Posted on 08/02/2010 8:39:16 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule
The local Republican-oriented strategy firm of Landmark Communications is out this afternoon with the first polls in the Republican runoffs for governor and attorney general. In the governor’s race, former secretary of state Karen Handel has a nine-point lead over former congressman Nathan Deal, 45.8 percent to 37.1 percent. Undecideds were measured at 17.1 percent.
Actually there were many primary debates and she participated in many of them. Certainly the one before the primary and the one last sunday. I think she stated why she was not participating in the debates that featured the one candidate I’m sure you know about.
Personally I am not really all that jazzed up about any of these three people. Also, some people on FR have said that Johnson endorsed Deal. Also all Johnson (who I was impressed with in the debate I saw) did was click the “like” button for Deal on his FB page (using that logic I guess I endorse Blondie). Hardly an endorsement. For me Deal reminds me too much of Huckabee. He seems like that southern baptist preacher who might be saying all the right things but there just something about him that seems a little shady.
But there is nothing genuine about Karen Handel, who is a puff of crusading-but-mysterious hope and change with little history to go on. Ducking the big televised debate just because Ray McBerry was there seems a wee bit contrived to me, and conveyed an Obama-esque sense of superiority and entitlement. Handel's sole trick is to slander her opponents.
In the end, I'll rely on Nathan Deal's stellar voting record, the solid backing of his long-term constituents, and the word of Lynn Westmoreland, my Congressman.
This was in reference to Deal..not Huckabee.
Yeah, I know what you said, and acknowledged your intent. I just pointed out that Huckabee actually USED TO BE what you perceived Deal to resemble. But Deal’s actual track record in government is much better than Huckabee’s post-pastoral career, which resulted in the virtual destruction of the Arkansas GOP.
If this poll was amongst metro atl voters...IMO the results are skewed.
The vast majority of folks on Georgia Outdoor News message board, 80% of which live outside metro atl, have chosen Deal. There were a fair share of Handel voters until the attack flyer.
AnAmericanMother, whose word to me is gospel, has posted about Deal’s character, and is in a position to know.
Appreciate your confidence - but the only gospel is the Gospel! :-D
I've got some good friends (and my boss also) who are from Hall County, and they like Deal very much. He represented the most conservative district in GA for a long time and did a good job.
All this ethics stuff seems to be a tempest in a teapot, especially when you find out the source of it is a Soros-funded left wing outfit. If the NRA refuses to endorse Handel, that's just icing on the cake.
BTW, Barnes was given an A rating by NRA because he's o.k. on gun rights (you can't be anything else in GA). He's just rotten on just about everything else.
That's the way I feel, too. I don't like the negative campaigning that Handel has done, and I think that Deal has a more difficult ethics investigation to overcome than some of his supporters (here and elsewhere) seem to appreciate. I don't think Georgia will be well-served by either of these two.
I don't know if Deal’s business dealings rise to the “scandal” level, but it's a fact that his company had a no-bid contract with the state that was and is very lucrative to him and his company. This may in the end be above-board but I know from personal experience that no-bid state contracts usually receive many levels of close scrutiny within Georgia government.
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