Midday Ruffini Update
With 14 votes from D’08ers, Rudy G. has 14.8% 64.8% of the vote…vote here if you haven’t yet. In the overall poll, Rudy G. now has 33+%, but interestingly, he trails Condi in the fantasy bracket (and utron, I share your frustration with Ruffini’s distinction between ‘fantasy’ and ‘real’ candidates)…
Also of note on the 2008 front, via Mickey Kaus, we learn that Hillary has publicly opposed the ‘politically correct’ International Freedom Center at Ground Zero. I share Mickey’s opinion that it is the smart (and right move):
The I.F.C. will either be unfairly politicized–e.g., giving the 9/11 tragedy a particular human-rightsy twist–or it will be pablum. Either way, it’s unnecessary.
Well said, Mickey, well said…
WTF is Frist doing?
He’s acting like he would be an actual nominee. Not like he has taken any heat off Bush as Majority leader. (In the world of extreme possiblities, he may have been tapped by Cheney to be Veep, one can never have enough surgeons around). Frist has been the worst majority leader, ever. Has he ever successfully rallied the troops?
At first he is there for the religious right, but then he distances himself from his only support group and the Presdient in one fell swoop over stem cells. The media, which is mostly worthless, is doing the GOP the biggest favor in the world, chasing him down over HCA. Hint to media: If you don’t like the idea of the Republicans winning, you want to make sure Frist is on the ticket.
Where exactly is this guy’s support going to come from? What is his claim to fame? Someone told Frist that he is going to be their Veep, because there is no way the guy gets off the ground in the lead spot.
Hard to say that I miss Trent Lott, but I miss Trent.
Cornyn, Hatch, Lugar, Mcconnell will be far better. My preference if for Hatch, but regardless of who it is, the GOP will be twenty times better off when Frist is gone.
As a small aside, the stem cell issue really pared it down for the Whitehouse for choices-but it could be used to their advantage. I don’t mind funding stem cell research, but also realize that it would be wrong to have one’s tax money go to it if you are against it. Enter private accounts: A tax payer could be allowed to invest their money/from social security, directly into a cluster of Stem Cell companies, while a more socially and financially conservative person could put their money into some other form of investment, of the dems chosing, if they wish. A small move, but it would start the idea of private accounts up again…the dems would have to be willing to allow investment in Stem Cells and private accounts, or appear two-faced. The citizens would have the ability to control government spending, by receiving a stock portfolio, and select where their money goes. The money wouldn’t be flushed down a toilet, and it would be part of a larger move for Americans to have a say in where their money goes.