I was referring to Nunn and Carter family names may not be as tiresome or burdensome as Landrieu. Scott Walker and Nathan Deal has corruption problems. The GOP rode a tea party wave in 2010 on Bank Corruption. We an do the same to a lesser extent.
Barack Obama knew that if he was not to be the new Herbert Hoover, he had to back the banks. It is unfortunate that he was unable to force a major reform (breaking up the banks with the Sherman Anti-Trust Act) had to wait... and it has waited.
Of course the Tea Party has loyally served the right-wing interests that pushed it into a seemingly-intractable majority, and its pols will get lavish funds for re-election campaigns so long as they adhere to the Party Line.
...Back to the point: Corrupt and abusive politicians are always vulnerable despite a partisan advantage. News media can make or break a politician, and the same journalists who recognized Senator Barack Obama as one of the most promising of politicians steered clear of Governor Rod Blagojevich. Corrupt and abusive politicians typically have something to hide, and if there is not enough vile material to stick for the time, it still eventually slips out. Just think of former Governor McDonnell in Virginia.
Nostalgia is a poor substitute for overall competence and integrity, but it is a good one-time gimmick. People have won once on one-time gimmicks and shown that there is more to them. Georgians at least have benign nostalgia; Jimmy Carter was by most accounts a fine governor of Georgia, and Sam Nunn was a fine Senator. That said, with (dis)respect to the Governor, corruption and abuse of power are failing propositions.
Nathan Deal goes down. You see it here. Scott Walker will be harder to dislodge; he has developed a cult of personality that blinds nearly 45% of the electorate to his awfulness.
