Crazed cop-beater/Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is once again in big political trouble. A new Insider Advantage Poll has McKinney badly trailing her runoff opponent, DeKalb County Commissioner Hank Johnson.

After publicly suggesting that George W. Bush had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks, voters in Georgia’s 4th Congressional District rejected McKinney’s brand of racial demagoguery in 2002 and instead elected Democrat Denise Majette to represent them. Luckily for McKinney, Majette left the House after just one term to wage an ill-advised, losing campaign for U.S. Senate in 2004, allowing McKinney to reclaim her House seat.

This year, the punditocracy thought McKinney would easily vanquish the lesser-known Johnson. The chattering class was wrong: after garnering less than 50% in the primary on July 18, Johnson and McKinney duke it out in an August 8 run-off.

Hank Johnson, on the other hand, promises “to restore respect to progressivism.” That’s a promise DoubleSpeak likes.

I hate Ralph Reed. Americans from coast to coast should also hate Ralph Reed. He is a hypocritical, pseudo-religious, unethical shyster. He is all tied up in the Jack Abramoff scheme and he has brought nothing but shame to himself, his family, people of faith and most importantly, the Lord above.

Well, last night, Republican voters in Georgia rejected Reed; he lost a hard-fought primary to Georgia State Senator Casey Cagle. The final tally - 56.1% to 43.9%.

Ralph Reed can now focus solely on his mounting legal woes. The people of Georgia, specifically Republican voters who sent a strong message last night that you can have a pretty face and a nice website, but in the end, when you make a deal with the devil, the devil usually wins; those people can sleep peacefully tonight knowing that Ralph Reed’s rising political career is now dead on arrival. America thanks you!

Ralph Reed, the former head of one of the largest Christian activist groups, conceded defeat today in a Republican primary in his bid to become lieutenant governor of Georgia, the Associated Press reported.

Reed, 45, was hurt by disclosures that he once ran an anti- gambling campaign that was secretly financed by casino-owning clients of his friend, lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Reed has said he believed Abramoff’s assurances he wasn’t being paid with gambling funds.