FFB Straw Poll
Watching Press the Meat, and this question arises: Which presidential contender for 2008 are you least looking forward to watching for hundreds of hours on television? The choices are:
Joe Biden (The biggest windbag in the Senate. And that's saying something.)
George Allen (Jeffersonian conservative, or major tool. Or Jeffersonian conservative tool?)
John Kerry (There's an old saying in Texas . . . Fool me once, shame on, er, . . . won't be fooled again.)
Bill Frist ("Did I mention I'm a doctor?")
Hillary (Please, God, no.)
McCain (Maverick, or Bush's lap dog? Or, Bush's lap dog named "Maverick.")
Btw, why didn't Li'l Russ ask Allen why he voted for the partial-birth abortion ban if he really thinks that the abortion issue should be left to the States? Because he didn't think of that question? Or because he doesn't like to ask his guests hard questions? C'mon Li'l Russ. At least try to phone it in.
posted by Number Three @ 10:55 AM
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Alright, Entin. Enough Hobson's choices.
The Answer: John F. Kerry. I've built up an immunity (painfully - remember Ghengis Khan pronounced "Jenjis Khan"?). Besides, I liked 2004 and in a strange way hearing him babble on some more would remind of those simpler days.
I was tempted to say George Allen. I don't know a thing about the guy except that his bio says he went to UVA and lives in Fairfax. Anyone who has lived in that state for more than two weeks knows that those people are pure evil.
Ok, I know this is biased by TN media saturation, but the obvious answer is Bill Frist. He's Orin Hatch with an MD and a higher opinion of himself. In the Beltway Oscars, he'd be up for Most Sanctimonious Prig on a yearly basis. They might even give it to him someday as consolation for not winning in the more prestigious Best Pandering Man Whore category. (He's unlikely to win that prize as long as Biden and Pat Roberts are around.)
George Allen just makes me laugh. He looks like W.C. Fields with a lobotomy and a cheap hairstylist. He needs to get a bow tie, and I mean soon. I really hope he's the nominee--please please please, let it be George Allen.
On the Dem side, Hillary has all the name recognition, but I suspect little elite support. Those people can read polls, after all. Or maybe not, based on recent performances, but they still are most likely to know she's dead in the water against anyone except maybe Allen or Brownback. The big question is who the #2 Dem will be, the one who steps in when HRC crumbles. Biden's a joke; Kerry is cashed out; Feingold is a more Jewish McGovern--just what America's been demading all these years. So. . . Warner or Edwards or Clark or Richardson?
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Hillary. A thousand times, Hillary.
I'm with TMcD on this: Frist is the worst. He just blugeons his poor listeners with crude talking points, unconvincingly delivered. Fortunately, I'm pretty confident that we'll soon be spared his presence on the political scene. He destroyed his "I'm a doctor" credibility diagnosing Schiavo via videotape on the Senate floor. And that was all he ever had going for him.
And I'm with CL on Kerry. His tedious Washington-speak is intolerable. Given that the mere sight of him causes psychological pain to Democrats everywhere, we probably will be spared this outcome also.
iumike: No, I'm very interested in Romney, as the Mormon candidate. But until the straw poll aftermath, I haven't been taking him too seriously. But he played really well with the religious evangelicals in Memphis . . . .
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