Thinking Right

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

January 12, 2009 8:26 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. Mr. Oxendine is the only potential gubernatorial candidate whom I have ruled out – he seemingly thinks government contributes value to the world, rather than merely draining capital. If the vote were today, I would vote for Ms. Handel, for no better reason than her name suggests solid and clever oratorios. Mr. Cagle may be ok, and my vote is up for grabs. Mr. Isakson has been a RINO in DC, so I see little prospect for improvement as governor. If someone from the private sector determined to run, he/she would likely get my vote if he/she has the slightest suggestion of competence.

By Redneck Convert

January 12, 2009 8:31 AM | Link to this

Well, I don’t care for none of the people Wooten mentioned. Too librul for me. This Richardson is liable to go off and start shooting somebody and Cagle ain’t worth much except for wringing chickens necks. And I don’t know of a single thing this Oxendine or Isaakson have done since they been elected, except for drawing a salary.

I say let’s talk Joe the Plumber or Sarah Palin into moving to GA and running for guvner. Those are two people that would really bring in the redneck vote and there’s still time for them to buy a house or rent a trailer and get all legal to run in GA.

It’s just my opinion but it’s very true. Have a good day everybody.

By Mid-South Philosopher

January 12, 2009 8:32 AM | Link to this

Good morning, Jim

The 47th Annual “Wild Hog Supper” was its traditional “scream”.

That is what you have to do with each other to carry on a conversation!

I had another commitment so I had to arrive and leave early. The regular Who’s Who of the political world in Georgia were there including a number of potential gubernatorial hopefuls. An assortment of lobbyists, special interests, and “characters” (like me) were in attendance.

The food, as always, was good…whether it was the “sissy” barbeque or the real “wild hog.” Tommy Irvin, and the agriculture interests always do a “class act” job of hosting this event. Several of us…myself included…gathered around the food “trough” and made “pigs” out of ourselves.

Today, (Monday, Jan. 12) the “hogs” will begin to gather around another sort of “trough”….the state budget. I fear the menu at that “trough” will make Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers choices look like a feast!

By DB, Gwinnettian

January 12, 2009 8:36 AM | Link to this

“If the Democratic Party comedian is eventually given the U.S. Senate seat from Minnesota”

Given? Huh. Funny, I could have sworn that bestselling author and radio host Al Franken fought tooth and nail to win that Senate seat, and that a bipartisan review board had certified his victory.

Sounds like someone’s in pretty serious denial here.

By Jim Wooten

January 12, 2009 8:50 AM | Link to this

Mid-South, thanks for the update. Glad to see you’re still performing your duties there.

By findog

January 12, 2009 8:55 AM | Link to this

Dear Jim,

Karen Handel of the picture ID fame gets it hands down. John is an ambulance chaser without the ad on the back of the yellow pages; just to darn strange even for Georgia. Casey is the ultimate finger to the wind, damn the needs of Georgia if it’s not my idea politician. I still remember his glassy-eyed victory speech over Ralph, I’m sorry but God alone does not do that to you…

By Analchord

January 12, 2009 8:58 AM | Link to this

Wooten pretends to denounce a finger to the wind Republican. He dreams of a low tax visionary. Small Government for Wooten. He’s not dreaming, he’s hallucinating.

Wooten’s finger friendly incubus could not exist in any known political arena today. That’s the thing about finger to the wind republicans: At least you know where the finger is.

Midsouth’s saucy metaphors. Ragnar’s dry bones ribbings. Convert’s suspicious cousins. Oh, dont write with feud in your mouths, boys, pig’s kin sunday is all about ball control.

Good job, conservatives. You’re now as tight as a Roethlisberger spiral. You’ve divorced yourself from reality and alimony is optional. (so is your credibility).

By ron

January 12, 2009 9:03 AM | Link to this

Good morning,Please excuse me if I don’t get “All Hog Wild”over another election just yet.Or even think about one.I like to take a year off between elections,or in the case of this one;about a year and 6 months.Just maybe some nice independent will toss his/her hat in the ring.Some non-politician with a business background that knows how to keep a bottom line.Someone who’s hands have never been sullied at the Wild Hog supper.

By Howard

January 12, 2009 9:07 AM | Link to this

Jim…concerning Al Franken…he stole that seat pure and simple and the gutless GOP in that God-forsaken state of Minnesota allowed him to get away with it. The GOP needs to remember if an election is close, it gives Democrats a chance to cheat, which they did big-time in this one. As for the people in Minnesota, what do you expect from such a group of morons?? They elected a pro wrestler as their governor!!!

By DB, Gwinnettian

January 12, 2009 9:12 AM | Link to this

“Isakson may recognize that a couple of terms as governor would be more fun.”

While I don’t claim any great insider-y knowledge of GA politics, what I’ve seen of the man in person and as a legislator indicates that he’s a fairly pragmatic opportunist, and so yep, it wouldn’t be at all shocking if he decided to make a run for it.

By Road Scholar

January 12, 2009 9:18 AM | Link to this

“Low tax, small Government” Isn’t that what the Repubs always pledge, and then… Government and its operating expenses should meet the needs of the people. Ya know, healthcare, transportation, public safety, and education should be our focus this session (leave out the guns, abortion, etc) and focus on what we need. They should start by disallowing ALL earmarks in this years budget…no ifs and’s or buts. NONE!

In transportation any action they are talking about still would need legislation passed in 2010, and then implementation. Get something going NOW. And don’t focus on GRIP. Let the planners select the right projects; not the politicians. And don’t focus on PPI’s and bonds. That is partially why we are in the mess we are in. No PPI is cost effective now, esp in today’s financial climate. The transportation facilities will not just appear magically; they must be paid for. Our future depends on them.

By DB, Gwinnettian

January 12, 2009 9:19 AM | Link to this

Howard @ 9.07, please cite specific examples of “cheating” in the MN recount.

I may not have followed the process as closely as some, but from what I did see, the canvassing board’s review of ballots was about as transparent as any I’ve ever seen.

What would you do differently to ensure a fairer review?

By Analchord

January 12, 2009 9:19 AM | Link to this

Dont embarrass yourself like Enron, again, ron. Incompetence like that is bad for everybody. Try jogging. (your memory has no legs).

Howard, it’s either Al Franken or Dane Cook. Your comment would have been clever…. If you had written it six months ago. Take your nine traitors on our supreme court who annointed bush in 2000 and go to a far away place where no american would ever go, but where you are finally welcome.

Our constitution’s very viability may rest on wheter we prosecute the Bush administration en toto. (and their little dog too).

By Analchord

January 12, 2009 9:35 AM | Link to this

When you compare the football in flight during a pass thrown by Eli Manning to the Steeler’s Q, it’s a sobering experience.

I thought Eli was a god, but he’s still just a gangly pup. It’s going to take a long time for me to get over the entire playoff round robin thing. First the falcons. then eli. then the hated cards get theirs and I dont feel better?

I hate the cards. I wanted them to lose. Why dont i feel better?

Oh, you conservatives shoulda cheered for eli harder.

I hate the cards.

By mm

January 12, 2009 9:38 AM | Link to this

Don’t you wingnuts just hate it when every vote gets counted?

By Curious Observer

January 12, 2009 9:49 AM | Link to this

If the Democratic Party comedian is eventually given the U.S. Senate seat from Minnesota, Majority Leader Harry Reid will control a Senate that’s within a single lukewarm Republican of being filibuster-proof. Republicans, then, are spectators.

Better a professed clown than a butt-smooching, corrupt, me-too Republican. Franken will be in the Senate while Coleman undergoes trial. Now the latter, who once urged Franken to concede for the good of the state, is going all out to put the state to the most expense possible.

As best I can see, the recount was totally transparent, its results certified even by two Republican judges serving on the recount panel. Franken wasn’t “given” anything. Maybe somebody ought to look into those county voting boards that ruled valid ballots invalid.

By Ga Values

January 12, 2009 9:53 AM | Link to this

So far it looks like I’ll be voting Democrat. The Republicans who have announced are simply not up to the job. It’s hard to tell where Johnny the Socialist will do the most damage, probably as Governor.

For those of you who wasted your vote on Saxby Chambliss he will be the 60th vote for Reid & the Lobbyist.

By DB, Gwinnettian

January 12, 2009 9:55 AM | Link to this

Curious, I really don’t have a problem with Coleman challenging the results of the canvassing board; that’s his right and he’s due his day in court.

Of course it’s easy for me to say that since from everything I’ve read, he’s likely got a snowball’s chance in hell of winning.

Still, if it gets appealed all the way to the SCOTUS… nah, they wouldn’t dare. Not again. Would they?

By Peter

January 12, 2009 9:57 AM | Link to this

Hey Jim……..This is pretty funny stuff………

For me, I’d like a low-tax, small-government visionary who’s willing to experiment on service-delivery alternatives. No finger-to-the-wind Republicans for me, thanks.

What about the Pork Jim ?

Do we need more fish Farms, and do you want to continue to cut education until Georgia is the worst educated State in the country…….

You should be proud of that as a Republican !

Not much more to go until that happens !

Heck the Republican’s cut funding for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and then spent $500 K on dishes…… Gets you realizing the real Priorities Republican’s have….no matter who’s money they want to spend !

By findog

January 12, 2009 10:41 AM | Link to this

I was at a meeting in a DOT District office with a group including former Gwinnett County Commission Chair Wayne Hill. As one of the principals was late we ventured into transportation funding problems. After the meeting Wayne shared this, government in Georgia has been funded by growth for far too long. Someone is going to have to take the sane path and just lay it out to Georgians this is what it will take for these services. That would mean taxes to keep things just where they are and even more taxes if you want things like improved traffic. I know many will say there is plenty to cut to make things work. If there were you would have thought that by now our GOP dominated state government would have gotten it done…

Transportation will not get fixed because the state Democrats have double-dog dared the Republicans to raise taxes; therefore, it isn’t going to happen.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

January 12, 2009 10:45 AM | Link to this

I ran across a great quote, written in 1776, that explains my antipathy for Mr. Oxendine: “No regulation of commerce can increase the quantity of industry in any society…. It can only divert a part of it into a direction into which it might not otherwise have gone.”

Dear mm @ 9:38, including a couple hundred that get run twice (all Franken?), and those areas where rejected absentee ballots allow votes in excess of 100% of the registered voters. Democrats in action, even if people are not voting.

Dear Peter @ 9:57, we would agree than only leftists think the Federal government should pay salaries to run Boys and Girls Clubs. And you surely do not intentionally deceive on the dishes do you? Paid for by private funds, weren’t they, not taxpayer dollars?

By DB, Gwinnettian

January 12, 2009 10:53 AM | Link to this

Ragnar, provide a cite for your assertion that votes were “run twice.”

By Peter

January 12, 2009 11:07 AM | Link to this

No doubt By Ragnar Danneskjöld …..Republican’s are more worried about raping the American Treasury for a few rich folks !

REPUBLICAN’S a selfish breed !

By Falcon

January 12, 2009 11:41 AM | Link to this

I want the Cards to win the whole darn thing. It will help salve my wounds until training camp.

By ron

January 12, 2009 11:57 AM | Link to this

Dear analchord @ 9:19—— I was thinking specifically of an Independent Governor that I voted for years ago in a state where I used to live.In the end he sent me a sizable check explaining that was the portion of my taxes he didn’t need to run the state government.He was a businessman,not a politician,and he balanced the state budget with funds left over.He returned those fuunds to the taxpayer.Scary,huh?

By Beowulf

January 12, 2009 11:57 AM | Link to this

Draft Herman Cain for Governor 2010!

By Maniac is accurate

January 12, 2009 12:17 PM | Link to this

Maybe Phil Bredesen can be persuaded to move to Georgia after his second term is up in Tennessee. I’ve been around a lot of politicians through the years and he is the only one who rarely (in fact, just once and just barely) set off my BS-ometer.

By FringeLunaticsAlive InGa

January 12, 2009 12:20 PM | Link to this

Jeeze Beowulf! I bet you were on that Ron Paul bandwagon too.

By AmVet

January 12, 2009 12:24 PM | Link to this

The question is which of the three, or whether any of them, excite? Why or why not?

For non-Republicans all three are pretty exciting. In the same way GWB has been. The dodos of the neocon ideology.

The Old White Guy Party is sure in a helluva mess, isn’t it?

Good. Even though they deserve much worse than they will get.

And Franken’s election will be good for one thing at least. Watching Bill O’Lielly choke on his already festering tongue.

01-20-09 The End of an Error

By Maniac is accurate

January 12, 2009 12:27 PM | Link to this

Or, perhaps Lawton Chiles’ remains can be relocated to Georgia. He would have as much impact as Sonny Puredoo and wouldn’t require an outrageous just-for-me tax break.

By ron

January 12, 2009 12:28 PM | Link to this

Dear Ragnar——-Another nice quote.—The production of goods provides the means to the producers to purchase what is produced & hence demand will grow as supply grows.

By Dusty

January 12, 2009 12:30 PM | Link to this

Is my computer sick??

By One Voice

January 12, 2009 12:32 PM | Link to this

Jim,

One thing you are not is a visionary. LOL.

By AmVet

January 12, 2009 12:38 PM | Link to this

Perhaps we’re all being too hard on the Large One.

After all, he has done lots of really great stuff here in the Moron Belt.

Like helping the traitors get their flag back and ensuring the demon whiskey, like prostitution, is not allowed on the Christian day of rest.

Now, if like the Iranians, we could just get rid of that light in the loafer crowd.

By Four Score

January 12, 2009 12:57 PM | Link to this

Here’s a shock: Obama’s “climate czsar” is a hard left socialist. I can’t wait to see how this man-made climate BS will tank our economy for real…not that it needs any help. Coal companies paying heavy fees passed on to the consumer (newflash - wind & solar cannot replace coal large scale as an energy source - only nuclear can); heavy excise penalties for companies that sell SUVs & non-work related pickup trucks; big oil punished with carbon taxes; natural gas companies punished for drilling; companies big and small that don’t suck up to the fascist winds of carbon credits and obedience will be heavily penalized; ditto for homeowners who dare to use a gas or charcoal grill outside and light a natural fire inside. Oh boy it’s going to be such a good time! OBEY.

Until last week, Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama’s pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for “global governance” and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change.

By Thursday, Mrs. Browner’s name and biography had been removed from Socialist International’s Web page, though a photo of her speaking June 30 to the group’s congress in Greece was still available. -Why?

By @@

January 12, 2009 12:58 PM | Link to this

The question is which of the three, or whether any of them, excite?

None of the aforementioned, Jim unless it’s the carcass of “the pig” (today’s politician).

Why or why not?

Bone meal. It’s recyclable.

I’m in for Herman Caine though. Having Herman manage the state’s business would give me a “pizza-mine”(d).

By Analchord

January 12, 2009 1:00 PM | Link to this

The problem with Wooten’s piece is that it’s a lie. The Capitalists, the Conservatives, and the Repudlickans have turned our system into socialism. They did it, not we.

Capitalism is the best disguised tyranny in the world. The Conservatives have surrendered to the Marxists, if only to invent a new last refuge: socialism.

Religion and Patriotism R Famous last refuges. Who woulda ever thunk that socialism would ever become a last refuge for capitalists?

Wooten and his ilk have ruined government. Let them hide behind the red flag. Let them be.

We have a country to save, and a world to convince.

Obama 09. Democracy’s last great chance.

By Analchord

January 12, 2009 1:13 PM | Link to this

Osama sent a new video message to the English Language Al Jezeera. I happen to have a translation:

“Good evening Ladies, Gentlemen, AND germs. I just flew in from Kabul, and boy, are my wife’s arms tired. My arms are tired too, not from flying, but from beating my wife during the flight! I had to beat her. She would not believe that it was not me who put the anthrax in her douchebags. I did not do it. Why wont she believe me? I think I’m right in beating her, can I get an Amen? D’oh! Anyway, I was thinking that maybe it’s not such a good idea to use WMDs anymore especially not biological weapons. Why not? Because last night my wife contracted the inhalation form of PMS! That’s why. It was terrible. I had to beat her again!

You know, I really miss the good old days when I was anonymous. I could go anywhere. Even New York City. Even Broadway and see a play. Speaking of that, I am almost finished deciphering all the coded messages I noticed in the “Vagina Monologue”.

Well I hear the B-52’s overhead, and they aint singing “Love Shack”, baby. Peace out.

d’oh.

By Beowulf

January 12, 2009 1:17 PM | Link to this

Draft Herman Cain for Governor 2010!

By Mike

January 12, 2009 1:50 PM | Link to this

Ox needs to hire a real staff like Cagle and Handel did and fire those Bob Barr leftovers.

By Hillbilly Deluxe

January 12, 2009 2:02 PM | Link to this

No politician excites me; most anger me or at best annoy. Casey Cagle is a banker. Haven’t bankers done us enough damage already?

By CommunistAJC

January 12, 2009 2:03 PM | Link to this

A MUST READ:

‘Atlas Shrugged’: From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years.

By STEPHEN MOORE WSJ

Some years ago when I worked at the libertarian Cato Institute, we used to label any new hire who had not yet read “Atlas Shrugged” a “virgin.” Being conversant in Ayn Rand’s classic novel about the economic carnage caused by big government run amok was practically a job requirement. If only “Atlas” were required reading for every member of Congress and political appointee in the Obama administration. I’m confident that we’d get out of the current financial mess a lot faster.

Many of us who know Rand’s work have noticed that with each passing week, and with each successive bailout plan and economic-stimulus scheme out of Washington, our current politicians are committing the very acts of economic lunacy that “Atlas Shrugged” parodied in 1957, when this 1,000-page novel was first published and became an instant hit.

Rand, who had come to America from Soviet Russia with striking insights into totalitarianism and the destructiveness of socialism, was already a celebrity. The left, naturally, hated her. But as recently as 1991, a survey by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club found that readers rated “Atlas” as the second-most influential book in their lives, behind only the Bible.

For the uninitiated, the moral of the story is simply this: Politicians invariably respond to crises — that in most cases they themselves created — by spawning new government programs, laws and regulations. These, in turn, generate more havoc and poverty, which inspires the politicians to create more programs … and the downward spiral repeats itself until the productive sectors of the economy collapse under the collective weight of taxes and other burdens imposed in the name of fairness, equality and do-goodism.

In the book, these relentless wealth redistributionists and their programs are disparaged as “the looters and their laws.” Every new act of government futility and stupidity carries with it a benevolent-sounding title. These include the “Anti-Greed Act” to redistribute income (sounds like Charlie Rangel’s promises soak-the-rich tax bill) and the “Equalization of Opportunity Act” to prevent people from starting more than one business (to give other people a chance). My personal favorite, the “Anti Dog-Eat-Dog Act,” aims to restrict cut-throat competition between firms and thus slow the wave of business bankruptcies. Why didn’t Hank Paulson think of that?

These acts and edicts sound farcical, yes, but no more so than the actual events in Washington, circa 2008. We already have been served up the $700 billion “Emergency Economic Stabilization Act” and the “Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act.” Now that Barack Obama is in town, he will soon sign into law with great urgency the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan.” This latest Hail Mary pass will increase the federal budget (which has already expanded by $1.5 trillion in eight years under George Bush) by an additional $1 trillion — in roughly his first 100 days in office.

The current economic strategy is right out of “Atlas Shrugged”: The more incompetent you are in business, the more handouts the politicians will bestow on you. That’s the justification for the $2 trillion of subsidies doled out already to keep afloat distressed insurance companies, banks, Wall Street investment houses, and auto companies — while standing next in line for their share of the booty are real-estate developers, the steel industry, chemical companies, airlines, ethanol producers, construction firms and even catfish farmers. With each successive bailout to “calm the markets,” another trillion of national wealth is subsequently lost. Yet, as “Atlas” grimly foretold, we now treat the incompetent who wreck their companies as victims, while those resourceful business owners who manage to make a profit are portrayed as recipients of illegitimate “windfalls.”

When Rand was writing in the 1950s, one of the pillars of American industrial might was the railroads. In her novel the railroad owner, Dagny Taggart, an enterprising industrialist, has a FedEx-like vision for expansion and first-rate service by rail. But she is continuously badgered, cajoled, taxed, ruled and regulated — always in the public interest — into bankruptcy. Sound far-fetched? On the day I sat down to write this ode to “Atlas,” a Wall Street Journal headline blared: “Rail Shippers Ask Congress to Regulate Freight Prices.”

In one chapter of the book, an entrepreneur invents a new miracle metal — stronger but lighter than steel. The government immediately appropriates the invention in “the public good.” The politicians demand that the metal inventor come to Washington and sign over ownership of his invention or lose everything.

The scene is eerily similar to an event late last year when six bank presidents were summoned by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to Washington, and then shuttled into a conference room and told, in effect, that they could not leave until they collectively signed a document handing over percentages of their future profits to the government. The Treasury folks insisted that this shakedown, too, was all in “the public interest.”

Ultimately, “Atlas Shrugged” is a celebration of the entrepreneur, the risk taker and the cultivator of wealth through human intellect. Critics dismissed the novel as simple-minded, and even some of Rand’s political admirers complained that she lacked compassion. Yet one pertinent warning resounds throughout the book: When profits and wealth and creativity are denigrated in society, they start to disappear — leaving everyone the poorer.

One memorable moment in “Atlas” occurs near the very end, when the economy has been rendered comatose by all the great economic minds in Washington. Finally, and out of desperation, the politicians come to the heroic businessman John Galt (who has resisted their assault on capitalism) and beg him to help them get the economy back on track. The discussion sounds much like what would happen today:

Galt: “You want me to be Economic Dictator?”

Mr. Thompson: “Yes!”

“And you’ll obey any order I give?”

“Implicitly!”

“Then start by abolishing all income taxes.”

“Oh no!” screamed Mr. Thompson, leaping to his feet. “We couldn’t do that … How would we pay government employees?”

“Fire your government employees.”

“Oh, no!”

Abolishing the income tax. Now that really would be a genuine economic stimulus. But Mr. Obama and the Democrats in Washington want to do the opposite: to raise the income tax “for purposes of fairness” as Barack Obama puts it.

David Kelley, the president of the Atlas Society, which is dedicated to promoting Rand’s ideas, explains that “the older the book gets, the more timely its message.” He tells me that there are plans to make “Atlas Shrugged” into a major motion picture — it is the only classic novel of recent decades that was never made into a movie. “We don’t need to make a movie out of the book,” Mr. Kelley jokes. “We are living it right now.”

By @@

January 12, 2009 2:54 PM | Link to this

You’d be hard pressed to find a “hollow-woody” type to turn Ayn’s book into a movie. Besides that, it’s liberals who are enthralled by the “hollow-woodys”.

I can just hear their response at the movie’s conclusion….

Yo!…… check out the caboose on that train!!!

Idiots!

By ron

January 12, 2009 3:08 PM | Link to this

The Sunday sale issue is back.Time to trot out all the time honored phrases of doom to prevent additional sin.Time to organize the Evangelicals.Time for all good church going people to rant and rave against the evils of alcohool.Time for Sonny to zip his lip and accept the additional taxes that will be garnered.

By Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen

January 12, 2009 3:17 PM | Link to this

No, Dusty, you’re computer is not sick. That’s not snot. Your hubby has been using the computer to look at porn again. Ewwww!

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

January 12, 2009 4:07 PM | Link to this

Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen, did you once own a Georgia-type drinking cap that fell into the possession of a Mr. Eugene Krabbs?

By joewhit

January 12, 2009 4:08 PM | Link to this

I’d personally like to see Cathy Cox, our former Secretary of State, jump in the race. She’d have my support in a heartbeat. We don’t need four more years of Sonny Perdue…a la Casey Cagle and it looks like that is where we are headed.

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

January 12, 2009 4:26 PM | Link to this

Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen, are you a goofy goober?

By JLK

January 12, 2009 4:27 PM | Link to this

Cathy Cox would make a terrific governor! As Secretary of State, she impressed with her common-sense solutions and practical management of important, if unglorified, duties. That she lives in a state still dominated by good ‘ol boy politics is a real shame. The people of Georgia — those who bother to vote anyway — vote against their own interests year after year in the name of silly traditions and so-called ideals that mean little in the 21st century. We’ll see it yet again when the Sunday booze fight heats up… again.

By Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen

January 12, 2009 5:03 PM | Link to this

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but a Krabby Patty is the finest sandwich in the sea.

By Margaret

January 12, 2009 5:28 PM | Link to this

Michael Thurmond is the person in our State who I would like to see be our Governor. He has a tremendous track record in public service. He has proven his ability to work with people irregardless of their political affiliation. He’s smart, young, well-educated, compassionate, futuristic, and diplomatic. His commitment to work for a better Georgia has never waivered.

By Margaret

January 12, 2009 5:30 PM | Link to this

Michael Thurmond is the person in our State who I would like to see be our Governor. He has a tremendous track record in public service. He has proven his ability to work with people irregardless of their political affiliation. He’s smart, young, well-educated, compassionate, futuristic, and diplomatic. His commitment to work for a better Georgia has never waivered.

By John Allen

January 12, 2009 5:39 PM | Link to this

Karen Handel has trouble successfully doing the job of Secretary of State…why in the world would you want to vote for her for Governor.

By AmVet

January 12, 2009 5:59 PM | Link to this

Let’s see…Ronnie’s dead.

McCarthy’s dead.

Oh I got it!

Margaret Thatcher!

She may look like a prude, but you know that bird could party.

Then we’d could buy Beefeaters on Sunday…

By gafarmer

January 12, 2009 6:17 PM | Link to this

Jlk is correct CATHY Cox would make a great guv. So would Isakson or Cagle. Ditch the rest.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

January 13, 2009 8:20 AM | Link to this

Like friend Dusty, I had trouble posting yesterday after lunch. As Al Franken was the sub rosa topic yesterday, I can think of one positive element of his potential election – he belies any suggestion that the leftists are elitists.

Dear Peter @ 11:07, only a leftist would describe conservatives’s objection to leftist theft as “rape.”

Friends Beowulf @ 11:57 and @@ @ 12:58 have it right, Herman would be a good choice.

Dear ron @ 12:28, agree in full. If I ever had doubts, Sowell persuaded me in the book I read a couple of weeks ago (Classical Economics.)

Dear Communist @ 2:06, agree, great article, saw that in last Friday’s WSJ, and I had to send a copy to my son. In today’s WSJ he contributes to the annual Index of Economic Freedom. The leftists’s top 15 residences-of-choice:

By Old Skool Radioman

January 13, 2009 8:33 AM | Link to this

What GA needs is a GUBNOR who does NOT take the GOP approach, LMAO!!! Maybe that would explain why GA has a $2B budget shortfall. Now you nitwits are saying the ultimate dumb thing by wanting Sarah Failin and Joe “I AM NOT A PLUMBER BUT A WAR CORRESPONDENT” The Dumber to consider runing for office in GA. Guess that EXPLAINS the $2B shortfall.

Maybe Roy Barnes or the Big Guy, mark Taylor will make a come back.

By DawgsStink

January 13, 2009 8:51 AM | Link to this

oxenswine is a blueLightNeoNazi wannabe, abusing the use of his state car to flashing blue lights at other citizens to ease his personal commute. Never, ever vote for NeoNazi wannbe swine…He would try to impose a police state on Ga in the blink of an eye..imho…

By ron

January 13, 2009 9:02 AM | Link to this

Good morning,The GOP says no to any more bailout money.This will set the tone for the 111th.You’re right,Jim,observers.

Bernanke says that now we have to buy the toxic assets from the banks.This is above and beyond the $700 billion.These are all the mistakes they made.Some of these toxic assets are indescribable and not understood by their owners.They don’t even know what they purchased.

I was in a friend’s house yesterday and observed Ann Coulter on tv.I don’t recommend doing this.

By DawgsStink

January 13, 2009 9:08 AM | Link to this

ron - looks like obama is gonna bailout dead beat homeowners via cramdowns…and stiff the banks. I will never, ever hire or do business with anyone who has declared bankruptcy, you cannot trust them.

By CJ

January 13, 2009 9:24 AM | Link to this

Karen Handel was a royal B during last November’s election, essentially washing her hands of any voter issues. She acted like she didn’t want to be bothered. I can only imagine how reclusive, elusive, and uninvolved she would be as Governor.

By downtown guy

January 13, 2009 9:52 AM | Link to this

Are you serious?? Karen “I didn’t Bother Getting a College Degree” Handel for governor? She has hopefully reached the end of the road politically. But you have to admit that she’s turned her gig as a secretary to Dan Quayle’s wife into a pretty decent political run. Maybe now that she’s running for the top job, everyone will finally she her for the empty skirt, I mean suit, that she is

By ron

January 13, 2009 10:20 AM | Link to this

Several questions.Did Wooten survive this mess?Is this the real Blog?What in hell happened to the AJC?

By DawgsStink

January 13, 2009 10:20 AM | Link to this

ron - looks like obama is gonna bailout dead beat homeowners via cramdowns…and stiff the banks. I will never, ever hire or do business with anyone who has declared bankruptcy, you cannot trust them.