Honestly, I sure hope so. So Frist won a poll concerning potential 2008 presidental candidates. He even trounced, which really shouldn't come as a surprise since McCain has been losing points for breaking ranks with Bush, while Frist has generally stuck alongside the pres aside from the ports deal, and that was only because it was trendy. Frist, who packed the home-state crowd with supporters wearing blue "Frist is my leader" buttons, won nearly 37 percent of the 1,427 votes cast by delegates to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. You know, I think this is great. I honestly do. Frist is the weakest willed person I know of in Washington these days. The man cannot make a decision on his own, he just drifts along wherever Bush is headed unless the political climate is such that he should oppose the guy. If the republicans want to nominate a man that will not take a stand on anything unless there's someone there to tell him what to think, that's just dandy. Hell, they've already done it once before. By proxy, that leaves Frists's popularity in the tanker as well. But if I were to diverge from my "anything to sabotage the republican party" rhetoric then I'd say the republicans need to honestly choose anyone but this dingbat. Bush's popularity keeps going down, and anyone who sticks by him is going to look worse and worse as time goes on. Even other GOP'ers are making distance between themselves and Bush in order to help their presidential bids. The first-tier presidential aspirants (McCain, Romney, Allen) all showed up here, switching on their best smiles as they back slappedtheir way around the fabled Peabody Hotel. In the lobby, New Hampshire power broker Tom Rath talked about that delicate dance: "Unless things improve (for Bush), you won't see anyone running back to embrace the mother ship. Nobody is running as his natural political heir." Well... nobody except for Frist. And yet, he's the guy that gets chosen as the next republican candidate. That tells me two things: that the republicans in power realize that they need to get away from Bush because he's simply a black spot on the country's history, and that the republican population still flocks to whoever still is faithful to our Mighty Leader. I think that speaks a fair deal about the general intelligence of your average republican voter. Or at least roughly 37% of them. The democrats don't like Bush, neither do the republicans in Washington. I can only wonder what it is that keeps the general population still rooting for the guy.