Monday, July 09, 2007

PICKING AT STRAWS

This type of thing is one of the main reasons we are supporting Fred Thompson over Mitt Romney. At the recently held straw poll for Young Republicans in Hollywood Fla. the Mittster stacked the deck by busing in 100+ donors....

If you subtract the 100 or so "guests" former Gov. Mitt Romney brought with him to stuff the ballot box in Florida on Saturday night, Fred Thompson won another straw poll.

As Erick Erickson over at RedState pointed out on Saturday, Romney, struggling in the polls everywhere he isn't spending money on media buys, is reduced to also buying up straw polls to promote his candidacy.

He will have plunked down close to an estimated $5 million to make the Ames Republican Straw Poll in Iowa next month a personal political rally (no other major GOP candidate will be participating), and that includes outbidding by sometimes three times as much his nearest competitor for bus rentals to get his folks into Ames.

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