[Robert A Cook PE]

It appears that Sarah's pick was the right one. And the GOP establishment failed.

Again.

[MNlurker]

Just damn...

[Freddd]

Real or smear?

[org.whodat]

So his daughter goes broke and it is his mismanagement. Well damn, 75% of the millionaires in this country have been broke, and several more than once. Ask donald the dump!!

[TribalPrincess2U]

Gain a little, lose a lot. One step forward, two steps back. sigh

[eeevil conservative]

I thought Karen was the estab pic.....

[Hoodat]

It's real. Deal needs to step down NOW. Do not drag this out. If you can't run your personal finances on $200K per year, you definitely don't need to be running the largest state east of the Mississippi River. If you take out unsecured loans in excess of $2 million in Year 1, fail to disclose those loans on your ethics statement, and in Year 2 are in default of those loans, then you have no business being the GOP candidate.

With ethical lapses like that, Deal is better suited for being the Democrat candidate. Get rid of Deal and bring on Eric Johnson.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Saras pick was wrong, Nathan was by far the better candidate. He still is but unfortunately this is going to hurt him badly. His only recourse is to make the case that he is suffering in the same economy as everyone else and hope the people understand. He also still has the fact that a lot of voters remember how Roy Barnes screwed them and will never forgive him. All we can do now is keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best. It has definitely turned an easy victory into a tossup.

[cranked]

...pay to play...

[Josh Painter]

There’s no story as you posted it on the WSB website.

What they have on the subject is here:

http://wsbradio.com/localnews/2010/09/business-venture-costing-natha.html

If you’re going to post news articles and you cite a source for it. you need to include a link to that same article.

[bwc2221]

I read an article by a watchdog group that named Nathan Deal as one of the 15 most corrupt members of Congress. Since 9 of the 15 the group named were Democrats, i presume they are on the level. Supposedly Deal resigned from Congress early to head off an ethics investigation.

Once again it appears Sarah was right and the “good old boys” were wrong.

[Crichton]

It appears that Sarah's pick was the right one. And the GOP establishment failed.

Sarah's pick was also part of the establishment. All four major candidates in the primary were.

Sarah's pick donated to a gay rights group.

Sarah's pick voted to fund Planned Parenthood with taxpayer dollars.

Sarah's pick was the most moderate candidate in the primary.

Now, Sarah's pick, Karen Handel, was not all bad, and campaigned as a pro-life conservative.

The best choice in the primary was probably State Senate President Eric Johnson, not Deal or Handel. But when Handel got into the runoff, she was too "moderate" to win the nomination.

Nathan Deal is by all accounts a good man and a conservative. He underwrote loans for family members, which is not a good practice, but on the scale of political sins, relatively minor. He's lost his own money, not stolen from taxpayers like many politicians.

[Crichton]

If you're going to post a vanity you shouldn't do it from a position of ignorance.

Frankly, Erick Erikson of Red State screwed the pooch on this one -- he's from Georgia and should have shown a lot better judgment than talking up Karen Handel. How can you claim to pick winners nationally when you don't even know your own state?