[George W. Bush]

Antiwar antiAmerican Al Qaeda propagandists are useless scum in the estimation of GOP primary vters as paleoPaulie will learn to his utter humiliation when the votes are cast.

We now have some in the media predicting Dr. Paul will take a strong second in the Ames, IA straw poll on August 11. It is expected that at least 3-4 of the GOP field will drop out after Ames, largely because of lack of money to continue. Gilmore dropped out, broke and with eye problems. TThompson will drop out. Huckabee is likely to drop out. So is Duncan unless he can bring in some money and make an unexpected showing (too bad, most RP folk like Duncan too especially his work on the fence). Tancredo probably won't drop out, IMO, because his 2Q fundraising was pretty good and he has been pretty tight about spending his warchest (good for Tom). Senator Brownback Switchback is bashing Romney on scouting, trying to be relevant; his 2Q was weak and he's going nowhere but he will probably last until fall as an empty suit.

Both McCrazy and Rudi, despite being so tough on terrorists, are scared of the Ames straw poll (see tagline). And Romney is pulling back his money and busing efforts in Iowa, still confident of a win though. But we have a shot at beating him too, despite his spending millions and so much time there. Ron Paul hasn't spent much time there at all and virtually no money. Romney will end up spending ten times as much and it's an open question whether he can beat Ron Paul in Ames.

[BlackElk]

The Ames straw poll has nothing whatever to do with actual Republican public opinion. Like any other source of hope for Paulistinians, the Ames poll will allow antiwar leftists who have nothing whatever to do with the GOP to pack the hall to cause trouble. College student and faculty leftists, communists, moveon.org types, and other enemies of our country will be out in force. They won’t even have to give up choosing delegates for their favorite red Demonrat. When the delegates are chosen, we shall see the definitive humiliation of paleoPaulie and his love slaves.