Gubernatorial Straw Poll

Yes, it's pretty early, and yes, that isn't stopping anyone anyway.

Jay, over at Blogging for Bryant, a website you should be reading regularly, has a straw poll up. Who is your choice, of the presumed and possible Republican choices, for nominee to run against Phil Bredesen?

Bredesen's very, very beatable. The Republican candidate, if they really run and give their heart and soul to it, can win. The big problem is the money guys who run the upper reaches of the Republican Party. Many of them want an income tax because it will include language that removes the Hall tax on unearned income, and so they want Bredesen to have a second term. In his second term, you watch, Bredesen will suddenly find we have a fiscal problem that can only be solved by "exploring" the income tax. So, the money guys will encourage the Republicans to run a mere trophy candidate, as the Democrats did against Sundquist in his second term run. (Remember John Jay Hooker's lone wolf candidacy? His own party wouldn't support him, so he drove himself around the State, begging his way onto talk radio shows.)

As Bill Hobbs has noted many times, if Bredesen never gets a second term, we never get an income tax.

I meant to have the poll box on Half-Bakered, but the Javascript does impolite things to this blog when I add it to the template. When, and if, Jay gets it fixed, I'll be adding it. In the meantime, head over to Blogging for Bryant.

Go! Vote!