This will break quite some hearts I am sure:
Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson dropped out of the race for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination tonight, a day after he finished a disappointing sixth in the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa.
Thompson explained:
“I have no regrets about running,” Thompson said in a statement released by his campaign. “I felt my record as Governor of Wisconsin and Secretary of Health and Human Services gave me the experience I needed to serve as President, but I respect the decision of the voters.”
I really have no idea why Thompson decided to run in the first place. To call him irrelevant is and was an understatement. If someone drops out in August of the year preceeding the actual election year there is only one conclusion possible: he was in way over his head.
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