Posted on 11/30/2006 2:39:08 PM PST by LdSentinal
Oh, yeah, the angry guy who blew himself up by wearing his grenades on his belt, who then ran as a disabled veteran rather than just another disabled idiot with self-inflicted wounds/
Did you read the articles from 2002? with Cathy b_tching about Kathy and how she was mooching off the athy Cox name? Rrreeeeow! Cat fight!
I wonder also whether this man ever thought that he got elected to the U.S. Senate without paying his dues through election to lesser offices primarily because of the sympathy vote. Nah. It was his sterling other qualities.
I vaguely recall that. Of course, as they say, tough titty for Cathy with a C.
I wouldn't say that Marshall was "weaker" than Barrow, but Marshall's district was about 10% more Republican than Barrow's, which is why I thought Mac Collins would beat Marshall but Max Burns would fall just a tad short against Barrow.
Marshall's CD is more Republican than GA as a whole, and the rewards of being elected to the Senate are a hell of a lot greater than staying in the House. I think Marshall will run for the Senate in 2008 knowing that, even if he loses, he would have a good chance of winning the governorship in 2010. Sure, Pelosi will try to convince Marshall to stay in the House, but Pelosi sure can't help him win in a 60% Bush CD in a presidential year.
Depending upon how bad it is, if Marshall gets obliterated for Senator, I can't see how they'd want to put him up in 2010 for Governor (after all, they didn't give Denise Majette the first thought of running her against Purdue). Although Lt Gov-elect Casey Cagle is the most likely candidate for us, I'm rather hoping Herman Cain takes a run. I think his management skills are more in tune for Governor than Senator, and that GA and TX (Michael Williams) elect Conservative Black Governors (to offset the disaster that Marxist Deval Patrick will inflict upon the already besieged Taxachusetts).
"Depending upon how bad it is, if Marshall gets obliterated for Senator, I can't see how they'd want to put him up in 2010 for Governor (after all, they didn't give Denise Majette the first thought of running her against Purdue)."
No, I know what you mean. Of course, even with their vaunted Mark Taylor, they only got 38% (800k) for him in a bad year for the GOP (even Majette got 40%- almost 1.3mil votes, 60k more votes than Perdue got in this election - in a good GOP year). Unless Marshall managed to hold Chambliss to under 55%, I hardly see him improving on those numbers.
In 2000, in the old 8th CD (which gave President Bush 57% in 2000), Marshall got 41.5% to entrenched incumbent Chambliss's 58.5%. If in 2008 Chambliss was facing the unknown 2000 Marshall, he'd have nothing to worry about. But after 6 years in the House, and given that Marshall was able to beat Mac Collins in a district that gave President Bush around 60% in 2004, I have to assume that, with a decent ad campaign to boost his name ID, he could get 45% or more in the 2008 Senate election against Chambliss. Chambliss would still be the prohibitive favorite, but it won't be an Isakson-Majette-type landslide.
Me too.
Me three, although Cain's support for Social Security reform and the national FairTax makes him, in my mind, better suited to serve as a U.S. Senator. Maybe Isakson can run for Governor in 2010 and Cain can run for the open Senate seat.
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