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Apparently at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference yesterday they voted "Dr." Bill Frist as their next president in a straw poll. Of course these things don't mean a thing, but if he had lost a poll held in Tennessee, his home state, his leadership dreams might have died in utero. Several known contenders, including potential front-runner John McCain asked that instead of voting for them delagates should write "George W. Bush" on the ballot, while others, like Condoleeza Rice did not offer their names. Bush came third.

I don't think Frist is a serious contender for anything higher than veep, but that Frist can be considered a contender for anything higher than dog-catcher (sorry, dog-catchers), is worrisome. What can one say about a doctor that believes it's possible to transmit AIDS through tears and saliva, a statement he was forced to half-recant saying that it would "be difficult" to transmit it this way, and then went on to diagnose Terri Schiavo as not being in a persistent vegetative state after visiting with her and doing hours of rigourous diagnostic tests viewing a videotape of her.

I guess what one can say is that Frist is a political opportunist desperately trying to solidify the right-wing Christian base on cheap moral wedge issues; and that things in Washington are not likely to change any time soon.

Posted by kevvyd on Sunday, March 12, 2006 at 9:51 AM | Permalink