The right said Fred

On Friday afternoon, I stopped by a bar adjacent to the Gwinnett Civic Center, site of last weekend’s state GOP convention. I noticed a large number of red “Draft Fred Thompson” stickers affixed to bar-goer shirts.

I asked Erick Erickson of Peach Pundit, who was at the bar, too, whether the ubiquity of Thompson stickers at the bar was an anomaly, or representative of wider Georgia GOP sentiments. He says he thought it indicated the latter.

He was evidently right.

In a straw poll conducted at the convention, the former senator and star of Curly Sue garnered 44 percent of the vote. Coming in a distant second was Newt Gingrich, with 18 percent. Rudy Giuliani was third with 15 percent.

Assuming the poll is indeed indicative of state GOP sentiment, it seems Georgia Republicans simply aren’t very fond of GOP front-runners Giuliani, McCain and Romney.