Stupid Still Strong in Georgia

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   tb92 on May 21, 2014 at 2:08 pm

   At this point, I don’t think crazier is any worse than crazy. Neither will allow anything to be done. At least they lose seniority.

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   Anonymous on May 21, 2014 at 2:10 pm

   Well, in their defense, Rachel Maddow is sometimes quite sarcastic.

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   Marie2 on May 21, 2014 at 2:20 pm

   And to think that I didn’t even read it in the Washington Monthly.

   Woohoo GA GOP senate contest means that two of the dumbest and nastiest members of Congress, Reps Paul Broun and Phil Gingrey, are history.  (Charles P. Pierce may miss them; the rest of us not so much.)  Not that either district that elected such crazies are likely to vote in anyone sane, but possibly the craziest (teabagger, what else?) in the 10th District primary, Slowinski, came in dead last among the six running.

   For those that missed Brian Slowinski’s unbelievable music video campaign ad, it appears not to be currently available.

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     Marie2 on May 21, 2014 at 4:53 pm

     Charles P Pierce added his two cents today

     In Georgia, David Perdue self-financed his way into a runoff against Congressman Jack Kingston, who spent the entire campaign in Tea Party drag, probably because Georgia’s Tea Party fiesta is really where the wild things are. Kingston will have no choice but to flank Perdue’s campaign on the right during the nine weeks before the run-off election. (I am so looking forward to the video where Kingston pitches himself to the supporters of Phil Gingrey and Paul — Lies From The Pit Of Hell — Broun. This will require contortions that would tax the Cirque du Soleil.) This campaign could be conducted on an ideological spectrum that runs from Michelle Nunn, and her reluctance even to call herself a Democrat, to wherever it is on the dim starboard fringe that Kingston finally ends up. Or it will be Perdue and Nunn, racing toward some mythical “middle” which will warm the hearts of Sunday Showz centrists, but which will end up with either another Blue Dog in the Senate, or a reliable vote for doing nothing until 2014. …

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       dww44 on May 21, 2014 at 11:10 pm

       Well, as one who’s working in Nunn’s campaign, electing a Blue Dog Democrat is far preferable to electing David Perdue and adding to the Republican obstructionism in the Senate.  Perdue is such an arrogant jerk in his ads, if only because he held himself out as something extra special because he was CEO of Dollar General.  As one who’s been in their stores, he’s no friend to the little guy. And, their stores aren’t very appealing either.  Kingston may be crazy conservative, but he always had a reputation of being somewhat sane and thoughtful.

       And, by the way, it seems that Grimes in Kentucky has been as reluctant to align herself with Democratic policies and Obama as has Nunn. FYI, the young 20 something males running Nunn’s  regional campaign office here and who are from out-of-state think she’s going to win, but it’s way early to be making any prognostications.  But she/we’ve got a few weeks to to focus on registration of new voters including those whose registration lapsed because of the onerous voter id law of a couple or so years ago.