Posted on 11/01/2004 3:37:36 AM PST by jpw01
I agree with you. I wish Cain had won the nomination. Still I'll be doing a straight R-ticket tomorrow.
Bump
I agree. I knew Paul Coverdell (a little) and Johnny Isakson is no Paul Coverdell. I was furious when his seat when to a Democrat - though it was nice to see that Zell decided to zig our way when he got to Washington. What's disappointing is that I'd rather see Zell the Democrat than Johnny the RINO in Coverdell's seat.
Thanks for the information.
Collins would have been better than Isakson.
She beat Cynthia but only because Republicans crossed over in the primary.
Thanks for pointing this out to me. It was looking like another beautiful day in Georgia ... then I read this. The excerpt is exactly why we should have voted for Herman Cain. He'd have stepped up, defended the Sales Tax, supported President Bush on the War On Terror and sent Majette home crying. "Sen. Isakson" depresses me. He'll be in that office for as long as he wants it, the incumbent to be reelected over and over again.
Well, we'll have to stop that from happening.
I guess I'm one of the malcontents you're speaking of, and I have been a card carrying Republican for about 15 years (county chair and district vice-chair). I am NOT a libertarian, and I am upset because of Johnny's weak positions on conservative issues, such as the Fair Tax and abortion.
Isakson will win, with my vote, and he will be a disappointment to all conservatives in this state.
Sorry that it was too deep for you. Let me spell it out:
Isakson takes whatever position he needs to in order to get elected, even if he doesn't believe in it (the Fair Tax, for example).
Reagan was a Democrat at one time, was he not?
Isakson has used the Republican party for 40 years, not worked for it.
Don't believe everything you read. Isakson won't vote (often) with the Democrats the way Chaffee or Snowe do, but he also won't be a voice for the conservatives. He won't stand on principle. He'll draw a paycheck, occassionally vote in favor of abortion or gun control, usually vote with the Republicans, but we won't hear his name again except at election time when he's looking for a vote.
Georgia had the chance to elect a powerful conservative who would have been a voice for conservative causes and instead went with the name they recognized. Isakson is a career politician who has been running for office since the mid-1970s.
He won't disappoint me. My expectations of Johnny Isakson's career in the Senate are very, very low.
Point taken.
Good luck. In six years unseating Johnny Isakson will be twice as hard as beating him in the primary, and neither Cain nor Collins were able to get enough votes to even put it into a runoff.
I'm writing in Cain, even if I have to go through the embarrassment of getting a keyboard from the poll workers to do it.
>> Isakson is an awful candidate. He makes McCain look good. What is wrong with the Georgia GOP picking this awful clown? He's lost how many, let me guess, 20 times to the Democrats running for previous offices around Georgia. <<
>> There is no chance that Majette will win, and zero chance that Cain's supporters won't help defeat Majette, but Isakson is about as much a Republican as John McCain is. I sickens me to know that Paul Coverdell's seat in the Senate will be filled by a RINO. <<
Isakson won the primary because Georgia "conservatives" issessantly heaped praise on Zig Zag Zell's "record" and INSISTED he was some kind of Jesse Helms type "conservative patriot" because he endorsed Bush and screwed over his party, instead of taking his CENTRIST legacy at face value.
When you heap praise on a voting record that is "conservative" 65% of the time, you move the entire political spectrum leftward. Prior to Miller, Paul Coverdell had a 96% "conservaitve" record. In proclaiming Zig Zag was nothing short of the second coming (some folks on this board would vote for Zig Zag over a REPUBLICAN candidate for President!), you're saying being pro-McCain Feingold, pro "Hate crimes", pro-trial lawyer, etc., etc. makes one a great conservative and voting liberal 40% of the time can just be whitewashed.
This set the stage for Johnny Iskason to ride in on a white horse and make his "center-right" record look like the natural heir apprent for this seat, another great conservative icon in the mold of the "conservative" incumbent, and even more staunchly "conservative". A TRUE successor to Coverdell like Herman Cain was left off the radar screen.
Perhaps next time Georgia Republicans should worshipping a person with a "D" next to their name simply because they aren't a socialist and have the brains to endorse a good President.
Another reason why he's the heir apprently to Zig Zag. You know, the guy who was 100% pro-abortion for his entire career, then suddenly "discovered" he was pro-life at the age of 75 when his "great-grandchildren" were born? (I'm sure his change of heart had nothing to do with the pro-abortion RATs getting wiped out in Georgia after 2001)
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