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Georgia Race for Governor Could Add to "Year of the PowerChick" Trend

8th Generation American Wrote: Jul 31, 2010 5:19 PM

Handel is also promoting the fact that she was abused as a kid as a reason to elect her! If anything, it is a reason I would not vote for her as victims of abuse often have serious problems mentally and in judgement! Only a WOMAN would make that part of her pitch as to why we should elect her! She refused to debate in the last days of the initial primary because one of the other Republican candidates was accused of molesting a teenage girl and he claimed that was a set up charge. I am not impressed with a "victim" woman who is TOO FRAGILE to face her opponents because she was abused as a child.

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Georgia Race for Governor Could Add to "Year of the PowerChick" Trend

The Sarah Palin Express may be gaining even more steam, at least within the Republican Party. Another of her "Mama Grizzlies," Georgia's former secretary of state Karen Handel, on July 20 emerged from obscurity in the polls to take the most votes in the GOP general primary election for governor.

The feisty Handle now heads to an Aug. 10 runoff. She will face the more laid-back Nathan Deal, a former congressman who served many years in Washington. Deal switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican after the 1994 election, when Georgia's Newt Gingrich engineered his "Republican Revolution" that took control...

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