It's a Fristy winter!

[Pangloss]

How's that for a subject line? Made it up myself!

 

Bill Frist won a straw poll amongst Republican activists on Saturday which is considered to be a kind of bell weather for the presidential race. One interesting twist was that McCain was campaigning for voters to write in President Bush, ostensibly as a show of support. I can't help but wonder if maybe that was an anti-Frist move, though. Perhaps McCain's presidential hopes are closer to the surface than he would like for us to think?

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11782578/

 

Another interesting tidbit in the above article is that Frist is apparently taking credit for ending the Democratic filibuster over Alito. Wow. I sure didn't get that impression at the time. It's possible there's behind-the-scenes stuff that we weren't aware of, but I think it more likely that Democrats made that decision all on their own. It's interesting that Frist is taking public credit for that. Could be a risky move for him.

 

(Regardless, I'm not a Fristian, nor am I likely to become one. I'd rather vote for just about any Democratic candidate, to be blunt.)