Worse things have happened….at least no sex was involved!

On PP there seems to be little tolerance for polemicists, party hacks, or lemmings, though. I think that is unfair to lemmings, I mean who do they bother?

mariettaelephant, don’t feel badly, GOP Georgia holds the all time record of SIXTEEN thumbs down. Since one cannot vote twice, I am amazed that SIXTEEN individuals agreed on anything other than where to meet to talk about politics.

Or bash lemmings, which we all hate.

Not for nuthin…but if you think the Revenue Commissioner didn’t know what was in the bill, you don’t know the Commissioner. He is aware of everything and is known for his extreme sense of caution.

Some of us will be doing the same.

Excellent synopsis. Time will tell if Erick really has changed his spots to consistently demand that these people stand behind party principles.

As it stands, the GOP is a party of pirates.

Cheer up, maybe they’ll be back. I want them to reply to my posts. Especially the one on this Larry O’Neal thread at 10:25 AM today. I’m interested to see what they have to say.

Great response.

(1) The Peach Pundit netroots gets in a wad about something (e.g. Saxby is a RINO!).

(2) They make big bold declarations about action they’re going to take (e.g. we’re going to walk out on Saxby when he speaks at the convention!).

(3) A week or two passes, and enough steam gets blown off. Then Erick shifts into self-preservation mode, posts move on to other topics, and the discussed action never happens.

Finally, once the Democrat opponents are nominated… everyone defends the people they wanted to see on pikes just months earlier, now saying the exact opposite things.

This is, of course, precisely why the Georgia GOP is so corrupt and ineffective (for everyone except Georgia Power). Despite the big talk but the backbench and grassroots, too many people are glad-handing p*ssies who just want to fit in and be liked. When it’s time to be angry, you talk angry… when it’s time to sit down and shut up again, you sit down.

Six months from now I’ll be digging up a lot of the quotes that partisan commenters have been posting here for the past week. The more honorable people will stand by their words, and simply try to argue that the Dem or Libertarian is worse. The less honorable hacks will try to squirm out or explain why things are TOTALLY different at the time. Neither group, however, is likely to remain hot-under-the-collar by then if doing so would put them in the minority at their county party’s monthly breakfast meetings.

(1) The Peach Pundit netroots gets in a wad about something (e.g. Saxby is a RINO!).

(2) They make big bold declarations about action they’re going to take (e.g. we’re going to walk out on Saxby when he speaks at the convention!).

(3) A week or two passes, and enough steam gets blown off. Then Erick shifts into self-preservation mode, posts move on to other topics, and the discussed action never happens.

Finally, once the Democrat opponents are nominated… everyone defends the people they wanted to see on pikes just months earlier, now saying the exact opposite things.

This is, of course, precisely why the Georgia GOP is so corrupt and ineffective (for everyone except Georgia Power). Despite the big talk but the backbench and grassroots, too many people are glad-handing p*ssies who just want to fit in and be liked. When it’s time to be angry, you talk angry… when it’s time to sit down and shut up again, you sit down.

Six months from now I’ll be resurrecting a lot of the quotes that commenters have been posting for the past week… and I’m sure they’ll explain why things are TOTALLY

Whether they dislike each other or not is irrelevant at this point. This appears to be about preserving the moderate status quo. I have even heard through the grapevine that Ms. Sue Everhart is against the no tax pledge that Rep. Steve Davis has sent out. That is as moderate as it comes, and smells very strongly of the involvement of a Governor who would not sign the JOBS bill to cut capital gains when there are no capital gains being realized.

For the record, my first choice for speaker at this point is Loudermilk, who is admittedly a long-shot, but as conservative and honest an individual you will find down in Atlanta.

You are correct, and I stand corrected. It’s not just liberals. There are some who claim the “conservative” mantle that are as guilty.

You can explain later what happened to your pragmatism. I was pretty sure there were some principles under there.