Sonny Perdue takes himself out of 2014 race for Senate
Former Gov. Sonny Perdue has declared himself out of a 2014 contest to replace U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, but placed himself on the side of Republicans who believe the party has become too rigid in its approach.
In a statement e-mailed this morning, the governor declared himself “flattered” by the support that has been offered, but cited his reasons for avoiding the contest: A dozen grandchildren, business obligations and “a loving and devoted wife who has absolutely no interest in living in Washington.” From his statement:
Gov. Sonny Perdue has removed himself from the long list of Republicans considering a 2014 run for the U.S. Senate. Curtis Compton/ccompton@ajc.com
“Our country deserves more than the current dysfunction in Washington D.C. and our party needs to return to problem-solving conservatism. We have an opportunity, led by the examples of Republican Governors across the nation, to prove to the country that we are the party that can rise above the dogma and intransigence that dominates political discourse today. We need members of Congress who will stop playing political games and get to the business of addressing our real challenges, just as we have done here in Georgia.
Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Coweta County, is at least mildly interested in moving to the upper chamber. Here’s the quote from the Times-Georgian: “Over the next several days and weeks my family, friends, supporters and I will determine if I am interested in being a part of that discussion.”
Meanwhile, former congressman Jim Marshall, the middle-Georgia Democrat defeated by Austin Scott in 2010, ruled himself out during an interview with The Hill newspaper in Washington. But in the same article, Democratic strategist Tharon Johnson, who has close ties to both Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and U.S. Rep. John Barrow, offered this thought:
Johnson argued that Democrats’ best hope would be to find a ticket for governor and senator that “looks like Georgia” and avoids an expensive and divisive primary.
That’s usually Democratic code for a white/black ticket that keeps alive the beleaguered party’s biracial coalition.
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Maria Strollo Zack, a longtime state Capitol lobbyist and Republican activist, told us Monday that she’s closing in on a decision to run for state GOP chairman. Here’s a little bit about her. Right now, it’s a one-man race – second vice-chairman B.J. VanGundy is the only announced candidate to replace current GOP chair Sue Everhart.
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My AJC colleague Leon Stafford reports that last year’s boycott of Chick-fil-A by gay rights activists hasn’t touched the Atlanta company’s bottom line:
The fast food giant, the nation’s second-largest chicken chain, ended 2012 with $4.6 billion in sales — up 14 percent from $4.1 billion a year earlier. The company also opened 96 news stores, four more than the year before.
However, according to the Los Angeles Times, the company has also kept its promise to bow out of the same-sex marriage wars:
[A]ccording to gay rights group Campus Pride, the 2011 IRS 990 filings for Chick-fil-A’s charity arm WinShape Foundation show no sign of gifts to organizations such as Family Research Council or Exodus International, which advocate against same-sex unions and other privileges for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
The documents, filed Nov. 15, instead exhibit nearly $6 million in funding to beneficiaries supporting youth, education, local communities and what Campus Pride called “marriage enrichment.”
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Fox5 has this tidbit on the continuing, behind-the-scenes negotiations over a new stadium home for the Falcons:
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed is warning city council members about business interests in Los Angeles who want to move the Falcons to the west coast. Team owner Arthur Blank shared that information with top city and state officials in their discussions about financing a new stadium in downtown Atlanta.
A spokeswoman for the mayor this morning sent this message via Twitter:
@KasimReed clarifies story re: Falcons: Arthur Blank & the team have never threatened to leave #Atlanta. But other cities are interested.
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Speaking of Kasim Reed, the Atlanta mayor is in Las Vegas today, enveloped in President Barack Obama’s unveiling of his own proposals for immigration reform. An eight-member, bipartisan group of U.S. senators, including Arizona’s John McCain and Florida’s Marco Rubio, launched their own effort on Monday. Both proposals are to include a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
The new dynamic in Washington has upset D.A. King, head of Georgia’s Dustin Inman Society and an immigration activist at the Capitol. From a press release sent out this morning:
“The anti-enforcement, open-borders coalition of the race-baiting La Raza network, the ACLU, the Chamber of Commerce, the Democrats, Big Religion, Big Academia and some shameful anything-for-a campaign-buck collaborators in the Republican party will never stop fighting against enforcement” warned King. “Amnesty-again will not change that fact. Americans must be ever vigilant and become aware and active in defense of our right to have and enforce borders and immigration laws” he said.
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The AJC’s Politifact Georgia today takes a look at three claims made by Gov. Nathan Deal in his recent state-of-the-state address, including his statement that “spending of government money is 17 percent less than it was a decade ago.”
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January 29th, 2013
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liberalefty
January 29th, 2013
9:23 am
the more racist the candidate ther better chance he will have of winning.
Look before I leap...
January 29th, 2013
9:24 am
Westmoreland needs a committee to decide if he is interested in running for the Senate?
Now there’s recipe for ending gridlock.
HOBO JOE
January 29th, 2013
9:26 am
It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken
the cat
January 29th, 2013
9:27 am
So now Arthur Blank is going to try blackmail to have new stadium paid for by taxpayers. Take your team and move to LA. I do not care, period.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 29th, 2013
9:34 am
My AJC colleague Leon Stafford reports that last year’s boycott of Chick-fil-A by gay rights activists hasn’t touched the Atlanta company’s bottom
Couldn’t pass that one up.
We need members of Congress who will stop playing political games and get to the business of addressing our real challenges, just as we have done here in Georgia.
Awesome, it looks like the Repugs are starting to catch on. When a red faced, shrieking dummycrat comes at you with one of their cliffs, walk away from it.
H.L. Grump
January 29th, 2013
9:34 am
Go Falcons and take D.A. with you to LA.
Cherokee
January 29th, 2013
9:36 am
Look before I leap…
January 29th, 2013
9:24 am
Westmoreland needs a committee to decide if he is interested in running for the Senate?
Now there’s recipe for ending gridlock.
Clever…..
liberalefty
January 29th, 2013
9:36 am
the winning candidate will tell his constituients how evil WASHINGTON and the government is while spending millions to get to WASHINGTON and have that cushy government job
Look before I leap...
January 29th, 2013
9:38 am
I like Arthur Blank, I like the Falcons. I hope they stay here.
BUT…
If building a new stadium is such a wonderful idea and will bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in additional revenue to the city, then let Mr. Blank invest his own money to build it and give him a cut if and when we land another Super Bowl (after subtracting costs for police OT, marketing, clean-up, bribes, etc).
The only thing Atlanta has to offer in terms of attracting convention business to the city is a big airport and reasonable prices. Sticking it to the visitors with additional hotel taxes may end up driving some of that business away.
liberalefty
January 29th, 2013
9:39 am
@aesop
yet OBAMA STILL WON…LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL…by the way i loves me some chick fila and so do all my OBAMA supporting friends and family…mmmm….mmmm….good..
Cherokee
January 29th, 2013
9:40 am
Actually pretty well said, Sonny.
We’ll see what happens – if the Repubs nominate a flake like either Broun or Price, we’ll know that they’d rather have purity than to win elections. They could still win – this is Georgia after all, and there’s no limit to the dimwittedness of many of our voters.
But here’s hoping for a serious conservative who wants to actually solve some problems, rather than just blow things up.
Kat
January 29th, 2013
9:41 am
How can someone take themselves out of consideration for something that hasn’t even gotten started yet?
Lynn Westmoreland? The great shame of Georgia who demanded keeping the 10 Commandments in federal buildings but couldn’t name more than four of them? He’s an idiot, so I suspect his “advisers” are as well.
td
January 29th, 2013
9:44 am
“The fast food giant, the nation’s second-largest chicken chain, ended 2012 with $4.6 billion in sales — up 14 percent from $4.1 billion a year earlier. The company also opened 96 news stores, four more than the year before.”
Looks like there has been a backlash against the militant leftest and their politically correct crap. Keep up the good work America. These communist need to be punched in the nose more often.
Look before I leap...
January 29th, 2013
9:48 am
A woman to replace another woman as state GOP chair.
How very…..progressive.
J Throckmorton Malcontent
January 29th, 2013
9:48 am
A wise man once said, if a thing makes JB Stoner–oh, excuse me–DA King, soil his trousers, it must be a good thing indeed.
HOBO JOE
January 29th, 2013
9:51 am
“the company has also kept its promise to bow out of the same-sex marriage wars”
Looks like the “militant lefest” managed to achieve some change without tearing everything down… imagine that! Score one for the communists.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 29th, 2013
9:51 am
For all you newcomers to the galloway blog, just so you know, liberalefty is an automated software program that the ajc has installed and programmed to react to any intellectual comments that it detects. Unfortunately, it is a dummycrat based program so it can’t argue the issues with out exposing the party’s moral corruption and low overall IQ level. With this handicap, all that it can do is toss out mindless slogans only dimwitocrats can understand, such as “you thought Romney would win, nananananananananananananananananananananananannananana” and “Shady Deal 2014)(-? duh.”
Now that you know, hopefully this will help you understand the infantility of it all.
splendid splinter
January 29th, 2013
9:54 am
@Cherokee
“But here’s hoping for a serious conservative who wants to actually solve some problems, rather than just blow things up.”
That’s Democratic code for do it our way because we have no intentions of compromising.
Cherokee
January 29th, 2013
9:55 am
What Hobo Joe said.
Cherokee
January 29th, 2013
9:58 am
Part of me hopes that you prevail, splendid, since a candidate of your choosing will be the best way for John Barrow to win the election.
td
January 29th, 2013
10:01 am
Cherokee
January 29th, 2013
9:58 am
Part of me hopes that you prevail, splendid, since a candidate of your choosing will be the best way for John Barrow to win the election.
Barrow is not going to run. He has moved all over the state to keep his seat. He will not tempt fate of losing in a statewide race.
clem
January 29th, 2013
10:07 am
aesop, you would not know intellectual if it bit you….you personify the stupid party
Retired Soldier
January 29th, 2013
10:07 am
TD-
I think you mean Barrow doesn’t want to pull a Thurmond.
Look before I leap...
January 29th, 2013
10:10 am
“Looks like there has been a backlash against the militant leftest and their politically correct crap. Keep up the good work America. These communist need to be punched in the nose more often.”
Just gotta ask – are the Chik-fil-A protesters “communists” because they called for a boycott, or because they represent a view that differs from yours td?
Pete
January 29th, 2013
10:13 am
Sadly, Kat, everybody mentioned so far as a potential candidate is an idiot. I don’t think we have a chance of getting somebody in there who is reasonable, sensible, and intelligent.
Alphare
January 29th, 2013
10:13 am
This great state has been in the hands of republicans for more than a decade now, be it governor or legislature.
Where is the state ranked in the nation? education, unemployment, poverty rate, foreclosure, etc.
splendid splinter
January 29th, 2013
10:14 am
@Cherokee
“Part of me hopes that you prevail, splendid, since a candidate of your choosing will be the best way for John Barrow to win the election.”
I think a Blue Dog Democrat MIGHT be able to win statewide office, but if there is one in the state I have not heard of him.
Retired Soldier
January 29th, 2013
10:16 am
Alphare-
Where did GA rank in those same areas in the 140 years the democrats ran the state?
Alphare
January 29th, 2013
10:16 am
bank failure too.
clem
January 29th, 2013
10:18 am
ga now bringing up the rear in hs grad rates; thought sonny had that whipped with high school coaches? nope.
Alphare
January 29th, 2013
10:19 am
Retired Soldier,
as bad as today. what’s your point? does that make republicans any better?
splendid splinter
January 29th, 2013
10:20 am
@Pete – Sadly, Kat, everybody mentioned so far as a potential candidate is an idiot.
Tom Price is a medical doctor and a surgeon. It seems completely cynical for someone to refer to him as an idiot. I don’t agree with all his politics but I don’t think you can call him an idiot.
clem
January 29th, 2013
10:22 am
then why does he adhere to many of the stupid party planks
Alphare
January 29th, 2013
10:23 am
Retired Soldier,
Georgia has the highest unemployment-rate/bank-failure/foreclosure-rate in the nation, I don’t think that’s the case before the republicans take over. Do you have any number to give a good argument?
William Smith
January 29th, 2013
10:23 am
Let’s make a deal with Arthur Blank. You win the Super Bowl an we build you a new stadium. That would have the affect of having both sides with skin in the game. Many fans can’t afford to go to the games but they can afford to pay for a billionaire to have a new stadium. Another compromise, The public votes for the new stadium, and then Home Depot sales big screen TV’s for $100.00 to the people of Atlanta so they can sit at home an watch the Falcons. The tickets that need to be sold to prevent blackouts are bought by the CEO’s of the banks that will make millions on this deal.
Proud Voter
January 29th, 2013
10:23 am
That is the best decision Perdue ever made for Georgia. Thank you, Mr. Perdue.
Dirty Dawg
January 29th, 2013
10:28 am
Guess ‘Goober’ Perdue realizes that if he were to run, his opponents will run commercials of a ‘big (king rat-sized) chicken’, sitting on a lake-bank, fishin. In fact there isn’t a single Republican I can think of that hasn’t said or done something so embarrassing that they could end up gettin beat in their own, home, Districts, let alone state-wide.
Crestfallen
January 29th, 2013
10:28 am
OHHH NOOOO!!! Why, Sonny!!! WWWHHYYYY!!! You were such a great governor! Actually, you lined your pocket and received a 20 million dollar “loan” from your cronies in central Georgia. You were really, really terrible.
J Throckmorton Malcontent
January 29th, 2013
10:28 am
The Chik-Fil-A protestors were communists because they advocated that the workers seize control & ownership of the franchise through any means neccessary and distribute chicken sandwiches from each according to his ability, to each according to their needs. That’s why they require nasal pugilistics, apparently.
Oh wait, it was about something else?
liberalefty
January 29th, 2013
10:34 am
td 9:44
yeah such a backlash that OBAMA wiped the floor with ROMNEY….you can enjoy your chicken sammich now,,lol
Retired Soldier
January 29th, 2013
10:34 am
Georgia does not have the highest unemployment rate. Bank failure rate? Yep. My point is give us another 130 years like the Dems had and we’ll be in the top ten of goodness across the board.
Look before I leap...
January 29th, 2013
10:35 am
“The Chik-Fil-A protestors were communists because they advocated that the workers seize control & ownership of the franchise through any means neccessary and distribute chicken sandwiches from each according to his ability, to each according to their needs…”
Oh, if that’s the case, then td’s comment makes perfect sense.
WOW
January 29th, 2013
10:36 am
Not advocating for a new stadium here, but to say that the ‘fans’ will be paying for this is not really accurate. The tax will mostly be levied on tourist so Atlanta residents won’t be on the hook for as much as is being reported. It should also be noted that if the team leaves or moves out of the City what will become of the Dome. I invite you to see what happened in Detroit to the Silverdome when the team moved to the suburbs.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20091117/METRO/911170327/1411/METRO02/Silverdome-sale-price-disappoints
BRW
January 29th, 2013
10:37 am
Dang! I stopped reading when it said “Purdue takes himself out” and partied like an animal.
Then was dissapointed when I realized that was not the end of the sentence.
liberalefty
January 29th, 2013
10:39 am
i love how these birthers are touting CHICK FILA like they won something…i guess after getting whomped by BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA for so long every little hollow “victory” means something…lol
BRW
January 29th, 2013
10:39 am
“My point is give us another 130 years like the Dems had and we’ll be in the top ten of goodness across the board.”
Nope. We’ll all just be dead. What’s your real point?
Alphare
January 29th, 2013
10:40 am
Retired Soldier,
I mean among the worst.
so you mean 13 years is not long enough for republicans? I guess you’d be perfectly OK if we are stuck among the worst for another 13 years.
BTW, today’s republicans are the old democrats painted with a different color, you can Nathan Deal about their party affiliation 13 years ago. Does that also explain your 130 years question?
WOW
January 29th, 2013
10:40 am
@ Look
I guessed you missed the memo? All of us who voted for Obama are now considered communists/and or socialists. There actual definitions are no longer relevant.
Voter
January 29th, 2013
10:42 am
Hmm, Chick-Fil-A sounds good today.
Hollis
January 29th, 2013
10:44 am
CHIPPER JONES for SENATOR!!!!!!!!
Voter
January 29th, 2013
10:46 am
@WOW – “I guessed you missed the memo? All of us who voted for Obama are now considered communists/and or socialists. There actual definitions are no longer relevant.”
What’s your definition of a socialist?
Hollis
January 29th, 2013
10:47 am
CHIPPER JONES for SENATOR!!!
D.C.
January 29th, 2013
10:56 am
Face it, Georgia. Sonny’s tenure in office was not good for this state. The man sat on his ass and did nothing until the legislative session rode into town and, even then, all he did was glad hand, smile big and have his photo taken with every marching band, eagle scout, 4 H Club/Oganization, and dentist association that visited or had a “day at the Capitol” designated in their honor.
BUT! To be fair, he did wage war against Snickers Bars (anyone remember that?) and became the first elected official to apply the words “Eco-Tourism” to Bass Fishing while managing not to laugh.
And someone believes he should represent this state in the U.S. Senate???
Jon Lester
January 29th, 2013
11:03 am
I hope Westmoreland decides to go for it, and announces from a Chik-fil-A. We’ll then have a national audience for the ensuing hilarity, especially when it’s time to debate.
Voter
January 29th, 2013
11:06 am
@D.C. – “Face it, Georgia. Sonny’s tenure in office was not good for this state”
Apparently at least 50% of the Georgians felt different since he was re-elected for a 2nd term.
Alphare
January 29th, 2013
11:09 am
Voter,
can you say the same thing for Obama? Nathan “the most corrupt” Deal? or Victor Hill of Clayton county?
td
January 29th, 2013
11:11 am
Look before I leap…
January 29th, 2013
10:10 am
“Looks like there has been a backlash against the militant leftest and their politically correct crap. Keep up the good work America. These communist need to be punched in the nose more often.”
Just gotta ask – are the Chik-fil-A protesters “communists” because they called for a boycott, or because they represent a view that differs from yours td?
They are communist because they attack religion and advocate secular humanism and as Karl Marx said the destroying of religion in favor of self is a key element that must be accomplished before communism.
Voter
January 29th, 2013
11:17 am
@Alphare – “Voter, can you say the same thing for Obama? Nathan “the most corrupt” Deal? or Victor Hill of Clayton county?”
Unfortunately, obama,and hill both were re-elected. I really don’t know how, was it corrupt voting? (141% turn out in some precincts) If you look at the break down of every state, the majority of the counties in each state voted for Romney, the inner city’s voted for obama. More counties voted for Romney but there are more people in the inner cities. The break down in almost every state was either 51-49 for obama or 51-49 for Romney. We’re headed in the wrong direction when they re-elect a president who did nothing but make things worse.
td
January 29th, 2013
11:19 am
WOW
January 29th, 2013
10:40 am
@ Look
I guessed you missed the memo? All of us who voted for Obama are now considered communists/and or socialists. There actual definitions are no longer relevant.
Socialism:
a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or REGULATED by the community as a whole.
(in Marxist theory) a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of Communism.
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/socialism
Must be nice to walk through live and not have a clue as to what is going on around you and to not actually realize what your vote means for the nation as a whole.
Voter
January 29th, 2013
11:23 am
@td – Well said td.
I remember when the LGBT tried to stage a boycott of Chick-Fil-A and Mike Huckabee called for a Chick-Fil-A day. 10x more people showed up in favor of Chick-Fil-A than against. Then, when it was apparent they(LGBT) lost, the name calling began and the attack on religion.
People should remember, If God be for us, who can be against us?
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 29th, 2013
11:24 am
Just because he didn’t legislate Drag Queen Day into a state holiday doesn’t mean he wasn’t a good governor, libbies.
D.C.
January 29th, 2013
11:26 am
@ Voter
Obviously he was… and Adolf Hitler was twice named Time Magazines “Man of the Year.”
A person can be elected to the same office twice and still not be good for their office or the constituents they serve. Anything else?
Look before I leap...
January 29th, 2013
11:28 am
“They are communist because they attack religion and advocate secular humanism and as Karl Marx said the destroying of religion in favor of self is a key element that must be accomplished before communism.”
Quite the logical fallacy there.
It may be true (and I do not concede that it is) that all communists are humanists.
But even if true, it is not true that all humanists are communists.
Nor is it proven that all gay marriage proponents are humanists. They simply believe something different than you.
Voter
January 29th, 2013
11:29 am
@D.C. I agree.
Voter
January 29th, 2013
11:31 am
@Look before I leap – Clear this up, are you for gay marriage? Are you for socialism?
JSH
January 29th, 2013
11:31 am
All you that voted for Obama are not communist and or socialist, just idiots.
GaBlue
January 29th, 2013
11:31 am
Chick Fil A’s owner is a big bully. Why, it simply is not enough to make a bazillion dollars selling chicken sandwiches. What’s REALLY FUN is sicking your unlimited supply of corporate lawyer hours on a small businessman, in a remote corner of the country, to try to prevent him from making a lousy $5 or $10K a year selling T-SHIRTs. Yes, t-shirts. Not shirts with cows spelling badly, or touting the virtues of deep-fried, sodium & fat-laden chicken sandwiches, but t-shirts that say, “Eat More Kale” — promoting the products of local produce growers. “Give us your name! Give us your website! I am Dan Cathy, and the words EAT and MORE belong to ME! HAHAHAHA!”
What a colossal JERK. This bully cares nothing for free enterprise.
http://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating/blogs/chick-fil-as-bullying-is-a-boon-for-eat-more-kale-t-shirt-maker
Voter
January 29th, 2013
11:32 am
@GaBlue – Ouch, you sound personally offended. Was it your T-Shirt business?
Voter
January 29th, 2013
11:33 am
@JSH – “All you that voted for Obama are not communist and or socialist, just idiots.”
Well said.
D.C.
January 29th, 2013
11:46 am
@ td
“They are communist because they attack religion and advocate secular humanism”
Attacking religion doesn’t make or even imply one is a communist and I think its fair to say that religion is alive and well and certainly NOT being destroyed. Catholics often have attacked their own church and Pope over many issues (even assassinations) in the course of their history.
Were our founding fathers communists for believing there should be a high wall between religion and state? Were they destroying religion?
Also, Ayn Rand, Warren Buffet, Andrew Carnegie, Carl Sagan, George Carlin, Bruce Lee, Stephen Hawking, Mick Jagger, David Gilmore, Steve Wozniak??? All atheists who did not believe in god… Who among they do you count as communists?
WOW
January 29th, 2013
11:47 am
TD:
I am well aware of the actual definition of socialism, which is not going on in American. Its just the way of the right, to express themselves with the majority of the country who disagree with them. If you don’t have a sound argument, call names. Which is what is done on this blog quite often.
Alphare
January 29th, 2013
11:47 am
What about those who voted Nathan “the most corrupt” Deal? are they idiots?
Look before I leap...
January 29th, 2013
12:01 pm
@Voter
I am totally for gay marriage.
I am not a socialist – I am all for responsible capitalism.
The real question you should have asked, am I a humanist?
Don't Tread
January 29th, 2013
12:01 pm
Mrs. Perdue has absolutely no interest in living in Washington? Can’t blame her…I wouldn’t either. That would be like moving into a NYC apartment infested with roaches and rats. I’ll pass.
Proud Voter
January 29th, 2013
12:01 pm
Good grief! Why does our private preferred sexuality have to be brought into every matter of public discourse? It’s a very small percentage of our daily activity and certainly should not dominate our every decision. Such discussions should remain among the consenting adults. When I order steak, or chicken, or vegetarian pizza, it isn’t because the restaurantuer is gay or straight, it’s because that’s what I want for dinner. This is getting way out of hand. Social intercourse obviously needs to be redefined for many. I’m so tired of this.
Voter
January 29th, 2013
12:06 pm
@Proud Voter – “Good grief! Why does our private preferred sexuality have to be brought into every matter of public discourse?”
It came up because they were discussing Chick-Fil-A.
Marlboro Man
January 29th, 2013
12:09 pm
Chicken is a very low cost meat, Chickfila makes a killing selling their products to white soccer moms and people who don’t know the value of a dollar. More power to them.
td
January 29th, 2013
12:11 pm
D.C.
January 29th, 2013
11:46 am
@ td
“They are communist because they attack religion and advocate secular humanism”
“Were our founding fathers communists for believing there should be a high wall between religion and state? Were they destroying religion?”
Another of the uninformed that have not been taught the real history of this country. Our founders placed the wall for the GOVERNMENT not to interfere with our religious freedom. There is absolutely no prohibition against religion being in government.
Look before I leap...
January 29th, 2013
12:12 pm
“Why does our private preferred sexuality have to be brought into every matter of public discourse? It’s a very small percentage of our daily activity and certainly should not dominate our every decision”
You see the issue as something to to with a physical act of intimacy.
That is NOT the issue (though as far as law it was THE issue for a couple of hundred years).
The issue is that some citizens in this country do not enjoy equal protection for the right to pursue life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as others.
td
January 29th, 2013
12:16 pm
WOW
January 29th, 2013
11:47 am
TD:
“I am well aware of the actual definition of socialism, which is not going on in American”
With the passage of Obamacare to go along with Medicare and Medicaid means that the Central government now controls, through regulation and rule making, the total means of production of 20% of GDP of this nation. If this is not socialism then please explain to me what is socialism?.
td
January 29th, 2013
12:20 pm
Look before I leap…
January 29th, 2013
12:12 pm
Marriage is not a protected right (like the right to keep and bear arms is) so there is NO equal protection claim that can be made. Marriage is a states issue.
Carol
January 29th, 2013
12:26 pm
We have an opportunity, led by the examples of Republican Governors across the nation, to prove to the country that we are the party that can rise above the dogma AND BUILD A FISH TANK TO NOWHERE.
TiredOfIt
January 29th, 2013
12:26 pm
“People should remember, If God be for us, who can be against us?”
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Please explain 911 then
honested
January 29th, 2013
12:28 pm
td,
Do you have a complete compendium of warped mis-characterizations of history, political science and the ‘true’ appropriate thought?
If so, it might be the funniest thing I ever read!!
The very idea of having to apply religious, collectivist and conserrrrrrvative filters to each and every action in one’s daily life must be, well, taxing!
WOW
January 29th, 2013
12:30 pm
Single Payer would be closer to the socialism model of Health Insurance, which the only socialist I know of in Congress, Sen. Sanders has proposed.
Carol
January 29th, 2013
12:32 pm
td
“The fast food giant, the nation’s second-largest chicken chain, ended 2012 with $4.6 billion in sales — up 14 percent from $4.1 billion a year earlier. The company also opened 96 news stores, four more than the year before.”
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What you fail to realize in pointing out the success of the Company is the economy must be going in the right direction. As Conservative as they are, shouldn’t they be part of the “we’re concerned about the uncertainty” crowd. No, they are Capitalist who apparently are more interested in making money as opposed to giving all of it away to Karl Rove and crew.
Look before I leap...
January 29th, 2013
12:34 pm
@td
Read article IV, Section 1 of the US Constitution, then please feel free to come back and admit you are wrong with respect to marriage being a state’s issue that enjoys no federal protection.
And once again, you personally are on extremely thin ice with this issue.
MiltonMan
January 29th, 2013
12:35 pm
“This great state has been in the hands of republicans for more than a decade now, be it governor or legislature.
Where is the state ranked in the nation? education, unemployment, poverty rate, foreclosure, etc.”
…and where was the state ranked when dems controlled the state for 130+ years???
td
January 29th, 2013
12:37 pm
WOW
January 29th, 2013
12:30 pm
Single Payer would be closer to the socialism model of Health Insurance, which the only socialist I know of in Congress, Sen. Sanders has proposed.
Under the definition of Socialism, from Oxford, Obamacare is pure socialism. Single payer would be the next step and it fits into the category of communism where everything is totally equal.
HOBO JOE
January 29th, 2013
12:37 pm
There you have it, folks… all Democrats / Progressives / Gays are communists. On top of that, probably at least 30% of the Republican party are also communists, like Saxby Chambliss. So you see that we now have a de facto communist majority.
JSS
January 29th, 2013
12:38 pm
@ Jeff Galloway…
Has Leah Ward-Sears completely divorced herself of running for a political office? That Senate race just screams having someone like her that can’t be painted as a die-hard “liberal” by Georgia’s hard right…
Carol
January 29th, 2013
12:39 pm
Voter
Apparently at least 50% of the Georgians felt different since he was re-elected for a 2nd term.
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Remember that when you bash the President.
Voter
January 29th, 2013
12:45 pm
@TiredOfIt – “Please explain 911 then”
911 the Emergency Phone Number? I assume you mean the first 9/11 of 2001? Usama bin Laden helped plan and fund, with funds from Saddam Hussein, the terrorist attack on the Towers in New York, the Pentagon and probably the White House. If your asking why God allowed it, how should I know? That doesn’t change what I said, “People should remember, If God be for us, who can be against us?” God has a plan, He sent his Son, to be our Savior, a gateway to Heaven. All this on earth is our doing, some people said “we know better than God and we will do it our way” and God said ok, go ahead.
honested
January 29th, 2013
12:47 pm
Now appropriate availability (by virtue of means other than control of capital) of health care services is ‘leaning communist’.
You just can’t make this stuff up!
Voter
January 29th, 2013
12:50 pm
@Carol – “Remember that when you bash the President”
I don’t bash the president, I hold him accountable for his promises and his actions. As of yet, he hasn’t kept them, the lone exception being healthcare, which you will all see soon enough will be a disaster for this nation. His actions show him to be acting like dictator and emperor instead of a president. He lashes out at against any media that disagrees with him, he lashes out against anyone who disagrees with him. I, as a United States Citizen hold him accountable, period.
td
January 29th, 2013
12:50 pm
Look before I leap…
January 29th, 2013
12:34 pm
@td
Read article IV, Section 1 of the US Constitution, then please feel free to come back and admit you are wrong with respect to marriage being a state’s issue that enjoys no federal protection.
And once again, you personally are on extremely thin ice with this issue.
If marriage was a guaranteed right under the constitution then you would have a valid argument for the full faith and credit clause. It is not because states regulate marriage like how old you can marry, the degree of relationship you can marry and what can and can not be done when a marriage is broken. Some states have common law marriage are they recognized in other states? One of the states state that you can marry your first cousin but that marriage is not recognized as being valid in the other 49 states.
Your argument is not valid in practice as of today. The SCOTUS is taking up the matter and it could be in the future but not today,
“And once again, you personally are on extremely thin ice with this issue.”
Why am I personally on thin ice?
Look before I leap...
January 29th, 2013
12:50 pm
“Central government now controls, through regulation and rule making, the total means of production of 20% of GDP of this nation”
Please! The government has its sticky fingers in virtually 100% of US commerce.
They regulate car emissions, mandate seat belts and air bags, they set limits on the amounts of types of pollution allowed in manufacturing and energy production. They regulate air travel, when and where we can fly, standards for pilot training and aircraft. There are federal minimum wage laws. Standards for nursing home care. Food production and handling, cleanliness requirements for restaurants. Building codes and flammability of clothing materials.
20%?? HAH.
TiredOfIt
January 29th, 2013
12:51 pm
Voter
January 29th, 2013
12:45 pm
@TiredOfIt – “Please explain 911 then”
911 the Emergency Phone Number? I assume you mean the first 9/11 of 2001? Usama bin Laden helped plan and fund, with funds from Saddam Hussein, the terrorist attack on the Towers in New York, the Pentagon and probably the White House. If your asking why God allowed it, how should I know? That doesn’t change what I said, “People should remember, If God be for us, who can be against us?” God has a plan, He sent his Son, to be our Savior, a gateway to Heaven. All this on earth is our doing, some people said “we know better than God and we will do it our way” and God said ok, go ahead.
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What is Jesus didn’t die for our sins, but died from being nailed to a cross?
WOW
January 29th, 2013
12:59 pm
He lashes out at against any media that disagrees with him, he lashes out against anyone who disagrees with him. I
That’s funny considering the names he is called daily, just look to this blog for evidence.
td
January 29th, 2013
12:59 pm
Look before I leap…
January 29th, 2013
12:50 pm
“They regulate car emissions, mandate seat belts and air bags,”
Do these regulations control the amount of money charged for the product?
“They regulate air travel, when and where we can fly, standards for pilot training and aircraft.”
Do these regulation control the price a company can charge for the product they produce or limit the amount of production?
Huge difference my friend and you know it. Medicare and Medicaid is government control of what Doctors and Hospitals will be paid for the services they render. Doctors can choose not to accept these rates and not see these patients. Obamacare is currently telling privately owned insurance companies what they can spend for or what procedures they can actually pay for. The entire healthcare industry is now controlled by the government and that is socialism.
Puerile Pedant
January 29th, 2013
1:01 pm
If Sonny made $20 million on side deals while he was Governor, just think how much he could make on the side as a Senator…..
Voter
January 29th, 2013
1:04 pm
@WOW – “That’s funny considering the names he is called daily, just look to this blog for evidence.”
We, as United States Citizens can him accountable, period. Constitution says so. The President and Congressman do NOT hold the Citizen’s accountable. They work for us, not the other way around.
Look before I leap...
January 29th, 2013
1:08 pm
“One of the states state that you can marry your first cousin but that marriage is not recognized as being valid in the other 49 states. ”
Not true. 27 states allow marriage between 1st cousins and most states recognize those marriages.
But for Loving v. Virginia, your marriage here in GA would be invalid.
Voter
January 29th, 2013
1:09 pm
@TiredOfIt – “What is Jesus didn’t die for our sins, but died from being nailed to a cross?”
Actually, He was nailed to the cross but gave up His own life, that’s why He said “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.” Then the guards poked him with a spear to see if He was really dead.
Proud Voter
January 29th, 2013
1:14 pm
Voter: Why does a chicken sandwich have to involve sexual preference? It should involve a choice of mayo or not. Let’s get the issues in perspective.
Proud Voter
January 29th, 2013
1:14 pm
Voter: Why does a chicken sandwich have to involve sexual preference? It should involve a choice of mayo or not. Let’s get the issues in perspective.
CC
January 29th, 2013
1:24 pm
Has Chic-Fil-A bowed to the pressure of those engaged in the new slave trade?
“The documents, filed Nov. 15, instead exhibit nearly $6 million in funding to beneficiaries supporting youth, education, local communities and what Campus Pride called “marriage enrichment.”
“We are staring into the dawn of a new slave trade. Rather than let the Middle Passage happen and then spend centuries trying to exonerate our nation, we must be “on the right side of history.” Stop gay marriage — not because of hate for gay people, but because the machine that is turning people into chattel must be stopped. The only way to break the cycle and wake everyone up is stop gay marriage.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/01/the_oncoming_human_rights_crisiscaused_by_the_lgbt_movement.html#ixzz2JOEU5IhH
td
January 29th, 2013
1:34 pm
Look before I leap…
January 29th, 2013
1:08 pm
“One of the states state that you can marry your first cousin but that marriage is not recognized as being valid in the other 49 states. ”
Not true. 27 states allow marriage between 1st cousins and most states recognize those marriages.
You just validated the point I was making in that the full faith and credit clause does not apply to marriage. If it did then ALL states would have to recognize the marriage of first cousins.
Like I said before marriage is NOT a Constitutionally protected right and therefore the states can regulate it as they seem fit. If gay rights people do not likr it then amend the Constitution.
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Look before I leap...
January 29th, 2013
1:54 pm
@td
“If gay rights people do not likr it then amend the Constitution.”
No need to son. I threw out Article IV as a red herring just to amuse myself.
SCOTUS has a precedent to follow in Loving and eventually the 14th Amendment’s Equal protection clause will kick in for gay marriage.
It is not that marriage is a protected right, it is that the state affords certain benefits to married couples. SCOTUS will not redefine the traditional meaning of marriage. What they will do is define marriage as a church sacrament and leave each church to set its own definition of the word. They then will go on to recognize that the civil component of the marriage contract is in actuality a civil union which is not subject to any particular religious point of view.
1st amendment protected, 14th amendment protected, you can define marriage as you see fit as can Adam and Steve. Everybody happy!
Batallion Chief Bazinga
January 29th, 2013
1:54 pm
According to this quote by liberalefty, “the more racist the candidate ther better chance he will have of winning” can only mean that a woman is running next year and the two most viable candidates that fit that statement are Cynthia McKinney and Cynthia Tucker.
Look before I leap...
January 29th, 2013
1:55 pm
“and therefore the states can regulate it as they seem fit”
See above mentioned Loving v Virginia ruling which makes your statement untrue and your marriage valid in the state of GA.
Hollis
January 29th, 2013
2:07 pm
SKIPPER JONES for senate.
WOW
January 29th, 2013
2:27 pm
We, as United States Citizens can him accountable, period. Constitution says so. The President and Congressman do NOT hold the Citizen’s accountable. They work for us, not the other way around.
Who said you couldn’t “hold” him accountable. (whatever that means to you) My comment was based around the name calling. There is a respectful way to disagree and the disrespect of this President is higher than any other that I can remember.
n
January 29th, 2013
2:56 pm
Sonny Perdue is responsible for the loss to hunters, fishermen and nature lovers of a large portion of Oaky Woods WMA, which is now in the hands of his crony real estate investors and for sale to developers. Instead of pristine woods and black bears, there will be thousands of acres of strip malls and little boxes made of ticky tacky, similar to what exists throughout Dodge County and the rest of the Warner Robins area, which is a veritable hell hole of unregulated harum scarum development. Is this what these old white men want for their grandchildren? Do they even consider the consequences of their greed?
Retired Soldier
January 29th, 2013
3:06 pm
wow-
You sre kidding, right? You don’t remember how you guys would savage Bush? While the ugly language is wrong regardless of which president it is, it was much worse w/ Bush.
Remember the encampments at his farm? The Hitler comparisons? Why didn’t the same anti-war protesters protest Obama? Just wondering.
HOBO JOE
January 29th, 2013
3:27 pm
Retired: You should do a little research before you throw out ill-founded generalizations. In fact, the same anti-war protesters DO protest Obama. Google “Obama drone protest” or “Obama Guantanamo protest” if you need to see it for yourself. And while some of the “Occupy” folks were doubtlessly Obama voters, a good percentage of them were more critical of him than your average Tea Partier.
WOW
January 29th, 2013
3:43 pm
No, not kidding. Bush’s citizenship was never questioned; a Congressman never yelled out during a joint session of Congress towards him, he wasn’t the victim of racist parodies by talk radio host; I could go on forever…
Not defending the nastiness against Bush, but there is no way that its anything close to what this President has had to endure.
Carol
January 29th, 2013
3:46 pm
Voter
His actions show him to be acting like dictator and emperor instead of a president. He lashes out at against any media that disagrees with him, he lashes out against anyone who disagrees with him. I, as a United States Citizen hold him accountable, period.
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You really should stop getting all of your news from FAUX Network. This whole “he acts like a dictator or king” are the new buzz phrases. I know you don’t want to bring him up, but I have to use a point of reference. When GWB won his second term he said he said it gave him political capital and he was going to spend it. How is that any different than what the President is doing.
The people have spoken and they re-elected him. Obviously you didn’t vote for him, but this is they way our country works.
yuzeyurbrane
January 29th, 2013
5:32 pm
Neither Reed nor Barrow will run unless the stars align themselves properly. That means they will wait and see how much the Republicans bludgeon each other. Without that, the Democrats simply can’t win. With demographic changes down the line, the result might be different.
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D.C.
January 29th, 2013
10:54 pm
@ Td
“Another of the uninformed that have not been taught the real history of this country. Our founders placed the wall for the GOVERNMENT not to interfere with our religious freedom. There is absolutely no prohibition against religion being in government.”
That has to be the dumbest dodge I’ve ever seen. Walls, by definition, have two sides and nothing you’ve stated refutes either the question or the point I was making. Were our founding fathers communists for believing there should be a high wall between religion and state? Were they “destroying religion?” Next time you declare someone to be among the “uninformed,” make sure you’re not in the act of running away with your tail between your legs. Dodging the issue/question with nonsensical tangents and cherry picking the questions you decide to respond to, reeks of intellectual cowardice.
D.C.
January 29th, 2013
11:03 pm
@ td… again.
“If gay rights people do not likr it then amend the Constitution.”
Why? No need to amend the Constitution once the Supreme Court deems gay marriage a constitutionally protected act. You sure don’t seem informed.