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On a Roll November 9, 2006 08:41PM

In this particular election, no one on the ballot was even close to my beliefs and principles. The closet thing to a conservative on my ballot was Dr. Tom Price. He didn't get my vote because he voted straight party line on every spending program pushed through this Congress... That includes...

The prescription drug bill
The highway bill that included the infamous bridge
The energy bill that included more than 4500 earmarks.
A defense bill that included ONE MILLION DOLLARS for the International Toilet convention and their research on waterless toilets.
Earmarks for the renovation of two observatories one of which will be become a musuem for scientific research on outer space.

This type of government spending is no where close to my beliefs. So with him, I abstained. Price still got 78% of the vote.

My Governor, Sonny Perdue, has led more change for the state of Georgia in four years than any governor before him. When Ford and GM announced plant closings in the Atlanta area that was countered with announcements of Kia and BMW (or was it Toyota, the memory is short right now) plants being built (BMW has since pulled out due to RINO state politicians). Sonny was the first governor in the country to kill the state gas tax after Katrina and the first governor to put guardsmen on the ground at the border last summer.

With all these conservative policies and achievements, he still felt the need to run like he was a democrat. He slammed big oil in his campaign ads. He promised to make the Senior Citizen a protected class of person.. He promised to create more jobs for the teacher's unions (calling the new jobs graduation coaches).

My vote was his to lose, and he lost it because of his campaign. He won re-election with 58% of the vote. I voted for the Libertarian candidate, Garrett Michael Hayes.

And certainly my beliefs are nowhere near the beliefs of the gang of 14 (including 7RINOs) who log-jammed judicial nominations then went back on their word when the next judge was filibustered.

My beliefs would have had a Congress tell President Bush that his Panel for Tax reform was nothing short of a sham pulled over ignorant people's eyes. He formed that committee in January 2005 to give him a recommendation, and that recommendation was that we need better enforcement and a Value Added Tax on top of the income tax. That came under the guise of Tax REFORM. Not my beliefs. sorry.

My beliefs align with Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey. Jeff Shaddeg and Mike Pence. These are the people that should and will lead the conservatism back to power in 2008. Not McCain. Not Graham. Not Hastert. and Not Frist.

You can have all four of them. And as someone once opined, This country won't be destroyed from forces outside our borders, it will be destroyed by forces within.. Republicans pretending to be conservatives are worse than liberals.

I don't like the results of this election. I hate what happened. But the spanking republicans took, they took it on their own accord. With all due respect to anyone who disagrees... The democrats didn't win. Republicans lost. Conservative measures passed almost all state ballots. Conservatism won. And because the people who stayed home or abstained stood up and said we aren't going to take it anymore, they showed the beltway crowd who is boss... and We the People should be proud that the whole lot us stood up and decided to change the course of history. This was an historic election. It was the grassroots revolution taking hold. It wasn't a Republican crack up as much as it was a conservative crackdown (credit Limbaugh for that line). It wasn't people tellling Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid we need a new direction. It was people telling Denny Hastert and Bill Frist they weren't the leaders they told us they would be. They told Ted Stevens where he could shove that bridge. They told Dewine and Chaffee that because of them the window of opportunity to replace activist judges with constitutionalists was missed on their watches. Some people are starting to get it. Finally.

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