"You'll see the real Bill Frist, unencumbered by having responsibilities..

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Thursday, 03/30/06
Frist hints strongly at White House run

Leaving 'terrible' post in Senate will help bid

By NANCY ZUCKERBROD
Associated Press



WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist says his high-profile job is a "terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible" post for seeking the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.

Making it clear that a White House bid is all but certain, Frist said that remaining in the Senate would make a presidential run impossible. Frist plans to step down when his second term ends this year. "I know the perch not to even consider," he said. "That would be, for me, the United States Senate or being majority leader."

Asked if trying to run a campaign from such a position would be difficult, he replied: "Terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible."

One of possibly a dozen Republicans interested in the GOP nomination, Frist said late Tuesday that once out of the Senate, "you'll see, as you do now, the real Bill Frist, but unencumbered by having responsibilities of leading this body, which results in negotiated positions."

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060330/NEWS0206/603300391/1016/NEWS02

[rox63]

1. How's that SEC investigation going, Cat-Killer...? n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I will be delighted if Frist steps down from the Senate! Then we'll

see if the RW 30% can get him as the GOP candidate in '08.

[Clark2008]

14. He is. He's not running again.

It will be either Harold Ford Jr. or Rosetta Kurita against one of these GOPhers: Bob Corker, Ed Bryant or Van Hilleary.

[XNASA]

3. Is he admitting that he hates being the Majority Pimp?

Seems so.

[MostlyLurks]

4. What. An. Asshat.

"you'll see, as you do now, the real Bill Frist, but unencumbered by having responsibilities of leading this body"

Because leading a body of people is NOT AT ALL what being President is about. And you're a fool and a Communist if you disagree.

"which results in negotiated positions."

Because being the President is NOT AT ALL about trying to bring Americans together for the common good of all. And you're a fool and a Communist if you disagree.

This guy is a damned joke. And if the Democrats don't shove this quote up his ass at EVERY opportunity, they're nuts or stupid or both.

Mostly

[MissMillie]

9. Does this mean

that he's at his best when he has no big responsibilities?

That's just who I want running the country! :sarcasm:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

12. Yep...nothing like not wanting responsibilities to show...

...how well you can handle responsibilities.

:evilgrin:

[patdem]

11. Your thoughts mirror my own, but you say it so much better...

He thinks being Senate leader is HARDER than being president? I agree if the Democrats do NOT use this they are "fools or Communists"!

[JeffR]

5. The SEC & charity-fraud things may also factor in

Making it, possibly, "terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible".

And once his telediagnosis of Terry Shiavo gets trotted out again, it could become "terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible".

He may have a few more functional brain cells than, say, Senator Allen (who doesn't?), but Dr. Sardonicus ain't goin' nowhere.

[zbdent]

6. Hey, using his skills at diagnosing medical conditions as a basis,

there's billions of Iraq War 1 and 2 veterans . . .

I heard he watched the Zapruder film and diagnosed JFK as only having "a bad hair day" . . .

[salin]

7. idiot... watch him get ousted from his leadership position, soon

will be a two-fer for his rivals... - to do so will have to capitalize on something stupid that he says or does (think Lott) which will give him less stature, and in doing so will lower his profile (or subject him to ridicule) making him less of a viable candidate. These comments make him ripe for the picking off - and there appear to be rumblings in the senate that he has been an abysmal Maj Leader. Hey Frist... don't give your party rivals ammo (or... do and let us enjoy the show...)

[Wetzelbill]

8. wow what an awful picture

:)

[Olney Blue]

10. He's scary.

[Zookeeper]

13. That photo is priceless!

"Swamp Rat, where aaaaare you?"

It definitely needs some photoshop and a caption.

[Clark2008]

15. He's terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible.

I'm one of his alleged constituents (but he's never done a thing to represent me).

[sendero]

16. Bill Frist?

That person that makes Joe Lieberman look charismatic? That dude thinks he's presidential material?

Hey Mr. Frist, there are some things money cannot buy. It cannot buy you a clue, nor can any amount of it make you look presidential.

[Disturbed]

17. "the real Bill Frist"

Uh...ya mean the one we see is the phoney one?

[yellowcanine]

18. "You'll see the real Bill Frist." I can hardly wait. No thanks, I think

seen as much as I can take.

[yellowcanine]

19. If being majority leader is such hard work why does he want to be

president? Does he think that would be easier? What a looser moran.