Darn, I would hate to be considered the Fat Salamander’s candidate.
Deal won because he had better organization and got out the vote in his home district. Nothing more.
It went to whoever had the most votes.
Can we stop this nonsense and get a real statesman to run for President? Really tired of all these political jousters, how about an actual Statesman?
Nuck Fewt!
Another consideration was the perception, rightly or wrongly, that Handel was the Atlanta big city candidate, and Deal the candidate for the rest of Ga(country folks).
In the runoff, I was contacted by many Deal supporters(NRA, etc) and not one Handel supporter.
It just seemed that Deal had the better organization/get out the vote operation, came from behind and won.
I think records, debates, etc had more to do with it than endorsements. The challenge now will be to work together to defeat Barnes.
Just my 2 cents, YMMV
Palin will come out of this one looking good if Deal gets indicted. I would bet money on the Dems playing an “October surprise”, a Deal indictment, on Georgia voters. After her Alaskan career fighting corruption, there is no way she would have ever endorsed Deal.
Call from 1994 for Mr. Gingrich. Please answer the yellow phone to return home.
Republican candidates always have to be squeaky clean, no taint of scandal whatsoever. If you kicked the cat sometime, someone, somewhere will find out and put it on the front page.
Here in NM, the Republican Hispanic candidate for governor bought some office supplies back in 2003-2005 from one of her employees. That was before current state purchasing rules prohibited it and audits cleared her of any violations. However that doesn’t stop the local ABQ Urinal from splashing it above the fold in last Sunday’s newspaper. Compared to the corruption ridden Richardson regime, she IS squeaky clean but this is touted as a black mark against her.
Same with Sarah Palin; the left media tries to dig up dirt anyway they can and chose the route of filing nuisance ethics charges against her when governor. It got to the point that as governor she was spending all her time fighting them and on top of that she had to defend them with her own money which with $500,000 in lawyer fees finally led to her resigning from office before the family was bankrupted.
So if Deal is seriously tainted, he needs to step aside for the good of the party. If not and Republicans loose in November because of this, they once again deserve the label the “stupid party.”
My fear is that the fed investigation into Deal will bear fruit (surprise!) right before the election.
Half of Georgia voters are Dem moochers who are always whining for govt to give them something — perpetually posed with their hand held out.
I can’t make sense out of the other half. I guess they prefer Hucksterish, Gingrichian career politicians who won’t change a single thing, other than to work on getting re-elected and padding their political nest.
Handel didn’t lose, she dang near *tied*. But, I’m afraid Georgia Republicans will have lost the most, once all is said and done. Especially if Deal’s investigation results in Barnes winning the general election. Just... crud.
Governor Hermain Cain!
The thing that disturbs me most about Speaker Newt Gingrich is not what he is saying today, I think that’s great, it’s that he’s waited so long to say it.
What I mean is that when he was completely out of power, he was making nice with Hillary Clinton and that NY loser and other things that weren’t Republican or conservative. Now, when he’s clearly running for president, and he smells which way the wind is blowing, he’s set his sails to be a part of it.
In other words, Newt isn’t a leader, he’s a follower. What would keep him from changing course if he was president?
On the other hand, Governor Sarah Palin and a few other Republican leaders, none of whom are running for president such as Representatives Steve King and Michelle Bachmann, are clearly leaders who can be trusted to “keep the faith” regardless of which way the political winds are blowing. They’re very tough people. Palin, King and Bachmann alone have all proven to be far tougher and far smarter than Sh*t-For-Brains.
I love the fact that Gov. Palin is making Mr. Obama look like the fool he is right now and has consistently been doing it since the 2008 election runup. There are, maybe, 5 or 6 Republicans who can be characterized that way and they don’t include “No Cojones” Boehner, Milquetoast McConnell, McTraitor the RINO Bob Dole clone, Linseed Grahamnesty, Myth Romney, Huck Finn, Gingrich or Pawlenty.
When the GOP takes over the house and the senate, WE must put enormous pressure on them to follow the principles in and letter of the law of the Constitution or they’ll be seduced by the D.C. fog too.
IMO, after they impeach Obama and issue arrest warrants for the czars (to start), they MUST pass a law mandating that any new law have both a sunset provision AND MUST conform to and be supported by the exact wording in the Constitution or it cannot be made into law.
They must impeach at least two Supreme Court Justices, maybe three, and dozens of Federal Circuit Court Judges for treason.
Then we’ll talk about term limits for congressmen and senators. After that, there should be a review of ALL presidential findings and executive orders nullifying all those findings and orders that do not conform to the Constitution precisely or put the country at risk or destroy our Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms. Start with the never ending EO that we are in a constant “state of emergency” giving the president virtually unlimited powers to act as a dictator.
I also like the idea of limiting the budget of the government to 5% of the GDP, exclusive of the military, border protection services and the collection of excise taxes. By limiting the budget to 5% of GDP, it is an incentive for the government to increase business income, not decrease it and build up the parasitic federal government. Eliminate the income tax as well as the Department of Education which is nothing more than the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party, and HUD whose job it is to enslave everyone.
There is a sh*tload of cleanup to be done and IMO, nobody but Governor Sarah Palin has the stones and the intellegence or the record of success to do it. I’d like to see someone like John Bolton, Haley Barbour or Bobby Jindahl to be her VP.