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Roy Barnes: ‘I’d be a Bull Moose or Whig — if they had a party’

9:31 am September 24, 2009, by jgalloway

Don’t look for Roy Barnes to emphasize his Democratic label in next year’s 2010 contest for governor.

The Gwinnett Post noted this tall talk from the former governor on Wednesday, in a county where he attracted just over a third of the vote in 2002:

“This is not an election about Democrats and Republicans as it was last time,” he said. (Perdue’s win made him the first Republican since Reconstruction to move into the governor’s mansion.) “It’s about leadership or no leadership. We’ve got to get this ox out of the ditch.”

Barnes is the most high-profile among a large field of Democrats, which includes Attorney General Thurbert Baker. Republicans vying for the office include Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, who lives in Duluth, Secretary of State Karen Handel and Congressman Nathan Deal, among others.

To the crowd of community and business leaders, Barnes said he would focus on three issues as governor: water, education and transportation. But he also talked about politics under the Gold Dome.

“I’m fed up with both the Democrats and the Republicans,” he said. “I’d be a Bull Moose or a Whig if they still had a party.”

He said he would be able to work with the Legislature, even if it remains in Republican control.

“I believe I’d have a lot better relationship with a Republican legislature than Gov. Perdue does,” he said. “What we do is, we need to focus on common problems.”

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MoreInformedThanRoy

September 24th, 2009
10:28 am

There IS a Whig Party. http://www.modernwhig.org
Maybe Roy should go help them get ballot access in Georgia considering it’s harder to get on a ballot here than some post-soviet nations…

Keith

September 24th, 2009
10:36 am

King Roy is just trying to distance himself from Obama.

Cyle

September 24th, 2009
10:41 am

Then go Roy – there is a Whig Party – go join it now and leave the Democratic Party for REAL DEMOCRATS!
http://www.modernwhig.org/

Uncle Jessie

September 24th, 2009
10:51 am

Roy missed you at the Red Neck Games in East Dublin, Daisy Dukes had a few questions fer ya. Come on down to Possum Hollow in Dexter this weekend an catch up wit the Good Ole Boys. Might let a Bull Moose on stage to sing fer the folks.

CJKatl

September 24th, 2009
11:39 am

If Roy isn’t a Dem, he shouldn’t run in the Dem primary. It says so much about his idea or truth that he openly has no problem stating he has no conviction in his actions. We voted this say-one-thing but do-another out of office once before. How could anyone consider electing him again? He illustrates everything that is wrong with politicians with that statement.

Zell didn’t think he was a Dem anymore, so he left the party. Spector didn’t think he was aligned with the Reps anymore, so he left the party. While many objected to their doing this while in office, Barnes ain’t in office! He is asking to be the face of the party in GA but going out of his way to point out he’s not part of it. Contradict, much, Roy?

It’s not like anyone is forcing Roy to stay and do something that violates his sense of right and wrong. The fact that he is doing it to be elected Governor is sad for him, the party and the people of Georgia.

As much as I dislike Ox, if it comes down between a poor choice of Roy or Ox, I’ll have to vote for Ox. We already know Roy is inept. There is at least an outside chance that Ox might be a passable Governor.

CJKatl

September 24th, 2009
11:41 am

How can you both disagree with people and ask them to let you represent them? Why would anyone want a person who disagrees with them making political decisions? Does Roy not think people realize that’s what he’s saying?

CJKatl

September 24th, 2009
11:44 am

Sorry for the triple post, but why doesn’t Roy just change his campaign slogan for the primary to “I am Better Than You” and be done with it.

The name “King Roy” didn’t come from nowhere. The Royal One seems to be showing his true colors.

one correction, CJKatl

September 24th, 2009
12:08 pm

While you are correct in saying that Sen. Arlen Specter left the Republican Party and became a Democrat, Gov./Sen. Zell Miller never joined the Republican Party and is still a Democrat.

CJKatl

September 24th, 2009
2:46 pm

By gosh, you are correct. He spoke at their convention but never actually made the switch.

TANSTAAFL

September 24th, 2009
4:56 pm

Greetings All,

Well the payphone is ringing off the hook over here at the Secret Underground Libertarian Command Center (LCC) with the news that good ol’ King Roy is shopping for a new political party and quotes from various and sundry waterproofing companies. Fortunately we already have a stellar candidate for the 2010 Governor’s race, John Monds will be the standard bearer for the Georgia LP following our convention next year.

The guys and gals at the LCC have high hopes for the upcoming cycle and we think it’s possible that the public’s general disgust with the Republican/Democrat Duopoly might lead to Mr. Monds breaking the 20% vote barrier and freeing the Georgia LP from the chains of our Georgia’s 1943 Jim Crow Ballot access laws. In the meantime we’ll microwave some popcorn and see if this story has any real legs while we devise clever posters for the impending Governors race run-off.

One last note, the Georgia LP is the only recognized “Political Body” in Georgia and will make every effort to field a full slate of candidates for statewide office to support Mr. Monds historic run for the Governorship in 2010. That means a Libertarian Insurance Commissioner, Secretary of State, Agriculture Commissioner, Attorney General and all the rest voicing the need for Smaller Government, Lower Taxes and More Freedom!

Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis

September 25th, 2009
5:50 am

Barnes would be a “Whig” if the Whig Party to which he refers is the one from 1834-1856: for it was Rome’s anti-Masonic “Fifth Column” flying false colors using only the name of the party which broke from electoral politics in 1776 to conspire (”breath together”) to create in covenant with Almighty G-d, Annuit Coeptis, at Philadelphia, The United States of America’s “New Secular Order” in opposition to the Old Sectarian Order’s caesaropapism – Ancien Régime (Old Order) of king and pope – for E Pluribus Unum Equal Justice Under the Law, by G-d.

Freemasons, Radical Protestants and Jews built America.

“Whig,” from whiggamore, means “anti-Roman Catholic.”

Radical Protestants, Freemasons and Jews all know why it was the name of the party which founded American Exceptionalism – the de facto opposite of Fascism, the political economic manifestation of Rome.

The Fasces, pinned to the front wall of the U.S. House by the Roman Catholic victors of the Civil War, is the eternal symbol of the “Eternal City,” the Risen Babylon – that city “on seven hills”"which ruleth over the kings of the earth.”

Rome, the historic socio-economic geopolitical entity identified by America’s Author, Founder, and Prophet, Thomas Jefferson, as “the real Anti-Christ,”"an engine for enslaving mankind,” has been working to overturn the American Revolution ever since, through assassinations since Meriwether Lewis, intrigue, bribery, false war, illegal combine, monopoly, debasement of the currency, pedophilia, rape, and more recently illegal immigration and its bloc on the Supreme Court’s, alone, voting into office Hitler’s banker’s draft-dodging closet-queen grandson (whose father assassinated President Kennedy and Dr. King) to commit 9/11 to steal Iraqi oil, restart the Afghan heroin trade, shore up the polygamous “royal family” of Saudi Arabia, and most significantly, press down the sovereign People on behalf of a witting false elite fascist plutocracy.

The 93 percent of American Blacks who aren’t Roman Catholic/”Republican” wanting to “live in the Big House with Massa,” know this.

Rome, Italy, was “The Wall Street of global slavery” for over 2,000 years. The same families, in Roman Catholic Europe, with the same family crests, yet live in the same castles, on the same hills they’ve occupied for two and three thousand years.

Knights of Malta, Skull & Bones, and Union League/”Whig” Party/GOP are only some of the flags under which the Anti-Christ operates.

Roy Barnes’ millions were corruptly gained by him as an agent of the unconstitutional fiat-money, fractional banking Ponzi Scheme known as the Federal Reserve Bank – which JFK’s Executive Order 11,110 ended – now being sustained by the Wall Street Bailout foisted off on President Obama, under threat, by Bush.

Barnes is owned by Rome. In only that sense is he a “Whig:” as a lie, no-man, and a draft-dodging traitor to the ideals and Spirit of Our Nation.

Look at him. Let us use the eyes G-d gave each of us, to know the Truth.

If Max Cleland can’t be drafted for the governorship and true democrats can’t come up with a righteous man or woman to help us help President Obama in Our Greatest State of Georgia, Jeff Chapman appears to be a great and good alternative.

Death for Treason that The People prosper in Freedom and Truth, with Justice for All

A Georiga Whig Party member

September 25th, 2009
9:28 am

First off, what the heck is Will Jones talking about? I read his ramblings and though he used “big words” he totally mis-interpreted his definition of Whig and Whiggamore not to mention everything else…The word Whig does come from Whiggamore but Whiggamore was a term given to a group of scottish protestents who rebelled during the 1600’s. The term was used as an insult from the King’s loyalists to brand a group of legislatures who opposed King George’s growing power. It eventually traveled the Atlantic during the Revolutionary war to become a term of patriotism in America where the King’s loyalists named Tories labeled rebellion forces as Whigs. Anti-Catholic has nothing to do with the term. Your nuts anyway but I just wanted to make that one point.

Second off, The Georgia Modern Whig Party http://www.gawhigs.org would not be a good fit for Roy, though I appreciate the free press. Georgian Whigs believe that the major cancer in our politics is political parties and their structure. Roy is an expert at the two things we despise the most, partisanism, and the spoil system. I don’t mean any disrespect to Roy, he is a former gov, but he is great at what we don’t wish to be good at.

Check us out at http://www.gawhigs.org

Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis

September 25th, 2009
11:50 am

Read Macaulay’s History of England, or Halleck(sp?). Steal the name, Change the “game,” eh “whig?”

That “group of Scottish Protestents” believed it against G-d, correctly, to support the Roman Catholic monarchs of Britain, “Einstein.”

To Samuel Kercheval
Monticello, January 19, 1810
SIR, — Yours of the 7th instant has been duly received, with the pamphlet inclosed, for which I return you my thanks. Nothing can be more exactly and seriously true than what is there stated; that but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandising their oppressors in Church and State; that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man, has been adulterated and sophisticated by artificial constructions, into a mere contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves; that rational men not being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down their throats, they raise the hue and cry of infidelity, while themselves are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ.

Traitors, and all other Fascists, out of America, NOW!

Bobby Anthony

September 25th, 2009
4:38 pm

Let Roy become a Bull Moose. TR lost that election just like Roy will do. History repeats itself.