Thinking Right

By Road Scholar

December 2, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this

Maybe the 3 year old and Sarah “bonded” due to equal intellectual abilities? While she may be charismatic (sp), Jindal has it all over her in policy analysis and the ability to convey it to the electorate in clear, comprehensive, and descriptive sentences.

“Georgia doesn’t intentionally elect liberals statewide. Occasionally it has, but only because the electorate was fooled.” You have got to be kidding me!?! After the BS Chambliss and his cohorts have spread about Martin, who is kidding who? The mindless Repub lemmings are being led to the sea by this quack.

What will he do other than alledgedly reduce taxes? What has he done for the common man in Georgia? He wants to work with Obama, but every other word is that he will stand up to the Demos. Nothing has nbeen said that is constructive.

Maybe we should help this bozo and not pay our Federal taxes. Let us “redirect” our money to our economy. Let’s not pay our money for socialist causes such as national security, healthcare, social security, and his salary! If you believe everything he has said about Martin, why isn’t Martin in jail? Maybe they can share a room in prison together? Of course it would be a minimum security prison…one with a golf course.

Remember Saxby, keep your head down and follow through!

By That's Right

December 2, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

I love listening to the moonbat liberal trash call Saxby the real socialist because of his support of the financial bailout. One can assure that he won’t vote like a mindless puppet of Harry & Nancy which Martin the Lib would; one can assure he won’t vote to support increasing taxes on companies and corporations, big and small alike; one can assure he won’t vote to support increasing personal income taxes on certain groups; one can assure he won’t vote to support a premature withdrawal from Iraq; and certainly, one can damn assure he won’t vote to repeal the Second Amendment or against the freedom of speech in a left wing cloak of darkness called the Fairness Doctrine which you can also assure will be named something different. So to answer the liberal neo-Marxist moonbat question of why would you vote for Saxby, I will mindlessly state “yes, we can.” We have also witnessed flat out LIES about Saxby, like left wing moonbat trash saying Saxby would support a 23% sales tax increase based on his support of the Fair Tax. LIE LIE LIE. Liberals moonbats claim Bush lied, but those dirty rats lie like nobody’s business - and in the case of Minnesota, attempt to steal elections.

On another note, one would have thought that with the election of the World Savior that violence would have just stopped cold turkey. Obama for change!

BROOKLYN (CBS) ― Police said a New York City bus driver was stabbed to death Monday afternoon by a rider apparently angry over not receiving a free transfer.

The driver of the B-46 bus, identified as 46-year-old Edwin Thomas, was operating the bus in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn and picked up the suspect around 12:30 p.m. Monday at Malcolm X Boulevard near Gates Avenue.

Police said the man swiped an invalid fare card and sat down on the bus, then asked for a transfer slip usually available to riders.

Police told CBS 2 HD that when the driver told the man that he didn’t pay for the ride and couldn’t get a transfer, the man punched the driver in the head and stabbed him to death while other riders looked on.

By JLK

December 2, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this

If your FEAR of one-sided control of the White House, Senate, and House is based on what the Republicans did when they effectively squashed all opposing voices of reason or compromise, then I certainly understand it, Mr. Wooten!! But then, Democrats never had the killer, go-for-the-jugular instincts of Republicans like Rove, DeLay, Gingrich, and Frist, nor the “you’ll agree with us or you’re a g—d—- terr’ist!” mantra of President G Dubya, either. You rightie pundits love to vilify Pelosi and Reid, but the fact is, they capitulated to almost everything the Republican president wanted to do, beginning with taking impeachment “off the table” without blinking an eye, even though there was nothing the Democrats could gain, leverage-wise, by doing so. Frankly, Pelosi has been Bush’s best good buddy in the final two years of his disaster, and I find her even more repulsive than you do for that very reason.

But really, you should be embarrassed by your Palin crush. Yes, a “hot” female church lady who don’t flaunt no fancy edumacation to the masses is a breath of fresh air to the insecure, crusty types, isn’t she? Newsflash: “What do you read?” is NOT a “gotcha” question unless…. Oh never mind. Y’all are beyond hope. Sad.

Don’t worry though. I’ll turn out to my polling place shortly, if only to prove that not everyone native to Georgia is completely back-a—ward and ig’nint.

By boonrock

December 2, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this

Ah yes, our youths who support Obama overwhelmingly. Future Democrats and liberals in the making right here:

American teenagers lie, steal and cheat more at “alarming rates,” a study of nearly 30,000 high school students concluded Monday.

The attitudes and conduct of some 29,760 high school students across the United States “doesn’t bode well for the future when these youngsters become the next generation’s politicians and parents, cops and corporate executives, and journalists and generals,” the non-profit Josephson Institute said.

In its 2008 Report Card on the Ethics of American Youth, the Los Angeles-based organization said the teenagers’ responses to questions about lying, stealing and cheating “reveals entrenched habits of dishonesty for the workforce of the future.”

Boys were found to lie and steal more than girls.

By Redneck Convert

December 2, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

Well, I sure am glad the redneck woman is in the state where she belongs. Alot of us would like to invite her up to Billy Bob’s for a PBR and name her a ornery GA redneck, but she probly won’t get up this way. We would even take her out for some hunting. We would bait the fields so she won’t have to shoot from no helicopter.

Anyhow, I don’t think reelecting Saxby will make much diffrence now. It looks like there’s alot of turncoat Republicans ready to join the librul Democrats to get this Obama’s bills passed. They done forgot about the War of Northren Aggression and everything us Southreners hold dear.

It was hard to decide not to vote up in Rome as well as here in Forsyth County, but I give it up on account of they already are checking the state voter rolls. If the Lord lets me by this time I’ll just vote once from now on. I still look out the trailer window to see if any cops are coming to get me on account of reglar election day.

If you all got any ideas about what present I can get the missus this year, I would like to hear from you. This Christmas I’m stumped. She already got the electric frying pan and stuff like that. Maybe one of the fancy mops that make women throw their old mop out and have to hire a singing band or get flowers delivered to get back in the house. Have a good day everybody.

By Southern Democrat

December 2, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Good morning, all, and I hope each of you had a blessed and memorable Thanksgiving. We all have so much to be thankful for this year and I am thankful that we had a meaningful presidential election with two highly-qualified candidates.

I completely agree with Mr. Wooten that Senator Chambliss will win (and win handily). As I said to Mrs. Southern Democrat, Martin is the John Kerry of this election… the only Democrat that could lose.

Bobby Jindal is an intriguing figure. His record of cleaning up the health care system in Louisiana without drastically cutting services to the poor makes me sit upright and give him the benefit of the doubt.

I am curious to hear what my friend Jbmlaw/Ragnar has to say about Gov. Palin’s future. I see her star dimming fairly quickly. There is simply too much negativity associated with her.

I envision that the Republican Party will re-invent itself over the next 2-4 years with Huckabee and Romney taking the lead. I think the Party will re-focus on what is truly important to it… small government, low taxes, and opportunity for all. Just as the Dems did a good job of discarding the overly pacifist left and tamped down the NARAL crowd, the GOP needs to do away with the evangelical, “folksy” crowd. Gov. Palin will always appeal to a certain type of voter, but (in my opinion) never to the level of making her presidential material. The GOP is loaded with very intelligent, patriotic people who, for some reason, have been stifled the past 8 years in favor of a static, jingoist culture. McCain will prove to be the bridge away from this stasis to the next Goldwater/Reagan figure.

By Ronnie

December 2, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this

“Among the women interviewed, one theme was constant—an appreciation of her ability to juggle the demands of a family, her duties as governor, and a national political campaign.”

Even if that were true, an ability to multitask doesn’t mean that Palin has the right qualities to be president (intelligence, judgment, good will). Anyway, she was only on the ticket for 2 months, completely shirked her duties as governor during that time (and presumably is still shirking them if she’s in Georgia campaigning for Chambliss), and there’s no evidence that she was “juggling the demands of a family.” It’s not as if she flew back to Wasilla every night to cook up a nice moose stew for her brood—she was dressing them up in Prada and dragging them around as props to use in campaign events. What a great mother!

By Davo

December 2, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this

Go ahead and hitch your wagon to this loser JW…just like you did with W.

Why this brain-dead valley girl appeals to you will forever elude me. How do you think you can win an election with this level of sophistication? Your ‘pro-family’ propaganda which you credit this woman is not only irrelevant, it’s also patently untrue. Real conservatives will never embrace Palin as leadership material.

Best of luck in 2012; luck is all you got.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 2, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. I voted for Sen. Chambliss a couple of weeks ago, mostly because of the Saxbe Derangement Syndrome sufferers – they are uniformly the people who empower the leftists who have led the country to ruin. So despite Sen. Chambliss flaws – they are notable, as he is a conservative of the Bush-Dole genre, more below – I voted for him. Seemingly the only reason to support Mr. Martin is that he supports partial birth abortion for healthy unwanted infants, but opposes cracking open the heads of terrorists; I deem his priorities misplaced.

I am in full accord with Madeline Fyke. I could enthusiastically support Magna Sarah. She is a conservative, not of the Bush-Dole genre, but of the plain-speaking Reagan-Goldwater school. I am wary of the overeducated betters who would govern us, and generally prefer “hedgehogs,” those who know only a few things, but know them well. Truth, faith, hope, decency, propriety – the standard conservative values. Sarah has those in abundance. From those virtues, good judgment arises spontaneously. Excluding Reagan, she would be a better president than any since Eisenhower.

Good morning Southern @ 8:58, I post without benefit of reading your note. I commit to a full commentary later this morning. Welcome back. (Also, I saw old friend Rarringt on the blog yesterday, welcome back to you also.)

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

Dear Dusty,

Don’t get inna snit, I admit I was smit, but not smote.

Smote would be, to you, a mote in my eye, whereas she’s by-the-by,

Except for the butt of the joke, who is I.

Her love for the children, not I, is the nub, the hub of a running cut.

But I’ll take that cut as long as you know it’s not smut.

By Richard

December 2, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this

Really Wooten? You’d offer up Jeb Bush at the top of the ticket? I mean, granted he’s a genius compared to his brother and a popular former governor in a swing state (among the republican congress anyways), but you can’t be serious. Democrats would be doing backflips over him or Palin.

By Copyleft

December 2, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten has it right; Sarah Palin appeals to three-year olds… and anyone else with the same level of brainpower.

By Churchill's MOM

December 2, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

Men are such fools. My sister & I went to See Ms Palin in Augusta yesterday. All the big shot Republicans were there talking about how Saxby was going to save the country but Saxby doesn’t care about the country. Saxby is in it for Saxby, so in 2 years at election time they are going to have this mistake hanging around their neck.

My sister & I grew up in Augusta or Disgusta as the locals call it. She married a Boardman & stayed. I married a Suit & moved to Athens. She got us in the stage door and Sara passed a few inches from us. The Palin speach was short & really not that inspiring. Jan had a few of our high schools over for lunch & we had a high time talking about other people. Got to go vote for Jim Martin..War Eagle..

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 2, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

Dear Southern @ 8:58, as always, you pose many worthy thoughts. “I am curious to hear what my friend Jbmlaw/Ragnar has to say about Gov. Palin’s future. I see her star dimming fairly quickly. There is simply too much negativity associated with her.” As prognosticator, I yield on all matters not economic, and I also yield on 2/3s of economic forecasts. Certainly no unelected candidate ever suffered more negativity than Ronald Reagan before November 1980, including my beloved Sarah. Is she Reagan – no, she isn’t. Neither is she Dan Quayle, the wrongly-maligned conservative of the 1980s – she will go for the throat of her opponents, with an engaging smile. There is something to be said for resiliency.

I broadly agree with your second paragraph, but you magnify the potential role of Gov. Huckabee, who is for me the face of “the evangelical, “folksy” crowd” whom we need to usher to the sidelines. My own thought for 2012 would be a Petraeus-Romney ticket.

By Copyleft

December 2, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

By the way, Wootenites: Can anyone name a positive reason to vote FOR Saxby (rather than simply against the Democrats)?

I’ll give you all day to come up with something good about Mr. Chambliss that doesn’t involve whining about “Obama” or “Pelosi” or “the Democrats.” Remember, your topic is Saxby Chambliss and why he’d be a good Senator. Good luck!

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

Gawd I love journalism. I miss it so. Seeing a true veteran, Jim Wooten, continue to prosecute total journalism abroad in the land just floats my boat and makes me dispense with my second cup o’ Joe.

That Mr. Wooten thought to consult a dark-eyed little three-year-old doll on the appeal of Palin is, just like, newspapering as it used to be, as I was coming up. Fresh from yesterday’s street, a blast over this morning’s breakfast table.

Makes me want to take the full-week subscription for paper delivery to my fuzzy slippers porchfront, rather than the weekend delivery supplemented by online midweek feedings…

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 2, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

Dear Southern @ 8:58, I failed to mention Gov. Jindal. I am an enthusiastic supporter, and have so posted often in the past. I think I remember that he will be only 57 in 2028. Time is on his side.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 2, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

Dear Copyleft @ 9:32, the reasons to vote for Saxbe are

(a) Mr. Chambliss’s unflinching support of the military missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. He gets to share the credit for the victories - (a) the extinguishment of al Qaeda all over the world and (b) the formation of a true representative democracy in the heart of the Arabian Middle East - because he never demanded unilateral withdrawal, when the screaming monkeys were baselessly demanding surrender. Mr. Martin lacks Mr. Lieberman’s character (that’s not particularly a criticism of Martin, few people do), and would have knuckled under to party pressure.

(b) Mr. Chambliss’s unqualified endorsements of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, in the confirmation process. I think a majority of democrats opposed both, and the conservative bloc has been correct on every issue, even when in the minority. Mr. Martin does not appreciate the virtues of conservative justices, and he fails to appreciate the danger in the “living, breathing Constitution.”

(c) Mr. Chambliss is “open” to Fair Tax, even if, as friend Ga Values argues, Chambliss does not understand it. Mr. Martin is not open to the Fair Tax, and willfully misrepresents the nature of the plan. Before Boortz and Linder, I advocated elimination of the income tax and substitution of a national sales tax, both on grounds of “fairness” and simplicity. Amusingly, Mr. Martin’s total argument against the Fair Tax seems to be that democrats cannot be trusted to really abolish the income tax; perhaps he is correct in his character analysis there.

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

December 2, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

Copyleft 9:32 AM

”I’ll give you all day to come up with something good about Mr. Chambliss that doesn’t involve whining about “Obama” or “Pelosi” or “the Democrats.” Remember, your topic is Saxby Chambliss and why he’d be a good Senator.”

I make well over a Million Dollars per year selling SAXBY’s vote

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

December 2, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

Saxby Economics

With taxpayers’ money now sunk into banks like Citigroup, can Main Street stomach the high salaries that some argue it takes to keep Wall Street’s leaders in place?

One thing the financial crisis has demonstrated is that Wall Street’s old pay systems failed, Andrew Ross Sorkin writes . But its failure raises questions with no easy answers.

The trick, Mr. Sorkin writes, is to dole out enough rewards to keep executives working hard, but not to dole out too much. Mr. Sorkin tables his own suggestion: have executives invest in their own firms on the same terms as taxpayers.

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

December 2, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

Saxby Economics

JPMorgan Chase unveiled plans Monday to cut a total of 9,200 jobs at Washington Mutual, which it acquired in September after the Seattle savings and loan became the nation’s largest bank to fail amid the ongoing financial crisis.

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

December 2, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

Saxby Economics

Hawaiian Telcom Communications, the largest telephone company in Hawaii and a holding of the Carlyle Group, said Monday that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

December 2, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

SAXBY ECONOMICS

In six and a half hours on Monday, the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index declined nearly 9 percent — the type of collapse that, historically, has taken years to occur.

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

Richard,

I’m with the folks who find GOP talent now residing in the governorships. My disclaimer: It’s therein that one finds the Goldwaterites, who I feel will form, once again, the core of partisan resurgence. There may be congressional figures I’ve missed, but you must tell me who they are, as I’m so intent on the statehouses.

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

December 2, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

SAXBY ECONOMICS

Stocks fell Tuesday in Europe and Asia amid deeply bearish sentiment stoked by expectations of a protracted global recession.

By getalife

December 2, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

Yes, if you want to hold somebody accountable for the bailouts and recession you can,

Fire suxby today!

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

December 2, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

SAXBY ECONOMICS

The Justice Department has expanded its criminal investigation into foreign banks that sell offshore private banking services to include Credit Suisse and HSBC, The New York Times reported.

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

December 2, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

SAXBY ECONOMICS

The head of a new Congressional panel set up to monitor the gigantic federal bailout says the government still does not seem to have a coherent strategy for easing the financial crisis, despite the billions it has already spent in that effort.

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

December 2, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

SAXBY ECONOMICS

The United States economy officially sank into a recession last December, which means that the downturn is already longer than the average for all recessions since World War II, according to the committee of economists responsible for dating the nation’s business cycles.

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

I MEAN, YOU ANTI-SAXBY GUYS KEEP DOING YOUR THING, BY ALL MEANS, BUT AT THIS POINT YOU’RE BEATING A DEAD HORSE. WHETHER THE OLD JOKE OF A DO-NOTHING, KNOW-NOTHING SENATOR WINS OR LOSES, A DEAD HORSE NONETHELESS.

By Preacher Man

December 2, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this

THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS.

Where do you get off thinking it’s okay to tell lies about someone during an election? Repent, Ragnar. Your claims of caring about God’s laws ring false amid the foul, toxic air that accompanies the lies falling from your pointy, slanderous tongue. You taint His Word with your stench.

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

December 2, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this

SAXBY ECONOMICS

We are living in unprecedented times. The federal government’s intervention in the markets has become critical to the maintenance of confidence in our economic system, as last week’s rescue of Citigroup suggests. Substantial public assistance will be necessary to restart many parts of our economy.

The enormity and importance of the government’s role calls for consistency in how it intervenes in our financial markets. Logic also dictates that federal assistance be designed to save jobs and assure, to the extent possible, that the American taxpayer be repaid.

To date, the government has shown everything but a consistent approach. It didn’t give assistance to Lehman Brothers. But it did push for a much-publicized and now abandoned plan to purchase troubled assets. The government also pushed for a punitive program for American International Group (AIG) that benefits only the company’s credit default swap counterparties. And it is now purchasing redeemable, nonvoting preferred stock in some of the nation’s largest banks.

The Citi deal makes sense in many respects. The government will inject $20 billion into the company and act as a guarantor of 90% of losses stemming from $306 billion in toxic assets. In return, the government will receive $27 billion of preferred shares paying an 8% dividend and warrants, giving the government a potential equity interest in Citi of up to about 8%. The Citi board should be congratulated for insisting on a deal that both preserves jobs and benefits taxpayers.

But the government’s strategy for Citi differs markedly from its initial response to the first companies to experience liquidity crises. One of those companies was AIG, the company I led for many years.

In September, AIG’s board of directors entered into an agreement with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for a two-year, $85 billion credit line. Under the agreement, the government received super-voting, nonredeemable preferred stock intended to deliver ownership of 79.9% of AIG to the U.S. Treasury. The credit line carried a punitive annual interest rate of approximately 14% in year one, including a 8.5% annual rate that AIG was required to pay regardless of whether it used the money.

Last month, the government replaced the initial plan with a five-year $60 billion loan. The new plan reduced AIG’s interest rate and its annual commitment fee. But it still left the government owning nearly 80% of the company.

This was a step in the right direction. But more needs to be done to save AIG. A new plan needs to be drawn up to allow private capital to replace the government’s capital. And the company itself cannot be so burdened with interest payments that it is forced into effective liquidation, making jobs impossible to keep and decreasing the likelihood taxpayers will be repaid.

The maintenance of the status quo will result in the loss of tens of thousands of jobs, lock in billions of dollars of losses for pension funds that are significant AIG shareholders, and wipe out the savings of retirees and millions of other ordinary Americans. This is not what the broader economy needs. It is a lose-lose proposition for everyone but AIG’s credit default swap counterparties, who will be made whole under the new deal.

government should instead apply the same principles it is applying to Citigroup to create a win-win situation for AIG and its stakeholders. First and foremost, the government should provide a federal guaranty to meet AIG’s counterparty collateral requirements, which have consumed the vast majority of the government-provided funding to date.

A federal guaranty would allow a large portion of the previously drawn capital from the federal credit facility to be repaid and redeployed elsewhere in the financial system with no loss to the American taxpayer. This is exactly the type of guaranty that the federal government is providing to Citigroup.

The purpose of any federal assistance should be to preserve jobs and allow private capital to take the place of government once private capital becomes available. The structure of the current AIG-government deal makes that impossible.

The role of government should not be to force a company out of business, but rather to help it stay in business so that it can continue to be a taxpayer and an employer. This requires revisiting the terms of the federal government’s assistance to AIG to avoid that company’s breakup and the devastating consequences that would follow.

Mr. Greenberg, chairman and CEO of C.V. Starr and Company, was formerly the chairman and CEO of American International Group (AIG).

By REPUBLICANS EVIL TIMEISUP

December 2, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE NEO-NAZI HICKS GO VOTE FOR SUXBY SO HE CAN FUTHER SEND YOUR JOBS TO INDIA CHINA MEXICO ETC, SO WHEN YOU FOOLS RE-ELECT THIS IDIOT BACK TO WASHINGTON DONT COMPLAIN AT YOUR KLAN RALLIES IN NORTH AND SOUTH GEORGIA ABOUT SUXBY SOLD US OUT.

P.S.GETEM SUXBY SELL THEY A*******E$ OUT,GET THEY VOTE AND SHIP THEY JOBS RIGHT ON OVER SEAS TO YOUR INVESTMENT BUDDIES YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN,CAUSE THESE REDNECK HICKS DONT KNOW WHATS GOING ON,SO YOU JUST KEEP LINING YOUR POCKETS YOU AND YOUR SON WITH THE LOBBIST,CAUSE HEY IT AINT NOTHING BUT GEORGIA VOTERS YOU $H1TTING ON

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

December 2, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

SAXBY EONOMICS

Federal prosecutors are passing on their last chance to reinvigorate a criminal tax-shelter proceeding against KPMG, once billed as the largest in history, after a string of setbacks in the case.

By Road Scholar

December 2, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this

Ok Ragnar, Saxby’s a great Senator for supporting the missions in Iraq and Afganastan. Didn’t he vote against providing them body armour and health care when they returned home?

If we’re going to send our men and women into harm’s way, shouldn’t we at least provide them the tools and support to help them survive?

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 2, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

Dear Southern, I failed to acknowledge that you are a gracious “winner” – your side prevailed in every aspect in the recent election, but rather than trumpeting that success you focus on the interests of those of us who lost. That reflects a generous spirit, not that I ever expected anything otherwise from you. Just so you will know that I noticed.

By deegee

December 2, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

“Liberal commentators and other partisans recognized her appeal, which is why they were so quick to trash her presumably inadequate education and experience.”

HAHAHAHAHA! George Will, David Frum, liberal commentators and other partisans. HAHAHAHAHA!

“Four years is a long time, but a Sarah Palin-Bobby Jindal ticket would be dynamite — assuming, of course, that the country’s not yearning then for another Bush. I’d readily offer up former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush for top-of-the-ticket.”

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Let’s stop and think about a Jeb Bush campaign theme… “I am not George Bush!” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

By AF

December 2, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

Palin,again? What is it with Sarah Palin that people like. She is an idiot. How in the world can anyone believe she could be a good president? Don’t people think being president takes just a little intelligence? Oh, well, maybe not since Dubya Bush got elected twice.

Jindal on a presidential ticket might actually give a choice in the next election. Put Palin on it and it is a forgone losing ticket.

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

December 2, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

SAXBY ECONOMICS.. FARM BILL SPECIAL

“At least 2,702 farmers nationwide received subsidies between 2003 and 2006 even through they were making more than the $2.5 million gross income cutoff. The unwarranted payments totaled $49 million and exposed enduring Agriculture Department management problems, investigators concluded.

“USDA cannot be assured that millions of dollars in farm program payments it made are proper,” the Government Accountability Office investigators noted in the report issued Monday.

“In one case, investigators noted, “an individual with ownership interest in a professional sports franchise received a total of more than $200,000 in farm program payments for 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.”

“Other rich and unjustified crop subsidy recipients identified by investigators included “a top executive of a major financial services firm,” a “founder and former executive of an insurance company” and a “former executive of a technology company.”

“The new study matched IRS tax return data with payment records for 1.8 million subsidy recipients, and also zeroed in on specific farm payments in Mississippi and Louisiana. Of the 2,702 subsidy recipients whose average gross income exceeded $2.5 million, 427 received potentially improper payments for every year studied.

“The improper recipients included a mix of corporations, partnerships and trusts, although specific beneficiaries are not named.

“The department’s Farm Services Agency stated in its official audit response that it “made the best use of the resources available” and further stressed that the reported improper payments amounted to less than 1 percent of total crop subsidy payments.

“But the critical findings do not entirely surprise activists who tried with minimal success last year to restrain crop subsidies in the latest $286 billion farm bill. They also underscore some of the major challenges facing whoever President-elect Barack Obama taps as the new agriculture secretary.

“No clear front-runner has yet appeared in the Agriculture Department sweepstakes. When the new secretary takes office, he or she will find the latest 48-page GAO report figuratively sitting atop a stack of previous audits, investigations and congressional hearing transcripts that convey a common message.

“Without better oversight to ensure that farm program funds are spent as economically, efficiently and effectively as possible, USDA had little assurance that these funds benefit the agriculture sector as intended,” the new report warns.”

Congress, with its generous subsidies going to the rich, millionaire farm operations (that happen to give big campaign dollars at election time) and not to those farmers who need it, and the USDA and its lack of oversight are aiding and abetting stealing the taxpayers’ money and cheating those farmers who should be receiving the subsidies as the taxpayers intended.

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

GO, Ragnar, and all you good Southern liars. You got the man, victor though he may be. Like Jim Wooten he say, it’s all about turnout now. All Flesh shall see it together!

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 2, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Dear Preacher @ 9:59, I have no trouble condemning false prophets, such as you. Those of you who misrepresent the ways and the wishes of the Lord have a special place reserved in eternity, and deserve it.

Dear Road @ 10:02, “Didn’t he vote against providing them body armour and health care when they returned home?” No, he voted against leftist bills that would otherwise damage the military’s mission and institution, respectively. I am comfortable with the fidelity of the administration’s intentions in the manner of war fighting and in preserving the integrity of the particular institutions, and with Mr. Chambliss’s willingness to oppose the Trojan efforts of the false supporters among democrats. For example, the latter had a gravely-flawed provision amending education benefits, to make those available after only one tour of duty. That provision weakens the capacity of the military to retain its most talented soldiers – an inducement to abandon their posts. A better provision would have simply increased the pay of all military pro rata, rather than creating a limited incentive to quit.

By AF

December 2, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

VOTE MARTIN. Saxby has had his chance and he is a hack. He cares nothing for the middle class - he is all about big money interests. Look at what he has supported, what he has put his political capital into.

VOTE MARTIN.

By Churchill's MOM

December 2, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

Jim here’s some real PALIN from Politico. I always thought you men liked woman on woman action..

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has some Republican-to-Republican advice for Gov. Sarah Palin: If you want to make a run at the White House, keep your hands off my Senate seat.

Murkowski, up for reelection in 2010, is nervously awaiting word on whether John McCain’s former running mate will run against her in the GOP primary. But she says Palin is the one who should be nervous.

“I can guarantee it would be a very tough election,” Murkowski said in an interview.

Palin is also up for reelection in 2010. She could run for a second term as governor, but the Senate holds some obvious attractions: a national platform, and with it the chance to beef up a thin résumé and rebuild damaged credibility on foreign policy and other issues.

But Murkowski says a run against her would be fraught with risk. If Palin lost, her stock would drop just ahead of a potential 2012 presidential run. And if she won, she’d be a backbencher in a chamber that is dominated by seniority — and would have to begin her presidential campaign as soon as she took office.

“If she wants to be president, I don’t think the way to the presidency is a short stop in the United States Senate,” Murkowski said.

Asked Monday to respond to Murkowski’s comments, Palin’s communications coordinator, Kate Morgan, said only, “The governor has never stated her intention or desire to run for that office.”

As Murkowski’s tense talk suggests, the politics between the two women is personal. Palin won the governor’s race in 2006 by defeating Frank Murkowski, the senator’s father. On the presidential campaign trail this year, Palin crowed about upending the “old boys network” in Alaska.

When asked this summer about Palin’s suggestion that her father was one of those “old boys,” Murkowski bristled and cut an interview short.

Democratic pollster Ivan Moore and other Alaska analysts say Murkowski is poised to skate to a second full term unless she loses in the Republican primary. The most credible Democratic challenger, Ethan Berkowitz, will likely mount a rematch against Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) for the state’s lone House seat in 2010, Moore and other analysts said.

But everything changes if Palin gets in.

Even though Palin’s popularity dipped after she took on a partisan role as the GOP’s vice presidential candidate and stumbled in televised interviews, she maintains high approval ratings back home, including about 80 percent support among Republican voters. Murkowski enjoys similarly high numbers.

A head-to-head fight between the two Republicans “would be a titanic struggle,” Moore said.

David Dittman, a Republican pollster in Alaska, said some right-wing talk show hosts have given Murkowski the nickname “Liberal Lisa,” a label that could stick in a Republican primary fight

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But like Murkowski, Dittman said Palin would be better served by staying in Juneau, where she still would have a huge profile and could maintain political star power in GOP circles — a celebrity status she showed off in Georgia this week as she campaigned for Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss.

With Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in Senate history, having just lost his seat, Dittman said GOP primary voters in Alaska would be wary of losing more Senate seniority by replacing Murkowski with Palin.

“My feeling is that Alaskans wouldn’t respond to that very well, especially Republicans, if she takes on Lisa and she starts seniority all over again,” Dittman said. “I think it would be tough for Sarah to do that and justify it.”

That argument is not lost on Murkowski, who points to her rising seniority in the Senate and her ascension to the top Republican spot on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, replacing retiring Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.).

“One thing that Alaskans clearly appreciate is seniority,” said Murkowski, who was appointed to the Senate in 2002 by her father, who had just won the governor’s race. “If she were to kind of move me over, if you will, to run for national office again at the expense at this seniority that’s been built, I don’t know if Alaskans would look too favorably on that.

“I think they view the job that we have here in the Senate as a very, very critical one in a state like Alaska, where we always are battling the feds,” Murkowski said. “You need to have this position being filled full time. And I think that’s what Alaskans will be looking to.”

Murkowski said she had not spoken with Palin about whether she will run and said the talk of her running may be “more media-generated than what actually might be the thought process in Juneau right now.”

But Moore, the Democratic pollster, said Palin will do whatever she believes will position herself best.

“Sarah is interested in what is best for Sarah, and she is not necessarily going to get sidetracked by party loyalties,” Moore said.

By AF

December 2, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

VOTE MARTIN. Saxby has had his chance and he is a hack. He cares nothing for the middle class - he is all about big money interests. Look at what he has supported, what he has put his political capital into.

VOTE MARTIN.

By Ga Values

December 2, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

Ragnar Danneskjöld 10:19 AM

Drinking a little early today aren’t you.

By ron

December 2, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this

Good morning,They love Sarah in he South.They love Huckabee in the South.The key word here is South.I like Mrs. Palin,but I don’t see her as President.Jindal is a rising star.As Long as he doesn’t do something stupid.Note the word Long.Louisiana politicians have a history.

Jeb Bush would have to change his name.

Republicans need a massive failure by Obama to succeed in 2012.Even a moderate success will spell four more years for him.

Mrs.Franklin isn’t going to get her raise it would appear.She can always check with the Mayor of Birmingham for an alternative method.

It seems sad to hear Republicans wishing for a defeat of a filibuster proof Senate.That’s not a lot to look forward to.That’s starting from pretty far back in the race.

By Curious Observer

December 2, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

For example, the latter had a gravely-flawed provision amending education benefits, to make those available after only one tour of duty. That provision weakens the capacity of the military to retain its most talented soldiers – an inducement to abandon their posts.

Ragnar: I’m awfully happy my four years of active military service were enough to permit me to qualify for GI educational benefits. Otherwise, I would be working in a coal mine today. Unlike you, I actually served my country, instead of pointing to my son as my family’s contribution to national service, and I wasn’t born with the proverbial silver spoon, so as to be able to afford Vanderbilt.

The false premise that VA educational benefits should be reserved for long-serving military people is a trumped-up excuse for not providing such benefits to current service people. Exactly how many 35-year old veterans would start college under such a requirement? Educational benefits for veterans discharged under honorable conditions should be a reward, not an inducement for military service longevity. Only a utilitarian conservative would think of such benefits as some kind of retention tool.

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

I’m with you, ron. I count six so far, and Jindal is certainly one of them…

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 2, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

Dear Bo Chambliss @ dozens of times, Dr. Sowell wrote about you last week.

By Copyleft

December 2, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

At least Ragnar attempted to answer the question, for which I compliment him. However, his reasons for supporting Saxby are a bit shaky:

• (a) Mr. Chambliss’s unflinching support of the military missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. *

Partial credit, since the mission in Iraq was unjustified and unnecessary—-and therefore a failure no matter the outcome in terms of body count. As for Afghanistan, I must’ve missed the moment when Bin Laden was actually captured or killed. When was that, exactly?

*He gets to share the credit for the victories - (a) the extinguishment of al Qaeda all over the world *

Which did not happen; terrorist activity is up, and Al Qaeda’s never been stronger or more popular.

*and (b) the formation of a true representative democracy in the heart of the Arabian Middle East *

Which also didn’t happen. If you hadn’t noticed, our shiny new “democracy” in Iraq is an explicitly Muslim theocracy.

• (b) Mr. Chambliss’s unqualified endorsements of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, in the confirmation process. *

Again, partial credit. Roberts is a competent legal scholar, but Alito is a shameless suckup with zero ability other than blind partisan loyalty—in other words, a model fascist-oops-I-mean-Republican.

• (c) Mr. Chambliss is “open” to Fair Tax, *

Sorry, but that’s mark of either ignorance or dishonesty. It’s true that, since the Unfair Tax would benefit primarily millionaires like Chambliss himself, his support for it is perfectly in line with Saxby’s record of unabashed greed and corruption. But if Saxby’s pretending it would be a good idea for working-class Americans, he’s either unclear on it (as you suggest) or simply dishonest. Neither is a good qualification for office.

Still, your offering is better than anything the other Wootenites have been able to come up with so far… and for that, I congratulate you. Have any of Wooten’s loyal drones enough brainpower to try to add to this—-or am I (as usual) asking too much of the inferior fascist mind?

By findog

December 2, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

Jim, Did you get the robo-call? Hopefully in four years she can learn English as a second language; while we may be ready for any Republican in 2012 I really hope we go with someone with the basic grasp of what smaller minded republicans have tried to legislate – English as the official language…

By Mort Merkel

December 2, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

As a Floridian under Jeb Bush, I can say he was a good governor. No Lawton Chiles, mind you, but decent and effective. His brother has ruined any chance of his ever being president. His son, George P., maybe, but not Jeb.

Now, what is it, Jim, that makes you want to put the GOP’s top talent, Bobby Jindal, in the No. 2 spot behind Sarah Palin? Are you really a Republican?

By cindy

December 2, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

Good post JLK

I hope Sara continues her appeal with all these conservatives and they put her on the ticket in 4 years. This is the person who attacked Obama because he spoke in complete sentences.

She may be popular with ultra conservatives and horny males, but she misses the boat with most moderates.

Obama seems to be shaping up well; I am impressed. I am looking forward to change. We are no longer under the commy/nazi style of leadership:

“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” Joseph Stalin

“Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don’t want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”

Hermann Goering

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 2, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

Dear Curious @ 10:34, I disagree. You argue that the government should require diligent soldiers to quit in order to obtain the benefit with the largest dollar value, and I argue that the government should instead use those same funds to preserve the military by paying the military better. If the government had paid you properly, what you were truly worth, you may have employed your portfolio of skills for benefit of mankind through military service instead of going to college. I hold greater respect for military service than I do for college graduation, and would prefer to be surrounded in the workplace by retired military than retired professors.

As to your ad hominem “silver spoon” argument, my father was a postal clerk and my mother worked retail at a department store. My grandparents were “small” farmers; one raised hogs, the other raised cotton, and my parents’s aggregated inheritances totaled less than one-year’s tuition at Vanderbilt. I worked at a grocery store beginning at age 16, and later in a department store warehouse, to fund my tuition payments. I had a grant for 10% of the tuition, my mother worked to pay a third of tuition, and I paid for everything else. I never borrowed a dollar to go to Vanderbilt. Perhaps you ought to read Dr. Sowell’s “Ivan and Boris” argument, linked above.

By Carbon Footprint

December 2, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

Is Martin still in the race? Chambliss wins easily.

Checks and balances are a good thing.

By Curious Observer

December 2, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

Dear Ragnar: I wish you had been around to try your silly argument with veterans returning from the horrors of Iwo Jima, Tarawa, Guadalcanal, Normandy, and other intense WW II battle sites. The nation intended the post-war GI Bill as an expression of gratitude for their sacrifice, not as an inducement for military retention. That it was allowed to expire and be transformed into a mockery is a national disgrace. To paraphrase a famous retort, have you no sense of gratitude? At long last, sir, have you no sense of decency?

By Shawny

December 2, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

The Martin commercials have the most untruths I have seen of any candidate.

Saxby supported the bailout, so don’t vote for him. NEWSFLASH, Obama supported it too, so does that make it better? Martin would have voted for it with all the other democrats, had he been the incumbent senator, duh.

Saxby wants to raise your taxes 23%. Yeah, right, that is the fair tax where income tax goes away and you are only taxed on your consumption with rebates based on income level (giving it the progressive scale). The fair tax would discourate excessive spending and encourage savings, which is desperately needed. Besides, any idiot knows that democrats would raise taxes before republicans.

dishonest, dishonest, dishonest. No other way to put it.

By The Forgotten Messiah.

December 2, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

A man who was taking part in a terror attack on a hotel found himself needing a bathroom. He found a door marked “Mens” and went inside. The one stall was already occupied by another terrorist, yet he knocked on it anyway. “I’m sorry, this stall is taken” came the polite half sung reply. “It’s okay, I’ll wait”.

Moments passed. Outside, the sounds of a massacre encroached over the vent fans and courtesy flushes. The terrorist, becoming impatient, knocked again, “Hey, can you hurry up? There’s a jihad, hello.”

“I’m almost done. You want the sports page while you wait?”

“The sports page? Are you in their reading? Come on. Lets go.” Not once did the terrorist wield his weapon. It just hung there from the straps around his neck and shoulders..

“Almost done”. The terrorist began to look around the room and noticed a vending machine selling Spanish Flies. He studied the marketing pitch about fail-safe sex and observed the cartoon figure of a woman in heat. Isolated and deprived his entire life, (born and bred for the jihad), he had never imagined such a product was available, and soon decided to buy one of the pills.

He knocked on the stall again. “Hey, do you have a quarter?”

“A quarter? What for? I’m almost done. Just wait.” The terrorist returned to the vending machine and indulged his imagination with the fantasy of freakazoids for the first time.

More time passed and suddenly a woman entered, obviously trying to escape the carnage just outside the restroom doors. She stood face to face with the terrorist.

“Do you have a quarter?” The woman took the situation in. She saw the vending machine and knew exactly what it was. She read the face of the terrorist perfectly and realized she could buy some time. She raised her purse and pretended to rifle through it for change. She noticed the AK47 on the floor inside the stall, and the boots.

Stay tuned for part two of, “The Lords of the Fly”.

By ron

December 2, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this

Curious Observer @ 10:34———When I left the Army in 1965 I entered into an electrical apprenticeship with a good ole boy Southern born cpmpany.I applied to my companies training department for G.I.benefits and the company fought me tooth and nail for two years to keep me from receiving them.All I needed from them waa verification that I was actually there and working.I finally prevailed and got a lump sum settlement from the VA for time missed.It was the plant manager’s opinion that no one should receive benefites for one tour that caused all the problems.

By Peter

December 2, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

Yes Jim they love her………Beauty without Brains !

Remember she know foreign affairs……..she can see Russia from Alaska…….She has left the USA ONCE, and knows about the WORLD………HA HA HA…..!!!!!!!

Of course you really cannot get a Decent Public education down South……..Worst schools in the nation…..

How do all the states match up education wise with the rest of the country Jim ?

Where is Georgia ranked Jim…….How close to last…….Your Republican Governor is doing so much to help that out !

Your thoughts go along with the thinking from this area.

That is why the South really is becoming a NON FACTOR on the National Political scene…..a subject that is becoming well known around the country.

Raise your Rebel Flag Jim….

Basically Jim, you and the folks you represent are not too bright…….more or less Lemmings and Lynch men.

Just like the wining from George Bush yesterday that came out……..All the Sorry’s….

Sorry we attacked Iraq with “Faulty Information”……..

He really means we made up information…….like Saddam and Bin Laden were working together.

But we really couldn’t give cost Plus contracts from Dick Cheney’s office without starting a WAR !

How could we Bilk the Treasury and create the largest deficit ever without our lies ?

Sorry the economy is so bad under his watch……… with housing in the toilet, and people’s retirements gone to heck in a hand basket…..

He really meant, My Buddies made Ton’s of money as we drove the country into the ground…..But we did bail out Wall street, and give the crooks tons of money.

You love a looser Jim…..scam artists as well

Both You and your party are Pathetic….

The Bush administration, whom you would go over a cliff with…… will go down as the WORST in History of the United States, and will be the Beginning of the real demise of a once Great country, where Citizens once mattered, and Not Corporate America FIRST !

True American’s Love their country first Jim !

Going to WAR, killing the environment for greed, and bilking the Treasury…….do not constitute being American, but hey that is what you like !

Deregulate everything Jim…….. Ops George mentioned yesterday that was a mistake as well !

I guess he was too busy playing WAR to notice how badly he was failing America…….

Lemmings like you should be tried for Treason against America !

By sam

December 2, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

The truth is saxby didnt actually do anything with his senate seat, Jim Martin wouldnt either. Its probably best if Democrats dont have the 60 votes, no party should have complete control…theres got to be some checks in place….and dont forget if Jim Martin is elected he’s going to kill your family!!

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

that’s right, sam. it doesn’t really matter a damn. it doesn’t. only the rare ones are anything other than do-nothings, either side. it’s true. you’re right.

So, cycle the m******* out, and let’s take our chances!

By findog

December 2, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

It is too bad the sad truth that the Jones [aka African-American] democrats that under-voted last month are the real reason for the runoff today. Great that they voted in record numbers. Great that Obama won in other parts of the country. Just too bad that since Jones lost to a Caucasian his supports left that portion of the ballot blank. Too bad that race works two ways in Georgian politics. Just too sad…

By Eli Jones

December 2, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this

I love Sarah Palin and also I just voted for Saxby Chambliss this AM. Eli

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

yep, and likewise it’s too bad that Georgia constitutionally splits itself into 159 creatures and subdivisions, each of them politicized for maximum mischief. It’s what the folks at the Kennedy School, in their wisdom, would call a classic cluster f@&#, but there you have it: the modern State of Georgia.

What can one do?

By Gator Joe

December 2, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

Wooten: Chambliss will be re-elected. After the recent Republican losses in the senate, the racist, draft/combat avoiding, chicken-hawk wing of your party needs representation. On another note, after the Bush presidency, it is frightening to think you Republicans would consider another simple-minded and unqualified individual such as Palin. Hopefully you and the rest of the right-wing media will keep her (and others like her) in the spotlight, thus insuring Democratic majorities.

By A NEW DAY

December 2, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

MARTIN YES,—SAXBY NO

By AmVet

December 2, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this

That is why the South really is becoming a NON FACTOR on the National Political scene…..a subject that is becoming well known around the country.

Excellent point, Peter.

Even to this day, many of the traitors and secessionists in Dixie have for the most part, never really fit in with the rest of the Union. Backwards and proud of it, they have cemented their reputation as an outpost of non-progress and non-enlightenment for simple-minded and reality-challenged reactionaries, mythologists/religious wackos (from Waco?) and assorted white trash.

Notwithstanding the lunatic fringe’s infatuation with her, the enormous reaction against Sister Sarah, coast to coast, mirrors that of the problems with her running mate.

People did not feel comfortable with McCain because in TOO many ways he was TOO similar to the current Bungler-in-Chief.

And most rational Americans REALLY balked at Ms. BarraClueless for her eerie similarities to that mental midget who is now occupying the West Wing.

One dangerous numbskull running around the White House every fifty years is plenty…

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 2, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

Dear Curious @ 11:05, my father-in-law, who lives with us, served with the Army for five years in the South Pacific, and saw action in Borneo and Philippines. As one who never went to college, he would dismiss your argument with contempt, as the words of an ignorant one. I think the shame is with those who would undermine the military for the sake of cheap political points. I think the disgrace is with those who prefer to not pay our noble military what they are worth real time, instead hoping they die before they can cash in and obtain a meaningless college degree.

By The Forgotten Messiah.

December 2, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this

Part Two “The Lords of the Fly”.

The woman gave the terrorist a quarter, and he quickly turned to plunk it into the machine. Nothing happened. “You have to pull the knob…the knob…here, I’ll show you….” the woman stepped forward her perfume, Poison, bequiled the terrorist further and as he imagined the immediate future that he was buying for only a quarter, he felt himself becoming fly. Superfly. The pill appeared in a shiny metallic maroon package about the size of a condom envelope. The man retrieved it and handed it over to the woman.

“I’ll need some water”. The woman cupped her hand under the sink, popped the pill in her mouth, and slapped the water to her face. She gulped, exaggeratedly. For a moment the two stood there, the man wide eyed and expectant, his Id doing a countdown, the woman, eyeing the cartoon of an affected woman, rehearsed her foreplay, and was soon on the floor, writhing around moaning, and grabbing at her crotch. The other terrorist opened the stall door and saw the woman. He raised his rifle to fire, but his comrade stopped him and showed him the vending machine, the empty package, and the opportunity. Soon, the two were unbuttoning, disarming, and unstrapping. Realizing her chance had arrived, the woman got into the intern/president position and the jihad was going to have to wait, for even the isolated suicide radicals had heard of the Lewinski. The two stood there, at attention, waiting for robosex. The woman grabbed her purse, took out the mace, and sprayed the two one-eyed mice right in the wide open spaces.

The jihad had never trained these two for that kind of pain or torture. They immediately fell and writhed around on the floor moaning and grabbing their crotch.

The woman got up, grabbed an AK47, and pulled the trigger. She undressed, but then put on the terrorist’s garb and hid her face beneath the ski mask. Cradling the rifle, she made her way outside and surrendered to police. After 60 hours of waterboarding she was released.

Soon after, she was sitting in front of Katie Courek. “Did you have sex with the terrorist? Are you sure you’re not editing the truth about how you escaped?” The woman read Katie’s face perfectly. It would sell better if she HAD done the act. Maybe even a booking on the View, or David Letterman. (camera to David Letterman, at the Oscars, if the USA had surrendered on 911: “Allah, Mullah….Mullah, Allah…..Allah, Mullah….Mullah, Allah…..heh heh ewww…” camera to Osama Bin Laden, in the audience, pointing at Letterman, “Keel him!”)

“Yes, I had sex, if oral sex is considered sex, is it?”

Katie jumped. “Yes, of course, and so it was like a MMF porn video, then, right? Like a movie! I always thought 911 was like a movie, you know, was that what it was like, a porn movie?”

The woman said that it was, and Katie waved off a commercial break as she led the woman through her invented narrative about the sodomy.

The woman indeed became a national sex goddess and Paris Hilton’s new BFF. Brangelina split up and the popparazzi had a field day as Brad escorted the woman everywhere.

The end.

By Freedom Ain't Free

December 2, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

“I think the disgrace is with those who prefer to not pay our noble military what they are worth real time, instead hoping they die before they can cash in and obtain a meaningless college degree.”

You mean like SAXBY CHAMBLISS? Agreed! Let’s send this clown packing back to his lobbying career. MARTIN ‘08!

By NO GREED LEFT BEHIND

December 2, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this

Many Republicans will vote for Jim Martin today to put a halt to the corrupt runaway train called $axby.

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

yeah but, Cindy, no cheapshot intended here, but…

that’s the kind of commonsense reasoning that Goering took with him to his cold cell, the last place he ever knew.

Other human attributes, higher ones, do also apply, and sometimes they vanquish.

By cindy

December 2, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

I think it is quite comical to watch all these republicans put their hopes in the likes of Saxby Chambliss. Suddenly, this man is the new hope for the republican party? Sara and saxby, I love it! Proof there is little to no intelligence in that party; it simply runs on spew. All that nazi idealism and hatred has caused it to implode, leaving incompetents to take a leading role in the party. Ha, ha, ha, hee, hee, ha, ha.

By Chad Harris

December 2, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

Woo Woo you idiot. A Palin Jindal ticket will never happen. You saw the result of a similar thing a month ago.

Juggling family is not the issue. Her stupidity and total non-qualification to have any government office is the issue.

One thing about Wooten—just when you think it’s impossible for an individual to be more stupid—he tops himself.

By A Bit of Truth

December 2, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

Ya’ do know that Sarah Palin is “palling around” with terrorists today don’t you?

Yep! She and the other governors are meeting with President-Elect Obama to discuss approaches to handling this crisis at their respective levels. So can we now gig her on this in 2012 when she runs for President, since she now has an association with Obama, whom she believes in her “heart of hearts” is a terrorist??? She told us so repeatedly and rather emphatically on the campaign stump.

This goes to show you just how absurd the entire very wasted Republican campaign was. And to think many of you morons repeated the same garbage ad nauseum because Rush and Hannity told you that’s what you were supposed to do. Wow!

By GaLiberal

December 2, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

Moron Jim said: Brown-eyed Madelene Fyke of Byron is only three years old. Already, though, says her mother, Andrea, she’s a Sarah Palin fan.

That’s because she’s three years old, Moron Jim. Not because she has some special insight into Palin’s qualifications or intelligence (both of which are questionable). Three year olds are highly impressionable so maybe her mommy had something to do with her Palin adoration. Or maybe it’s simple like being attracted to Barney because he’s big and purple. It’s a phase with kids that quickly burns out. Not so with adults. The intelligence level of the Rethuglicon voters is about that of a three year old so it’s no wonder Palin appeals to them.

MJ also said: Among the women interviewed, one theme was constant — an appreciation of her ability to juggle the demands of a family, her duties as governor and a national political campaign.

What MJ doesn’t tell you is that Palin doesn’t “juggle” anything. Her husband takes care of the kids. And their personal nanny (that probably services Mr. Palin too). And her personal staff. And the state limo drivers. And probably a lot of other people as well. Palin is a joke and like all jokes they grow old and unfunny. Red meat baiting like Palin did during the campaign only goes so far with the voters. Unless you have the attention span of a three year old. If she moved to Georgia, then she might just elected to a national office.

When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And Palin is living proof.

By One Voice

December 2, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

Palin? So a bachelor’s degree in sports journalism and being the figurehead leader of a few thousand people are adequate education and experience to be the leader of the free world? Jim, I know you have poor judgment; you reinforce that assessment daily, but are you delusional as well? You’re not that old; you shouldn’t have dimentia yet.

By Churchill's MOM

December 2, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this

Copyleft 10:42 AM

Raghead is not the sharpest tool in the shed, his silly form post has been debunked many times but the poor boy keeps posting it. Vote Martin for our CHILDEREN

By AGTfan

December 2, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

It is true that Palin is popular in GA and that Saxby will probably defeat Martin. Sometimes it’s embarassing to be from GA.

By ranfast

December 2, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this

Is it just me, or are the left wing liberal Dimocrat diaper soiling trolls on this blog just getting angrier and angrier? There have been many reasons listed to vote for Saxby {I did, thanks}. Now, what in the hell makes Jim Martin so eligible to take the incumbent’s seat besides being potential #60 in the Pelosi/Reid no filibuster dream team? Contrary to what the liberal Dimocrats will tell you {lie to you about}, the Republicans NEVER had complete filibuster control in Washington. EVER. The fate of this nation for decades to come, including future Supreme Court seats, could very well be at the hands of Georgia in this election.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 2, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

Dr. Sowell condemns one of the worst aspects of leftism today, one that sticks in my craw – “voluntary service” for youth. My younger son, the Lt JG, throughout high school, regularly performed extensive voluntary services through his church and through his ROTC unit, none of which was credited by some of the leftist schools to which he applied (specifically Harvard and Penn.) I will never hire anyone who attended one of those. (However, on that same front, I hold particular affection for Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, Carnegie-Mellon, and UNC-Chapel Hill, all of which fully credit both military and religious service. I understand, but have been unable to confirm, that is also true of Duke.) Where do leftists stand on Federal funds for schools that prohibit ROTC or military recruiters? Easy decision for the virtuous - if the school rejects presence of the US military, US declines to fund the school or its students.

By Fred

December 2, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this

Who the hell is Jim Martin anyway? From what I can see, he’s a guy who doesn’t understand the Fair Tax, he’s a doctrinaire Democrat who would’ve voted for The Bailout (and will vote to bailout the automakers) and dearly needs a real haircut.

That said, I voted for Saxby, but I’m not sure I didn’t return a RINO to his job under false pretenses. Yuck.

By cindy

December 2, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

Yes, Glenn, bush can take that reasoning when he returns to TX with his tail between his legs. It never should have been in the USA. Good riddance.

By The Way

December 2, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this

Ever since Election Day, and the Chambliss/Martin runoff was set, I’ve been posting one sentence about the runoff: Checks and balances are good. (Chambliss wins easily).

I did that just to see if I could get Palin to say it when she campaigned here. Sure enough, she said it.

Palin is my puppet, (sock puppet)…..ew.

By TRUTH

December 2, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this

SARAH PALIN IS A DISGRACE TO WOMEN EVERYWHERE. She has primitive ideas on social equality and is a sick individual. Anyone who wants to deny equal rights to fellow, tax-paying citizens is trash. Saying that folks “love her down south” is a LIE. maybe the hateful bigots do, but no one with an IQ over 40 would think that woman is anything but a shell of hate.

By findog

December 2, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

Fred @1:09 It is not Martin, but the Democrat’s Senatorial Committee that misunderstands the Fair Tax. Now try replacing the pain in your glass house without getting cut…

By Chaz

December 2, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this

Hey ranfast, you’re right! It’s funny how that, even though the Democrats all but ran away with this election, most of the lefties I know are even b*** than they were before the election. It’s a scary transition, having to step up now and actually become more than reactionary obstructionists. I suspect Obama’s already had a few eye-popping top-secret security briefings.

This should be fun to watch.

By ron

December 2, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

Ragnar——-My son was in The Civil Air Patrol during high school.He was absent one year for a three day stretch with his unit trying to locate a downed plane.When he returned to school he received demerits for absenteeism.In a short,snappy meeting with the district Superintendent I suggested that he double the demerits,because my son would be going out on the next call that came also.

By Fred

December 2, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this

Findog, Martin’s a Democrat who will vote in lockstep with that very same Committee, so the distinction is moot as far as I’m concerned.

And it’s ‘pane’, by the way.

By daved'

December 2, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this

IT’S GREAT THAT SHE’S “POPULAR” DOWN HERE IN GA! It again shows how the “rest” of the country had enough of “talibangelical” principles…you know…that abortion and gay marriage are the MOST important things we face as a nation…. and that there are STILL MANY in GA that think…THAT “THAT” IS WHAT IS IMPORTANT! Nobody cares any longer about those issues…Obama is NOT taking away guns…no matter what you wish for…the Supreme Court has ruled that abortion is legal…and gays will ALWAYS be gay…it’s only the “hide in the closet republicans that ARE gay”…that seem to have a problem with it…. do you REALLY THINK if a gay man marries a man..or a gay woman marries another woman…that THAT is what we need to worry about?! YOU SIR…voted for BUSH…TWICE! For all that did the same as you…and NOW feel economic pain….good for you! You deserve to! Your votes “wasted” our tax dollars on Iraq…a country that was NEVER a threat to our nation… ALl that voted for Bush and lost their jobs….or have their 401k’s tanking…I’m happy for you..there had NEVER been a bigger spender of our tax dollars in Washington compared to Bush. Clinton handed him a surplus…as well as the BIGGEST economic expansion in US history…9-11 happened on YOUR watch…not Clintons… You…You REPUBLICANS>..need to fess up and take the blame…as ALL these horrors in the world happened on YOUR watch!

By Chad Harris

December 2, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

What’s pathetic is that these Wingnuts haven’t learned a scintilla of a thing from their crushing defeat in counties that have never gone Democratic in the general in the Presidential and Senate elections.

I don’t remember back in the day that the Republicans were the party of Stupid, but they have certainly evolved into it now.

Saxby Chambliss is a Bush/Cheney Republican and a pawn of Big Business, and he ran the sleaziest, most reprehensible campaign imaginable against Jim Martin. And chasing him from the Senate gives us a real shot at a fillibuster-proof majority.

What total morons and boy will you get your butts handed to you in 2012:

It takes rebuilding, and I say, let that begin here in Georgia tomorrow,” Palin said.

She said Chambliss is needed to provide a check on the Democratic majority. She stressed Chambliss’s support for gun rights, opposition to abortion and opposition to tax hikes.

Yeah, if only the Republicans would start running on guns, tax cuts and criminalizing abortion, they wouldn’t be in this mess.

But at any rate, is Saxby Chambliss really a guy you want to rebuild your party around?

“We need Saxby because we need checks and balances in Washington, and we will not have that if Saxby is not re-elected,” said Palin. “With one party in control of the House and the Senate and the White House we need a conservative who will speak for themselves.”

Wuh…?

And I love this:

The Palin rally in Augusta drew a crowd of 3,000 to 4,000 people, many holding aloft campaign signs and shouting their adoration of the GOP vice presidential candidate.

“Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!,” they chanted. One woman stood behind Palin with a huge red sign that read: “Save My Gun.”

“Save Mah Guh ‘cause ahm an antieducation moron. Mah Gun makes up for all mah other shortcomins. Ah kin jist shoot mah way into victory.”

“Ah kin shoot unarmed wolves and Moosies from a chopper. Don’t that make me speshul and ah kin see Russsshhhhhhaaahhhh.”

By daved'

December 2, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

IT’S GREAT THAT SHE’S “POPULAR” DOWN HERE IN GA! It again shows how the “rest” of the country had enough of “talibangelical” principles…you know…that abortion and gay marriage are the MOST important things we face as a nation…. and that there are STILL MANY in GA that think…THAT “THAT” IS WHAT IS IMPORTANT! Nobody cares any longer about those issues…Obama is NOT taking away guns…no matter what you wish for…the Supreme Court has ruled that abortion is legal…and gays will ALWAYS be gay…it’s only the “hide in the closet republicans that ARE gay”…that seem to have a problem with it…. do you REALLY THINK if a gay man marries a man..or a gay woman marries another woman…that THAT is what we need to worry about?! YOU SIR…voted for BUSH…TWICE! For all that did the same as you…and NOW feel economic pain….good for you! You deserve to! Your votes “wasted” our tax dollars on Iraq…a country that was NEVER a threat to our nation… ALl that voted for Bush and lost their jobs….or have their 401k’s tanking…I’m happy for you..there had NEVER been a bigger spender of our tax dollars in Washington compared to Bush. Clinton handed him a surplus…as well as the BIGGEST economic expansion in US history…9-11 happened on YOUR watch…not Clintons… You…You REPUBLICANS>..need to fess up and take the blame…as ALL these horrors in the world happened on YOUR watch!

By daved'

December 2, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

IT’S GREAT THAT SHE’S “POPULAR” DOWN HERE IN GA! It again shows how the “rest” of the country had enough of “talibangelical” principles…you know…that abortion and gay marriage are the MOST important things we face as a nation…. and that there are STILL MANY in GA that think…THAT “THAT” IS WHAT IS IMPORTANT! Nobody cares any longer about those issues…Obama is NOT taking away guns…no matter what you wish for…the Supreme Court has ruled that abortion is legal…and gays will ALWAYS be gay…it’s only the “hide in the closet republicans that ARE gay”…that seem to have a problem with it…. do you REALLY THINK if a gay man marries a man..or a gay woman marries another woman…that THAT is what we need to worry about?! YOU SIR…voted for BUSH…TWICE! For all that did the same as you…and NOW feel economic pain….good for you! You deserve to! Your votes “wasted” our tax dollars on Iraq…a country that was NEVER a threat to our nation… ALl that voted for Bush and lost their jobs….or have their 401k’s tanking…I’m happy for you..there had NEVER been a bigger spender of our tax dollars in Washington compared to Bush. Clinton handed him a surplus…as well as the BIGGEST economic expansion in US history…9-11 happened on YOUR watch…not Clintons… You…You REPUBLICANS>..need to fess up and take the blame…as ALL these horrors in the world happened on YOUR watch!

By daved'

December 2, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

IT’S GREAT THAT SHE’S “POPULAR” DOWN HERE IN GA! It again shows how the “rest” of the country had enough of “talibangelical” principles…you know…that abortion and gay marriage are the MOST important things we face as a nation…. and that there are STILL MANY in GA that think…THAT “THAT” IS WHAT IS IMPORTANT! Nobody cares any longer about those issues…Obama is NOT taking away guns…no matter what you wish for…the Supreme Court has ruled that abortion is legal…and gays will ALWAYS be gay…it’s only the “hide in the closet republicans that ARE gay”…that seem to have a problem with it…. do you REALLY THINK if a gay man marries a man..or a gay woman marries another woman…that THAT is what we need to worry about?! YOU SIR…voted for BUSH…TWICE! For all that did the same as you…and NOW feel economic pain….good for you! You deserve to! Your votes “wasted” our tax dollars on Iraq…a country that was NEVER a threat to our nation… ALl that voted for Bush and lost their jobs….or have their 401k’s tanking…I’m happy for you..there had NEVER been a bigger spender of our tax dollars in Washington compared to Bush. Clinton handed him a surplus…as well as the BIGGEST economic expansion in US history…9-11 happened on YOUR watch…not Clintons… You…You REPUBLICANS>..need to fess up and take the blame…as ALL these horrors in the world happened on YOUR watch!

By Southern Democrat

December 2, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

Dear Ragnar/Jbmlaw @ 10:06,

Though I admit that I have skewed a bit left the past 8 years, I firmly believe in governing from the center with fierce protection of individual liberties and providing opportunity to all. This framework has caused me to vote for all manner of candidates. In fact, the period of 2000-2008 marks the first time in my life I have voted for three straight presidential candidates from the same party (though, as I mentioned to you before, I voted in the 2000 Georgia Republican Primary for Senator McCain).

This country works best when we have two strong, respectable parties. Reagan’s brilliance was highlighted in his ability to work with powerful personalities like Tip O’Neill and Moynihan to move the country forward. Sadly, this was an exception to (in my opinion) a vicious, partisan trend since Nixon’s bitter loss to Kennedy.

I would prefer seeing Hoyer over Pelosi and Casey over Reid, but most of all, I hope that Coleman beats Franken. I do not think Mr. Franken brings anything worthwhile to the Senate.

I do not recall when you made your way down here from the Volunteer State, but I am saddened that this wonderful state that has produced lions of the Senate like Tallmadge, Nunn & Coverdell is reduced to choosing between Chambliss and Martin. Saxby will never get my vote for many reasons, not the least of which is that no one on Earth can convince me that Georgia loses 4 military bases if Max Cleland still represents Georgia’s interests. And, shoot, if Sam Nunn were still there, we’d somehow have 4 MORE.

A longwinded way of saying, (particularly based on Obama’s recent picks), I see my party trending back towards respectability and, for the good of the country, I look forward to the GOP doing the same.

By Peter

December 2, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

Hey Amvet……….Thank you…….Republican’s are becoming extinct like the Dinosaur.

“By AmVet

December 2, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this

That is why the South really is becoming a NON FACTOR on the National Political scene…..a subject that is becoming well known around the country.

Excellent point, Peter.”

Without a doubt……..it is All about the LACK of EDUCATION in the SOUTH………So currently we have a bunch of Dumb @sses running a muck……..

How could Sarah Palin be so so widely accepted just down here………. and not in area’s of the country that actually get an education, folks who actually read what is actually going on in this country and in the world ?

Look at our ignorant Governor…….He Cut education spending on all fronts from the Pre-school programs to College…….to save money…….

Then he spends 20 Plus Million on a PERSONAL PORK project………creating a Fish Hatchery…….in his own county !

REPUBLICAN’S all about PORK !

He promotes Praying for Rain……but what did he do to create more reservoirs……?

Dumb @SS doesn’t even pay attention to the Bible……

“God helps those who help themselves”

I guess he never got that memo from God !

He just helps himself to our money for HIS Personal agenda !

First term he Created a Special Tax cutting law to save his own personal money on top of it all.

Hopefully SOON….. Intellectual Georgian’s may be greater in number than Rednecks, and Lemmings.

Maybe then we actually get a Governor who cares about Georgians….Starting with school Children, and Young adults wanting to get a better education………

Also he cut spending for handicapped and emotionally disturbed Vets……..Very Saxby like !

Yes Like Republican’s actually care about Vets…….what a JOKE……like McLost……who voted to stop the looking for MIA’s, and voted against helping hurt Vets.

They send them off to do their Chicken Hawk Bidding, then turn your back on them when they get home both physically, and emotionally messed up !

Republican’s Anti Americans !

Then the Cry about it, and apologize, like the true whiners they are………Example.George Bush !

He is sorry for all the pain he has caused America….Do you think Cheney is sorry…..Heck no he is about to get his BIG Payday from Haliburton…..

Why shouldn’t he get his mega MILLIONS from them…….he wrote the contracts that Bilked AMERICA !

No wonder The Dinosaur’s got killed in the last election !

It is sad they are not up for Prosecution for the Crimes they committed against this country of Ours !

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 2, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this

Dear Fred @ 1:09, I think we both voted to return a RINO. Better than the alternative I guess. Maybe we can get a conservative to run against Johnny. I’d vote for you or ron or @@ or findog or HIDT.

Dear Truth @ 1:14, after reading your post and many others similar, I am persuaded that it is only people with IQ of 40 or lower who hate Magna Sarah. Have you noticed it is only the leftists who hate anyone? I guess we all noticed.

Dear ron @ 1:25, your son is ok by me, not that I have any capacity to screw up his life like the educrats. I did CAP myself several decades ago, quit right after I got the Mitchell Award. That was when I went to work, to save for college.

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this

AGTfan,

You say, in view of Saxby’s poularity, that “sometimes it’s embarrassing to be from Georgia.”

Interesting. In the short time — about a year-and-a-half — that I’ve been able to say that I, and not for example a relative or an ancestor, am “from Georgia”, I’ve never once felt abashed. Silver-foxed old fool politicians such as Mr. Chambliss come and go, but they come and go in every state. Even the great State and sovereign nation of Hawaii has its Inouye, and unlike Chambliss that senator is a true war hero, as well as an old fool.

The thing about being from Georgia, I’ve noticed, is that, when you are, you don’t brook criticism from them what aren’t. Shades of 1861, perhaps. But Georgia’s seen better days since then, and will see too.

Mark my surfin’ Yankee words…

By Indian American

December 2, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

As an Indian American, I will never vote for that fake coconut culture-rejecting piece of garbage Jindal. I’d rather have the idiot Palin. There are plenty of qualified, smart Republicans across the country that are not a) complete morons and b) did not intentionally turn their backs on the culture in which their parents raised them.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 2, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

Dear Southern @ 2:10, I have previously confessed my pleasant surprise at the cabinet and similar picks. And I confess I expected the worst – I allowed my fears about BHO to control my mind. I am pleased to say I was wrong. Although, in all fairness, nothing BHO ever said in the campaign game me reason to anticipate such selections. His first post-election choice, Rahm Emanuel, was when my mind changed. I’ll still say what I said the day after the election, as conservatives are not cultists, I do not support (or oppose) President BHO; I will support (or oppose, as appropriate) his policies.

You may have inferred my lack of enthusiasm for Mr. Chambliss from everything I have written since June. Agree on Steny (totally irrelevant side-note, “Steny” is my pet name for my older son, has been since 1985.) I have been a Georgian for only 10 years now, and - unlike Mrs. jbmlaw - I have no interest in going back.

By Say What?

December 2, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

“Have you noticed it is only the leftists who hate anyone?”

Ragnar Danneskjöld does not hate anyone? Ragnar Danneskjöld is filled with tolerance and love? Ragnar Danneskjöld does not actually wish all leftists would abort their progeny to rid the world of leftists as he asserts here weekly? Ragnar Danneskjöld does not hate the Clintons and believes Hillary should receive the same respect and deference he gives to Sarah Palin? Ragnar Danneskjöld does not hate conscientious objectors? Ragnar Danneskjöld does not hate Cindy Sheehan? Ragnar Danneskjöld does not hate Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson? Ragnar Danneskjöld does not hate deep within his bones every day that he actually breathes, assuming he actually does breathe and is not a member of the living un-dead? Who knew?

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this

cindy @ 1:12,

It would be indecent to let stand your comparison of our incumbent President to the second-in-command of Germany’s Third Reich. First, W is neither gay nor fat.

More importantly, perhaps, President Bush will take with him to Crawford, or any other place of his free-born sovereign choosing, more than a few things in which he can — and really, out of duty, should — take pride. It’s a good time to play this bloggy parlor-trick, and I’m guessing that you can’t play at the Grown-Ups’ Table.

Prove me wrong?

By OpinionsMatter

December 2, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

“Among the women interviewed, one theme was constant — an appreciation of her ability to juggle the demands of a family, her duties as governor and a national political campaign.”

You’ve got to be kidding me! Why is Palin on the road when she has two children who desperately need her — a special needs child less than a year old, and a teenager with a child of her own on the way? Only for her self-glory. Most likely, she has people on staff who are handling her youngest, but that’s not typical for most Americans, who have to find expensive daycare solutions or depend on relatives. As the $150K clothing controversy proved so effectively, Palin is NOT “one of us.”

By THE SILENT MAJORITY

December 2, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

SISSY SAXBY’S LAST STAND IS TODAY

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 2, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this

Dear Southern, I missed a portion of your note – Bob Casey is challenging Reid? Had not heard. Steny and Casey would be a marvelous improvement, from a conservative point of view.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

December 2, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this

Dear Say What @ 2:35, right on all counts. We hate the sin, not the sinner. Suppose that concept is outside your cultural acquaintance. Although I admit that sometimes I gleefully imagine putting a glass lining on western Pakistan.

By findog

December 2, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this

Fred @1:27

The distinction is moot? I assume then that Saxby is a scoundrel felon like Stevens in you equations of logic? But you are right your pain would be from a broken pane, bravo…

By Dusty

December 2, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

Glenn 2:19

Are you surfin’Yankee words? Now, we can’t have that. What’s gotten into you??

I am already plenty unpacified after reading the liberal antics here and Bookman’s. (I should know better than to read his errrr..tra…words but I forget and wander over.) I voted for Chambliss with a big grin this morning ‘cause I FELT LIKE IT.

And all the “bright stars” are calling Sarah Palin the usual liberal loser language. As for “loving her down South”, I think it goes a little farther than that. She has a universal appeal that scares those not accustomed to the straight and honest.

Well, you and Ragnar keep this place going. And run off all the rotoresponders here (those from Demo headquarters). Who needs ‘em?

By cindy

December 2, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this

Glenn, No proof on blogs. I am probably considerably older than you though. Spouse of retired US Army NCO, I supported the US military much more than did bush and the boys.

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this

Indian American,

I’d remind you that every Hawaiian is also an Indian, of a kind. And that, as such, Barry Obama is a prince among coconuts…

Ingrate didn’t even bother to campaign in his home state, one of the 57.

By SaveOurRepublic

December 2, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this

Sarah Palin has solid conservative leanings in some areas (RTL, 2nd Amendment defense, utilizing U.S. oil resources), but is Neocon bent in others (Globalist Empire building in the Middle East, pro-Zionist/AIPAC puppet, etc). Plus, she was endorsed by Neocon mainstay Bill Kristol (spawn of Trotskyte Neocon “Founding Father” Irving Kristol).

Jindal also leans heavily Neocon, supporting un-Constitutional legislation such as the (inaptly named) PATRIOT & Military Commissions & REAL ID Acts. Like many Neocons, he’s an Ivy Leaguer with Machiavellian leanings.

No way would I support either Palin or Jindal, as they’d certainly give full allegiance to the Globalist Elite to become “Puppet & Chief”.

By AGTfan

December 2, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this

Glenn When you’ve been able to say that you’re from Georgia for about 50 more years, you’ll be on my level. There have been other times in Georgia past that I find embarassing, such as Lester Maddox. And you are right Saxby’s not the first corrupt politician in the state or even the worst. Still I find it embarassing that Georgia will re-elect him.

Southern Democrat I’ve always considered myself an independent. I also supported McCain in 2000. I agree with a lot you had to say, but how could you include a crook like Herman Tallmadge in alist with the other two? He was never someone a Georgian could be proud of.

By Say What?

December 2, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

Dear Ragnar, if your hatred of an intangible concept looks like hate, smells like hate, sounds like hate, spews like hate, feels like hate, and is otherwise indistinguishable from direct personal hatred of the tangible non-objects of your your confessed hatred, you may just be deluding yourself with a little help from your clergy. As long as you can rationalize it, you’re not committing a great big sin yourself, right? Do you think that duck will fly on Judgment Day? Really?

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

Dear Dusty,

More power to you, Girl! I still loves my Ms. Sarah.

cindy,

you do indeed date back farther than I. And more power to you, too. But why must I begin to name the relatively few virtues of our immediately current C-in-C? Seems like you have more standing than I so to do.

Were “Sir” David Frost alive he’d do the honors, I feel sure…

By KenFromCalifornia

December 2, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this

“presumably inadequate education???

considering her proven inability to construct a formal sentence, i think it’s confirmed that she sashayed through college without opening up too many books.

sarah palin nearly got to the white house without studying. no one should think that she’s now going to hit the books over the next 4 years to prepare.

as long as she has van sustern, hannity, and kristol protecting her, she’s just gonna try to get by on style.

how many national veep candidates in television history were too chicken to get on “meet the press”? dan quayle did tha show. heck, obama went on bill o’reilly, but sarah palin was too scared to do that show, too.

sarah palin is a living, breathing cartoon. but just like foxnews broke the story about her behind-the-scenes antics, you can best believe the republican primary candidates in 2012 will shut her down completely.

republicans are forgiving of people who bring embarrassment to their party? well, just ask dan quayle and katherine harris if that’s true

By @@

December 2, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

Jim, I’m not quite ready for Palin at the top of the ticket.

I voted for Chambliss as a roadblock ONLY, in hopes of avoiding that detour sign pointing leftward in Washington. Being forced to precede my vote with a scathing e-mail warning the candidate is getting old.

Heck! Let’s take the fat residue off the top leaving only the clarified butter. We’ll call the new party The GheeOP — NO FAT….NO WATER! Pure conservative values! Then we’d really be cookin’ with fire.

I’d love to assemble the perfect candidate with the best from the cupboard. A little Jindal, a little Steele, a little Romney, a little Giuliani, a little Pence, a little Gingrich. EVEN A LITTLE PAUL.

Put on your aprons fellas! Time to get creative in the GheeOP kitchen.

By KenFromCalifornia

December 2, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this

“presumably inadequate education???

considering her proven inability to construct a formal sentence, i think it’s confirmed that she sashayed through college without opening up too many books.

sarah palin nearly got to the white house without studying. no one should think that she’s now going to hit the books over the next 4 years to prepare.

as long as she has van sustern, hannity, and kristol protecting her, she’s just gonna try to get by on style.

how many national veep candidates in television history were too chicken to get on “meet the press”? dan quayle did tha show. heck, obama went on bill o’reilly, but sarah palin was too scared to do that show, too.

sarah palin is a living, breathing cartoon. but just like foxnews broke the story about her behind-the-scenes antics, you can best believe the republican primary candidates in 2012 will shut her down completely.

republicans are forgiving of people who bring embarrassment to their party? well, just ask dan quayle and katherine harris if that’s true

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

@@,

With one of your two brains, the diplomatic one and not the pedagogical one, would you please sound intelligent for us, for a minute, on this continuing problem of piracy on the high seas and on what that problem has meant to the U.S. since at least the days of Adams?

Few in the “media” seem to understand how seriously we’ve always taken that particular problem, and I’ve come to wonder whether even my beloved vets remember how serious a threat it is to us, whether hawk or chicken.

OK?

g/H

By findog

December 2, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

Ragnar @2:19 Thanks, but my parents were married when I was conceived.

As for Governor Palin she currently governs a petrol-state. Should the price of crude continue to slide her people will feel the pinch. It is in that crucible that I would judge her worthy of management of the other forty-nine. So far she has been the typical Vice Presidential candidate, except when she disagreed with headquarters on Michigan. Let her give her policy proposals for what ails the southern states (CONUS + Hawaii) and then we can judge her worth for office.

By Southern Democrat

December 2, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

AGTFan @ 3:13,

By way of clarification, Herman Talmadge was a crook and a racist, but he was certainly not boring and he always represented Georgia’s interests economically. I have no love lost for Senator Talmadge, but lament the loss of strong Georgian voices in the Senate. Senator Isaakson does his best, but Senator Chambliss (at least to me) seems completely irrelevant. I just wonder if some of my Republican friends could have a “do-over” in 2002 if they would still vote out Max Cleland.

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

The People of Alaska have judged her fitness for office, findoggy. Good enough for them. Whether she elevates, unless to one of their two Senate seats, is up to us, I agree. Big deal. We shall see. We, the fearsome American People, shall see…

By Curious Observer

December 2, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

Few in the “media” seem to understand how seriously we’ve always taken that particular problem, and I’ve come to wonder whether even my beloved vets remember how serious a threat it is to us, whether hawk or chicken.

It was in memory of the fight against piracy that the last half of the first line of the Marine Corps hymn was penned:

From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli …

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

AGTfan,

You’re quite right, of course.

I stand corrected.

By Jim JR

December 2, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

Run Sarah, SAKS needs the money

By SaveOurRepublic

December 2, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

@@ at 3:23 PM - Good nod to true patriot Dr.Ron Paul. I’ll personally take 70% Ron Paul, 20% Pat Buchanan & 10% Barry Goldwater. My optimal mix would be 40% Jefferson, 15% Andrew Jackson (anti-Central Banks), 5% JFK (anti-Fed) & 40% Ron Paul…who’s Founding Father Material IMO! These modern day Marxist Dems & Machiavellian Neocons have no regard for maintaining/preserving our (quickly fading) Constitutional Republic.

P.S. - Even Eisenhower openly warned us of the Military Industrial Complex/Globalist Elite/NWO!

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

Cheesy, man. Cheesy. What use has Sarah of Saks in the American Arctic?

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

SaveOurRepublic:

Concede Pat’s numbers to Goldwater’s, and let’s talk…

By FM Davis

December 2, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this

Yes, they love her “down South”.

Palin is a woman who thumps her Bible, talks about her God, speaks in half-baked sentences and tells ya’ that she knows what’s good for ya’.

She is like a lot of Southern mothers.

And, some of “they” love her…..”down South”.

By FM Davis

December 2, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this

Yes, they love her “down South”.

Palin is a woman who thumps her Bible, talks about her God, speaks in half-baked sentences and tells ya’ that she knows what’s good for ya’.

She is like a lot of Southern mothers.

And, some of “they” love her…..”down South”.

By @@

December 2, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this

Glenn:

Two brains? You make me sound bi-polar….schizoid. I only have one and it has been taxed of late. I’m trying to keep up with everything going on around the world.

India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China (that one’s really interesting, especially as it relates to being caught in the middle between Indo/Paki tensions) Russia, Venezuela…..

Tomorrow I will return to work and forget all about the outside world and focus only on that which is important to me.

Anyhoo! Am I to assume that you see today’s proliferation of pirates as comparable to those in The Barbary Wars? If I recall history correctly…..history not coming even close to my favorite of subjects, Adams chose to ignore, while Jefferson called for a navy to be built.

One thing’s for certain, if they can’t get a handle on the blackbeards, the price of oil is going up as shipping routes will be the long way around. I haven’t followed it as closely as you obviously, but didn’t somebody blow one bunch of the scoundrels out of the water recently?

Gonna have to get aggressive on the high seas. They ARE an extension of jihad. My understanding is that they keep much of the booty for themselves, but a sufficient amount goes to fund Islam’s holy warriors.

So how does one keep them from boarding the ships? All sorts of proposals have been surfacing. Everyone of them costly, and that cost will be passed on through the price of oil.

Keep it simple, I say. At a time such as this ‘tis better to ask for forgiveness rather than permission.

Know thine enemy…..then shoot to kill.

By @@

December 2, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this

Oooo……Save Our Republic will not be pleased with my strategy to take down the pirates.

Even Eisenhower openly warned us of the Military Industrial Complex/Globalist Elite/NWO!

Unconventional enemies call for unconventional measures.

By Georgia Gal

December 2, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

“Sarah! They love her down South.”

Not this Southerner!

And you know who most of those are that are getting all worked up over her??

Middle Aged Men. Wow … now there’s a shocker. Uh … Not.

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

“Know thine enemy…..then shoot to kill.”

Oh @@, you really should’ve married me, and not Mongo.

But really now, you’ve summed it up, except for the part in which you claim to return tomorrow for those who are important to you, when really it all it is important to you. You stated our case correctly, I believe — as I believed you would do. We can’t have piracy, our nation cannot.

Are we, then, trying to teach other nations our national gospel on piracy? Are we indeed trying to show them its relationship to international terror? Is that what we’re doing? Is that why our Naval Service, our Coast Guard are so conspicuously keeping their powder dry, of late?

It continues to fascinate me — does it you? — that the internationalist Adams was recalcitrant whilst the ostensibly pacifistic Jefferson was not, in the face of such briggands? The latter saw, as perhaps the former did not, that therein lay the undoing of our tentative Republic…

All those in service to the U.S. Navy, to say nothing of the other four sides of the pentagram, are schooled to hate and fight these sea-rats. Why is our Texan, in his remaining days, so reluctant to shoot?

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

…and @@, it ain’t everybody can boast two brains…

By @@

December 2, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

Why is our Texan, in his remaining days, so reluctant to shoot?

Beats me Glenn. Maybe he’s a nicer Texan than I.

Born in San Antonio. Home of the Alamo….REMEMBER?

The Long War Journal has an article dating back to 2005?

Now ‘scuse me while I go to the postal drop.

By Georgia Woman

December 2, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this

Georgia Gal, I can confirm. I’ve watched dozens of middle-aged white married men go all drool-baby on Sarah P. Usually clean cut Republican types — the kind that regularly mistake my willingness to discuss current events with an interest in their sick little fantasies. EWWWW! (It’s your wife’s job to care about that, Skipper. Not mine. Not Governor P’s. No I won’t meet you later, so good luck with Sarah!)

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

Pert dam near funny that, @@. I’m fumma fowart Worth mahse’f.

Had a TN ancestor, name-a Jos. Bayliss, got ‘is-se’f pinned up onna cenotaph there in San Antone onnacounta ‘is allegiance to a TN feller name-a Houston.

Mah mother’s McAllen, too…

See, y’all?

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

Nah PoFo,

Seriously, now. I’ll tell you where I go with Governor Palin, and it’s not where you might think this middle-aged American might be going.

Rather, it’s quite where you, a master stylist, might think I WOULDN’T GO: I love the way she takes hardcore policy-ese, the stupid amoeba-words of a Clinton, and turns them into American plainsong. I really like, really adore, that, in her.

I’m studying it, in fact, as I hope someday soon to teach the art to pre-adolescents in the most endangered, most reprehensible urban schools in this still pretty great country.

All the best, to you and yours,

g

By catlady

December 2, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this

I am a Southerner, but I can truly say those Southerners who like Sarah are either of limited education or those who also like pickin’ ticks off the coon hound, wipin’ their noses on their flannel shirts, and goin’ to revivals all summerlong for the entertainment of watching folks get saved. I don’t think much of her “abilities”.

Take her photo away, and just listen to her words. THEN say you think she is an adequate candidate for anything.

On her being governor of Alaska: Big whoop. Any state with as little ethnic diversity, the benefits of big oil (which the rest of us pay for so the taxes can be redistributed to Alaskans), and the pork and earmarks should be able to run itself. Now, make Sarah the governor of, say, Alabama. Let’s see if she is up to a CHALLENGE. If she could be an adequate governor of Alabama, I would certainly reconsider my disdain for her. I probably still would not vote for her, but at least she would rise above the pad under the rug in my opinion of her.

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this

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By El Jefe

December 2, 2008 5:22 PM | Link to this

catlady ,

I must disagree with you for many reasons, but the main fault I find in your post is your overwhelming ignorance.

I can not stomach a liberal feminazi who hates a woman with a happy marriage, good sex life and who wants and loves her kids.

I guess the self loathing you have for your self and for womanhood in general is a by product of your liberal mindset.

I feel sorry for you and those within your pathetic lifestyle.

By T.J.

December 2, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this

catlady, Check out the backwoods of Vermont, one of the most progressive states in our union, and then tell us what purpose ethnic diversity serves.

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 5:38 PM | Link to this

“…but the main fault I find in your post is your overwhelming ignorance.”

You really ought to, from time to time, give Clemens his due…

By Newsy

December 2, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this

The ‘Somalian pirate mother ship’ blasted out of the water recently by the Indian Navy was, it has been revealed by the Indian Navy itself more recently, just merely a ThaiI (I think) fishing vessel, with no pirates on board.

just keeping the out-of-touch-with-current-news folks more current.

By Glenn

December 2, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this

Amateurs…

By Fred

December 2, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this

Watching Gov. Palin, I can’t shake the feeling that, after the beating she took from the national media, she’d be better off serving out her term (and a second) as Governor and building up some solid track record she could run on later. I saw those ‘embarassing’ interviews and while I know how much damage can be done in the editing room, she still came off as green and over-coached. A few years of solid accomplishments would sure help. She may be charismatic, but dammit, I want more from my politicians. The GOP needs more than their own Obama.

By swolf

December 2, 2008 6:08 PM | Link to this

No “they” don’t love Palin down south. She’s an idiot, a liar, vindictive, and firmly believes hunting from airplanes is ‘good sport.’ She needs to go back to Alaska…and stay there!

By The Way

December 3, 2008 8:15 AM | Link to this

…ostensibly pacifist jefferson….

say it, dont spray it, Buttgeyser. But then if you didn’t spray every time you commented, I guess they wouldn’t aughta be a callin’ ye butt-geyser, now would they a be?

Swillin’, Tellin’, Chillin-n-Gellin here.

Peace out. (OMG, I just thug-rapped).

By AllHogwash

December 3, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this

A Sarah Palin-Bobby Jindal ticket? How about a Bobby Jindal-Sarah Palin ticket? As for Jeb Bush throwing his hat into the ring, I’m not sure if I like that idea and I doubt the Jeb does either. Although I am a registered Republican, I have serious doubts about electing a third Bush to the White House. Big brother George W. made an awful mess of things and it will be a very long time before history sorts out whether he was a hero or just another incompetent President.

Until history judges George W., American voters are not likely to want to allow another Bush to be planted in the Rose Garden. :-)

By anubis54@charter.net

December 3, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

I find Ms. Palin especially disgusting when upon my return home yesterday she had an automated call awaiting. I could only hope she would stay in the tundra. Her philosophy is as cold as her georgraphical region. Anyone fooled by her folky demeanor is delusional. She is more power hungry than Hillary Clinton. She uses her children like pawns on a board to push her agenda. Don’t buy into it.

By Clint

December 3, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

Sarah Palin is a media-wh*re. All she cares about is being on TV. Why do you think she was in all those pageants? Why do you think she started out as a sports caster on her local news? Why do you think she went to NYC to appear on SNL? This woman loves nothing more than to see herself in the limelight. But I guess the simple sheep of the far right are easily lead by someone “just like them.” Someone who shares “their values.” Well my son was not shipped off to the Army because he was a little drug using delinquent who was arrested for vandalism more than once. And my teenage daughter did not get pregnant in high school. But I guess those are the new values of the far right…

By SaveOurRepublic

December 3, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

Glenn @ 4:11 PM (12/02) - While Goldwater was solid in his rejection of “New Deal” socialist policies, his stance against Carter’s pandering to/with Red China, and calling out the CFR/Globalist Elite. However, he leaned too far left on social issues IMO. Buchanan is more of a true (paleo)conservative, whereas Goldwater was more Libertarian.

anubis54@charter.net @ 9:48 AM (12/03) - Most of the sellouts on “Crapitol sHill are “power hungry” & have (not so) hidden agendas. If Palin returns to the GOP POTUS ticket in ‘12, she’d no doubt further embrace the Neocon positions.

By cc

December 3, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

technically you can not truly call yourself a patriot if you want sarah palin anywhere in our government. it would hurt this country, that’s not patriotic. but most people are happily ignorant in georgia and they want ot stay that way. it’s more important to hate someone different than themselves, it’s more important to call all that don’t fall in line a liberal(a witch that needs to be burned at the stake). truth is something to be feared and goodness is just a word to hide behind. now saxby wants to return to the grand days of saint reagan. remember him? the guy that made drug deals(the whole while promoting the ‘just say no’ program) and sold weapons to our enemies in the iran contra fiasco. or the guy that cut and run from our enemies when the going got tough in battle, like lebanon. the guy that negotiated with our enemies, the iranians, for hostage release. all of those things are facts, and oliver north is not a hero, he’s a treasonous traitor. and you know what, the person all the mud is slung on whenever a republican does something bad to cover for themselves instead of accepting responsibility like the real man party they claim to be, that person that didn’t negotiate with our enemies, didn’t sell weapons to our enemies, didn’t say stay away from drugs while helping latin american drug dealers, that person, Carter, did none of those things. but after all the lies and obvious mistakes the republicans have made and the great harm that they have caused America that is plain to for all to see, still the morons vote for saxby. unbelievable. all this from the people who chant so loudly ‘country first’ when actually clear truth is that they support ‘political party first’ and country a distant second.

By Ayn Rand was Right

December 3, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

I find it interesting that the Left is going to give Sarah more popularity and press than any other VP candidate on the losing side in history. Why do you think this is? Anyone?

By Ga is pitiful

December 3, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this

I knew Chambliss would win when the runoff was announced. I did not think he would continue with the same republican diatribe he has been voicing over the last 6 years. It is a very sad commentary to this state that we would elect someone who has done nothing for this state but fall in line with his party. If anything, I was hoping chambliss would feel just a bit of humbling by the powerful election held in November. If he is proud to be a firewall of that which will certainly help our country after the last 8 years, he and everyone who voted for him need not call yourself a patriotic American. This state is the laughing stock of this country because of the backward policies, lack of education, lack of leadership, and an embarrasing lack of political savvy. It is quite embarrasing to think people in this country think of the likes of Gingrinch, Purdue, Chambliss, & Zell as the best this state has to offer. I also blame my own party for not putting someone with half a personality to run against Chmabliss. It will be interesting to see if Chambliss really wants to be the one Senator who stops this country from moving forward. Maybe then, this state will realize what a shambles the republican party has made both our state and our country. The man in his acceptance speech did not offer a conciliatory message for the democrats in this state, he offered another Rove style in your face dribble. This is really a sad stain on Georgia.

By Tom

December 3, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

Yep, your right, no foolin here. We Georgians still vote Republican because Mom & Pop told us to. You know your Boss is a Republican and when you tell him your one he’ll promote you, and then you can have a tax cut because your wealthy. Remember those annual dollar amounts you make don’t matter, because the Republicans are always there for you. Don’t worry that Bush1, Reagan, and Bush2 spent more money than we had, what’s the problem with the three largest deficits since WWII, it’s the American way. So keep it up, vote for us and when things go bad we’ll blame it on the Democrats or anyone else standing near. Remember, we can always elect a Democrat to straighten it out, like FDR, Clinton or all the other balanced budget Democratic Presidents, and once they put it back together, we’ll say they aren’t Conservative enough and the South will vote for us again, since we’ve done so much for them. You know, like the Wars we get involved in. Keeps the towns around the bases busy, and gives our young folks something to do. Just like Sarah, the pinnacle of “Conservativism” said the war we wage is a “task from God”, he spoke to her just like he spoke to George Jr. Remember also, that just because gas prices went up and the oil companies made record profits, only about $300 billion in the last 3 years taken out of the economy, that again is the Conservative values we stand for, big profits for the few. There are so many other good things we have done, but we don’t want to bore you with our greatness, which you already know, we’ll just see you in 2 and 4 more years, and just keep thinking like Mom & Pop. They were all knowing and the world hasn’t changed any since whichever decade works for you. We appreciate your support and remember the richer the rich get, it only helps you.