Been here for 27 years. I’m a carpet bagger. I tell my friends that are born and bred down here, that I’m more southern than any of them could ever dream of being.
My rant....Most of what is transpiring in Georgia started under Nathan Deal and has gotten exponentially worse under Kemp. Kemp is not a smart man. Not on any day of the week. His first primary for Governor, the guy he ran against was even more corrupt than he is.
Over the last few years I’ve been paying very close attention to what is happening in this state.
So humility keeps you from posting the Georia flag—and you would have been even more of a carpetbagger when you became a Freeper.
I know what you mean. I’ve been in Ontario for 28 years, 22 in the most Northwestern county (the vast majority of the province geographically has yet to be settled enough to be organized into counties). It is isolated and rural—the county is Ontario’s equivalent to backwoods Mississippi. One isn’t local until one’s grandparent’s are burried in the cemetary, but the folks who have never been out of the area don’t understand how good they have it in many ways, and all the great things that are being lost.
Metro, urban, suburban or rural?
I grew up in the backwoods of Oregon, and it sounds to me that Georgia is about where Oregon was in the 70’s. When the point of no return is passed is hard to gauge—I’d say that Oregon actually hit it in ‘84, but people with an excess line of hope might find grounds for deluding themselves until about 2000.
My rant....Most of what is transpiring in Georgia started under Nathan Deal and has gotten exponentially worse under Kemp. Kemp is not a smart man. Not on any day of the week. His first primary for Governor, the guy he ran against was even more corrupt than he is.
Over the last few years I’ve been paying very close attention to what is happening in this state.
Do you know our history self-proclaimed carpet bagger?
The reason I ask is that if you did know some history, you would know there was only a handfull of Republicans in Georgia until the decade just before the turn of the millennium. You would know that Nathan Deal was a Democrat until 1995. You would know the reason he switched to the Republican Party.
He and others like him were a dime a dozen as Democrats, but he and others like him knew they could bypass the Democrat selection process by calling themselves Republicans, then getting a prime spot on the ballot. Essentially that means every Republican Politician in Georgia is a RINO and those of us who have voted for them for decades knows it.
Newt Gingrich came down here with his parents from Pennsylvania and Paul Coverdell came from Iowa by way of Missouri. Those two made the Republican Party acceptable.
I voted against the Democrat Socialist Stacey Abrams. I still believe that Kemp is the lessor of the two evils. I don't foresee a Galt's Gulch to find refuge.
So you don't misunderstand, I was one of the handfull. I voted for Richard M. Nixon in '72 and am still proud I did, considering the opposition he ran against.