# In the Georgia Senate race, David Perdue makes babies cry **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 7, 2014, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-georgia-senate-race-david-perdue-makes-babies-cry/685549 "2014-04-07T13:20:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-georgia-senate-race-david-perdue-makes-babies-cry/685549/21 "2014-04-14T18:16:08Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > The populace of Georgia is that fuck’d up to elect this buffoon? Speaking as a native Georgian who has lived here all my adult life, I do not think Paul Broun really represents the bottom of the barrel wrt the kind of fucking clown Georgians will elect. Sometimes it almost feels like the electorate is seeking them out … ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-georgia-senate-race-david-perdue-makes-babies-cry/685549/22 "2014-04-14T19:37:06Z")
Thank you yellowjacketcoder and Evil\_Captor. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-georgia-senate-race-david-perdue-makes-babies-cry/685549/23 "2014-04-15T22:27:24Z")
For the love of all that’s holy, please just don’t let it be Phil “legitimate rape” & “gawrsh, I’m ever so sorry for that one time I didn’t adequately tongue your sacred bunghole, Lord Limbaugh!” Gingrey. Much as I’d like to see that sack of diaper pudding leave his House gig, that’s not the right direction. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-georgia-senate-race-david-perdue-makes-babies-cry/685549/24 "2014-04-15T23:54:51Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > [You gotta be shit’in me.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Broun) > > “… graduated from the University of Georgia at Athens (B.S., Chemistry, 1967) and earned his Doctor of Medicine (1971) from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. His internship was at Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland, Oregon and residency at University Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. He then practiced general medicine; starting in 2002 he maintained a practice based solely on house calls.” > > The populace of Georgia is that fuck’d up to elect this buffoon? As a graduate of the University of Georgia, I am embarrassed by this man. As a native born Georgian, I am embarrassed by this man. As a human, I am embarrassed by this man. How can such people be elected? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-georgia-senate-race-david-perdue-makes-babies-cry/685549/25 "2014-04-16T04:46:41Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > As a graduate of the University of Georgia, I am embarrassed by this man. > As a native born Georgian, I am embarrassed by this man. > As a human, I am embarrassed by this man. > > How can such people be elected? And here I thought it was painful for me (out in California). My sympathies. I’m serious. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-georgia-senate-race-david-perdue-makes-babies-cry/685549/26 "2014-06-05T08:37:33Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > As a graduate of the University of Georgia, I am embarrassed by this man [Paul Broun]. > As a native born Georgian, I am embarrassed by this man. > As a human, I am embarrassed by this man. > > How can such people be elected? Apparently, on this occasion at least, they can’t. [Broun and the other tea party favorites did not make the run-off](http://www.politico.com/2014-election/results/map/senate/georgia/#.U5Ar53JdV8E), which will be between Jack Kingston and David Perdue. Broun got only 9.6% of the votes. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-georgia-senate-race-david-perdue-makes-babies-cry/685549/27 "2014-06-05T15:06:28Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > Apparently, on this occasion at least, they can’t. [Broun and the other tea party favorites did not make the run-off](http://www.politico.com/2014-election/results/map/senate/georgia/#.U5Ar53JdV8E), which will be between Jack Kingston and David Perdue. Broun got only 9.6% of the votes. One elected Georgia assclown down … so many more to go … ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-georgia-senate-race-david-perdue-makes-babies-cry/685549/28 "2014-06-05T15:49:14Z")
> [@yellowjacketcoder](#): > > [ul] > [li] and finally, David Perdue, former CEO of the economic powerhouse Dollar General and cousin of our last Governor (the one whose water plan was infamously “pray for more rain”, and when that didn’t work “Pray harder”).[/li][/ul] “If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!” – Lazarus Long [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-georgia-senate-race-david-perdue-makes-babies-cry/685549.md?page=1)