Several long-term projetcs have monopolized my time the past few weeks, making it impossible for me to update this blog. Now that I’m back, I’d like to comment on the 2008 Republican Presidential Straw Poll straw poll down in Tennessee.
It’s hard for me to understand how anybody would take any straw poll seriously that would result in a win for Bill Frist. Obviously, he had an advantage because the poll was taken in his home state, but he has no chance to win the Republican nomination. In the March issue of the American Spectator (unavailable to nonsubscribers), I wrote an article detailing the frustration among grassroots conservatives with Republicans in Congress. Given how fed up conservatives are with Republicans lack of fiscal restraint, and that Frist has presided over the Senate as spending has skyrocketed, I don’t see any way he can win/