[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Despite what we all think about Spencer Abraham and Thompson's hiring of all of McCain's and Bush's people, he's probably being smart since he's quietly plugging into the nationwide GOP machine (such as it is) and putting all of his pieces into play.

Abraham, despite his weakness as a politician and bureaucrat, IS a fairly successful GOP apparachnik and knows all the state and local power brokers across the country. Fred is probably calculating that if he can win the primary with this team, then all of us will fall in behind him when he finally takes on Hillary and/or Obama. Is he right?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Abraham, despite his weakness as a politician and bureaucrat, IS a fairly successful GOP apparachnik and knows all the state and local power brokers across the country.

Abraham did rebuild the Michigan GOP from nothing.

Still wary about this though. Felt that there were so many conservatives Fred could have choosed from. Oh well.