Dem. candidate for U.S. Senate Dale Cardwell apparently to run somewhat as a populist. In 2008 running as a regular moderate Democrat would work.

From the AJC's Political Insider:

“You need to know that most of your elected officials no longer work for you,” Cardwell said. “They’ve been busy looking for the special interest groups that fund their campaigns and send them on fancy vacations all over the world.

“This may be our last chance to take our government back. This may be our last chance to elect an outsider who will stay an outsider,” Cardwell said.

The former investigative journalist declared himself pro-choice, anti-IRS, pro-Second Amendment, opposed to the current immigration reform bill, and in favor of a tougher line on Iraq and its government.

Cardwell said he was not in favor of withdrawing from the [Iraq] region. He wants the Iraq government held to benchmarks. “If they fail, we will redeploy our troops, but we will never surrender a security perimeter, a beachhead if you will, that we’ve earned with the blood of American lives,” he said. “We’ll maintain a base, we’ll make it safe from insurgents, and we’ll use that base to launch attacks against al-Qaida.”

But withdrawing would lead to chaos, he said.

He spoke of abolishing the IRS, and replacing the current system with something more “simple.” Whether the so-called “fair tax” or a flat tax, Cardwell said he hadn’t decided.

Cardwell said he’s in favor of a tougher immigration reform bill, and demanded the immediate construction of a wall across the southern U.S. border.