The results of the Straw Poll last night were delayed because one of the voting machines malfunctioned. It's an ominous sign when we can't have a fake election without having problems with the machines.


I've been reading a lot on how Mitt Romney "won" the Iowa Straw Poll. From what I can tell, in order to win you needed to pay for peoples registration fees, bus them to where they have to vote, spend money on the buses to bring them where they have to vote, and spend even more money to entertain them for the entire day, just to make sure they vote for you. In the end, both he (and Sam Brownback for the matter) spent more money on votes than they had people vote for them. Isn't part of being a Conservative spending less money, and getting more of a return on your investment?


Isn't that also why a lot of attention is being put on Mike Huckabee, who did spend less money and got more of a return on his investment?


Everyone keeps mentioning how there isn't as much "excitement" this year, and how we R's aren't "excited" for any of the candidates. There's Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, rumored Fred Thompson, and rumored Newt Gingrich. These are all candidates who cover the whole spectrum of ideologies in the Republican and Conservative parties. So when people make comments about how "the candidates all suck" and "what happened to my Republican party," what exactly are they expecting to find?  I miss Ronald Reagan too, but he's not coming back. 


This is more about the two people who didn't show yesterday, but by now we all heard of Gulianni saying, "If I Weren't Running, McCain Would Be My Guy." That's an odd thing to say aboot one of you opponents. Could he be winking at the Senator in a "you're number one on my VP short list" way? I still heart Huckabee until I'm told to do otherwise, but I have to admit, Giuliani/McCain makes for an extremely interesting ticket. Possibly, our "dream" ticket (as in, the one that's going to win)?