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DEL.ICIO.USFan of S.P.’s: Sonny Perdue and Sarah Palin
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
[Vincent Russo, in photo, and Baoky Vu, members of the Georgia Young Professionals for McCain, are blogging from the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.]
Convention today looks to be another exciting day with speeches tonight by Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee. However, this morning, the Georgia delegation held a delegation breakfast with Gover. Sonny Perdue. Gov. Perdue addressed the delegation and provided his thoughts on Gov. Palin’s opportunity tonight to introduce herself to the American people.
Gov. Perdue stated that he thinks all Sarah Palin needs to do was “be herself.” I jokingly said to the Ggovernor after breakfast that when Senator McCain made his decision to choose Sarah Palin as a running mate, a friend of mine sent me an email that McCain had chosen “S.P.” My initial thought was that Senator McCain chose the great governor of Georgia, Sonny Perdue, as the surprise choice.
After Perdue spoke, congressmen Phil Gingrey and Tom Price followed with passionate speeches in support of the McCain-Palin ticket. The congressmen focused on the uniqueness of McCain-Palin and also vented their frustration with the current Congress. The men stressed that this Congress has a “do-nothing mentality.”
Rep. Price and a large number of GOP lawmakers have protested the Democratic inability to tackle the issue of high energy prices for the past 5 weeks by not going home for the summer recess. Instead, they have remained in our country’s capital to highlight the message that the do-nothing Democratic-led Congress have refused to take action to help the American consumer’s burden of high energy prices.
Also on the mind of the Georgia delegation are the implications that would result from an election of the Obama-Biden ticket on health care policy, nuclear power and the economy. Rep. Gingrey stressed that as a physician himself and to all the physicians in attendance, “the last thing we want is to be doctors working for the government.”
The Georgia delegation responded with a clear show of support for such a statement and the idea that government-run health care is not the solution to our health care issues.
Finally, at the end of lunch, we congregated to have the traditional delegation group photo taken by Bill Adler, all 200 or so of us.
Comments
By The Way
September 4, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this
Sarah Putin’s husband races snowmobiles. then why is her daughter only interested in Submarine Races?
Sarah’s only gaff last night was that she forgot to thank her husband’s pit crew.
Reagan said to America, “RU better off today than 4 years ago?” I say to Sarah Crabcakes, “RU486 four years ago and Bristoll would be better off!”
Bwa