Loeffler voted to acquit the President and Trump prizes loyalty.
We need Senators that side with the citizens and the rule of law to counterbalance the Bush League Republicans like Flimsey Grahamnesty and Micro Rubio who are hell bent on amnesty and a permanent Democrat majority.
[Some of our state legislators attempted to pass legislation to enact a primary and avoid the jungle vote so the parties could unite behind their one candidate, but Governor Kemp threatened to veto the measure.]
Something stinks with the Loeffler appointment.
Campaign donations? Sex? Blackmail?
Something isn’t right. Why would Kemp rebuff Trump?
Kemp does need a primary.
At the very, very minimum he needs to explain his choice adequately.
Collins is a proven fighter. Loeffler is trying to convince everyone she is a fighter. Why would kemp do that?
Add that Loeffler is running negative ads on the favorite Ga politician in decades and she’s not going to win by much if at all. Collins’ supporters do not like Loeffler lying about Collins in her ads.
I think that this shortens Kemp’s tenure by about 4 years.
Sounds like they need to get rid of their governor, too.
IMHO . . . The political dynamics have changed in Georgia.
The suburban counties have changed and were lost in the last general election. Cobb & Gwinnett as two examples. The rural populace will continue to vote the same way, but Atlanta and surrounding counties are Blue. People are moving out to the ‘Burbs’.
As sexist as this may sound, the ‘Ole Boy’ network has been replaced by Soccer Moms. How did Kelly McBath win a traditionally Republican seat?
Doug Collins will lose all seniority and have to fight an election again in two years.
I like Doug, but to keep our great state red, Kelly is the answer.
Mock away.
1. Politically, I'd take Doug Collins over Kelly Loeffler any day of the week.
2. HOWEVER, I have concerns about which of these two is better suited to win a statewide race in Georgia. Can Doug Collins win a Senate race in Georgia?
3. Importantly ... Can Doug Collins win (and finance) TWO state Senate races in Georgia in the next three years? The 2020 election is just to fill out the remaining two years of Isakson's term. Whoever wins in November then has to run again in 2022 when that term expires.
4. Does Doug Collins get us anything in the U.S. Senate that we wouldn't get with Loeffler?
5. IMPORTANTLY ... Doug Collins would be giving up his position as the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee to become the junior senator from Georgia. Is this a good trade-off?
The Senate GOP came thru for Trump, Mitch kept the non-Mormon majority together and has done a magnificent job with judicial appointments, the benefits of which are just starting to be seen (9th circuit, yesterday).
If giving in to the GOP’s desire to keep Loeffler in place is the price of that, so be it. That’s how politics works. Trump can either tell Collins to take the appointment as DNI or despite his hard work in the House, he can expect Trump to endorse Loeffler.
Collins is free to run for Senate but he his timing is poor if he expects Trump to turn his back on a GOP Senator who could have stabbed him in the back but supported him instead. He can’t have it both ways.
Going to be pretty funny if the two with the top votes are Democrats.
The choice in the general election would be for the Democrat - or the other Democrat.
If I’m not mistaken, Georgia has the same access to the media everybody else has. Everybody in the country, including Georgia, saw what a great fighter Doug Collins was in the impeachment travesty.
Yet some FReepers here, from Georgia no less, treat the contest for the senate seat as if Collins were some sort of political unknown. It’s Loefler who is the unknown...and an apparent air head on top of it.
Truth is, conservative Georgia is as proud of Collins, if not more so, as the rest of us are. And they’ll vote that way.
Collins has my vote.
Maybe he should.
But also maybe we shouldn’t go Jiahd against Loeffler who as far as I can tell has done nothing wrong. If she wins the primary she should receive our full support.
Lets just get down to brass tacks. Kemp sold Isaksons seat to Loeffler. The price was Perdue Agra buying out a failing agri business that Kemp had guaranteed a half million dollar loan for. Then another agri business controlled by Loefflers husband bought out the debt from Perdue Agra. Blago style. And thats how you buy a Senate seat boys and girls.
Vote for Doug Collins. Loeffler is David Perdue in a skirt.