The former governor, now seeking the 2010 Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination, rightly touts the Peach State's economic prosperity during his turn of the century term, simultaneously defined by his battles with Confederate Battle Flag enthusiasts.
The fact is that Georgia became the economic colossus of Dixie while at all times being social conservative, much as Reagan re-made the American economic colossus as a pro-lifer, and also, at all times derided as Neanderthals by the Roy Barnes Left of the 80s. Reagan had the last laugh.
Actual economic facts, be damned, Democrats persist in trying to make majorities laugh at Christian, pro-life Southerners, rather than have the hilarious work of their ObamaDem brethren in DC.
Is this what Democrats are reduced to?
Roy Barnes knows what is responsible for the economic depression in America, including Georgia, but makes an ad that ignores the Obama policy-disaster reality and insults the voters. Surely he knows that voters and job producers inside and outside of Dixie are more likely to be laughing (albeit through economic-hardship tears) at "Have you plugged the hole yet, Daddy?", than at failed secession legislation.
As this conservative Republican has always maintained, Barnes was a good Governor and probably would be again, but the corrupting effect of being in the Democratic Party and towing such perverse and dishonest public lines, makes it preferable that a candidate not named Barnes, and not a Democrat, be Georgia's next Governor.