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Name: Mike's America
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States

Currently living in the South Carolina Lowcountry, Mike has taken a keen interest in politics and government since his days as a young whippersnapper in Ohio. There, he organized College Republicans clubs, worked as a professional staffer on two statewide campaigns and was elected to the Delaware County Republican Central Committee among other achievements. In 1986 he began graduate studies in government at Columbia University where he specialized in National Security matters under the tutelage of former National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Leaving New York in 1988 he moved to Washington, D.C. to become a White House Intern in the Political Office of President Ronald Reagan. With backing from the first Bush Administration he spent four years at the Environmental Protection Agency. He has lived on Hilton Head since 1996 where he writes, photographs and gardens.

Saturday, January 12, 2008

SC Rudy Voters : Pick Fred Instead!

It's confirmed! Rudy has pulled out of South Carolina!

Giuliani says bye bye to South Carolina….
by Mosheh Oinounou
Fox News
January 10th, 2008

Myrtle Beach, SC — The Giuliani campaign has also moved all of it’s paid staff out of South Carolina as it concentrates all of its efforts in Florida. The decision to pull SC staff comes in the wake of a similar decision to pull paid staffers out of Michigan. Over the course of the last six months, Giuliani has visited South Carolina about a dozen times and held more than 20 public events in the state.
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It is Florida or bust for the Giuliani campaign where the former NYC mayor has launched five television ads and is now focusing almost all of his resources. Giuliani returns to Florida Friday for campaign events and will be conducting a 3-day bus tour thru the Sunshine State starting on Sunday.
On New Year's Day I explained the reasons that I believe make Rudy Giuliani the best overall Presidential candidate for the GOP. I also expressed disappointment that his campaign decided that it was not worth their effort to make their case more forcefully to the voters of South Carolina.

Considering that Rudy is pulling his remaining campaign staff out of the state to concentrate on Florida, I recommend fellow Rudy voters to consider casting their ballot for Fred Thompson in Saturday's GOP primary.

I've already given countless reasons why neither Huckabee nor McCain would be suitable as the nominee of our party.

Romney's a fine candidate, but Fred now is making an all out effort in South Carolina and for that, I think he deserves your vote.

For those of you in Florida and Super Tuesday states, I still encourage you to vote for Rudy, or Fred or Romney if you prefer.

But for South Carolina, there is really only one conservative choice now: FRED THOMPSON!