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I have no problem with Herman Cain. He's an entrepreneur and a decent guy. The Senate needs people like that.

The question is "Which Republican has the best chance in November?"

The answer seems to be Johnny Isakson.

And no, he's not an Arlen Specter RINO act-alike. Look at Isakson's record. It's fairly conservative and probably good enough for Georgia standards.

Cain is black, and while I would rather that not be important, it is.

First, Cain is most likely the stronger candidate if you ignore race. He's not afraid to stand up to challenges, such as the way he dressed down Bill Clinton or his representative (don't remember which) during the HillaryCare attempt in 1994 (he pointed out that forcing a place like Papa John's to give health care to its workers would cause a combination of much higher prices, layoffs, and business contraction, but he said it much better than I just did).

Even if you force me to concede that some white Georgians won't ever vote for a black man, I would argue that in the general election some black GA voters who normally vote for Dems will vote for Cain because he is a black man, Jesse HighJackson notwithstanding.

So on balance the racial negatives offset the racial positives, and the importance of having a black GOP Senator who speaks his mind and is nobody's Uncle Tom at a national level can't be overestimated. Can you say VP candidate in 2008 or 2012?

The Dem field in GA is from what I can tell weak, but someone may have to enlighten me on that. If the Dems try to compete by nominating a black person (I think the gal who beat Cynthia McKinney is entering the race), Cain will win hands down. Everybody with a brain knows they have to vote for somebody, and the person who beat Cynthia has drifted way to the left since her election.

johnny is my representative....

And has been totally invisible.

He has done nothing, defended nothing, defended the president in now ays nor has he EVER said anything to defend us against democratic lies, nor helped us control government in any way, shape or form.

He IS the definition of a country-club RINO-in-being pubbicrat Senator.

"The question is "Which Republican has the best chance in November? The answer seems to be Johnny Isakson.

And no, he's not an Arlen Specter RINO act-alike. Look at Isakson's record. It's fairly conservative and probably good enough for Georgia standards."

I am looking at Mr Isakson's voting record and it is far from conservative. He supported abortion (13 times) before he went against it. Mr Isakson squeezed by in his voting record to even be a Republican.

What does "probably good enough for Georgia standards" mean?

Umm, the Dem candidate is unelectable, and the D's know it. It doesn't matter which R you pick.

R's have a 75-85% chance or better at winning Georgia nomatter who the nominee is. They have the money, they have the organization, and they have the voting patterns of the state. Oh, and they now have better house districts, which makes it even more of a blowout.

"I have no problem with Herman Cain. He's an entrepreneur and a decent guy. The Senate needs people like that.
The question is "Which Republican has the best chance in November?"
The answer seems to be Johnny Isakson.

And no, he's not an Arlen Specter RINO act-alike. Look at Isakson's record. It's fairly conservative and probably good enough for Georgia standards."

Liberal Republican Isakson is so afraid of his record that he doesn't even bother to show up at county candidate forums. He wants to coast on some sort of name recognition factor of party insiders. The same insiders who back all weak Republican candidates. Too bad for Isakson, this is an election, not a coronation.

He is apparently going to show up at the Gwinnett county forum (my home county) but if he skips Forsythe county, that will be a big 1/4 for the Metro Atlanta area. He did not even have the cashews to go to a debate in his own county of Cobb. It is abundantly clear that he is Cobb County's OTHER Big Chicken.