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DEL.ICIO.USThe fourth GOP candidate for governor: Ray McBerry
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Uh, it looks like we now have four Republican candidates in the 2010 race for governor.
On his campaign web site, Ray McBerry, a “state’s rights” candidate who challenged Gov. Sonny Perdue in the 2006 primary, has announced he’ll try again.
Berry won nearly 12 percent of the GOP primary vote by tapping the leftover frustration from the 2001 removal of the Confederate battle emblem from the Georgia state flag — and Perdue’s promise of a referendum that might restore it.
On his web site, Georgia First, McBerry is described as a “Christian statesman” who believes a governor ought to “interpose” himself between the people and their enemies — such as “the federal leviathan.”
McBerry thinks graduated income taxes are Marxist, and — in language far too familiar for Southerners of a certain age — says this most recent wave of illegal immigrants is “creating counterproductive divisions and dangers to our historic way of life.”
Comments
By GoOX
January 16, 2009 8:52 AM | Link to this
Go Ox go, McBerry will eat into Cagle’s base. Better for Oxendine!
By Harvey
January 16, 2009 8:55 AM | Link to this
Hasn’t Georgia been embarrassed enough by our wackos? Now another one. Let’s just ignore them and maybe they’ll crawl back into the caves within which they dwell.
By maxiegrrrrl
January 16, 2009 9:23 AM | Link to this
Wow! This truly complicates the GOP primary.
By Aaron Burr V. Mexico
January 16, 2009 11:16 AM | Link to this
Sounds like Reagbraham Lincool is going to run.
By Barry
January 16, 2009 3:26 PM | Link to this
Go Ray Go!! You have my support if nothing else by upseting the applecart in the AJC.
By Ute
January 16, 2009 8:35 PM | Link to this
Is Karen Handel gay?
By Will Jones
January 17, 2009 12:25 AM | Link to this
What other twisted soul would back Bush and his Nazi faction of traitors? Chalk up another for the nuns.
By Will Jones
January 17, 2009 12:45 AM | Link to this
Larry King on January 14 unexpectedly got George W. Bush to encapsulate his biggest problem as President by asking him if we ever came close to catching bin Laden.
“I don’t know. I can’t answer that. … I really don’t know. I’m not trying to hide anything.”
…because Bush knew all along Bin Laden was guilty of 9/11
…because Bush did 9/11…and those stupid enough not to figure it out or knew about it and condoned it…like Karen Handel…need to be removed by the People from positions of power and authority.
Read PhD and Emeritus Professor David Ray Griffin’s “The New Pearl Harbor,” to know with absolute moral certainty from a scholar of proven integrity that Bush and Cheney committed 9/11.
Larry King was interviewing a guilty man…not incompetent and perverse…GUILTY.
America must be restored by serving up Bush’s and Cheney’s necks to justice on the gallows after an honest trial and conviction.
Those who backed them, like Handel, are morally, ethically, and legally liable, too.
May G-d save America.
theamericanfundament.blogspot.com
By American worker
January 17, 2009 12:58 AM | Link to this
Golly, simply telling the obvious truth that illegal aaiens are creating a huge drain and problem in Georgia gets the reference to black Americans being demied their rights as citizens with:”in language far too familiar for Southerners of a certain age” …?
How subtle.
How lame.
How sickening.
By Matt
January 17, 2009 12:59 AM | Link to this
Sounds like a complete nutcase: xenophobic, “free” market fundamentalist who wants to force his beliefs on everyone else. He should go far in the Republican Party.