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Mackinac Island, MI- With some of the heavy hitters yet to speak - Rudy Giuliani was the dinner speaker last night, Mtt Romney speaks at lunch today - here's an early look at the Michigan Republican Leadership Conference by the numbers:

Price of a weekend stay in the Grand Island Hotel? About $300.
Number of Republican activists on said Island? at least 2,000. The dinner MC declared this year's event the largest ever

Number of times Rudy Giuiliani mentioned MoveOn: At least five
Number of times Giuliani mentioned Hillary Clinton: At least a dozen
Number of times Giuliani mentioned George Bush: Once

Number of candidate no-shows thus far: Two (Mike Huckabee and Sam Brownback)

Who's Hot: French President Nicolas Sarkozy (both Giuliani and Newt Gingrich mentioned him frequently)
Who's Not: Anyone in current Administration (no mention of any WH inhabitants).

More updates soon....

1 Comments

I'll tell you who's hot! RON PAUL!!!!! Freedom and integrity are amazingly popular, and the so called "top tier" cannot say they did not compete! Bye bye Boys, here comes the very good and pricipled doc, to save the Republic!