Broun wastes no time in Georgia Senate race
Here’s what appeared on my screen when I checked the AJC Political Insider blog a few minutes ago:
That’s not one but two Broun for Senate ads, just two days after the congressman from Athens officially entered the race to replace the retiring Saxby Chambliss. Both ads take you to the typical landing page at which you can sign up for email updates or give money to the campaign. Beyond that, there’s a one-page website set up with what Broun calls his “Four Way Test for all legislation”: Is it constitutional/right/necessary/affordable?
Lest you have to guess which one of these four appears to be most important to Broun, here’s the script from his landing site:
<– “Constitution”
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<– “Constitutionalist”
<– “Constitution”
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<– “Constitutional”
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I guess you could say his campaign has a theme.
It’s a theme that will resonate with a lot of Georgia voters, mind you. But will it be enough of one to move many members of even the state GOP’s very conservative base beyond his past controversial statements?
The question in my mind is how much of a first-mover advantage Broun gets from this, particularly given that one of the other most likely Republican entrants, Congressman Tom Price of Roswell, reportedly feels no pressure to jump into the race soon. It sounds increasingly likely that Congressman Jack Kingston of Savannah is going to run, but the timetable for his announcement also sounds unhurried. Would even several weeks of being the sole announced candidate help Broun in an election that won’t take place for another year and a half? I guess we’ll find out.
P.S. — This post is in no way an endorsement for or against Broun, and the same will be true for the other posts about the Senate race that are sure to follow in the weeks and months to come. I plan to write extensively about this race, as it will be one of the most anticipated ones in Georgia in years, from both a state and national perspective. But I will not be endorsing anyone for some time. When I make an endorsement, that will be clear.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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Michael H. Smith
February 8th, 2013
4:00 pm
The few Christians among the founders of this nation never intended this country to have a single national religion likened unto the Church of England.
Though the majority of the people in this country identify with the Christian faith Conservatives can no more “Christianize” this nation, than the Liberals can “Lionize” Teddy Kennedy in the Senate with a title of “nobility”.
indigo
February 8th, 2013
4:07 pm
Michael H. Smith
I agree its unlikely that Conservatives will ever Christianize our nation.
However, they are a determined lot and will NEVER give up trying.
We can not just ignore them and hope they will go away.
md
February 8th, 2013
4:10 pm
Hmmm……the ultimate arrogance?
http://news.yahoo.com/activists-push-path-citizenship-nothing-less-172128626.html
What’s next, criminals dictate to judges sentencing guidelines?
Amazing……
Michael H. Smith
February 8th, 2013
4:20 pm
I don’t want them to go away indigo and I have less concern to fear them than I have of the so-called Progressives a.k.a. socialist liberal democrats. The Crusades and Inquisition may have been bloody and murderous but they pale to compare with the evils that has taken place under the various Marxist governments.
For the record I identify with the Christian faith and the last thing I want or any other person who is anything close to an actual Christian would want, indigo, is this idea of an anthropological-Theocracy you seem to think the zealots will achieve. You cannot understand why but safe to say, they won’t.
Steve Dunbar
February 8th, 2013
4:23 pm
Price vs. Broun…let the race to the bottom begin.
Do not hold your breath waiting for someone in the State GOP leadership to say both of these
men are wrong for the job and Georgia should be able to do better.
Michael H. Smith
February 8th, 2013
4:25 pm
By electing a democrat?
CC
February 8th, 2013
4:28 pm
The folks worried about the black helicopters now have something new to REALLY cause them concern!
Drones, or whatever else Team Obama decides to use . . .
Now that Team Obama has declared itself legally able to ‘terminate’ American citizens abroad without due process, is it not just a matter of time before it is done on American soil? Will those who express opposition to this administration or the federal government be likely targets?
Body count to be released by the administration at some future time.
Stay tuned . . .
Michael H. Smith
February 8th, 2013
4:30 pm
We’ll see how this thing plays out Kyle. For now I’ll wait to name who[which Republican] I’m backing.
Michael H. Smith
February 8th, 2013
4:35 pm
You mean obama has gone further with his power grab than Bush and his old Patriot Act did.
Bush made obama do it.
Michael H. Smith
February 8th, 2013
4:37 pm
YES THE ABOVE COMMENT @ 4:35 MADE BY ME WAS MEANT SARCASTICALLY
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
February 8th, 2013
4:41 pm
This damn lib is totally insane -
There shall be a ban on motor vehicle travel beginning at 4:00 PM today and continuing until further notice. This travel ban shall not apply to the following: public safety vehicles and public safety workers, including contract personnel, public works vehicles and public works workers, including contract personnel; government officials conducting official business, utility company vehicles and utility workers; healthcare workers who must travel to and from work in order to provide essential health services; news media, travel necessary to maintain and deliver critical private sector services such as energy, fuel supplies and delivery, financial systems and the delivery of critical commodities, travel to support business operations that provide critical services to the public, including gasoline stations, food stores and hardware stores. Given this 8th day of February in the year of our Lord two thousand and thirteen at 12:15PM.
Well, except for the year of our Lord part.
Michael H. Smith
February 8th, 2013
4:44 pm
Supper time is getting close, might be back later.
Hillbilly D
February 8th, 2013
4:44 pm
Yes, Tiberius, I expect you, Centrist and everyone else to pay for a digital subscription if you’re going to use an ad blocker.
By the way, doesn’t the supporting cast in TV shows and movies get paid as well as the producer, director and the star? We’re working mighty cheap here, Kyle.
There should be a ban on posters who go off topic before the first 100 comments are made.
Well that’d be the end of me.
Hillbilly D
February 8th, 2013
4:48 pm
What’s next, criminals dictate to judges sentencing guidelines?
That might not work; I give you Exhibit A….
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/giggling-woman-flips-judge-bird-judge-not-amused-210739814.html
CC
February 8th, 2013
4:59 pm
Hillbilly:
She will have a little time to review and refine her actions . . . or reactions.
Kyle Wingfield
February 8th, 2013
5:03 pm
I don’t know how y’all got on the topic of sodomy, but that’s quite enough — all of you involved in the discussion.
getalife
February 8th, 2013
5:05 pm
” the White House on Friday detailed what it said would be the painful impact on the federal workforce and certain government assistance programs if “large and arbitrary” scheduled government spending cuts are allowed to take place beginning March 1.
They include layoffs or furloughs of “hundreds of thousands” of federal workers, including FBI agents, U.S. prosecutors, food safety inspectors and air traffic controllers, said White House budget officials at a briefing and in a fact sheet that included these examples of what the cuts would mean:
_ About 70,000 young children would be kicked off Head Start, 10,000 teacher jobs would be put at risk and up to 2,100 food safety inspections might have to be canceled.
_Up to 373,000 “seriously mentally ill adults and seriously emotionally disturbed children” would go untreated, up to 1,000 fewer National Science Foundation research grants and effecting some 12,000 scientists and students could be threatened, many small business loans denied, workplace safety inspections curtailed, federally assisted programs like “Meals on Wheels” slashed and 125,000 low-income renters put at risk of losing government-subsidized housing.
_ Approximately 424,000 fewer HIV tests could be conducted by state agencies working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and some 100,000 formerly homeless people, including veterans, would be removed from their current housing and emergency shelter programs.
The White House said the so-called mandatory sequester cuts represent a threat to national security and the economy.
“There is no reason – no reason – for that to happen,” President Barack Obama said Friday” AP
That is what broun wants.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
February 8th, 2013
5:17 pm
cherokee – You stretching out the scriptures of the Bible to condemn our government, who by no stretch of any imagination “help the poor and the needy,” is not going to make me cry, trust me. This government of ours has done more harm to the poor and needy than any good by magnitudes and I’m pretty sure the Lord realizes it.
Since we’re trading Bible verses today, why don’t you go read what Jesus says about harming the children and millstones. If you have any sense at all about you, you really will weep.
Dusty
February 8th, 2013
5:18 pm
Well, the greatest letterwriter of all times wrote this:
“Finally, brethren,whatever is true,whatever is honorable,whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,whatever is gracious, if there is any exellence,if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”
He ended his letter with this: “The grace of the Lord Jesus be with your spirit.”
The writer was St. Paul, of course. His letter to the Philippians as recorded in the Bible.
Good advice if I ever heard it.. Try it. It is free.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
February 8th, 2013
5:19 pm
I didn’t see 5:03 until I got back from reading Ezekiel.
Dusty
February 8th, 2013
5:25 pm
getalife, 5:05
But the good news is that we will be reducing the deficit which now stands above 16 trillion.
The president forgot to mention that.
Ray
February 8th, 2013
5:27 pm
Just like Akin, I am afraid; what other crazy ideas does Broun have rambling around his head? I would not want this man to be my father, teacher, nor even doctor, let alone one of the leaders of my country. If Georgia elects this man, it is proof we are willing to let crazies to run the asylum.
Chamber of Commerce, where are you, when we need you? Broun will hurt our ability to draw new capital, resources and jobs to Georgia. Our key statistics are dismal (graduation rates, mortality, livability (traffic, pollution,education, …) We need a Senator who is not seen as being this ignorant.
Kyle, instead of standing back silent, now, we need you to educate the public, so Georgia picks a brilliant, well balanced leader who wants nothing more than to improve the state we are in. Giving Broun this much coverage, doesn’t help us.
Buzzy
February 8th, 2013
5:35 pm
He is a “constitutionalist”. What that really means is that everyone will interpret the Constitution and any other law just as they please, and what you end up with is anarchy.
I’m sure Broun will make some hard core Republicans happy. As a Democrat, he makes me very, very happy. Even Georgia has it’s limits, and a person like Broun will remind Georgia just what kind of lunatic you’ll find in the Republican Party today.
Dusty
February 8th, 2013
5:51 pm
Ray,
So you want Kyle to direct you to a brilliant and balanced man, the perfect candidate..
There is no perfect candidate. Only humans are available and that rules out perfect.
CC
February 8th, 2013
6:17 pm
The requirements of a U. S. Senator are:
1. be a US citizen for at least nine years when elected to the Senate.
2. be at least 30 years of age.
3. be a resident of the state that the Senator represents.
Hmmm . . .
I wonder if the lastest Carter offering will fit these parameters?
Hillbilly D
February 8th, 2013
6:32 pm
3. be a resident of the state that the Senator represents.
If I’m not mistaken, the definition of that varies by state. It gets even murkier in the House, than the Senate, where some guys don’t live in the district they represent. Personally, (and no I don’t expect it to happen) I’d like to see you have to have a 5 or 6 year residency to run for the post. I don’t think the Framers really envisioned candidates (i.e. career politicians) moving from place to place, just to hold office. That’s not really representing the people, in my view. Hillary moved to NY to be a Senator, Cheney changed his residence to Wyoming to be VP and on and on.
CC
February 8th, 2013
6:40 pm
Hillbilly:
I agree. Wasn’t RFK also a NY Senator? It can also be said that the voters who elect a non-resident as Senator get what they deserve!
Hillbilly D
February 8th, 2013
6:45 pm
CC
I believe he was. Both sides have done it quite a bit. I can’t even remember all the guys who have had their district Gerrymandered and moved to another district so they could get re-elected/continue their career. Truth is, most of the Congress really lives in the DC area, for all practical purposes. The Framer’s idea of the “Citizen Legislator” died, long, long ago.
CC
February 8th, 2013
6:46 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EUzMPlQb2G4
CC
February 8th, 2013
6:49 pm
“The Framer’s idea of the “Citizen Legislator” died, long, long ago.”
That is the biggest shame. It was NEVER intended that we have “career politicians”, and we are the worse for being cursed with them now.
Rafe Hollister preparing for an Obamanist America
February 8th, 2013
7:47 pm
getalife
Barry suggested the sequester,, so at this late date, to try and bargain over cuts already agreed to is deceitful. We need cuts, he agreed to these, and now to back track is deceptive and not good faith bargaining.
The government always overstates the magnitude of the cuts by at least 3 or 4 times. The first thing they always trot is, women, children, and minorities hardest hit. Bull! Just like Panetta saying they can’t maintain 2 aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf. We have dozens of carriers, if not more, where are the others cruising and why can’t we move one of those. Because no one would care if we pulled the carrier out of the North Atlantic, so he uses the Persian Gulf as the one to be pulled in. Bull again!
Cry me a river over the cuts! We got by with much less money in 2008, than we will be spending this year even with the cuts. Did women, children, and minorities die on the street from hunger and cold? Bull3!
Rafe Hollister preparing for an Obamanist America
February 8th, 2013
7:57 pm
Are the sidewalks rolled up?
Rafe Hollister preparing for an Obamanist America
February 8th, 2013
8:01 pm
Guess not, my previous disappeared.
Hillbilly
I agree with your five year residence rule. It is not like each district or state does not have enough of our own homegrown scound rels that want to run for office. We are not in need of any new ones.
Hillbilly D
February 8th, 2013
8:07 pm
Rafe
There’s a newer thread up. It’s pretty slow, too.
The next Republican in the Senate race? Probably not Tom Price | Kyle Wingfield
February 11th, 2013
12:37 pm
[...] Now, that’s not to say Tom Price, who represents Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, won’t run in next year’s election to replace the retiring Saxby Chambliss. But unless no one else gets in the race during the next three months, Price won’t be the next candidate to jump in. (Paul Broun was the first.) [...]