Posted on 11/10/2006 12:11:15 PM PST by dangus
Meet George "Sonny" Purdue, the most popular major-state Republican governor in America. In a year of devestating losses, he handily beat his Democratic challenger by a 3-to-2 margin.
Gov. Purdue is a vet in two ways: He is a former Air Force Captain and a Doctor of Veterinary medicine. With his wife, Mary, he is a father of four children, and foster parent of eight. He was also a University of Georgia walk-on quarterback, and will appear as a coach in the movie, "We Are Marshall"
Since his election in 2002, Georgia has improved from 50th in the nation on SAT scores to 46th. He pushed through the many of the nation's strongest state laws against illegal immigration. He has reformed state inventory practices, returned educational authority to local levels, and managed a growing economy.
Unlike many popular Republican governors, Gov. Purdue hasn't kept his approval ratings high by appeasing Democrats. According to Survey USA, while enjoying sky-high approval ratings among Conservatives and Moderates (78% and 59%), liberal voters have expressed strong disregard for him (34% approval). Contrast that to similarly popular Gov. Dave Heineman (R-NE), who is approved of by 73% of Conservatives, and 55% of liberals. Many more moderate Republicans learned the hard way that liberals will vote Democrat, even if they don't hate the Republican.
Never mind the fact that he looks like Ed Asner. Here's your real conservative.
Also forget about John McCain. In 2000, he was visibly incapable of the rigors of a primary fight. Eight years later, at age 72, he will be far older than even Ronald Reagan, the oldest American president ever, was when Reagan was first elected.
Purdue/Pawlenty 2008.
Interesting.
Anyone but McLame. Heck, if we're nominating 70-somethings, my vote is for Norman Schwrzkopf.
Sorry Schwarzkopf.
Will Purdue promise "two chickens in every pot"?
Hail, hail to Old Purdue!
Boiler Bump
That's true. Hate to say it, but a candidate has to be TV ready. He needs to lose weight and work out hard. (Given his military/sports background, it should be plenty easy.)
Perdue couldn't be president. It would be one scandal after another as it was determined he was flying Air Force One around for kicks.
(Moses, not Heston.)
Perdue/Barbour 2008
I still want Rudy on the ticket(even if he is in the Veep slot) he is a great campaigner and people like him.
Georgia governor president---a really unfortunate sequence
as is: Arkansas governor president (for Huckabee fans)
George "Sonny" Purdue
a little gym work,
a little nip tuck,
a little hair club
and TA DA!!!
ya get Meester Photogenic!
Agreed. If we nominate Purdue, we will once again be the minority party.
Georgia's make up for getting it really really really screwed up with carter?
I DON'T WANT TO BE LOCKED INTO McCAIN OR RUDY!!!
Let's see some other people before we get to that point, shall we?
Just what we need.
Methusala 2008!
Sonny doesn't look like Asner at all. Purdue can smile and laugh at himself. Asner is such a hate filled A$$hole, he is not capable of smiling nor laughing at himself.
Going with good governors is better than going with a Senator, who has never had real executive experience.
I don't know that he would be interested, but I wouldn't mind seeing General Tommy Franks throw his hat in the ring.
I'm not sure that I'd be putting that on a bumper sticker.
He's building a campaign juggernaut.
No, we are to never mind that Sonny lied to get elected. I'd vote for a Massachusetts Mormon (or wherever that yank's from) before I'd cast a vote for Sonny Purdue. Not that I'd vote for either one of them but definitely not Purdue
How about Haley Barbour, governor of Mississippi?
He's a human being, not a phlegm wad.
Will Purdue the former Purdue Boilermaker and Chicago Bull is running for president?
The American public wants a movie star - they want a President who will entertain them like Billy Boy Clinton. They respect neither competence or authority. Sad but true IMHO.
John Kerry/Herman Munster
Hillary Clinton/Satan
Bill Richardson/Horatio Sanz
Snow/Hume ticket??
Yes. Missippi's electoral votes are at risk, we need to shore them up. lol.
Barbour/Pawlenty does sound good to me, though.
Forty-sixth? Ahead of Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama and ....?
I like his smile.
Oh my God, hell no. As a person who as lived in Georgia his whole life, I can tell you I know Sonny Perdue's type. A democrat. Sonny Perdue is a democrat, and only stopped being a democrat when it became no longer cool to be one in Georgia. He was a democrat until 1998. He signed tax increases, smoking bans and is the only Georgia governor to ever have ethics complaints filed against him. He has shady land deals that will really come out if he runs for president. His ads were exactly the same as Mark Taylor's this past campaign.
On my "Sonny-do-list" is telling conservatives that Sonny Perdue is acceptable, and that is all, acceptable.
damn!! that's good!
Yup! Sonny said we would be able to change our flag back to old one then when he got elected pulled it off the table.
I would vote for Barbour. I like Sonny Perdue and Haley Barbour a lot, it would be good if one or both ran either as VP also.
Bump
The last thing Repubicans need in 2008 is a southerner at the top of the ticket. We had no problem electing Republicans to federal, state, and local offices here in Texas. We need a candidate that will appeal to voters in other parts of the country. I like Dick Cheney, but he was a poor political choice for Vice-President. If W had chosen Tom Ridge, we could have won Pennsylvania in 2000 and 2004.
"I don't know that he would be interested, but I wouldn't mind seeing General Tommy Franks throw his hat in the ring."
Obscure trivia: Franks went to Robert E. Lee high school with Laura Bush here in Midland.
He'd be a great CIC, but he has no talent for politics.
I live in Georgia and I like Sonny and am proud to have him as our governor. But, I think he comes across as to much of a good ole boy to be the nominee. I think we will have to go up North for the nominee. We are really starting to win the South and lose the north. That is not a good position for us. politics is not ideological it is cultural. we can have a good conservative from up North and get along jut as good. But, I think we are starting to carry to much baggage from being a southern party.
I guess Kerry and Clinton were T.V. ready. Come on every governor and can't be as cute as Rick Perry.
I don't get the governor, senator or representative thing. Why does that matter? Who votes on that?
No.
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