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Posted on 11/29/2006 7:36:36 AM PST by areafiftyone
Sources close to outgoing Maj. Leader Bill Frist tell the Hotline that Frist has decided not to run for President.
He will make a formal announcement this afternoon, the sources said.
Frist made the decision in recent days after consulting family, friends and advisers.
Good decision for him. One of the things he did right.
If a Mormon were to win, we'd have First Ladies...
No surprise there. He has zero chance of winning and would draw very little support in the primaries. I agree that he is a has been.
> the guy is a total zero.....his announcement should be that he is finally admitting it. He stands for nothing <
You're wrong. He's a very decent person, a great humanitarian, a committed Christian and an excellent heart surgeon.
But a great political leader? No way, at least not yet.
[Governor of Tennessee? Could be interesting!]
He was the perfect politician. That's his problem..........
A lot of Frist bashing. I agree it was wise of him not to run for President. He has no national constituency or issue to rally support so he would have been wasting time and money.
However, before we call him a RINO and other silly things we should remember that it was Bill Frist who came out a very successful medical practice in 1994 and beat the disaster that was Jim Sasser. A Carter Democrat who was a bumbling big government weak on national defense dolt. Frist rid the state and the nation of that hack sending him packing for China. It was Frist that helped recruit and campaign for the candidates who took the U.S. Senate back in 2002 he also rid us of Puff Daschle.
We should thank him for his service.
"Good man. great doctor...terrible politician."
This Tennessean agrees. And I voted to send him to Washington D.C.
Then again, the only democratic senator elected in all that time was Kennedy in 1960. I keep telling folks that 2 Senators in 88 years is the entire catalogue of people going straight from congress to the White House but they don't believe me. There will not be a President Hillary, Obama, or McCain.
Odds are on a Governor. George Bush Sr, who was running as an incumbent VP is the only non Governor to win election since Richard Nixon.
1st, 2nd,3rd,4th..........
As another FReeper put it, when he speaks he sounds like he's telling some woman she has cancer.
How many mayors have been elected?
Thank goodness.
Actually, the joke I have heard is that you have McCain, Guiliani, Newt, and Romney. Romney, the mormon, is the only one in the crowd with just one wife. The other trivia thing is that there has been a Bush or a Dole on every ticket since 1976 on the GOP side. Will 2008 be the first time in over 20 years without one? VP candidate Jeb perhaps?
1976 Ford-DOLE
1980 Reagan-BUSH
1984 Reagan-BUSH
1988 BUSH-Quayle
1992 BUSH-Quayle
1996 DOLE-Kemp
2000 BUSH-Cheney
2004 BUSH-Cheney
8 elections in a row now.
Yes, he has the personality of a cold bedpan. Must be the doctor thing.
I agree. He's a very nice man and a good doctor. I think he realized he just didn't have the support he needed to run. Governor would be good for him.
Who cares? It's not like he was going anywhere anyway.
That said, while he was only a so-so Maj. Leader and a poor Presidential Candidate, I still think he's a decent guy. Whatever R is elected next should appoint him Surgen General.
whet a tragedy.
a meaningless Bozo, not running for President
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