2006 was a good year for the Republican Party of Georgia. We re-elected our Governor, we elected the first Republican Lt. Governor and Secretary of State. We picked up five seats in the Georgia House. We re-elected all our incumbent state-wide offices.

True we had a few losses. Brent Brown’s loss in the Labor Commissioner’s race was probably the worst. Perry McGuire, Mike Wiggins and Gary Black all fell to the better organized resources of the incumbents. I suspect there will be some finger pointing over that during the next four years.

All the state referendums passed with a 2/3rds majority. The ducks and deer have already vowed to take amendment two to the Supreme Court. This was exactly the reason we needed to elect Perry McGuire and Mike Wiggins.

I still need to go through all the RLC endorsed candidates to see who won and who lost. I know Steve Schultz lost in north Dekalb and Mark Grant lost his bid for the senate seat. There may still be others, but the RLC did pretty good last night.

Chuck Eaton was pushed into a run-off but he is the only one, so he’ll get the full resources of (an exhausted) state party. Once that race is over, the RLC needs to focus on making sure our state Republican Majority doesn’t follow in the footsteps of our national majority and throw it all away in an orgy of pork an corruption.