's just trying to weasel another cabinet job.

anewvoice
10-12-2007, 09:40 AM
Tommy's just trying to weasel another cabinet job.

Then maybe he should endorse Hillary because ONLY Ron Paul can defeat Hillary Clinton!

billv
10-12-2007, 10:09 AM
Figures, Tommy is the person that helped bring us the national prescription drug plan.

kylejack
10-12-2007, 10:14 AM
The candidate who wants to put a chip in everyone, and who couldn't garner much appeal with the voters announces his endorsement of Giuliani. Good. That's poison for the Giuliani campaign.

purepaloma
10-12-2007, 10:33 AM
Great.....I think Gouliani is our best guy to go against.

foofighter20x
10-12-2007, 10:38 AM
Why would we want Tommy Thompson's endorsement anyway?

He presided over one of the largest expansions of government entitlements in U.S. history when he was Sec of HHS. One of his campaign planks was universal healthcare of some form. The last thing we want is that guy's endorsement.

lonestarguy
10-12-2007, 10:46 AM
I heard on my xm satellite radio last nite (thursday 10/11), on the POTUS channel, they announced that Merle Haggard had endorsed Hitlery. They played a song he wrote about how we need a woman to lead us......i about pucked me guts out, 10-4.

I mean what the hell happened to Merle and his big put-on about being our own individual, living our own lives, as he portrayed during his career and such songs as Big City.....

"keep your retirement...and your so called, social security....
big city turn me loose and set me free"

Damn it. Now we gotta get to Willie before the zombies come for him !!!

Tim724
10-12-2007, 10:51 AM
Tommy Thompson's idea of small government is removing some inefficiencies in the Dept of Health and Human Services.

Anyone else remember that?

Valene
10-12-2007, 11:25 AM
I heard on my xm satellite radio last nite (thursday 10/11), on the POTUS channel, they announced that Merle Haggard had endorsed Hitlery. They played a song he wrote about how we need a woman to lead us......i about pucked me guts out, 10-4.

I mean what the hell happened to Merle and his big put-on about being our own individual, living our own lives, as he portrayed during his career and such songs as Big City.....

"keep your retirement...and your so called, social security....
big city turn me loose and set me free"

Damn it. Now we gotta get to Willie before the zombies come for him !!!

If you don't like Merle Haggard's endorsement here is his email address

Merle@MerleHaggard.Com <Merle@MerleHaggard.Com>

I think he needs some Paulie love.

Thom1776
10-12-2007, 02:38 PM
Oh well, there goes that 0.5%!

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ijOEaCYhscpvKzb6aBz-6z8bMOrgD8S7SUAO0

JMann
10-12-2007, 02:38 PM
I'm sure Thompson's supporter will end up making up his or her own mind.

max
10-12-2007, 02:40 PM
what a useless tool....

passes himself off as a "conservative" then he endorse the most liberal of all the republicans....

I would like to pick up Tancredo's 2%

Adamsa
10-12-2007, 02:42 PM
If Giuliani gets the nominatiom it'd prove the party is so completely different it's insane.