Leadership and Loss
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | July 13th at 06:00 AM |
“Leaders … just make a realistic assessment. And that assessment becomes very simple: John Oxendine must be destroyed either to get a chance to compete against Karen Handel or for the good of the party.” Down in Georgia, former Congressman Nathan Deal tried very hard to make immigration his issue. Trying his best to spin more than a decade in Washington as a plus in | Read More »
John Oxendine and the “Mentally Retarded Registered Voters”
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | June 24th at 10:40 AM |
John Oxendine, Repubilcan candidate for Governor in Georgia, tells everyone he voted for Ronald Reagan. He wants us all to know just how much of a Republican he has always been. Even when he was a Democrat, Oxendine voted Republican. That’s what he says. Except, like Oxendine’s pro-life position and every other position he has that doesn’t involve an exchange of money, it’s a lie. | Read More »
John Oxendine’s Binder
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | June 21st at 10:49 AM |
It was actually a birthday present of sorts. I received the information from out of state from a third party group interested in Georgia’s elections, particularly those candidates who will be good or bad for business in the state. It’s a binder containing a professionally compiled opposition research briefing on John Oxendine, Republican gubernatorial candidate in Georgia. If the information is not used in the | Read More »
Goring the Ox: Why John Oxendine Must Be Defeated
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | February 4th at 10:08 PM |
Yesterday I gave you background on Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine and why I think Republican Primary voters must unite to defeat him. Let me give you some more today. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) is one of the most conservative Republicans in Congress. He is unapologetic in his demands for smaller government. He has no shame in defying Republicans leaders in Congress, routinely voting against the | Read More »
Goring the Ox: The Georgia Republican Party is on Suicide Watch
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | February 3rd at 10:28 AM |
Editorial Note: Just to be clear, this is my personal view. At RedState, we would not support the Democrat. In fact, I would not write supportively of the Democrat at all even were Ox the nominee. RedState’s position is and has always been to support the conservative in the primary and the Republican in the general. That’s not changing. But by God I hope people | Read More »