Does Frist have any chance of winning the GOP nomination?

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

He clearly has the best chance of any of the names mentioned so far.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

He is tied to Bush.  While Bush did win reelection he's not that popular.

I couldn't possibily disagree more.  President Bush is wildly popular, at least around here.  Just about every car in GOP areas of this city have "W The President" stickers on them and there are actually more of them every day.  The only people who don't love President Bush around here are anti-war, pro-Saddam lefties or anti-immigrant bigoted right-wing nuts.  When President Bush came to Memphis, the tickets were all gone within a matter of minutes and lines were wrapped 4 or 5 times around the office buildings that house Senator Frist and Alexander's offices.   And this was all in a "blue" county!   I suppose people don't feel that way in your neck of the woods... but it should be noted that most of the polls showed that people who voted for Bush did so out of support for him and not just opposing his opponent.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

I think thats mainly a self-fulfilling prophecy.   I think Governors have an advantage over Senators, but your prophecy will always come true if we count Senators out just because a few more Governors were elected than Senators.  Many of our Governors are embroiled in controversy, are just unpopular in their states, or come from states that really aren't advantageous when you're counting electoral votes.  Senator Frist is wildly popular in his home state, has the backing of very influential leaders and fundraisers in DC, does appear to be the Bush pick (as 9iron noted), and the base he has built on this judicial nominee stuff is icing on the cake.  Frist has an advantage in the nomination and his persona as a compassionate healer will give us a lot of credibility on the health care issue going up against Hillary.

J. J. Third Rule of Politics might end up being: "To be elected president, you must have been Vice President or a Governor." 

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Whats your beef with Frist?

Look, Frist is not going to get the nomination if he hits Democrats with 500 Trident missiles. It just doesn't matter.. he has a nice resume but isn't a good candidate due to his apparent softness and forced, semi-condescending speaking style.

His odds of being Veep are similarly low.

We can only hope so.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

I was specifically asking Erc what his concerns were.  I'm understand the points, but where is the hostility coming from.  If you think he's boring.. thats fine... but is boredom something you morally oppose?  Is it cause to get so upset that you would disdain him as the nominee?

Whats your beef with Frist?

Have you read anything in this thread, or the countless others that mention his name?

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

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He is an extraordinariliy intelligent, compassionate person.  He has good name ID and he will have an incredibily skilled and talented political team - much of which comes from the current popular administration.

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Oh give me a break....thats such nonsense.  If thats the worst skeleton he has in his closet, then he should be fine.  I am confident he has saved far more human lives than feline lives that have perished.

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Yeah, I mean its not like he's been the friggin Senate Majority Leader while we significantly increased our majority or anything...

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Exactly!  The "cat-killer" label will only be proposed by the far-left... the rest of America will remember the human lives that he has saved.

The big deal over the cat killing never ceases to amaze me. If he was the nominee, it would blow over. He could win.