Outgoing Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) announced Wednesday that he will not run for president in 2008, further winnowing a Republican field that has contracted since the Nov. 7 elections.

Frist, who did not seek re-election to another term this year, said he intends to take a sabbatical from public life, return to his professional roots as a physician and explore other ways to serve outside of politics.

Yeah we all knew this on November 7th it just took him this long to figure it out.