Posted on 07/23/2014 8:16:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
‘I do have problems with the term limits crowd.’
The Permanent Political Class is what has gotten the country in the disastrous shape it’s in today. The solution is not to send the architects of the catastrophe back to DC to fix their own mess. Insanity is doing the same thing & expecting different results. To get different results, the Permanent Political Class must be electorally decimated.
Grow up. This has nothing to do with job preservation. It has to do with policy. Purdue is opposed to tossing Dodd-Frank. He is a member of a long-time Georgia political family. He's a corporate executive when I've had just about enough of crony capitalism. From the article I linked above:
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The problem with the Republican [Party] says [sic] well wait a minute if you talk to anyone on the other side that means youre giving up your principles, Perdue continued at that same forum.
you’re correct. The establishment carpet bombed the good candidates in the primary, and then their guy ended up losing to Perdue, who I can definitely see going down against Nunn.
I won’t argue with you on that. However, we now have time to forcibly shape him into someone who won’t surrender the ship before Hussein leaves office in two years.
Coupled with the fact that I KNOW what Kingston is/was, I’m going to make the best of a bad situation and start calling for immutable pledges from him no equivocations) about amnesty, the budget/debt, new spending, IRS/FBI/CIA/NSA/DHS/TSA et al investigations, ObamaCare and the rest of Obama’s Executive Order treachery.
Beyond that, there is nothing else to do BUT vote for Michelle Martin (I refuse the connection with her father because she’s not earned it in any sense), and that is something I simply will not do.
Oh you mean like Madison? Like Jefferson? Like Jesse Helms?
Grow up. There are good representatives and bad. Our job is to make the distinctions based upon performance and not just tenure.
A perfectly legitimate distinction.
” I’m also seeing signs that Purdue might be a stealth RINO, but I just don’t know.”
Really?
I would like specific examples of his “RINO” activities, please.
Term limits are one thing - but 22 years in office is not enough for you?
That didn’t really work out with David Jolly, who has gone full RINO
Fits the pattern.
Karl Rove is gearing up to lose another election cycle
See post 22.
Second Generation Nunn
‘Perdue, who I can definitely see going down against Nunn.’
As of the most recent poll, Perdue fared better against Nunn than did Kingston. Nunn was hoping to run as an outsider against a 22 yr incumbent, upon whom she could pile all the worst problems DC has created. Now that venue is cut off for her. If either of the GOP runoff candidates has a good chance against Nunn, it’s Perdue.
It became clear to me last night when I looked county by county and saw Perdue taking conservative mountain counties like Habersham and Rabun that the GA GOP voters were just voting for somebody new. Anybody new. That is how Perdue won and why. I hope I’m wrong but I fully expect Perdue to vote lockstep with Mitch McConnell and the GOP senate leadership.
So you equate the instance of David Jolly with a potential revolution against GOPe forces here in Georgia? So what, a Florida politician campaigns as conservative and then goes full-RINO. Exactly how is that different from the full-RINO he defeated? Same difference, except there was a 50/50 chance the other way instead of 100/0 with the loser.
As one who once was a lifelong so-called Republican, I’ve gone full-conservative, scorched-earth as a matter of fact. I’m going to vote against Isakson, my own congressman, and any other RINO traitor I find in our ranks here. Any entrenched GOP politician here is on my suspect list. If a new one like Perdue joins them, then he’s on my do not vote list too. Frankly, I don’t hold much hope for him once he gets elected, but there is hope - just hope.
Name one serious problem the country has faced for the last 22 yrs that DC has done a good job of fixing.
Look, I did not like Kingston. The man ran as an unabashed RINO. Karen Handel would have been my choice. I had a lot less doubt about her
I saw it and it doesn’t make the point.
Name me the viable Republican politicians you know of that have said, publicly, that they, in no way, will speak to or work with the opposition Party?
I know that Jack didn’t. Ted Cruz hasn’t. Rand Paul has said the same thing. Ronald Reagan said it.
I need actual RINO activities; not off-the-cuff statements from an article during a campaign to promise “not to be a Partisan nut bag.”
I agree on the anybody new theme. But realistically, what makes you think that Kingston would not have also voted lock-step with McConnell and the GOP Senate Leadership? And please don’t try to tell me about “conservative ratings” organizations - they are worthless.
Looks pretty conservative to me.
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