Georgia (Elections) on My Mind

Politics in Georgia are crazy this year.  

The incumbent Republican governor has a pretty good  chance of winning. I joke around that I am voting for him because he made sure all state employees got a permanent  $5000 raise.  

Seriously, what has Stacey Abrams done for me?

Even more seriously, I am not that crazy about the Republican party, but that doesn't motivate me to vote for a slate of Democrats. Maybe one....

Remember, I am in the 14th District. 

Anyway, the news about Herschel Walker will probably sink his boat, which is fine for me. Having a Republican Senate (to counteract the incompetence of the Biden administration, if for no other reason) is not important enough to violate all sanity, ethics, and good sense by voting for a person who was only put in the race as a token African-American and someone with UGA football recognition. None of that makes him qualified to be in the Senate.

The Dobbs decision by  the Supreme Court, sending abortion law back to the states, has had a possible countereffect. The federal politics is less important to those who care about life and vote that way. There are lots of other life issues (the lives of Ukrainians, for one) but abortion will not bring any Republicans out of the woodwork this midterm.  It's all about money, inflation, prices, the possibility (or presence) of a recession. Sometimes the state of the economy has nothing to do with the president, but this time it does, with all this spending.  

Biden is Panderer in Chief.  He is trying unconstitutionally to transfer debt from student loans (not forgiving it--it still exists), and today he let a bunch of weed users out of jail.  Yeah.


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