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Who is Johnny Isakson? Forget for a moment what you have read in newspapers or seen on TV about the 6th District congressman who is running for the U.S. Senate. If your information came only from e-mail and Internet commercials, you would know this cyberspace version of Johnny Isakson: • Isakson consistently votes in the House with Democratic leaders Dick Gephardt, Nancy Pelosi and (brace yourself) Barney Frank. Career-Republican Isakson is really a secret ally of ruthless labor unions, mean feminists, obnoxious gays and, worst of all, liberals. • Isakson supported legislation that would provide aid and comfort to child...

The Grand Old Party of Georgia should join the Republican National Committee in hosting a magnificent gala to salute homosexuals seeking to “marry.” Those gay rascals have achieved more than all the GOP policy gurus and television advisers combined. They have reinvigorated the stumbling reelection campaign of President George W. Bush and taken the heat off Gov. Sonny Perdue for incompetence. Republicans should show their appreciation. Until gays decided to start acting up, Bush appeared to be in deep trouble. Even the president’s most conservative allies began to lose faith. His administration had allowed the deficit to spin out of...

No one ever thought it would be a cakewalk. From that day in January when Johnny Isakson announced he would run for the U.S. Senate, Tom Perdue started hammering the north metro congressman. Perdue said Isakson favored abortion. Said he was too moderate - make that liberal. Said he was too close to the Democrats. Said he was a liar and a hypocrite. That was OK at the time. Tom Perdue is a political consultant, not a candidate. ''Brilliant and ruthless,'' The New York Times recently called him. Some observers doubted that consultant Perdue (no relation to Gov. Sonny Perdue)...

Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin says she is entertaining a possible bid for the U.S. Senate based on a poll showing her defeating two powerful Republican congressmen, Johnny Isakson and Mac Collins. The poll is not to be taken lightly. It was conducted for EMILY's List, a liberal women's fund-raising network whose poster woman is Sen. Hillary Clinton. (EMILY, by the way, is not a woman but an acronym: ''Early Money Is Like Yeast,'' meaning that it helps raise dough.) The highly publicized survey is a signal that national Democrats are seriously searching for a candidate to run in the 2004...