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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In other news, Billy Buckner will not seek to be named Red Sox Player of the Century...
I'll be happy to join you in that endeavor! Lord, have mercy on us.
As for Frist, isn't he a doctor? Let's send him to Iraq so he can start really helping people who are in desperate need of medical care.
DUH!
All the frist critics on FR are disgusting and are lower than snails when compared to Bill Frist.
We have great leaders. What we have not had is great followers. Have you ever watched a football team with a great QB and a great coach but the rest were lousy players ? It is not a pretty picture.
TANCREDO/BUCHANAN. THE DREAM TICKET.
BOTTOM LINE: Democrats can have a "macacca" moment and get away with it, for Republicans, it is one strike and you are out. It is the unwritten rule of politics.
TANCREDO/BUCHANAN.
WHO THE HELL ARE YOU TO SAY THAT. You are an f'n RINO.
TANCREDO WILL KICK A$$ IN 2008.
True. But one mark of a great leader is to get people to follow him. Reagan managed that. The press worked against him 24/7, and tried to Watergate him with Iran/Contra, but it didn't work, because he reached out to people and persuaded them he was a good man.
It can be a fault of Democracies that they follow demagogues and populists to their ruin. After the death of Pericles, Athens followed Creon and Alcibiades, and as a result was destroyed by Sparta. It was the same Athens it was earlier, but it lacked another Pericles, someone who was both wise and persuasive.
... besides Dick Cheney I don't see anyone out there that I could reeeeely get enthusiastic about in 2008...
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Condi? I know she keeps saying that she is not going to run, but I'll bet someone could convince her that her country needs her.
Vice President Cheney. He won't run and he had been demonized by the press. But I like his style and conservatarian philosophy.
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I LOVE Cheney. I even named my cat after him.
It was not meant that way. We need him over there to see what is really going on.
Well I wonder if Bill Frist will ever endorse McCain? I always thought it was McCain’s “Gang of 14” that took Frist out of the president race.
Gov. Mark Sanford - maybe.
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