Darn. I was hoping Georgia freepers finally figured out this guy was never conservative to begin with, especially with his far-left socialist daughter getting help from the likes of Howard Dean. It's little surprise Georgia is more RAT friendly than its neighboring states. I've heard conservative freepers praise Zig Zag, Nunn, Barnes, Maddox, Talmadge, etc., etc. Some seem to actually prefer RATs who vote conservative 20% of the time than "RINOs" who vote conservative 80% of the time.
Post #13 gave the best explanation of why the media convinced everyone we should "respect" Nunn: "For some ungodly reason, Nunn was touted as national defense expert and foreign policy wonk wrt Russia. From what I saw back then, he was just living on a trumped up reputation, like Barack Hussein is now. I think he survived and thrived then because he survived the Herman Talmadge "Bountiful Overcoat" scandals".
Reminds me somewhat of Mark Kirk. Another backstabbing liberal traitor that inexplicably has conservative supporters, because the mainstream continually touts Kirk as some kind of heroic patriotic military man who protects our nation and is wise sage on foreign policy (nevermind that Kirk has voted the wrong way on every major foreign policy issue of the last decade... yeah, Mark, the surge in Iraq will never work... we must withdraw now.. blah blah blah)
Could be worse, I suppose. You still have freepers that admire LIEberman after all these years. Now that's the ultimate stupid thing for conservatives to do.
That RAT-friendly moniker you give us is because Georgia has a large metropolitan black population that pretty much controls all the large urban areas. Transplants from all over the south and a lot from up north.
On a State level, statewide elected officials are all Republican now IIRC. Sure, we suffered under Democrat Governors for over 100 years straight, right up until 2000 when we broke those chains.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Georgia
We finally realized that the old line Democrats who could still manage a state transitioned into the likes of Jimmy Carter and Roy Barnes (a slimy effing weasel if there ever was one).
Even looking back on Zell Miller and while I disliked him immensely at the time, he ran the state well and he wasn't an ideologue out to fulfill the national DNC mantra like so many other governors are now. He may be an old style Democrat, but he is an honorable and honest man.
In retrospect though, yep, Georgia may have been RAT-friendly, but we came to our senses. Large majority R representation in the HOUSE and both SENATORS are R (even if they are backstabbing RINOS which we are going to fix 2016 with Isakson and in 2014 with Chambliss' replacementsd). At least it's more than you can say for some of our other states to the north.