Jim Gilmore Suspends His Presidential Bid

The 17th and final GOP candidate to enter the race has become the 11th to drop out. Via the Washington Post:

Former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore has suspended his long-shot campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Gilmore got 12 votes in the Iowa caucuses and 133 in New Hampshire’s primaries on Tuesday. Gilmore, 66, officially entered the presidential race on July 30. He was governor of Virginia from 1997 to 2002, and spent a year as chairman of the Republican National Committee, before resigning amid infighting with the George W. Bush administration.

And then there were six.