GOP presidential candidate drops out (Gilmore)

[MaineDem]

Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Citing a late start and a front-loaded primary calendar, former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore announced Saturday he is dropping his bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.

Gilmore said in a statement that his short-lived campaign “has been a positive and rewarding experience for me, for my family, and for my supporters,” but he also expressed frustration with today’s nomination process.

“I have come to believe that it takes more than a positive vision for our nation’s future to successfully compete for the Presidency,” he said. “I believe that it takes years of preparation to put in place both the political and financial infrastructure to contest what now amounts to a one-day national primary in February.”

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/07/14/gilmore-ends-white-house-bid/

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This is the only link I could find other than Gilmore's web site.

[sniffa]

1. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!1!!!1!!!1!!

:cry:

[daa]

2. Who?

I didn't even know he was in.

[Alexander]

3. Was he with Pink Floyd?

:evilgrin:

[billyoc]

4. OMFG, who gets his delegates?! n/t

[napi21]

5. I'm sure you'll find it as funny as I did when I posted this info.

I got quite a few responses just saying "WHO?" I knewhim becasue I make a point to watch all the debates, but prior to then, I never heard of him either! I'm glad he's gone too. I wasn't at all impressed!

[MaineDem]

7. Is this a dupe? Sorry, I looked.

I didn't see another post.

[Lobster Martini]

6. Wonder which was the proverbial camel's back-breaking straw...

...last month's Gallup poll in which "no opinion" beat him by 800% or the more recent poll in which he fell from 1% to an asterisk...

[napi21]

8. HA! My guess it was simply MONEY! n/t

[bluestateguy]

9. I guess we'll soon see Homer Simpson with a Gilmore '08 T-shirt

Haig in '88!

[Raine]

10. I thought "WHO" ???

all I could think of was either Happy Gilmore or Gary Gilmore. :crazy:

[Rydz777]

11. Gil, we hardly knew you. nt

[southerncrone]

12. Good-bye & good riddance.

Total psycho VA ex-Gov w/waaaayyy backward views!

Will probably run for Gov. again.

[dweller]

13. didn't even know Happy was even running n/t

dp

[rateyes]

14. If you can believe it, Jim Gilmore is a dumbed down version

of Dan Quayle. I lived in VA when he was governor. Good riddance.

[TwilightGardener]

15. Time to scrape the Gilmore '08 stickers off my bumper (sigh).

[Ediacara]

16. Gilmore quits presidential race

Source: BBC

Republican Jim Gilmore has said he is abandoning his attempt to win his party's nomination for the 2008 US presidential election.

One of the less prominent Republican hopefuls, Mr Gilmore has struggled since entering the race in April.

A former governor of Virginia, he described himself as a "mainstream Reagan conservative".

There are now nine Republicans in contention, with Rudolph Giuliani and Mitt Romney the frontrunners.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6899344.stm

[Yavin4]

17. Gilmore Was In The Race?

Seriously. I had no idea that he was in it.

[hedgehog]

18. Would that be the mother or the daughter?

I never watched the Gilmore Girls. i didn't even know they were republicans, let alone running for President!

[fujiyama]

19. MY sister watched that show

and the few times I remember overhearing the dialogue, the daughters sounded very liberal...