That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections. You gather a group of middle-aged, middle-class, middle-income voters who remember with longing an easier time, and you talk to them about family and American values and character. And wave an old photo of the President’s girlfriend and you scream about patriotism and you tell them, she’s to blame for their lot in life, and you go on television and you call her a whore. -The American President
Earlier this week, Karen Handel did just this at a “Women for Handel” event when she characterized the entire General Assembly as corrupt, saying that there was a “culture of “sex, lies and lobbyists”" under the Gold Dome, and implying that the entire General Assembly was a part of it.
What Karen doesn’t know is that I have actually known one of the Representatives in particular for the vast majority of my life. His wife taught in the class next door to mine in 4th grade, and she was my teacher in both 8th and 9th grades. This particular Representative, Paul Battles (R-Cartersville), was once a pastor, and I attended Vacation Bible School at his church several times as a kid. I can drive you through the boonies outside Cartersville and show you where Rep Battles and his wife once lived, about a half mile down the road from the elementary school I first met Mrs. Battles at.
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