Salon: Down and dirty with the GOP down South (Romney buying votes!)

[TwilightGardener]

The circus is in South Carolina--Send in the clowns!

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Straw polls in South Carolina are an obsession and a scourge for Republicans, the topic of endless press releases and meaningless chest thumping. They are easily corruptible. At some point on Friday night, Esther Wagner, the county GOP treasurer, spotted a Romney aide across the hall, and accused him of paying delegate fees to pump up Romney's poll numbers. Wagner's suspicions had been aroused earlier in the month, when she received a stack of last-minute registrations from about 15 to 20 people. Most of the fees had been paid in cash. "That is unusual," said Wagner, who has done work on the side for another candidate, John Cox, a minor rival to Romney. "Most people pay check." Then she got a call from a Romney supporter named Jeff Lynch, who mentioned in passing that someone had paid his fee.
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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/04/23/south_carolina/index.html

[tom_paine]

1. Looks like Romney is the Loyal Bushie candidate

That level of shameless corruption could only be performed by the Imperial Family.

[TwilightGardener]

2. That's what I am thinking--he already has the Jebster's support.

He is the perfect empty suit for them. But they will drop him like a steaming turd if he is not proving to be a winner.