GOP Rivals Grasp at SC Straw Poll Glory - McCain 164 Rudy 162 Hunter 158 Brownback 85 Mitt 80

The State (South Carolina) ^ | 3/1/07 | Aaron Gould

[Corin Stormhands]

never mind

[reasonisfaith]

Thought so.

[Corin Stormhands]

*snort*

You completely missed it from the start.

[reasonisfaith]

It’s impossible to miss a nonentity.

[reasonisfaith]

Thus no one will miss Rudy when Duncan Hunter pulls ahead.

[Corin Stormhands]

Thus no one will miss Rudy when Duncan Hunter pulls ahead.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

And you don't think there's life on other planets???

*snort*

[reasonisfaith]

Are you some kind of Art Bell fanatic?

[Corin Stormhands]

Hardly. My first post to you was sarcasm, which you obviously missed, and continue to miss.

[reasonisfaith]

When sarcasm fails due to a simpleminded style, explaining the obvious does not fix the problem.

[Corin Stormhands]

Well aren't you just a barrel of laughs.

[reasonisfaith]

Not really, but Duncan Hunter sure did well today. I'll probably donate more to his campaign now.

[Calpernia]

>>>there are those who profit supplying the materiel for wars--and there are those who profit or plunder in victory.<<<

Dr. Seuss described that so simply with Sylvester McMonkey McBean.


>>>"Never mind the moral torpedoes, let's all move Leftward in our candidate and votes so we can win." The problem then is, exactly WHO wins? Not the Right. Not Life.<<<<

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791535/posts
Excerpt:

"Keep pushing the Republican Party because you're pushing it in the right direction," New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told the Log Cabin Republican convention over the weekend.

[Corin Stormhands]

Knock yourself out. I'm glad Duncan did well.

He's not my candidate. But he's a good man.

[reasonisfaith]

Now you're talking.

[streetpreacher]

Post of the day.

[Elyse]

This SC straw poll has got to be the stupidest run thing I've ever seen. I thought the vote counting was all done and there was an official winner, but according to this article it's not done and their isn't a winner because the actual voting isn't even officially over. They still have only 81 of 91 precincts counted and people that didn't get their vote in still have a second chance to vote.

"Sen. McCain came out the winner in the Spartanburg County Republican Party's presidential straw poll when the counting was finished -- sort of -- Friday afternoon."

"A meeting will be held at 7 p.m. March 22 at county GOP headquarters on East Main Street to organize the final precincts. Beltram said voters from those precincts who didn't get a chance to cast a ballot would get a second chance at the make-up meeting, and those results would be an addendum to Friday's totals."


http://www.goupstate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070303/NEWS/703030307/-1/LIFE

[do the dhue]

It was Duncan Hunter that stole that show.

GOOD SHOW for HUNTER!!

A no name with no money, competing with the big dogs. I love it!!

[Austin Willard Wright]

Ya left out a couple things, yaknow. Guess ya don't have the latest talking points. I can share them with you if you like.. ;-)

What did I leave out? Hunter might take some wonderful stands but his support for the (narrowly passed) Prescription Drug Bill should be an immediate deal killer for anyone who believes in limited government.

[VictoryGal]

> I didn't see it but I wish I had. The media had to say a presidential name other than McCain, Giuliani or Romney.

And oh how they hated to say it! Eeeek, a real conservative! :-)

Glad to see that the PEOPLE can see past the MSM and their weak-kneed "Republican" abettors.

It's ON baby! Hunter '08!

[txrangerette]

By that logic, no one who voted for that addition to Medicare deserves to be in Congress, either. Dog catcher...well...er, um, gotta think hard about that one. /sarcasm

Medicare is here. They paid for whopping surgery bills and other extreme, last ditch measures, but NOT for the drugs to keep people in better health so they wouldn't need those extreme measures, yet paying for the drugs is much cheaper.

Myself, I would have supported help for the poorest who simply couldn't afford anything for their drugs - PERIOD. That's not the bill we got. We got an "all are eligible" bill, but I believe the best off don't get the same degree of government help the poorest do. Some kind of odd duck, but typical, Congressional compromise.

This was no deal breaker for Congressmen or the Presidency. It was a middle ground addition to Medicare, which was already here and not going away. It is better to have drugs paid for that are preventative than to continue down the road of paying only for extreme treatment measures which are much more expensive.

No matter - you're not a fair observer of the Republican scene. And you know you are not. It's like having Pat Buchanan as commentator and analyst on the Republican side (along with Bill Press or some such for the Dems) - on the cable shows.

I turn 'em BOTH off when I see 'em. Just considering the source...