How Jim Whitehead Lost His Sure Thing in GA-10

Red State ^ | July 18, 2007

[cookcounty]

So Braun is a Democrat? Context please?

[NeoCaveman]

My early impression is that the election was not so much about idealogy as it was an insider vs. outsider race. The outsider won.

[pacelvi]

I’m completely confused by this story.

[neodad]

RINOs across the country should listen up.

[NeoCaveman]

So Braun is a Democrat? Context please?

This was a run off for Charlie Norwood's old seat in Congress. The top two candidates Broun and Whitehead are both Republicans.

[FreedomPoster]

Special primary runoff, I do believe. They’re both Republicans.

The election is to fill Charlie Norwood’s seat.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Whitehead should stand up and say that he fully supports Broun and wish him the best. Whitehead can always move to John Barrow’s district and run against him. Barrow is a lib that needs to go.

[PurpleMan]

I think both GOP-ers.

However, this was more about RedState picking the wrong guy than about the guy who won (Check the lede).

More journalistic masterbation

[FreedomPoster]

Dang - 9s.

;-)

[philsfan24]

broun is a republican. this was the run off. the 2 top vote getters in the original vote were republicans, but neither had 50% so the run off happened.

[Dudoight]

Whitehead is obviously a republican, what is Broun?

[Red Badger]

He who hesitates is lost........

[BGHater]

‘military pro-gun, fundamentalist evangelical, hard core states rights, and anti-budget. He said he’d carry a pocket Constitution with him and use the Bible to measure matters on which he’d vote.’

Both were Repubs.

[rogue yam]

Dr. Paul Broun, to put it mildly, is the Kossacks' worst nightmare - military pro-gun, fundamentalist evangelical, hard core states rights, and anti-budget. He said he'd carry a pocket Constitution with him and use the Bible to measure matters on which he'd vote.

I'm guessing Dr. Broun is not, repeat...not a Democrat.

[EternalVigilance]

:-)

[Red Badger]

Whitehead is obviously a republican, what is Broun?

A Conservative....

[Clintonfatigued]

This race is about much more than the election itself, the balance of power in Congress, or the personalities of the participants.

This is about the entrenched political establishment in Washington D.C. (both parties) not supporting the best interests of the nation and its citizens. The attempt to give amnesty and automatic citizenship to some 20 million illegal aliens, including many career criminals, was the catalyst. Dr. Paul Broun took the more forthright stand against both amnesty and the political establishment, and he defeated the establishment candidate against all odds.

I think that this could be the beginning of an anti-establishment trend, that politics as usual is no longer acceptable. The question is, what will conservatives do about it?

[Clintonfatigued]

I’m smiling, too. This could be the beginning of something.

[darkwing104]

If the GOP wants to take the House and the Senate back in 2008 they need to do what Dr. Paul Broun did and quickly.