Bill Frist, the presidential wannabe known best in his home state for a penchant for assuming aristocratic poses, killing cats, and ignoring Tennessee's tragic health care crisis, 'won' the Southern Republican Leadership Conference straw poll Saturday night. In a moment of rare and brutal honesty, a photo caption at CNN explains, "Sen. Bill Frist won a GOP straw poll in Tennessee after packing a conference with supporters."
Well, we didn't think the noncharismatic leader won by giving one of his famously awful speeches.
Reportedly, the "shocker" of the evening was that Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney captured second place in the GOP pool of white male presidential wannabes.
Before the poll occurred, Frist fan, Trent Lott warned all who would listen that the poll would be a "rigged deal" cause "Frist is bussing people in."
Who knew Republicans had a talent for rigging elections?
Fancy Frist pulled in 36.9 percent of the 1427 votes. Hotline seems to confirm the reports of Lott and CNN with the news that 82 percent of Dr. Fancy Frist's votes at the "masturbatory exercise" were from Tennessee's Radical Republicans. Thanks to Dr. Frist's efforts, the 2006 straw poll saw an increase in voter turnout of more than 66 percent over the last poll!
Now we understand how the Fancy Senate Majority Leader 'won' the 'prestigious' Best Boy award when he was just a little boy attending one of Nashville's fanciest best boy schools.
UPDATE: Bill Frist has deep insides, reports Think Progress. The Bush loyalist says he is "hoping deep inside that the leadership in Iran…[was] not listening" to Russ Feingold's call to censure Bush over his warrantless spying on America program. Think Progress has the video, if you can stomach it.
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