Thursday, August 27, 2009
Politics / Woods Ramsey Running as Tennessee's Bob Dole
Posted by Jeff Woods on Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:05 AM
Let's set aside Zach Wamp for a moment. His comments yesterday were almost too goofy for words. At a forum for the Republican Women of Williamson County (it must have required quite a large parking lot to handle all those Cadillac SUVs) the Wampster declared that if he's elected governor, an aura of goodness will radiate across the state border.
"We are a Godly state, a state after God's own heart. What Sonny Perdue has done down in Georgia, we can do in Tennessee. We're not going to run from the Lord, we're going to run to him as a people, as a state, and we'll be blessed for it."
Wamp said people shouldn't get anywhere close to the state without feeling the "goodness of our people." That is, unless you're President Obama and you're coming to take away our guns, in which case Wamp will meet you at the state line with an armed militia.
But today, we really want to discuss what Ron Ramsey said at the forum. Do you think it's a good idea for Ramsey to run as a legislative insider? Of course, he is an insider, but he doesn't have to emphasize it. He could claim the reformer mantle and say he's been trying for 17 years to straighten out Nashville. That might work. But according to WPLN, he's coming across like a Tennessee version of Bob Dole:
On several occasions during the panel session, Ramsey described the inner workings of negotiations in the General Assembly, sharing what he called his "inside baseball" knowledge."We need a governor who is ready to hit the ground running, that doesn't need a briefing book on how state government works. I've been there. I've done that for 17 years."
We could be wrong but we've always thought the legislature is generally reviled by voters across the state. Look at this year's crazy session, and the sex scandal that followed this summer. If voters are paying attention at all, their opinion can have fallen only to new lows. Yet Ramsey is pinning his electoral hopes on the wacky notion that people like our legislature.
We're talking about the Senate speaker whose Republican majority spent this year's session enacting its guns-and-god agenda and denouncing the economic stimulus as socialism. Even if that pleased most Republicans, they must have felt let down by all the rest of the embarrassing shenanigans that took place. We doubt voters are looking for an insider for governor.
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You know, it is just as well that I couldn't make this one.
The women of Williamson County have to be looking for any available alternative at this point in the race.
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I don't think we can use anymore of the Tennessee definition of "aura of goodness"
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"We're talking about the Senate speaker whose Republican majority spent this year's session enacting its guns-and-god agenda and denouncing the economic stimulus as socialism."
I don't know a soul here in TN that wanted that gun bill passed. That wasn't even pandering just to the crazy ass base, it was a kiss up to the NRA for political donations.
And as far as the socialism issue, these idiots have never had to worry about paying the rent, feeding their kids, getting medical treatment or not, being unemployed, do I have to go on? The legislature is getting crazier and crazier by the day.
Are there any real Democrats in TN? I don't mean people like Bredeson. I mean real Democrats? If so, I'll be volunteering for them when the time comes around. I am so sick of these gun toting, hateful, sore losing American terrorists.
Well, if Sonny Perdue had his way and the border was a few miles north, Rep. Wamp's hometown of Chattanooga would BE in Georgia and Wamp would be under the godly rule of Gov. Perdue.
Maybe that's why Wamp wants to be the Guvnuh. It's a conspiracy!
Consider this the founding of The Borderer Movement.
I'll bet he tossed out the fact that he has promised to appoint a home school parent to the State Board of Education. That plays well in the GOP primary.
A noteworthy example of Tennessee Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey "hitting the ground running": in February 2005 then TNGA Senator Ramsey introduced a bill (2005 SB0698) to change county wheel tax legislation to give Tennessee county commissioners the sole authority to enact wheel taxes by majority vote, thus taking away the ability of Tennessee voters to decide on local wheel tax in referendums.
YouTube: Ron Ramsey Commercial (aired in the Northeast during the 2004 state elections)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIi9S2y5FIk
"We are a Godly state, a state after God's own heart. What Sonny Perdue has done down in Georgia, we can do in Tennessee. We're not going to run from the Lord, we're going to run to him as a people, as a state, and we'll be blessed for it."
Ramsey is just as a big joke as Georgia Governor Perdue:
Governor Sonny Perdue Prays For Rain in Georgia
http://www.wdef.com/video/governor_sonny_perdue_prays_for_rain_in_georgia/11/2007
The Teapot Atheist
News flash: Sonny Perdue's plan to pray for rain didn't work!
http://teapotatheism.blogspot.com/2007/11/news-flash-sonny-perdues-plan-to-pray.html
Ron who?
One can only channel Bob Dole by referring to oneself by name and in the third person or, alternatively, by making your erectile dysfunction an issue of national prominence and concern.
What I thought was really funny about Bob Dole's Viagra commercial (following his retirement from the U.S. Senate) was the graphics that were repeatedly streaming by Dole's head: "E.D."
Which you really interpret to mean either "erectile dysfunction" or "Elizabeth Dole"...
Could you help me. My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. Help me! Could you help me find sites on the: How air conditioners work. I found only this - air conditioner. Air conditioners, a air of areas are killed off by this orient air, following there is no announcer that they are waiting to pump protocols of companies not to accept heating. Air conditioners, this is the electric order of little outside area for the production because they work to like the mini warmth. Waiting for a reply :rolleyes:, Jagger from Maldives.
What in the heck is wrong with God, guns or an "aura of goodness"? Our country was built on all three. "A right to bear arms" was written before any of us were born! And if you think for one minute that taking guns away from good people will solve the issues of idiocy (idiots who kill with guns), you are sadly mistaken. Bad guys will always have them, and if they don't, they will find another method for killing.
And by the way, there are plenty of us who have paid rent, raised kids, worried about medical treatment and the rest- but we didn't expect the government to do it all for us. We did it on our own and worked hard. No where in the constitution are we quaranteed help for those basic things.
The government has proven that it does a very poor job of running programs, whether Republican or Democrat. Everyone needs to wake up and stop all the party line complaining, because under the current administration you are looking at government run everything, including now, the internet... if you think you have it bad now, just wait.
