Rallying around Sonny
November 16, 2006 at 10:16 am by Web Editor in NewsAt least one tom-tom drum has started on the Internet, tapping out a pumped-up "Sonny for President" beat. Of course, a reaction like this was inevitable given Gov. Sonny Perdue’s annihilation of Democratic challenger Mark Taylor on Election Day. As GOP stars lay vanquished elsewhere — Santorum, Allen, Hayworth, Pombo, Burns — Georgia Republicans found themselves at the epicenter of a significant party victory. They looked up and saw Sonny standing there, smiling calmly in the midst of the rest of the country’s madness. "It’s gonna be all right." He was even more than avuncular now. He was the hometown champion being inflated and inflated by a roomful of Westin revelers to a size bigger than the bad news almost everywhere else. As Perdue welcomed victory, even as Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi clasped hands and raised their own arms in triumph, Georgia reasserted itself as the ideological opposite of New York City and San Francisco. And if Schumer and Pelosi would drag this good country down, who better to place it on his shoulders come 2008 than Sonny?
November 16th, 2006 at 10:33 am
Sonny’s smart, but he’s to parochial for his intelligence and what little charisma he has to translate outside Georgia. Sonny’s got re-elected by running for re-election at the (onright time on the re-election cycle, by not shaking the boat (and failing to solve any real problems) as governor, and by facing a really lousy opponent. That doesn’t make him presidential material.