I keep getting emails, so let me put this on the front page of RedState. Here’s how I’m voting in Georgia:
Governor: Karen Handel
Secretary of State: Brian Kemp
Attorney General: Max Wood
Insurance Commissioner: Gerry Purcell
Labor Commissioner: Melvin Everson
Agriculture Commissioner: Gary Black
School Superintendent: John Barge
PSC: John Douglas
I had wanted to vote for Doug for Secretary of State, but while I think he’s probably the most qualified person to ever run for the job, I have been less than impressed with his campaign and the mail piece on military voters.
I sincerely hope Melvin Everson wins Labor Commissioner.
I’ll be voting for the Libertarian for School Superintendent in the General Election unless someone really sells me on one of the Republicans.
I say again that every single person running for Governor on the Democratic ticket is more honorable than John Oxendine and should Oxendine win I will vote for the Democrat.
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
Dan Spencer
Jeff Emanuel
Neil Stevens
Erick
rdelbov Monday, July 12th at 4:03PM EDT (link)how about US senate and congressman??
Dumb question -- Can we bring a list of who we will vote for with us to the polls or is that illegal?
earlgrey (Diary) Monday, July 12th at 4:08PM EDT (link)I only used to vote the big elections, and now am voting locally, and it is hard to remember the names for all the smaller offices. yes , I look for the R next to the name, but some small local elections don’t have party affiliation and of course we do have a primary coming up.
I would be stunned if it were not legal
cwilson (Diary) Monday, July 12th at 4:21PM EDT (link)especially as I’ve been doing that for years. The local fishwrap is at least good for printing a sample ballot, and I mark that up long before the election. (Although these days I can get the sample ballot from the county board of elections website).
I also make copies of my marked up version and give it, before the election, to various people who trust me to research all those “smaller” offices ’cause they “don’t have the time”. (Don’t try to hand it out at the polling place to strangers; that’s “electioneering” and illegal. Don’t leave it behind at the polling station, either — “accidentally” or otherwise. That’s a no-no.)
But this effectively magnifies my vote IN those smaller elections, since so many other voters skip them. Develop a reputation among your friends and family as the fair-minded, principled, go-to person for the scoop on local politics — and you can be pretty effective. It only costs a little time, about once a year.
Last year I put together a list of links to various local voter’s guides from both left- and right- leaning groups, and used that when even my liberal friends asked for info. Even though their principles differ from mine, I’d rather even THEY vote based on an informed choice, instead of basing it on whatever political ad they happened to hear on Monday night.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! –Samuel Adams
Yes you can.
gekster (Diary) Monday, July 12th at 4:22PM EDT (link)You can be alone with your list in the voting booth.
I urge my parents, (both 80) to take a list of who the want to vote for with them.
And as I very often told my kids when they were in school,
the only dumb question was the one not asked.
They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.
We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway
I’ve gone from
“Hope and Change” to
“Hopeless and Changeless”
The only restrictions that I am aware of
rdelbov Monday, July 12th at 4:33PM EDT (link)relate to campaigning inside of the polls. When I worked at the polls you could bring your sample ballot in but you were not allowed to encourage others to vote for your candidates.
T shirts that you were wearing or fans or other campaign material was allowed in. Same rules applied–no campaigning. If someone saw you with a Republican sample ballot that was your right to carry it.
Actually that's not true
Change Jar Conservative (Diary) Monday, July 12th at 11:14PM EDT (link)The rules state that you may not wear a shirt / pin / sign etc within X number of feet of a polling place. We had to ask people to go home who had on McCain stuff in the last election.
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Not saying you are wrong
conservativecrusade (Diary) Monday, July 12th at 4:42PM EDT (link)as I do not live in GA and do not know that much about Oxendine, BUT:
Why have people been banned or threatened to be banned for saying the same thing you did, “I say again that every single person running for Governor on the Democratic ticket is more honorable than John Oxendine and should Oxendine win I will vote for the Democrat.” but just about some other looser republicrat.
Why has this site made it very clear that it is a banning offense to shift from the site policy conservative in the primary, always republican in the general even if you have to hold your nose while doing so? Is that the site policy or just the mods policy?
Personally, I believe there is not one good democrat period. If the republican is that bad, I just do not vote for that area. But to check the democrat box not only goes against common sense, but the reality that there is no good democrat.
Had Campbell won in CA would it have been OK for those in CA to say they may as well vote Boxer. At least Boxer is honest about her liberal agenda and Campbell would have been pure scum and just as, if not more, liberal? I would guess the answer is no. Brings to mind the whole goose and gander thing.
“The America Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” — Alexis de Tocqueville
If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting. — Curtis LeMay
We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence. — George Washington
Campbell
redtillimdead (Diary) Monday, July 12th at 5:16PM EDT (link)Is not a corrupt, sick, lying Republican.
Nancy Pelosi can kiss my asstroturf.
Since when
conservativecrusade (Diary) Monday, July 12th at 8:39PM EDT (link)did he get saved yesterday, repent of all his evil ways, and we have not heard about it yet? Unless the answer is yes, Campbell is as bad as they come. Like I said, do not know the GA guy, but name every fault about him, and I can list another 10 republicans who do the very same things, Campbell included.
We either are a part of a site and believe in a site that is a true conservative site that does not ever support democrats, or we belong to a site that only enforces that rule on it members, but does not practice the rule itself.
There are few things in life that you can say “always” about, but one is, democrats are always the one not to vote for no matter how crappy the republican is. And if after the health care fiasco where so many of the so called conservative or moderate good dems bowed to Obama is not enough proof of that, then your eyes are closed.
True conservative should never, and I repeat never, vote a dem. If the person under the “D” is a decent person, they would not be a dem in the first place. If faced with two choices where the republican is as bad or worse than the dem, we still should never vote the dem, we should just refrain from voting that slot. If we vote dem for any reason it sets a bad precedent that will cause this country serious problems as it has already. Half the dems in power, their leader included, are in power only because people decided the republicans needed to stay home for awhile and because the republicans gave the masses lousy candidates and it has cost us dearly and will cost us much more by the time it is over.
“The America Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” — Alexis de Tocqueville
If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting. — Curtis LeMay
We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence. — George Washington
I certainly wouldn't vote for an official Dim
JamesSmith130 Monday, July 12th at 11:36PM EDT (link)but I wouldn’t vote for Tom Campbell, Mike Castle, or Bill Binnie in a general election. These guys aren’t RINOs, they are basically Dims in nearly every way.
I’m willing to vote for a Republican that I don’t agree with on everything, but there are limits. Being slightly better than the official Dim is not sufficient to get my vote.
But I don’t understand why Oxendine is so bad.
I Would Have Voted for Tom Campbell...
IJB Monday, July 12th at 11:44PM EDT (link)…And I *despise* Tom Campbell.
But against Boxer, I would have voted even for him. I’d vote for Bozo The Clown over Boxer!
Against Feinstein?… It would have been a closer call – I might have sat on my hands then, depending on what the macro-political environment was…
I agree with you IJB
conservativecrusade (Diary) Monday, July 12th at 11:58PM EDT (link)and that is my point. Take the worst republican and the “best” democrat and the republican wins each and every time. It may be real close, but after the lesson we have been taught over the last few years, no republican should ever vote for any democrat.
There are times we have to puke after voting, but there still should not be any of us voting a dem in any race. If the choice is so bad you can not stand it, then do not vote for either, although this is sort of the same thing as voting a dem because the dem gains one and the republican looses one base on the no vote. But if your stomach can not stand to vote the republican, it should not be able to stand the vote for a dem.
I believe very strongly in the site policy, republican always. Just do not understand how the leader who has stated the policy so many times now switches stances. He is way too smart, way too informed, knows all too well how the “moderate” dems (or better than the republican who they ran against) have screwed this country to be changing the stance now over Oxendine. Oxendine may be scum personified, I do not doubt his assessment, but the other option would be to have a dem, if he wins the primary, and that is not a good option ever!
“The America Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” — Alexis de Tocqueville
If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting. — Curtis LeMay
We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence. — George Washington
My Choices
SE-779 (Diary) Monday, July 12th at 5:17PM EDT (link)Governor: Ray McBerry
Secretary of State: Brian Kemp
Attorney General: Max Wood
Insurance Commissioner: Gerry Purcell
Labor Commissioner: Melvin Everson
Agriculture Commissioner: Gary Black
School Superintendent: John Barge
PSC: Jeff May
CD-09: Steve Tarvin
“Earnesty is stupidity sent to College”-PJ O’Rourke
“If you vote based on who has more election signs, you’re an idiot.”-Glenn Beck
“Stupid is what stupid writes.”-Yogi Berra
“It ain’t over til’ the sodaholic passes a gall-stone.”
“If I am going to stick a knife in you I am going to do it up front in your chest, I am never going to do it in your back. You will always see it coming.”-John Oxendine
“If wishes were horses, we’d be knee deep in crap.”-Dr. Robert “Rocket” Romano
“Yeah, try to hide your wild enthusiasm at my return. I find overt displays of emotion embarrassing.”-Dr. Robert “Rocket” Romano
“If you want something cuddly to keep you company, buy a hamster, don’t have a child.”-Jesse Ventura
McBerry?
Erick Erickson (Diary) Monday, July 12th at 5:56PM EDT (link)Seriously? He of the allegedly inappropriate allegedly relationship with the alleged sixteen year old student under his alleged care?
Who will stand on either hand and keep this bridge with me?Follow @EWErickson
Let's not forget
Kudzu (Diary) Monday, July 12th at 8:20PM EDT (link)McBerry’s disdain for the American flag. His whole “Georgia First” campaign briefs well but it don’t add up to a solid win for the state. He wants to bash the federal government every chance he gets and apparently wants to lead the Second Secession. Any man that doesn’t salute the flag that I and so many other Geogians (including our own Georgia National Guard and Air Guard) fight under can literally kiss my fourth point of contact.
It always did take two of you to take down one of me. – Jo Bob Priddy, North Dallas Forty.
Now on at http://kudzu630.wordpress.com/
Erick, what the heck
animatorgirl Monday, July 12th at 5:19PM EDT (link)is going on over there at Peach Pundit? They HATE Handel. I mean, if you support someone else, that’s fine: that’s what primaries are for. But GEEZ, I’m not aware of anything she’s done to merit such nastiness.
Apparently, getting Palin’s endorsement is a cardinal sin now.
Erick -- I guess I'm confused by Redstate's stand
Change Jar Conservative (Diary) Monday, July 12th at 11:18PM EDT (link)I thought it was “Conservative in the Primary” but “Republican in the General” …..
But you’re publicly stating that not only are you not going to vote for Ox if he’s the candidate but also not the School Superintendent also …
I guess I don’t understand when the rules apply and when they don’t.
Here’s the list I’m touting …
I like Woods for School Super as well since he has a plan to add a technical track to high school cirriculam and I think that is valueable.
Senate — Isakkson (unoppossed)
Governor — Karen HANDEL
Lt. Gov — Casey Cagle (unoppossed)
Sec of State — Doug Macginnitie
Attorney General — Max Wood
Ag Commissioner — Gary Black
Ins Commissioner — Tom Knox
State School Superintendent — Richard Woods
Labor Commissioner — Melvin Everson
PUC Commissioner — Joey Brush
US Rep — Tom Price (unoppossed)
I’ll be voting for the Republican in the general ….
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Formerly know as “Oz” in these parts