Breaking: One Fewer Lawyer in the Presidential Race
Former Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) -- who has played a lawyer on television, as well as in real life -- is dropping out of the presidential race.
Look for an official announcement by the close of business today.
Update: Here is Fred Thompson's statement on his withdrawal from the 2008 presidential race. Additional thoughts on the Thompson candidacy appear here (Marc Ambinder) and here (Adam Nagourney and Michael Powell).
Thompson Decides To Drop Out [Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic]
Fred Thompson Drops Out of the Presidential Race [New York Times]
(21) Comments
I like the First Amendment.
He went limp, I suspect it happens alot with him.. His wife is smoking hot, she would have been the best first lady.
this was the most absurd candidacy in a long time. he's the new reagan! oh, actually, he's totally uninterested in campaigning or being president.
Fred Thompson was running for President?
Strange . . . I thought he dropped out the same day he threw his hat in the ring.
Does anybody know what happens to Thompson's delegates now that he is out?
I cannot believe no one else has noted this, nor can I believe that Lat posted this way in the first place. Dude, it's totally "One Less Lawyer"--"One Fewer Lawyer" is just so, so wrong!
It's been self-evident from the very beginning that Fred Thompson was in the race for no other reason than because he had nothing better to do.
Thankfully this pathetic charade has finally come to a close.
More importantly, does anybody know what happens to Jack McCoy now?
3:13, Lat must have taken a fewer number of grammar classes than you.
I'm voting for Jerry Orbach's ghost.
Wow- I thought that whole thing was a Law & Order marketing effort..
Lat, it would be cool if you could cue up the Law & Order scene change music to play when someone clicks on this post.
3:13, you're wrong. There are (thankfully) countably many lawyers, and lawyers are not partitive, so "fewer" is correct.
Those of you with grammar skills, I am very impressed!
3:13 = pwn3d by 3:46
He looked like a monkey f**king a football out there.
That is a shame. He ran a terrible "campaign," if you can call it that. That said, he was a real federalist and was someone who actually knew what he was talking about when it came to legal issues. It's too bad that he is out and Huckabee is still in.
There is no downside to this for Fred because he can respond with “I get to go home with Jeri Thompson every night” after pretty much anything you want to say about him.
He looked like he knocked a few back in his lifetime... FUGLY bastard.
3:13 is wrong, and 3:46 (and Lat) are right. It should be "fewer," not "less."
See the chapter in Strunk and White, "Misused Words and Expressions."