Atomic City Talk

No rest for the weary... and we wonder why people aren't interested in campaigns for public office.

I can not imagine a Tennessee Governor named Ford, at least for another generation.

I can't imagine Lincoln Davis as governor. Hopefully there is someone out there.

Ford, Davis and Purcell on the left. Wamp and Frist on the right. Maybe Jamie Woodson as well. My money is on Davis and Wamp. A tossup as to the winner.

Davis is not on the left. He is more right than most on the right. I heard it will be Davis and Wamp. I don't want either of them. Wish there was some new blood out there. Wpuld like to see someone more down the middle.

Davis, a member of the "Blue Dog Coalition", is to the left of center by only a few ticks Four of Tennessee's five democratic Congressmen are members of that fourty-eight person group. They philosophically represent the fiscally conservative, socially moderate southern democrat that was my father, grandfather and great grandfather. I heard Heath Shuler, also a member of the Blue Dogs, speak recently. From his talk, it was clear to me how he defeated a republican incumbent in a conservative North Carolina district. I'm finding it easy to relate to the centralist on both sides of the aisle. Our next Governor needs that same moderate perspective.

I have been to many functions where Davis has spoken and I have found him to not be a centrist but more of a true politician who stands for what the crowd he is addressing stands for. He has no opinion of his own. I have found him not to be a leader. I really hope the Democratic Party can come up with a better candidate, one who stands for something positive and can be down the center like Bredesen.

I've found him to be just the opposite. He votes his mind. He takes strong positions in oppostion to the party leadership when he believes the leadership is headed opposite the values of his constituents. I find no pretense in him. What you see is what you get.

Fentress County, his home county, has been the Republican stronghold of an otherwise Democrtic leaning Upper Cumberland area since before the Civil War. Lincoln lives in the most Republican part of that county. Yet in the 2006 election he recieved 73% of the votes from that county. He easily won twenty-three of the twenty-four counties he represents, losing only ultra conservative Williamson County.

He is an excellent speaker. What is your beef with him PI?