Vote will be symbolic but ribs will be real

The Brownback for President campaign has chosen Minnesota-based Famous Dave’s to provide barbecue exclusively at the candidate’s tent for the Aug. 11 GOP straw poll in Ames, a largely symbolic exercise in vote-buying that both Mitt Romney and John McCain plan to skip. A good omen for Brownback: George W. Bush chose Famous Dave’s in 1999, when he won the straw poll with 31 percent of the votes.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

11 Comments

  1. Joe Williams
    Posted July 22, 2007 at 1:18 am | Permalink

    Never have tried Famous Dave’s. Are they really that good? If so, I’ll try them out, although I’m not a big rib person. It’s too messy for such little meat. Kind of like mudbugs.

  2. kelly
    Posted July 22, 2007 at 2:30 am | Permalink

    I hope Famous Dave’s got paid in advance. Sam better check and make sure that the rental charge on that tent has already been delivered too.

  3. thinkfirst
    Posted July 22, 2007 at 8:27 am | Permalink

    Sam, just like Bush. Is that really a good idea?

  4. CF2K
    Posted July 22, 2007 at 9:03 am | Permalink

    Famous Dave’s? ICK. Not good ‘Cue.

    Why didn’t Brownback choose Gates’ Barbecue, a chain which is located in Kansas as well as Missouri? Some good barbecue, that.

    Lame. A soulless corporate decision from a soulless Fundo zealot.

  5. kelly
    Posted July 22, 2007 at 9:28 am | Permalink

    “Soulless corporate” decision – isn’t that redundant? “Soulless Fundo zealot” – now that is something to talk about. We sure have a lot of those in Kansas.

  6. JWink
    Posted July 22, 2007 at 9:47 am | Permalink

    Yes, CF2K, back in the 1960’s, Ollie Gates’ one BBQ restaurant was located at about 12th and Troost in K.C., Mo. That was the in-place to go for business lunch. A half dozen giant black servers used bare hands to slap a generous handful of BBQ beef onto a large bun, ladle on a large spoonful of baked beans, add a pickle slice and glass of root beer … all in about 10 seconds and you were off to locate a place to sit in that packed building. Considering that everyone wore business suits in those days, it could be a little messy.

    I suspect that Ollie Gates has long since passed to that large BBQ restaurant in the sky but there are now replica Gates BBQ restaurants around K.C.

    There was another popular and similar restaurant, a CHILI restaurant, located on Truman Road probably about 15 blocks east of downtown K.C. The servors there were said to be ex-convicts. Big bowl of chili with chopped onions summer or winter. A large 6′ by 6′ photo mural of President Harry S Truman walking in for lunch was the main decor.

    But back to the subject of presidential politics … its too bad the candidates’ food source has become an important item in the competition. Can you imagine Franklin Roosevelt being measured on his favorite BBQ when running for his fourth term of office during WWII?

  7. fred
    Posted July 22, 2007 at 11:17 am | Permalink

    Who cares where the ribs come from or who is even attending the event. Sam has zero chance of winning the nomination and is just wasting all those millions of dollars. Now is that a conservative thing to do?

  8. CR
    Posted July 22, 2007 at 11:46 am | Permalink

    I knew there was a reason I didn’t like Famous Dave’s.

  9. leave
    Posted July 22, 2007 at 9:49 pm | Permalink

    “WASHINGTON, July 20 (RIA Novosti) – A former Reagan official has issued a public warning that the Bush administration is preparing to orchestrate a staged terrorist attack in the United States, transform the country into a dictatorship and launch a war with Iran within a year.

    Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, blasted Thursday a new Executive Order, released July 17, allowing the White House to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies and giving the government expanded police powers to exercise control in the country.

    Roberts, who spoke on the Thom Hartmann radio program, said: “When Bush exercises this authority , there’s no check to it. So it really is a form of total, absolute, one-man rule.”

    “The American people don’t really understand the danger that they face,” Roberts said, adding that the so-called neoconservatives intended to use a renewal of the fight against terrorism to rally the American people around the fading Republican Party. ”

    http://en.rian.ru/world/20070720/69340886.html

  10. Smith Oyvay Smithstein Huspa
    Posted July 23, 2007 at 5:53 am | Permalink

    Another Good Omen, the same faulty voting machines made by Diebold will be available at the elections and according to congressional oversight hearings, diebold representatives claimed that the machines could be made to give a favoring lead in a close to whoever they chose. Thats stickin your neck out and dying bold. Its no wonder that Jeb and George chuckled with guilt ridden and evil glee, when they were asked whether he thought he beat Al Gore. The snicker told it all, hell yeah, I’ll be the next Pres. of Amerka.Maybe they use Famous Dave’s BBQ sauce to oil the voting machines.So good luck to Senator Brownnoseand the Die Bold company. Woops, I meant Wetback, oops I meant Brownnecks, oh shucks I meant rednecks. Well whatever, the guy from Kansas that looks like the husband on “Bewitched”, Durwood or some such misnomer.Yee ahawwwSmith OyVaySmithstien Huspa

  11. The Phantom
    Posted July 23, 2007 at 7:43 am | Permalink

    So what’s Brownbacks slogan “Come and get one of Adam’s Spare ribs!”