I believe in his own way he is an honourable man and he wished to give back something to his country.
I think this was shown when he went NO and volunteered to help during Katrina.
Posted on 11/29/2006 8:38:05 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Frist Will Not Seek Presidency In 2008 CBS News Interactive: The 109th Congress CBS News: 2008 Republican Hopefuls
(AP) WASHINGTON Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will not run for president in 2008, Republican officials said Wednesday, as the field of White House contenders continued to shrink more than a year before the first convention delegates are chosen.
Frist's formal announcement was expected later in the day.
His decision caps a 12-year stint in electoral politics in which he rose from an underdog in his 1994 Senate campaign to the position of majority leader a mere eight years later.
The decision by the Tennessee senator leaves Sen. John McCain of Arizona, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani as the most nationally prominent contenders for the Republican nomination.
Other potential GOP contenders include Sens. Sam Brownback of Kansas and Charles Hagel of Nebraska, Gov. George Pataki of New York and Rep. Duncan Hunter of California.
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What a coincidence, neither will Homer Simpson.
Looks like we are doubly blessed!
I don't recall anyone asking him to.
He never had a chance
He doesn't seem the type to have an over-large ego.
He didn't do much at all as Senate leader.
Why the heck was the guy in politics?
He had money, and wanted more. With a side dish of power, which he miserably squandered.
He was one of the most inept, incompetent and ineffective majority leaders in recent history, chose really bad advisors who were divorced from reality and is responsible for a lot of what happened in the election. He let the Dems run all over him. Part of the problem was that he had very little Senate experience when he was elected leader, and didn't know how the place operated. He was a huge contributor to the GOP losing the Senate. Give me Trent Lott, warts and all, any day.
Maybe Frist and Ford can go into business together....
Smart move...
He has an ego the size of Mt. Everest. And is vain to boot.
Well, that's a relief.
Speaking for myself, I had high hopes for this guy when he took over as majority leader in 2002. But I've been underwhelmed with him, to say the least.
Now, can we get some decent candidates for president, please? I haven't found anybody I'm all that thrilled with.
MGY
I believe in his own way he is an honourable man and he wished to give back something to his country.
I think this was shown when he went NO and volunteered to help during Katrina.
Whatever. A pork barrelling pure politican is not what hte GOP needed. Give me Jim Inhofe or Tom Coburn.
Who do you think should run for the GOP? Who's your nominee? I don't think Frist was an effective Majority Leader. Too timid with the Demonrats. Unfortunately that's the story with many of our "leaders".
Lynn Cheney 2008?
I believe the saying is that every Senator looks in the mirror and sees a President.
This only proves that politicians are smarter than heart surgeons, as he was a much better surgeon.
Crushing news... crushing...
LOL:-)
I'm deeply saddened.
Vice President Cheney. He won't run and he had been demonized by the press. But I like his style and conservatarian philosophy.
Actually, he seems like a nice guy. But he had no business in politics and did a really lousy job.
This is not exactly a big news story. But the real problem is, we don't have a decent Republican candidate. That has been glaringly obvious for the past six years, and the resolution isn't getting any clearer.
The story of the past six years has been which party could screw up worse, the spineless Republicans or the delusional Democrats. A race to the bottom.
Ugh. America has seldom needed a great leader more. Where the dickens is he? About the only solution I can see to this mess is a prayer campaign.
An announcement to announce that he's decided that he's going to make a formal announcement announcing that's he's not announcing his candidacy?
Now if we can just get Rudy and McCain to do the same--maybe we can find someone that the conservative base will support.
And his bill that killled internet gambling may have lost a lot of Republicans the election. Many races were decided by a small plurality of votes, and a lot of people voted against this big brother overseeing of personal gambling. Frist's goodbye smooch to the casinos and Indian gaming - I hope it was worth it to him...
I wish Cheney would run. Man, I hadn't even been thinking about him since he seems adamant that he isn't running. But, thinking of him as president compared to our current options is almost gut wrenching; milquetoast, the liberal mayor, the crazed senator, and a whole host of unknowns and not-known-enoughs.
He probably was "hand-picked" by the Bush WH and did the bidding of same.
I'm not a big Frist fan, but he was the moderate conservative alternative to John McCain and leftist Rudy Giuliani. So now it's all Romney's in that area.
I thought he quit the senate for the sole purpose of running.
Actually, I don't think there was any love lost there. He made nice with the White House but never really did it any favors.
John Bolton.
Actually, I believe that Frist did exactly what the WH wanted even though it appeared not to be the case publically.
I like his foreign policy views, but I have no idea what his social/domestic policy leanings are.
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Thanks for the chuckle!!!
What a ridiculous, nihilistic post. What Republican do you think should run then?
IMHO, every current ostensible "leader" in the Republican party is a total disaster, from Bush on down. Both Frist and Hastert were losers from the get-go.
The ONLY Republican I would vote for right now as president is Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn. He's the ONLY Republican with principle, as far as I'm concerned.
After the Dole Presidential fiasco--he dropped of the radar screen quicker than Monica could drop to her knees!
Im assuming that is your personal opinion, not what you think is probable, no?
Bill Frist - good man... great doctor... a complete disaster as a conservative leader
The GOP senators let Bush get Frist in as his ally when they all appeased the Dims over Trent Lott.
And why Frist? He was so weak that no one had any objections and many others would have actually been leading a faction, like a Sensenbrenner or a faction of one, like a McPain.
Thus Frist was not so much the popular choice as a choice that didn't make waves. If they could have stepped back from the MSM and stepped forward in defense of Lott, he would have been a much more competitive GOP leader against the agressive Harry Reid. But, the GOP Senators have, most of them, either no backbone or too much personal ambition to lead their own party. Frist's selection created no quarrels among them, but with no experience and no will he was no leader.
Mitch Mconnell I would also include in that group. He seems like he does not back down
Trent is clueless and spineless- a dangerous combination when having to go at it with the schmuck from NY
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