Frist for President!

So, Bill Frist wins the first Republican presidential "straw poll."













To clinch this stunning victory, conducted by sheer coincidence in Memphis, Tennessee, Terry Schiavo's personal video physician bussed in large numbers of his supporters (shown below):



I'm betting, though, that Bill won't get the PETA vote. If there was ever a man who would make this come true:

it would be Frist. According to press reports, "Frist acknowledged in a 1989 book that he routinely killed cats while an ambitious medical student at Harvard Medical School in the 1970s. His office said it had no record on how many cats died. Frist disclosed that he went to animal shelters and pretended to adopt the cats, telling shelter personnel he intended to keep them as pets. Instead he used them to sharpen his surgical skills, killing them in the process."