[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.

[neodad]

RINOs across the country should listen up.

[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.

[Dudoight]

Whitehead is obviously a republican, what is Broun?

[Red Badger]

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

[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]

:-)

[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?

[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.

[SittinYonder]

Paul Broun was by far the best candidate, even when there were 10 in the race. I know him personally. I was proud to vote for him.

He is a true, honest to God conservative who believes in limiting the the size and scope of the federal government!

Conservatives, if not the Republican Party should be thankful that Broun won.

I am!

[kabar]

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.

For three weeks, Paul Broun went into Whitehead's base territory with youthful door to door volunteers targeting Christian households and hard core conservative voters. For three weeks, Jim Whitehead did not knock on doors.

Sounds like the right guy won.

[Williams]

If this election were an anti war leftie winning a vacant dem seat, you wouldn’t need Free Republic to hear the story. MSM would be all over it.

[HOYA97]

Why is the Republican leadership unable to see the trend that this election shows?????

I just wish someone from the leadership could explain this to me.

I am happy to see a real conservative win.

[Melchior]

I find the statement that Broun is the “Kossacks worst nighmare” quite baffling. It strikes me that he would be welcomed by the Christian Cossack’s who peopled the Caucasus.

[Mr. K]

LOOK FOR THIS STORY TO BE BLASTED ALL OVER THE MEDIA TO SHOW HOW A STAUNCH CONSERVATIVE WON !!

[quadrant]

I agree that Athens is more liberal than the rest of Georgia, but the city and university are not loony and goofy liberal as is Chapel Hill, NC.

[Inquisitive1]

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.

Good job Georgians.

[goldstategop]

The RNC establishment got spanked in Georgia. They don't know how to run a campaign down South - and Georgia is a solid Red State.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus