To Georgia GOP: Grown-ups have more important things to worry about
Rusty Tanton | www.radicalgeorgiamoderate.org | Bio
As I was reading blogs this morning, I came across a post on Georgia Politics Unfiltered referencing a release put out by the Georgia GOP listing the "Top 5 Questions [for] Cathy Cox and Mark Taylor to Answer."
If you're reading this, chances are 99 percent you already knew Cox and Taylor are Democratic candidates in this year's Georgia gubernatorial election.
Number two on the GOP's list of questions for Cox and Taylor was, "Where do you stand on gay marriage?"
Number three was, "As governor, would you have signed the Women's Right to Know bill, requiring a 24-hour waiting period before a woman can have an abortion?"
How many people do those issues actually affect? Not many. Of everything someone could ask a candidate for governor, those are two of the five most important issues? How about asking the two candidates questions that actually affect most people in this state, like:
What will you do about gasoline approaching three dollars per gallon?
What will you do about there being more than one million adults in this state that can't afford health insurance?
What will you do about ballooning traffic congestion that's led to a psychotic proposal to expand Interstates 75 and 575 to 23 lanes?
What will you do about our bottom-of-the-barrel education system that ranks only above bastions of enlightenment like Alabama and Mississippi in most major statistical benchmarks?
Governor Sonny Perdue has had four years to answer those questions, and has yet to.
I am convinced that the Georgia GOP is operated by children who have no understanding of problems that real people face on a daily basis. Instead of solutions, it gives people bogeymen. Only children are scared of bogeymen.