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Useful Idiot – Meaning & Origin “The phrase useful idiot designates a naive or credulous person who can be manipulated or exploited to advance a cause or political agenda.” Source: https://wordhistories.net/2021/03/26/useful-idiot/ Introduction At one time, Garland Favorito and I were good friends in the political spectrum. We worked together well on several political issues in the past, […]

It’s too bad we don’t have a Time Machine of sorts in Ga GOP politics. Because, if we did, and if the ambitious proposed amendments to the Rules of Georgia Republican Party are passed in the upcoming 2023 State Convention, perhaps we could go back in time to test the GRA’s theory of who the […]

What…if…? Introduction WHAT IF it could be proven to President Donald Trump, with documented facts, events, and  evidence.…what if it could be proven that the person in Georgia who is primarily responsible for the March 2020 Settlement Agreement was not, actually, the SOS, but Ga GOP Chairman David Shafer himself? What do you think Trump would do if he found out he was actually screwed over by Ga GOP Chairman Shafer? Do […]

How much do you like being lied to? It’s a serious question. It’s one thing to lie to yourself, as that is a voluntary act that you take on yourself.  It’s quite another when someone you know, who is running for office and wants your vote…it should be a rather serious issue when someone chooses […]

[If you landed on this article, and haven’t yet read Part 1, Part 2 will make far more sense if you read Part 1 first, link available here: https://politicalvine.com/how-to-guarantee-the-georgia-gop-loses-in-2022-beyond-part-1/] INTRODUCTION Turning our attention, now, to Shafer’s actual leadership of the Georgia GOP for the past 1.5 years, let’s take a gander at Shafer’s glossy 12-page […]

INTRODUCTION Though the following quote has been attributed to Albert Einstein being the author, he may not have ever said it or written it (as I dug into the subject on the Web and came upon this guy’s research); nonetheless, the concept still means the same: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over […]

Rumors have it that the prime mover of the effort to incorporate a new “City of East Cobb” (“CEC”), a man named G Owen Brown, appears to be claiming Homestead Exemption Privilege in at least two states, rather than one, as allowed by law. By “prime mover,” we mean the person who appears to have engaged in […]

Rumors have it that along with being a POS of a human being that Speaker of the Georgia House David Ralston is, he may actually be demonstrably incompetent in how he conducts his law practice. PV Provides a Brief Background: In case you have not seen the stories published by the Atlanta Journal & Constitution & broadcasts on WSB-TV about how Ralston has used his […]

PRELUDE The following story will, at some point, use some or all of the abbreviations below, and I’m not up for repeating their longer titles. These are all State of Georgia-related abbreviations: AG = Attorney General AAG = Assistant Attorney General DOI = Declaration of Intent (to run for office) GAA = Georgia Aviation Authority […]

Prelude On August 23, 2014, a publicly advertised GOP Rally was held on Burt’s Pumpkin Farm in Dawsonville, Georgia, a city located in Dawson County. At that event, an arrest occurred by a sheriff’s deputy who was working ‘security’ at the private event. This arrest, and all stories about it (including several on the PoliticalVine.com […]

Almost Three Years & Three Months Later to the Day… On August 23, 2014, an…incident occurred at Burt’s Pumpkin Farm in Dawson County, Georgia. There was a Republican Rally taking place for the General Election. A lot of the Republican bigwigs were there (i.e., elected officeholders and people running as a Republican for elected government […]

Rumors have it that one of the scumbags involved in the 2014 Pumpkin Gate saga is scheduled to appear this Wednesday in front of the Judicial Nominating Commission (“JNC”) to apply for a Superior Court Judge vacancy. Since there were several scumbags at that event in August 2014, you might wonder which scumbag it is? […]