<p>I don’t know much about Thompson, but I know a little bit about the form of cancer that he has. He was diagnosed with indolent non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma 2.5 years ago. That’s almost always incurable, and it often takes sufferers down in fewer than ten years. So if you are hoping for a two-term president, the chances of him lasting the distance are not that good. And even in his first term there will likely be relapses and episodes of chemo and/or immunotherapy treatments. His chances would have been a lot better if it had been Hodgkin’s, but no such luck.</p>
<p>Thompson has the same form of cancer that Paul Tsongas had. Remember Tsongas from the 1992 campaign? Sen. Tsongas died right around the time of what would have been the beginning of his second term had he been elected in president '92</p>
<p>So if you vote for Thompson, take a long, hard look at who his running mate is, because you just might need him.</p>
<p>Yeah. I mean it’s totally unfair that nobody has ever gone after Hillary Clinton! Somebody really needs to get to the truth about her affair with Janet Reno and murdering Vince Foster.</p>
<p>What a hoot. I don’t think there has been a candidate in my lifetime who has had fifteen years of non-stop dirt-digging. Good luck coming up with some new material. </p>
<p>Oh, wait! Stop the presses! Two new 600 page biographies have unearthed shocking new revelations:</p>
<p>coureur - according to many published reports, Thompson’s cancer is fully in remission and he no longer requires treatment. Doctors have said it should have no effect on his life expectancy.</p>
<p>There’s a ban here on talking about whatever it is you all think Hillary did? Rubbish. Please show me where such a policy exists or has been enforced. </p>
<p>You know where there’s a ban? Free Republic, the most popular conversative discussion forum on the Internet, is now banning on sight anyone who posts in support of Giuliani. There’s been a total purge, much like their anti-Bush purge of 2000. </p>
<p>It’s their site, they can do what they want. But don’t try to paint everyone with the tactics of your fellow travellers.</p>
<p>I guess it’s better than Gingrich describing his own affair as “not up to his standards”. It’s like the woman in the situation is just an object to them.</p>
<p>“how about all the people that were taken off voter rolls for no reason, oh wait, most of them happened to be black”</p>
<p>That was very true in Baltimore. Of course they also happened to be dead and living six feet under a tombstone but why shouldn’t someone vote after they have departed this veil of tears?</p>
<p>“I guess it’s better than Gingrich describing his own affair as “not up to his standards”. It’s like the woman in the situation is just an object to them.”</p>
<p>Yeah I guess it is a lot better to use a young woman as a humidor. That is not objectifying someone.</p>
<p>I don’t see why, ID. Bashing Clinton is so de rigour, such a way of deflecting attention from the issue at hand…even 8 or 9 years later. This could go on for decades.</p>
<p>“I could care less that he is a Mormon. He is flipflopper, of the worst degree, but even that isn’t as bad as what he has done to cities and towns in MA. He cut state aid to shreds…literally. My town receives many millions of dollars less in state aid than we did in 2002, and yet there are more and more federal mandates, particularly special ed, that are eating up our education budgets.”</p>
<p>Spare me you Taxachusetts sob stories. It is Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, and Barney “Beans and” Frank who vote for all thos unfunded federal mandates and rich taxachusetts citizens who vote themselves property tax limits. You are all a bunch of hypocritical rich liberals. You want the folks in Indiana to pay for the largesse of your leeding hearts. You have screwed your own state up so much you are moving in droves to New Hampshire and you will screw it up too.</p>
<p>You can rest assured Mitt Romney isn’t getting the Republican nomination. We know how easy it is to beat an ex-massachusetts governor. That is not good news for either the empty suit, Lady MacBeth, Breck Boy, or the bloated Carbon Buttprint. You all had best worry about finding a candidate who is not a dead man walking.</p>
<p>Higherlead, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, so either do a little reading and educate yourself on funding in MA under Romney, or be quiet.</p>
<p>Right. That’s what they said about Paul Tsongas too. Doctors will always try to be optimistic. That’s why they will say pretty much this same thing about <em>every</em> cancer patient who is currently in remission. This is especially true for patients who are public figures. The doctors are not lying, but they are stressing the hopeful side of the uncertainty that so often occurs with cancer. </p>
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<p>Right again. Indolent is also the hardest to cure and most likely to relapse.</p>
<p>Waterboarding? Or electric shock. Newt has always made my skin crawl. He has to be the most self-sanctimonious creature this side of Bill “Book of Virtues” Bennett.</p>