Oh-eight (R): The battle for Ames

Alan in Phx — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:11:47 GMT

Straw is for feeding cattle to make steak and milk. Straws are for children to drink soda. A straw pole is what they have in Iowa strip clubs.

As the country is still on summer vacation or getting ready to send kids back to school nobody really cares about this result.

It means nothing this time around as fundraising is already ongoing and where you finish here will do little to change anything. It is is a headline for an ad. Oh goody I finished first in the straw poll.

Oh-eight (R): The battle for Ames

nuanced — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:33:23 GMT

Winning straw poll means you can say -- I am the favored candidate for president when the vote doesn't count and is not representative.

Oh-eight (R): The battle for Ames

Houston — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:34:29 GMT

[[George Bush 7,418 31%]]

Are these voters aware that Bush isn't permitted by law to run again for the presidency, or do they know something we don't, like maybe a new legal opinion from Gonzo that the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution doesn't apply to "war-time" presidents whose middle initial is "W"?

Oh-eight (R): The battle for Ames

nuanced — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:51:04 GMT

Houston we have a problem. It is 2007 not 1999.

Oh-eight (R): The battle for Ames

Houston — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:48:52 GMT

[[Houston we have a problem. It is 2007 not 1999. ]]

Oops. Indeed we do. As the pols like to say, "mistakes were made."