A new Roy Barnes’ TV ad: Nathan Deal is ‘slippery as a bag of snakes’

I like this ad…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9BrGf1MgeA

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A Hee Haw style commercial. Should work well in Georgia.

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I’m not quite as bad as my friend Bernie Madoff!

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Junior Samples is dead. This will have to do.

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This is funny coming from Democrats. Its the same way those snakes passed Obamacare with backalley deals and complete lies regarding the cost to the American people. How about the backroom deals they made with Louisiana, Nebraska, and so many other snakes. Suddenly they are concerned with truth and ethics. What a crock!! Why doesn’t someone bring up the truth about how much Obamacare will cost taxpayers and the rationing of our healthcare. Wake up and check it out for yourselves. Hold Democrats accountable for passing Healthcare Reform for your childrens and grandchildren’s sake. Democrats calling anyone a snake is a JOKE!!!!!

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Did anyone notice the entire motif of the ad is a poke at the RGA paid ads running against Barnes — 2 white guys, talking over coffee, talking about how things were under Barnes? Let politifacts check the statements of the two sets of good ole boys and see who is more truthful. Better yet, let’s have these guys engage in tag team wrasslin — that will raise the tenor of this election!

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hey gaindependent2010, I resemble that remark. SNAKE

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Gainindependent2010 — so, why is it that the Republican Ethics Commission does not have a single recording of any meeting during 2007?

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Deal-dependent2010, There’s still hope. Maybe you can get a good job with Casey Cagle if he doesn’t get indicted.

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—–Hey, Roybama Barnes—Do you know how many contributors $onny Perdue appointed to judgships and other posts in state government? More than you could shake a stick at. But I guess it’s okay when a Republican Governor does it.

It must really hurt you tio know tghat your candidatem Nathan Deal, is being shown fior what he really is. A snake. Roybama Barnes, you’re a sucker. Youi vote for snakles.

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Up here in Hall we call Cagle, Deal, Mills, Schofield, Oliver and their other cronies the Hall County Mafia.

Seems like the rest of the state is starting to understand why.

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Deal me in boys, we can shake down this state like Bernie Madoff.

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Folks I have to agree that Nathan Deal has problems, shoot he might be a little dishonest, but if you think about it how many Honest politicians have you ever heard from. I doubt Deal would steal more than his fair share. Consider King Roy “don’t call me Obama” Barnes. He was rumored to be even more dishonest than Gov. Purdue, which is really bad. King Roy never saw a tax he didn’t favor, a road to be built by his cronies, or taking money from teachers to help his buddies, all are rumored to be true. Now you have to ask yourself why a man who spent 20 Million dollars to be defeated last time is spending 15 million more now. The Barnes family has as much money as any family in GA, he has a very rich law practice, yet he can not stand that the people of Georgia didn’t want a King 8 years ago, and they don’t want one today. If you don’t like Nathan Deal or Roy Barnes just hold your nose and vote for Deal. I expect him to cost the people of Georgia less, and he is the lesser of two evils.

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When is Nathan Deal going to reveal his full tax records and schedules?

What else is he hiding?

How does a man on 115k a year qualify for 5 million of loans?

Why does someone millions in debt quit a paying job in congress in the middle of the night?

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@UGA75 … The lessor of evils in John Monds not a Corrupt Washington Relic like Deal.

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—-gaindependent2010—What does your hatred for Pelosi and Obama have to do with the election here in Georgia? You’re no visionary, I’m sure. You may suffer from halucinations, but not from visions.

It’s going to be nice to have Roy Barnes back in the Governor’s Office again. We know we’ll get more from him than the “Go Fish” program $onny gave us. We certainly know he’ll give us more than Deal would have given us. Deal would be spending most of his time figuring out who he could shakedown for cash.

I think Barnes’s new ad is just what’s needed. They do a satirical attack on that stupid, lie-filled ad by the RGA on Deal’s behalf. The RGA could run an ad right now telling us that Nathan Deal can walk on water and heal the blind; however, he has tanked. He’s finished.

As each day passes, more and more stuff will surface about Deal. He can’t seem to get all the bad news out at one time. It’s the Chinese water torture. Each day will bring one bad headline after another. Because the chickens are coming home to roost on the career of a man who has tried to enrich himself at our expense. He and we deserve this because we settled for an “R” next to a name rather than for “H” for “honesty.”

You must be so proud of your candidate, Deal.

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I will also add that I will never vote for Newt if he chooses to run for president I will stay home first. I have no faith in his endorsements again since he is the reason that we are stuck with Deal. I have expressed my frustration with the GOP. I voted for Handel in the runoff and I was hoping that she would pull it out for the Republicans. I dont like the baggage that comes with Deal but I will vote for him because its the only way I can express my frustration with the Democrats that control every house in our government. I voted for Zell Miller for governor in the past and I voted for Gore in 2000. But after Obama and Pelosi’s disregard of what the majority of the American people want regarding the healthcare bill I will never trust Democrats ever again.

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It seriously frightens me that any of you actually have the right to vote. The fact that any of you believe any thing that’s in either these campaigns is very disturbing. All I know from Roy Barnes’ campaign is that he is not Nathan Deal. With Deal, at least he campaigns on the issues. Its unfortunate that Deal has had so many setbacks recently, but I guarantee that any single one of us would be very reluctant to open our financial records over the last 3 years to the public. So he made a bad investment??? In that case, anyone with a 401k should be ineligible for office for the same reasons. The dems sound like an echo of Barnes’ campaign, tools that they are. Can we get someone who will actually address the pressing issues that Georgia is facing?

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Deal voted for Medicare D, the biggest social spending program in 40 years against GOP principles. He got nominated anyway.

GOP principles say government works best closest to the people. Deal voted for taking local control away and sending it to Washington DC with No Chuld Left Behind.

Deal voted to gut financial controls, allowing Wall Street fraudsters to loot the life savings of most Americans.

The # 1 problem facing America is job losses to other countries. Deal voted for NAFTA.

Do Deal supporters HATE AMERICA?

It seems that way.

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Gain independent 2010, For as Obama healtchare tell the sick child who has been denied insurance, because of pre existence that you are against her living a full life. You tea bag klansman, will be the first one in line trying to get healtcare.
It easy to down healthcare untill someone in your family get sick and were layed off and have large amount of health bills.

Sean Hannity make 35 million so the three time college drop out care less about sickly and dying people who can not afford healcare, you conservertives and tea bag klansman are a buch of bigots especially in Hick ville Georgia

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TE @ 11:16
Worried that Barnes might not stroke your north avenue ego enough to the detriment of the rest of the state’s university system?

UGA75 @11:43
Last honest politician was Carter, and we all saw how that turned out

GA-Indy @noon
To remain the slightest bit honest here I must publicly admit that Sarah Palin was right with her endorsement of Handle for Georgia.

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There’s no way I could support Nathan Deal. I’m voting for John Monds – http://www.VoteMonds.com – the guy that the AJC hasn’t even added beside the other two on the Georgia Elections News page. They did publish a great article about him this past weekend… but why not add his name beside the others on the page? Hrmm…

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Deal-dependant2010 can’t answer–she went to visit her Medicare-paid doctor, who will write Medicare-paid prescriptions. Then she’ll be shopping with her Social Security check.

Spending all that taxpayer money takes time, y’know. It’s a shame she can’t spend her whole day complaining about Obama and big government.

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For all of the NODeal voters…..Would you even dare to let this man run YOUR household finances????? Are you stupid enought to let this IDIOT get his hands on Georgia’s STATE BUDGET???!!!!!!

GET REAL!!! NO DEAL!!!!

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Currently, I have several people in my family now battling breast cancer, prostate and lung cancer. So the healthcare bill is very important to me since I face these problems on a daily basis. One person in my family has insurance to help her with her surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation expenses for her battle with breast cancer. I have seen the toll very close up and personal. I know the toll it takes on people and their families and the pain they endure with this battle. I also have one family member that does not have healthcare so we do everything we can to help. I have stated I have no problem with paying more taxes to help people without insurance. I have lost many close family members to cancer so I know the pain they have gone through on a first hand basis. But it is not fair for the government to decide who lives and who dies. People should be able to keep their insurance. Democrats want everyone to have no choice but the public option which is were we will end up. Vote for whoever you want but as a mother I do not think the government should make life and death decisions for others.

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@gaindependent2010 I am sorry that I accused you of being a Deal staffer. If you are serious about having a Real Republican party, the only choice is John Monds. Corrupt Deal is the sum total of what is wrong with the RINO party. It is actually an insult to the RINO party but he got the nomination by the support of those legislators who were afraid of a Honest Woman like Karen Handel.

Send the RINO leaders a message vote MONDS.

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Watch what happens if the US Justice Dept indicts Deal. The partisans will say it’s part of a Democrat-inspired conspiracy. And everytime you here about the George Soros group who listed Deal among a group of the most corrupt in Congress, they fail to mention that there were 8 Democrats listed along with 7 Republicans. (By the way, the list of Democrats has been updated to include Francine Waters and Chaley Rangle). I guess that means that Democrat-led conspirators were willing to name more than their own just to get to these innocent, misunderstood Republicans.

WAKE UP, FOOLS ! Your heroes are crooks.

Hey, delaindependent2010, td, UGA75, Matt D and all the rest of you blind partisans…why don’t you answer Aqualgirl’s questions @ 12:06 PM???????? Can’t answer them, right?

Do you support The Republican votes for Medicare D-Prescription Drug program — the vote where there was no money appropriated to pay for it… Or how about the billions of dollars spent to finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan??? Those expenditures were also unfunded and not carried on the budget books. Votes for those expenditures were taken when the Republicans had control of Congress and the Whitehouse. What about thiose votes? Were they okay?

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Retired Solduer needs to go back to school. How about the votes on funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Where was the money appropriated for those expenses? As a Retired Soldier, you should know about these things.

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—-gaindependent2010—Because of all the concern raised by Republicans, the Public Option component of the Healthcare Bill was REMOVED before final passage.

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If Deal were to ‘get in’ (notice I didn’t say ‘get elected’, since the only way that crook can win is if ‘the fix is in, again’), then come 2014 – assuming he didn’t step down and hand it over to ‘the other chicken-man, Cagle – they’ll have to rewrite the history books. The piece will be entitled, ‘Only once before have so few stolen so much from so many’…Uncle Marvin’s got to be spinning with the thought of this guy going after the record…and Deal doesn’t even have a brother named Cheney to do the deed, he’ll do it all himself, thank you.

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Yo’ Daddy, I expect no answer beside crickets chirping—or outright falsehoods, like the one from Retired Soldier. The fallback position is simply start yammering unrelated nonsense. It’s the Republican way.

These people need cult deprogramming.

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RS, you’re welcome. If you believe something, maybe you’d be better off actually researching said subject. A representative democracy requires informed voters, not people “remembering” what they’ve been fed by talk radio and other crapfests.

I think you were probably an excellent soldier, but a black-and-white view of the world isn’t accurate. What served you well in the military is a handicap in the voting booth.

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gaindependent2010, there is no public option in the bill so there is nowhere for people without insurance to go if they don’t buy. You are already paying for the people who don’t have insurance and it will only keep going up. Unfortunately, the problem is that when the insurance company decides you or your family member costs too much money, they find a way not to pay. They are already rationing people’s coverage, not the government. The administration is trying to help you but you just can’t see it. With family in Europe, I cannot tell you how well they are being cared for (prostate cancer) with the latest, most cutting-edge medicine out there. One of the greatest worries is losing your job and and losing medical coverage, then trying to get coverage when you’ve been treated for a major illness before.

Don’t listen to the talking heads. Politicians who are trying their best to stay in their jobs, all have healthcare for life, even when you vote them out, and they have the very best coverage, so believe me, they will always do what the insurance companies want because they need their support. Get information on issues from a variety or resources, especially those you don’t agree with then make your own conclusions. People forget that it’t those nasty liberals that usually let you now when people are putting selling you bad medicine, polluting the drinking water, etc. But you can’t trust them to help you because they are all evil, right!

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-gainindependent 2000 wrote-

“But it is not fair for the government to decide who lives and who dies. People should be able to keep their insurance.”

How does the Government deciding who lives or dies, none of what you are typing isnt anywhere in the final bill that was passed. The Death Panel myth perpetuated by your filter for information Sarah Palin was false then as it is today.

Aren’t insurance companies essentially death panels? When your family member reached their lifetime maximum benefit or they were denied coverage for the next insurance company because of a pre-existing condition, that’s a death panel in the name of profit. Please provide me with a concrete example of a tangible benefit that ins. companies provide to the healthcare system?

The biggest fault that our Government did was that it didnt do enough

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I’m not dead yet!

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Public option was taken out for now. It will be put back in because Pelosi has stated that is her ultimate goal. Everyone can vote for whomoever they like but when all branches of government is ruled by one party there is never a good outcome. America has started following the UK and the UK has just announced “UK Proposes All Paychecks Go to the State First”
http://www.cnbc.com/id/39265847 Check it out for yourselves. This is only the beginning; they start with healthcare and then they want to control the rest of our lives. When employers send our entire checks to the government first and then the government decides how much of our money we should receive then its a sad day for all. I hope everyone has a wonderful day. God Bless.

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Karen Handel was the best choice for the Republicans and for Georgia. I felt at the time that the emphasis on her lack of a college degree came mainly from people who had no intention to vote for any Republican, and I still hold that view. Now we have Deal, who is unquestionably ‘damaged goods’, facing Roy Barnes and there is a very real chance that Deal will win the election. Sometimes folks can be too smart by half.

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catlady:

“This story (the neverending story, it seems) would make a good Country song”

I made a deal with Roy,
I crossed over and voted for Deal,
Now Nathan is “our boy”,
Nathan is the governor – for real!

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RS @12:31
Med part D was passed by the GOP leadership who held the vote open until they turned enough of those principled good godly republicans around to deliver President Bush his compassionate conservative offset to the massive tax cut that was passed through the senate using reconciliation and is now set to expire because of the accounting tricks they had to use to pass it…

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All you folks that still have shackles on your eyes and support Deal will pay for generations to come. If you believe in less government, than don’t take your social security check, vet benefits, unemployment benefits and certainly don’t send your kids to the public schools. What is more government? What is reckless spending? I would think that equals Republican leadership. Under Sonny’s leadership, more state agencies were created, more board positions for his contributors, more senior staff getting huge salaries (Sonny just now gave them raises and promotions); nonsensical legislation with no funding, slashing public education to the tune of two billion dollars, 48th in SAT scores, fishing museums and 500,000 unemployed Georgians. Let’s not add there are no ethics in the state legislature. That’s why your Glenn Richardson’s and Casey Cagle, Mark Butler have been screwing anything that resembles a woman under the gold dome. where is your self righteousness when it comes to ethics? Why in the hell do you want more of the same??? I don’t like some of what Obama has done during his tenure; however, I am smart enough to realize Barnes has nothing to do with what Obama has or will do. Where were you when we spent Billions of dollars in a senseless war in Iraq? Where was your outcry to stop the spending and pork under George W. Bush? How are you losing anything under Obama administration? Stop listening to Fox News and do some research. You are all morons and sadly Georgia will suffer because of your ignorance. Shame on you.

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….And Deal-dependent2010 babbles incoherently and slithers out the door without response.

“God bless?” My @$$. I never mistake these wingnuts as wishing others well. What passive-aggressive nasty little people they are.

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techengineer, how’d you get in?

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Matt D.

After reading your posts, it’s crystal clear that in the face of all evidence of how this state has been run in the last 8 years that you will place all of the blame on Obama,Reid and Pelosi for Georgia’s problems. Ignoring the debate of what policy initiatives that have been passed thus far and their long-term benefit/consequences, can you specifically talk about the record of our GOP Executive and Legislative branches?

All politics are local and since I would think the State GOP’s policy positions are the direct opposite of Obama, Reid and Pelosi, will you please shed light on how well the GOP has done in Healthcare, Education, Transportation and Crime.

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Conservertives always talking about values, here is a man deal that does not have any and yet some conservatives in this state still support him.

Congrats Georgia you have officially passed Miss, Ala, has the dumbest states of hicks of conservatives.””””””

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I notice that there are so many posting here who don’t have a clear understanding of the Affordable Care Act, and I know exactly why they are so confused, and the source of the confusion. The ACA is more a set of consumer protections than it is a “takeover” of our healthcare system. The ACA is not socialized medicine. If it were, all of the hospitals would become government owned entities, and all doctors, nurses, and other hospital personnel would be employed by the government as they are in the United Kingdom.

The ACA does not abolish private ownership of hospitals, drug companies, labs, doctor’s offices, etc. The same companies that provide your coverage now, will be the same companies providing the care after the ACA is implemented. The only true government-based healthcare in America is Medicaid, Medicare, and that which exists for our military personnel. Under the ACA, you will NOT be buying your insurance from the federal government if you don’t have insurance. The federal government will work WITH the insurance companies to provide care for you at a reasonable cost/price. The ACA is what most lawmakers and citizens have been calling for: a public/private hybrid healthcare delivery system. You will not be making checks for healthcare to the U.S. government. If you have United Healthcare as an insurer like I do, you’ll still make your payments to United Healthcare. The mandate will NOT affect you if you already have healthcare insurance. One purpose of the mandate is to make sure that those of us who already have health insurance do not end up picking up the entire tab for those who don’t. If we were forced to do it, our taxes would increase by quite a bit. I don’t see it as being unfair to make those who need insurance pay for it. For those who won’t be able to pay the entire amount, the rest of it will be subsidized just as the American taxpayer currently subsidizes over $700/mo for each of our 435 members of Congress who end up paying just a bit over $300/mo for their coverage.

I know the “death panel” lie has played a role in turning some against the ACA, but the ACA doesn’t set up “death panels.” What it does do is study results from millions of doctors who treat the same ailments in diverse patients, and RECOMMENDS treatments that are the most effective in treating the ailment. You and your doctor will STILL have the freedom to decide which treatment you think is best for you. This saves money and lives.

The real “death panels” have been in action for years, though opponents of the ACA don’t/won’t admit it. Whenever an insurance company refuses treatment for a serious medical condition because it looks out for its profits, the person who is denied the treatment is consigned to dying from the condition/illness. I had a digestive problem a few years ago. My doctor wanted to put me on Nexium, but my insurance company turned me down because it deemed the Nexium as being too expensive at the time, and I was a state employee.

It broke my heart to learn a couple weeks ago that a little boy with brain cancer whose parents had two healthcare policies had died because both companies denied him treatment, deeming the treatment “too expensive.” These parents had paid on these policies for years, and when they needed these companies to save their son’s lives, they refused. The insurance companies could depend on these parents to pay for the premiums, but the parents couldn’t depend on the companies to provide treatment for their son. A hospital had to step in and provide the drugs the boy needed, and the insurance companies got away with keeping the parents’ money and using it to satisfy their shareholders’ demands for a greater return on their investment.

The majority of Americans won’t see a difference in their ability to make decisions about their treatment once the ACA is fully implemented. The control over your health will still reside with you and your doctor. You’ll still have your choice of doctors and hospitals to use. No one will ORDER you to accept a specific method of treatment for a medical condition. The ACA still leaves the individual in control to make his/her own healthcare decisions. What the ACA DOES do is make sure that if you pay your premiums and you or your a member of your family gets sick, the insurance companies must pay for your treatment. It also removes the lifetime cap so that should your treatment exceed a certain amount of money, you can continue to be treated for your medical condition. Most Americans never exceed their insurance companies’ liability caps, but knowing that if a family member gets sick and it costs the insurance companies $ 1M to treat him/her, at least you won’t have to worry about him/her being denied treatment, and you won’t have to worry about losing your home to bankruptcy at the same time. This puts consumers in a win-win position: your loved one gets treated and your assets are protected. Consumer protection is what the ACA delivers.

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Still can’t believe the people of Jawga voted for such a crooked Deal.
I’m feel ashamed for my state.

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Arrested for what Janice? You are way out there. Don’t like Deal’s proposed policies, fine. Think Deal is ethicly challenged, ok. Think Deal used poor judgement borrowing money for his daughter, so be it. But to say he out to be arrested when no one has even hinted there is a criminal investagation under way is absurd.

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RS, there is an investigation. A Grand Jury is still (as far as I know) sniffing around that auto salvage business. Deal has been verrrry touchy when it’s mentioned by the media, to the point of sending legal letters with carefully parsed language about how he is not the “target” of any investigation.

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Just to keep everybody honest—I wish to remind everybody that there has not been ONE SINGLE positive ad from Barnes.

All negative. ALL the low road.

What does Roy stand for? Who knows? Who cares? ..just kick Deal while he is down.

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Hey Nathan … hate to be a Bandwagoneer … but you still owe me $85 for that starter I put on your wife’s car about 3 yrs ago. That store credit you gave me to that sporting good place ain’t no good (go figure). QUIT SCREENING ME CALLS!!!

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@No Deal and No Roy… Vote John Monds

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Mr. Deal……All that egg you have on your face is starting to dry up and smell…….

You need a bath….You stink!!

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Roybama @ 11:16 a.m. thoughtfully reminded us of some of the consequences for voting in Deal as Governor: ” Appointments: The governor makes Judicial Appointments as well as many other state government service appointments.” More payoff potentials!

I just got back from voting early against Deal and for Barnes… what about YOU??

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Roy Barnes, as bad as they want to make him look, he’s not as corrupt or broke as Nathan Deal. Only in Georgia they would elect a close-to-file-Bankruptcy corrupt fella like Nathan Deal for governor.

Talking about that Barnes made Georgia dead last in education. Sonny made Georgia First in Cheating!

I say, Anyone but Nathan Deal!

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Wouldn’t it be great if we could just vote “No Confidence”?

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Barnes didn’t do a poor job last time unless you care about the stupid flag, or him actually standing up to the teachers union.

Facts are the state of GA increased its weath dramatically under Barnes and had a much lower un-employment rate. Purdue is the doofus who has run this state into the ground……….

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Roy if you are reading this I just want you to know I voted for Nathan Deal today. The remainder of my votes were for Democrats except for Sistie Hudson. I voted for her Republican opponent.

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So Newt pulled the wool over two of his wives and now he pulled the wool over Georgia Republicans.

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How come a chump like me who works at da Dollar General pays more in income taxes than Nathan Deal? Can anyone who’s white and smart answer that

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It really bothers me that people on all sides are calling each other names. It is fine to not agree, but please be considerate enough to respect the other’s opinion. I am a Democrat (not a Dummycrat, but I have been known to vote for a Republican or two), but I would never stoop so low as to call a Republican an ugly name.

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I think I will just move to another state. Anywhere will be better than Georgia!!

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Vote for Nathan Deal…. Roy Barnes is doing just what he started out to do. Make Nathan Deal look bad. IMO this does not make Roy Barnes look like the saint. If you people believe everything that is sprinted and everything in the media then all of you are sick. I agree we don`t have muchof a selection but Barnes had his chance now give Mr Deal the same chance.

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