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Issakson is a strong defender of Roe v. Wade. That's about all I know about him. He had Gingrich's support to succeed him. Gingrich was nominally prolife, but the issue was not so important to him that it would keep him from supporting a "moderate." Issakson lost to Miller for governor in 1990, as I vaguely recall. He is Jewish.

You are confusing John Isakson with John Mitnick, who ran against Cythnia McKinney in 1996. Billy McKinney called Mitnick a "racist Jew" during the campaign.

This is John Isakson's third try at a statewide contest in GA. In 1990, Isakson lost to Zell Miller for the Governorship, 53-45. He ran for the Senate in the GOP primary in 1996. He made abortion the main issue during the primary campaign. It gave him no political gain for he lost to Guy Milner, 53-47. Isakson now thinks 3 times the charm.

Isakson is Methodist, not Jewish. Perhaps you're thinking of John Mitnick, who ran against Kabul Cindy a number of years ago and got a raw taste of her and daddy's rabid anti-Semitism. Isakson would've probably won that contest succeeding Newt in any event, solely due to money, no one else could compete. The only other viable candidate was Christina Jeffrey, whose claim to fame was creating a flap as House historian over wanting to include the Nazi viewpoint in a Holocaust course (though was scarcely as bad as it sounds -- wouldn't one WANT to include it to show how misguided it was ? I've read 'Mein Kampf' and it's fairly clear that its author isn't entirely playing with a full deck). Newt is a classic "PC" move sacked her, one reason why she was running... Great stuff... :-P