[backhoe]

It's just that on all my issues there is not very much difference between the pubs and the dems. Gun control, government spending, illegal immigration - I don't see the pubs doing much conservative on these fronts.

Sadly, I agree with you. I voted for Sonny as a protest vote- never thinking he had a prayer of unseating a sitting Governor- but obviously, Barnes had offended enough voting blocks to get the boot, despite all the influence-peddling he indulged in. The joke down here- six hours away from the fever swamps of Hot-lanta, was "Roy Barnes? Why, he's the best Governor money can buy..."

While not as blatantly corrupt, Sonny seems to have no problem spending everybody else's money. My tagline is from a true story--

[from occupied ga]

In his early political career Barnes wasn't a total jerk. He just decided that it was to his best personal advantage to become one, and worked overtime to be exactly what the black democrats and the Urinal/Constipation wanted as the ideal politician.