It looks like it could be all over soon for the candidate they call Big Sleepy. (By "They" I mean "Me," of course.) Fred Thompson, who would be the hottest centenarian in the world if he was only forty years older, is about to call it quits:
Several Republican officials close to Fred Thompson’s presidential campaign said they expect the candidate will drop out of the race within days if he finishes poorly in Thursday’s Iowa caucus.Well, the good news for Fred Thompson is that he'll soon get to go home and get the 22-1/2 hours of sleep a day he needs to stay as handsome as he is.
Thompson’s campaign, which last spring and summer was generating fevered anticipation in the media and with some Republican activists, has never ignited nationally, and there are no signs of a late spark happening here in Iowa, where even a third-place finish is far from assured.
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“Without a solid third-place finish, there’s no point in going on,” a Thompson adviser said Wednesday. “It was an honorable race, and he turned out to be a good candidate. The moment had just passed.”
A Thompson campaign source said there is “a strong likelihood” that if Thompson comes in a distant third in Iowa, with less than 15 percent of the vote, he would drop out soon—most likely before this weekend’s New Hampshire presidential debates.
So what was your favorite Fred Thompson moment? Mine was easily, hands down when Chris Matthews opined about the heady aroma of Thompson's manly manliness, which as I recall included Aqua Velva, chickory, pomade, cigar smoke, and grease from the tranny on a 1923 Ford. Good times, good times.
