Alternately entitled, “The Rumors of Her Demise are greatly exaggerated (by me)”
From Poll vault for GOP candidate || OnlineAthens.com:
“Immigration is a sideshow, gay marriage is a sideshow, abortion is a sideshow,” he said. “You want to get to the bulk of voters, you need to talk to them about pocketbook issues.”
Two candidates are talking about pocketbook issues. Two candidates are talking about which candidate supports gays and approves funding for abortion providers to do breast cancer screenings.
As I was watching TV the other day, it occurred to me. Neither Deal or Oxendine ran a single ad that had anything to do with them or their plans for fix Georgia’s crappy economy. Deal and Ox were spending their money running attack ads against Handel.
I began to think, if the middle bases its decision on who to vote for based on the TV ads, they’ll come out and vote for Handel. The irony is, Handel never had the primary fundraising to make huge media buys, so she can’t rebut the attacks and drive away the middle. Her homophobic & misogynistic opposition ads go so far over the top, they might be helping her with the area of the bell curve she needs to capture.
The trick for Handel is getting out the vote. She’ll be in the run-off. How does she make sure the middle of the bell curve comes out for her in August too?
Karen Handel was never the Social Conservative choice for Governor. Her career wasn’t built on blaming illegal Mexicans for all the woes of a lazy and under-educated American workforce. As the chairwoman of a county that had one of the nation’s largest gay communities, she didn’t find some way to blame them for all the problems actually caused by discredited leftists policies pushed by race-warlords like Emma Darnell.
Karen was the choice for those of us who didn’t care if you were sexually attracted to Eve or Steve. She was the choice for those of us who think our problems are related to an entitled populace who believes that not only do they deserve free cake, but they should be able to eat as much of it as they want, get fat, and have someone else pay for their healthcare.
Karen is the only one in the GOP race who knows, as Roy Barnes said, you can’t bring jobs to Georgia when the rest of the country is laughing at us. And they aren’t just laughing over micro-chipped cooters. They’re laughing at Speakers who fake suicide attempts to get attention. They’re laughing at the Georgia First creeps who support state sovereignty so they can molest little girls. They’re laughing at the country bumpkins who care more about a flag that symbolizes oppression to 40% of the population, than a candidate’s policies. They laugh at us because we can’t buy beer on Sunday.
You can clearly see from Karen’s interview with Doug Richards that she didn’t give one flip about gay marriage or gay adoption. She was irritated that there were real issues to be discussed and Richards was waisting her time with this crap. But because once, several years ago, she tried to reach out to a group of Gay Republicans, her opponents pandered to the homophobes in the GOP to paint her as pro-gay. And because stupid stuff gets better ratings than substantive discussions of issues, the media lapped it all up.
Karen should be pushing an agenda of jobs, transportation, education and growth. Instead, because Georgians are a bunch of homophobes, she has to spend all her time trying to be more anti-gay than the walking indictment known as Ox, and the guy run out of congress on ethics violations.
In the process she has alienated those who would vote for her because she doesn’t care who you marry. The bigots were never going to vote for her anyway. They were gonna vote Deal and Ox. And if you’re a Deal or Ox supporters, you don’t care about a candidate’s ethics anyway, so she wouldn’t get their support in the Run-Off.
To win the Runoff, Karen had to show she was the one best qualified to Govern. And she still is the most qualified to govern. But because she’s spent the last few weeks on the defensive over issues that only matter to narrow-minded rednecks, she’s lost the support of the middle. And as anyone whose looked at a bell curve knows, the middle is bigger than the fringe.
Karen’s place was never on the far right. If it was, I wouldn’t have been supporting her since she began looking at this race. Instead of saying that Gays are people too, she’s joined with the rest of the religious nutters in saying their marriages aren’t legitimate and they can’t be good parents.
Most of you know I work in IT. Folks in IT tend to be pretty solutions oriented. Which product works best, has the lowest Total Cost of Ownership, delivers the features, and can deploy fastest. Outside politics, my associations and friendships are all people who inhabit the middle. I work hard to convince the middle they should support their own economic interests and vote Republican. Because at the end of the day, the Democrats do not support the individual spirit of freedom and innovation that made America great, and the Libertarians nominate which ever unqualified crackpot they can find to pay the filing fee.
The middle should be voting Republican. But thanks to Republicans who think the greatest issues facing the nation are two guys getting married, having to hear “press 2 for spanish”, and whether or not a terminal cancer patient must live in agony till his metabolism fully stops, the middle rejected you.
They rejected you in 2008 for Barack Obama. A do-nothing, know-nothing half term Senator.
And they will reject you again for Roy Barnes. And you know what. You deserve it.
First poll out that doesn’t have Oxendine in the run-off (943 people, 3% MOE taken July 13th)
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Georgia finds Deal and Handel each earning 25% support. State Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, the early leader in the Republican race, runs a close third with 20% of the vote.
Clearly the majority of those polled don’t read Peach Pundit:
Deal, who resigned from the House to run for governor just after he voted against the health care bill, is viewed Very Favorably by 22% of the state’s GOP Primary voters and Very Unfavorably by eight percent (8%). One-in-five (21%) don’t know enough about him to venture any kind of opinion.
For Handel, Very Favorables are 19% and Very Unfavorables are seven percent (7%). Sixteen percent (16%) have no opinion of her.
Seventeen percent (17%) have a Very Favorable opinion of Oxendine, while 13% view him Very Unfavorably. Eleven percent (11%) have no opinion of the longtime insurance commissioner.
Other tid bits:
Perdue has a 71% approval rating amoung the Republicans polled. Men favor Deal, women favor Handel and only 7% approve of President Obama.
US Senator: Blank. Unless I really like you I don’t vote in uncontested primaries
Governor: Karen Handel. Ox and Deal are ex-democrats who pander to the social conservatives and try and one-up each other on being homophobic, xenophobic and anti-abortion.
Lt. Governor: While I campaigned and donated to Cagle last time, I’m going to leave this blank. Adulterers who abuse the powers of their office don’t get my support. I may every well vote Democrat in the General.
Secretary of State: Doug MacGinittie
Attorney General: Preston Smith. I had a hard time deciding between Smith and Olens. I could not support Wood as he was a former prosecutor and I don’t trust prosecutors with political ambitions.
Insurance: Gerry Purcell. Here is someone who knows what is going on in the business, and has plans to fix it. The other candidates are either in the pockets of big insurers like Aflac, or are hoping to be the next Oxendine and enrich themselves by extorting anyone who has business before the office. Every time I’ve heard Gerry speak – his solutions have always been oriented towards free market solutions that benefit the individual.
Commissioner of Labor: Melvin Everson. I’ve know Melvin for several years now as he is a regular at the Gwinnett GOP meetings. In fact, he is one of the few state level officials who regularly attend the party meetings. He is a passionate and eloquent speaker who has a bright future in politics.
School Super: Barge
Commissioner of Agriculture: Gary Black
Public Service Commission: Jeff May
13rd Congressional: Mike Crane who was endorsed by the RLC-Georgia.
State House: Steve Davis. One of the few real conservatives in the General Assembly.
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“I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get here.”
via Reagan Embraced Free Trade and Immigration | Daniel Griswold | Cato Institute: Daily Commentary.
The federal law banning gay marriage is unconstitutional because it interferes with the right of a state to define the institution and therefore denies married gay couples some federal benefits, a federal judge ruled Thursday in Boston
via Federal gay marriage ban is ruled unconstitutional | ajc.com.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. – 10th Amendment to the US Constitution
It may very well be that he wasn’t drunk, but instead is just that senile. Read the via whole article.
“I asked him to start with the letter D and end with the letter R,” deputy M.G. Cummings wrote in the report. “I asked him if he understood and he replied yes. He began with the letter D. When he got to the G he began to omit letters and tried singing the rest of the alphabet real fast.”
Interesting happenings in the State Ethics Commissions investigations into John Oxendine’s PAC contributions.
You’ll recall over a year ago, the AJC reported that Oxendine’s campaign for Governor got $120,000 in $12,000 installment from 10 Alabama PACs connected to Oxendine’s friend, and hunting partner Delos “Dee” Yancey III.
Well, the State Ethics Commission opened an investigation, and subpoenaed the 10 PACs in Alabama. The PACs told the State Ethics Commission to get bent, the SEC’s jurisdiction doesn’t apply in Alabama. So the SEC subpoenaed Yancy’s firms in Georgia.
Those firms dragged their feet, then filed a lawsuit in Fulton Superior Court saying that the State Ethics Commission shouldn’t be allowed to do their job this close to an election, because some members might be politically motivated. Who ever heard of political appointees being politically motivated?
Anyway, Fulton Superior Court Judge Kimberly M. Esmond Adams ruled that all hearings into this matter be postponed till she holds a hearing on the matter. After all, why should GOP Primary voters be informed about the candidates they are voting on.
The State Ethics Commission held some debate on what constituted “this matter” – the subpoenas from the firms in question or the entire Oxendine investigation. They had initially determined that the court’s ruling applied to Yancey’s firms only, but today the AJC is reporting that the State Ethics Commission has decided to cancel a scheduled hearing into the entire investigation.
Clearly someone has something to hide.