With all the other freaky Senate races happening, the Georgia race isn’t getting the attention it deserves. This is an opportunity to win a seat—not just hold one, but actually take one away from a smarmy little weasel of an incumbent who shouldn’t be in office anyway. Democrats are running him as part of their Fake Moderate Strategy. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) is just a less masculine version of Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, and Republicans should be able to take back this seat in what is still a red-leaning state. But of course, being Republicans, they’ve screwed everything up early on. We still have a fighting chance, and at least one good candidate, but the GOP needs to get its act together. Yeah, I know you’re tired of hearing that.
This could’ve been an easy lay-up for outgoing GOP Governor Brian Kemp. He’s popular in the state, having defeated that fat communist lady whose name escapes me at the moment—you know, the chudette who insisted she won the governor’s race even though the state totally repudiated her and then she went on to guest star in a Star Trek episode set in an alternate timeline where there is no Ozempic? But Kemp has a problem, and that problem is his judgment. It sucks. First, he decided to get into a giant fight with Donald Trump over the 2020 election. Trump saw massive fraud and Kemp saw nothing, channeling Sergeant Schultz, just as many of these red-state Republicans do when faced with Democrat shenanigans. They hope that if they shut their eyes really tight and put their hands over their ears, all the difficult and challenging stuff in front of them will somehow go away.
It’s not going away.
He could’ve just walked into the Senate seat if he had decided to run. Winning that seat would completely change the dynamics of the Senate midterm races and pretty much make it impossible for the Democrats to win the Senate. And it was right there for the taking. He should’ve run. That’s what his party needed. That’s what his country needed. But that’s not what Kemp needed. No, Kemp listened to people telling him the lie that he could totally be president after being governor of Georgia, just like Jimmy Carter. OK, when someone’s telling you to channel that sanctimonious jerk—the idea that Jimmy Carter was some sort of humanitarian instead of a self-centered, Jew-hating, anti-American jackass is perhaps the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on humanity—you should immediately banish that person from your life. He’s not helping. So, instead of doing his duty, Kemp decided to follow the siren song of the presidency, because yeah, the GOP base is eager to have a president who won’t fight the Democrats when it gets hard and the media is watching.
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He really thinks he’s got a shot. I don’t know what gets into these people, but whatever.
So, he didn’t run, and then he had a great idea: he was going to get his buddy Derek Dooley to run. Dooley is a former college football coach, most notable for losing, and not even in Georgia. Once again, Kemp’s judgment is flawlessly bad:
“Hey Derek, do you want to be in the Senate?”
“Well, this coaching thing isn’t working out, so sure, I guess I could be a Senate guy. Is it hard?”
“It can’t be that hard if Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) can do it. So, what do you stand for?”
“You tell me!”
“Derek, you’re a natural! America, puppies, and common sense.”
“Yeah, those things.”
“Cool. You’ve already got the generic cliché Republizombie platform part down. Just one thing. Have you voted lately?”
“Why, no, I didn’t vote for 20 years because I wasn’t interested in politics. Is that bad?”
“Nah, we can work with that. I mean, who cares if a Republican Senate candidate couldn’t be bothered to vote in 2020?”
Well, Dooley is now tracking in the single digits in the three-man GOP primary set for May 19. Somehow, his bold “Georgia First” slogan isn’t resonating—perhaps because no one else in the primary is advocating for “Georgia Second.” The runner-up in the race is Rep. Buddy Carter. He’ll probably vote correctly most of the time, though he voted to let illegal aliens join the military to get amnesty – nah, that’s a no from me, dawg. Good enough no longer is – “Better than Ossoff” is a pretty low bar. Buddy’s campaign raises the question of “Why should Georgia risk nominating this guy?” He’s a back-slapping kind of fellow, a consummate politician, but do we really need Senator Buddy, who’s everybody’s buddy, who can happily hang out at the Palm with Thune and Co.? The only time he seems to draw blood is when somebody gets in the way of a job he wants. His whole campaign is based on attacking the guy in the lead, Rep. Mike Collins. Buddy’s got a lot of money, and it’s all going to attack ads. But where is his grassroots support? Without Trump on the ticket to bring people out, you need more than just attack ads.
The grassroots action is where Collins shines—the rank-and-file digs him. His lead is not built on ads, but on people. Collins seems like a solid guy who connects with working people (he worked in trucking) and has an impeccable faith, family, and flag voting record. The thing about him is that he’s tough like leather—you get the impression he’s been in a fistfight, unlike most of the GOP femboys we have to deal with. He just doesn’t care what the commies think. He’s not there to make friends, and we need more Republicans who aren’t there to make friends. The people of Georgia seem to agree. He’s polling in the 30s in the primary race, far ahead of the other two. He might even win the primary outright and avoid a June 16 runoff. Of course, the big open question is Donald Trump. The President has yet to endorse, and that will be critical.
But what about the general election against Ossoff? Ossoff is getting a lot of play right now by the regime media, who portray him exactly as you would imagine. He’s a young guy, always out there in an open-collar white shirt without a tie, sleeves rolled up as if he’s about to lift a bale of hay rather than eagerly submit his TPS report complete with cover sheet. He’s always shown speaking on stage, standing in front of a carefully curated panel of diverse people, and they’re very excited when he talks about how terrible Trump is. He’s kind of like Former U.S. Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-14), without the Chinese honeypot and sex assault allegations. So far, he seems superficially clean, but who knows what lurks in his browser history? These Democrats are always freaks.
But what’s really freaky isn’t his personal predilections, but the predilections of the Democratic platform, which he supports completely and wholeheartedly. He is happy to have children mutilated to conform to the gender delusions of their Munchausen wine mommies. He loves illegal aliens and wants many, many more of them; he’s not particularly concerned when they kill his constituents. He’s against voter ID and against fighting America’s enemies, but for giving free money to deadbeats and losers. As is the style of the day, he’ll try to play the moderate, even though there’s literally nothing he’s moderate about. Again, he’s Spanberger without the testosterone.
Ossoff is certainly not in tune with what Georgians want, which is why he’s trying to do the young, energetic, pragmatic, moderate guy thing to fool them. Collins, who’s likely to be nominated, is a solid working man who happens to agree with most Georgians on everything. He’s anti-perversion, anti-illegal alien, anti-crime, anti-taxes, pro-military, and generally everything Democrats hate. Even now, the polling is close between Collins and Ossoff. It will get closer when Collins asks Ossoff whether he agrees with his new friend, James Talarico, that God is non-binary.
We can win this seat. Don’t believe that Georgia has turned blue like the Democrats want you to think—it hasn’t. Collins is grassroots-focused, and that’s what matters in a midterm election. You’ve got to get the people out to vote. And you can only do that on the ground.
Of course, the big PACs and the Republican Party haven’t weighed in because we don’t have a nominee yet, but they damn well better dump in the dollars once this thing gets settled. We can’t ignore Georgia. No, this race doesn’t have some of the excitement of the mutant candidates in other races, like the guy with a Nazi tattoo or the guy who let the criminal out of jail who went and slaughtered the woman on a train. But the Georgia race could completely destroy the Democrats’ chances of taking the Senate. Ossoff is going to have more money than Crassus, but you know what happened to Crassus? He got overconfident and got molten gold poured down his piehole. Money in politics can be overrated. This Ossoff character – and it is a character since this moderate thing is all an act – doesn’t believe anything that normal Georgians believe. He’s vulnerable no matter what the regime media tells you, so that you won’t give to the GOP and so that you’ll be demoralized and sit this out. Don’t.
For once, the Republicans need to channel General George Patton, not General Lloyd Fredendall. We need to go on the offense, not the defense. We need to attack, attack, attack! This is a seat we can take. But the GOP must fight for it, and fighting requires a spine—but, of course, that’s all too often the problem with Republicans. No spine.
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