Liberal Media, treacherous savages

[Osborne Russell]

Professional Christian Ralph Reed has lost his bid to become lieutenant governor of Georgia.


In the end, voters punished Reed for the same kind of duplicitious political behavior he used to build campaigns against. As revelations from the Abramoff case slowly leaked out, it appeared
that as a lobbyist and consultant, Reed had urged his base to fight tribal casino gambling and state lotteries with the help of $5 million from competing gaming interests in four southern states . . .

Reed's evasive, constantly shifting explanations didn't help his cause. Reed first denied he used gambling funds for his lobbying efforts, then stated he didn't know the source of the funds, then said had he known he would not have accepted them, which ran counter to e-mails between him and Abramoff released by the U.S. Senate's Indian Affairs Committee. Then a week before the election, a tribe in Texas filed a federal lawsuit alleging fraud against the pair. In TV ads Reed
continued to blame the "liberal media," but for long stretches in the campaign he held no events and did no press interviews. Even a campaign appearance by Rudy Giuliani didn't help.

-- Time.com Posted Wednesday, Jul. 19, 2006

[LeeG]

oh darn,,the KoolAid ran out.

[Phillip Allen]

I like the term "Professional Christian" ...It speaks to me

[TomF]

I like the term "Professional Christian" ...It speaks to meAn oxymoron. And one of the reasons I dropped left the seminary.

[Osborne Russell]

I like the term "Professional Christian" ...It speaks to me

He once made the cover of an issue Time Magazine entitled "The Right Hand of God."


Reed led the Christian Coalition from 1989 to 1997, served as chairman of the Georgia Republican Party in 2002 and worked as southeast regional chairman for U.S. President George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign.

[Meerkat]

May it be a harbinger of good things to come in November.

Lieberman is slipping too and his challenger is ahead in the polls for the first time.

[Concordia...41]

Sounds surprisingly similar to this local goon

http://www.randallterry.com/site_images/mainpic.jpg

So why do they have their familes in the picture? Say you're a family man and be done. :rolleyes:

http://www.ralphreed.com/admin/uploads/VOTE-THIS-TUESDAY.jpg

[Meerkat]

Sounds surprisingly similar to this local goon

http://www.randallterry.com/site_images/mainpic.jpg

Obviously can't control his reproductive urges! :D

[ccmanuals]

This "values" message is the thing. Your going to see alot of this hype in the upcoming election. Don't be fooled by it.

Personnally, I could give a rat's a@@ about values. I care more about honesty and integrity and just doing the right thing. Values smalues.

Vote for the candidate who is not an incumbant!!!

[LeeG]

Randall Terry,,isn't he the guy out to save people in persistant vegetative states with no brain function?

[Concordia...41]

FWIW Randall Terry is all about reproductive urges and the naturalness of it all ... :rolleyes:

Edited to add - cross post - when he's not saving folks in persistent vegetative states, he's ensuring that life begins at conception and abortion should be illegal. Period.

After coming home the last few weeks to a half dozen recorded calls on my answering machine..."Hi, my name is Randall Terry and I'm..." - that's about the time I hit delete. Actually, one I listened to and it had a baby cooing and laughing in the background. Really creaped me out. I guess some folks made voting decision based on things like that :mad:

Another message said that if I'd like more information I could go to www.whoever.com. So I promptly did and requested that they immediately if not sooner! delete 904-xxx-xxxx from their computerized calling list.

To their credit, the calls have stopped. On the other hand, I came home the other evening to find a piece of campaign literature in my door - with a handwritten note "Sorry I missed you - Randall Terry".

Likely a coincidence because there there were a couple of new campaign signs on our street that day, and he may just have been doing a door to door. But pretty creepy too.

[shamus]

Reckon that little fat guy is same father?

[Concordia...41]

Yeah, when I was pulling the pictures, my knee-jerk response was to say, "Our candidate's kids are better looking than your candidate's." Especially as the Georgia candidate's appear to be a bit on the chunky side.

Then reason took over and picking on a kid in his father's advertising seemed pretty poor form.

On one hand - whether you run for school board, city commission, state office, or higher, doing something for what you believe in is commendable.

One of my friends did a few years on the city council and he made it a point to walk every street in every precinct. Some folks were nice, some folks yelled at him because the garbage folks lost the lid to their trash can. :eek: The writers for Saturday Night Live couldn't come up with better material in a million years :D

On the other hand, if the likes of Randall Terry ever ring my doorbell, I will politely let them know they have about 5 seconds to get off my property.

[Ed Harrow]

I like the term "Professional Christian" ...

ROTFLMHO! Now that brought a much needed smile to my face. I must remember that!

[shamus]

If the parents aren't too concerned about using their kids, they're fair game I'd say. Dad and elder brother look psoitively scrawny. Now I've had a good look, I think Mum and the kid have been sneaking to the takeaway with his pocket money.

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Hmmm ... Here in the frozen north, you do see a picture of a candidates family very occasionally inside a larger piece of campaign literature, or some written acknowledgement to being married with kids or whatever, but quite rarely.

[Osborne Russell]

Kind of a drag when the state party chairman loses in his own party's primary.

But before you break out your patchouli-soaked bandanas, please note that the victor favors a ban on gay marriage, posting the ten commandments on public property, banning abortion, etc. The only difference is that he didn't take money from Abramoff.

Maybe he's God's new right hand.

[Meerkat]

Personally, I favor gay marriage, a balanced budget and a ban on republicans!

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Personally, I favor wimmins.

[PatCox]

Randall Terry, Operation Rescue Randall Terry? He's just shy of being a terrorist in my book, encouraging people to go out and harrass young women in trouble, calling them murderers, creating the atmosphere that encourages abortion clinic bombings and snipers murdering doctors.

[Concordia...41]

Randall Terry, Operation Rescue Randall Terry? He's just shy of being a terrorist in my book, encouraging people to go out and harrass young women in trouble, calling them murderers, creating the atmosphere that encourages abortion clinic bombings and snipers murdering doctors.

Yeah, that's the guy. Of course to hear him talk he's all reformed / been given a bad rap but that's why I don't want even computerized calls from his campaign and why I'd give him five seconds to get off my property if he shows up at the door again.

[Milo Christensen]

Margo:

I'd be interested to know who Randall Terry's competition is? Is there a viable challenger?

[Mrleft8]

Obviously can't control his reproductive urges! :D
Do we suppose that this guy has 2 wives, or that he fathered one of his own grandchildren...........?
(Edit: Now why didn't the picture come through with the quote?)

[huisjen]

I understand that when Jesse Ventura ran for MN Governor, he made the announcement without his family hovering about him. This was unusual and the media folk asked about it. He replied that he was running for Governor and they weren't.

Dan

[S/V Laura Ellen]

Do we suppose that this guy has 2 wives, or that he fathered one of his own grandchildren...........?
(Edit: Now why didn't the picture come through with the quote?)

Probably his wife, daughter and grandkids. Sounds like a wholesome image, but if thats the case then where is the son-in-law.:confused:

Or it could be his wife and kids and a nanny/mistress.:eek:

The picture did not come across because it was a quote from an earlier post by Margo.

[Mrleft8]

.....OR.....Wife, wife's lesbian lover (Now that it's OK to be a lesbian-republican thanx to Mary Cheney...), and the lesbian lover's kids from a test tube pregnancy.....?

[S/V Laura Ellen]

Alien wife and alien/human spawn (I don't mean Mexicans, I mean ETs). The alien experiments could have caused biological imbalances in his brain that caused a radically conservative thought pattern (dementia).:D

And to anser your question, no ... I don't believe the cr** I just spouted.:rolleyes:

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/90/Jimmcgreevey.jpg/375px-Jimmcgreevey.jpg



McGreevey has one daughter, Morag, from his first marriage to Canadian Kari Schutz, which ended in divorce (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce), and another daughter from his second marriage to Dina Matos, from whom McGreevey is now separated (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_separation). McGreevey and Matos are in the process of divorcing.
In an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir The Confession, McGreevey describes the duality of his personal life before he came out as gay: "As glorious and meaningful as it would have been to have a loving and sound sexual experience with another man, I knew I'd have to undo my happiness step by step as I began chasing my dream of a public career and the kind of 'acceptable' life that went with it. So, instead, I settled for the detached anonymity of bookstores and rest stops -- a compromise, but one that was wholly unfulfilling and morally unsatisfactory."[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McGreevey#_note-4)
McGreevey has been dating an Australian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia)-born executive, Mark O'Donnell (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_O%27Donnell&action=edit), since late 2005. The New York City-area media reported in April 2006 that the couple were planning to buy a house together in Plainfield, New Jersey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plainfield%2C_New_Jersey).[6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McGreevey#_note-5)[7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McGreevey#_note-6)
McGreevey and O'Donnell regularly attend Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Bartholomew%27s_Episcopal_Church%2C_New_York ), which has a far more liberal attitude towards homosexuality than the Roman Catholic Church

[paladin]

darn, Margo...Lock time on a S & W is about 1/100th of a second, hammer falls...gun goes off...and if loaded with .357 or .44 magnum ratshot you could put about 1-1.5 ounces of #8 shot in his...uh...oh my........backside as he turns to run.......:D

[Concordia...41]

Agreed ratshot would be appropriate, but isn't 1.5 ounces being wasteful??? ;)

[Donn]

Half ounce of shot and a half ounce of salt...to sterilize the wound.:D