Rabun County (GA) Republican Party

Located in the northeastern tip of the peach state, Rabun County is among the most Republican counties in the entire nation. Come & join the Rabun GOP!

[Rabun County (GA) Republican Party @RabunGOP]

@bluestein Herschel did in his campaign with quite a bit of money sitting in the bank. Unlike most unsuccessful Senate candidates, Herschel has elected to hang on to a lot of that money

[Rabun County (GA) Republican Party @RabunGOP]

@peachpundit @buzzbrockway Those are two of the best and most respected district chairman in the entire state.

[Team McColumn @JonMcColumn]

It was cold outside last night, but General McColumn got a warm welcome from the great folks of the @RabunGOP ! He'll see them again next Monday for the U.S. Senate debate. Watch their Facebook page for the live stream, if you're not in the area: https://t.co/kikrsOOY0u

[Rabun County (GA) Republican Party @RabunGOP]

@JonMcColumn @JonMcColumn, The @RabunGOP was very pleased to welcome you back. We strive very hard to ensure that all voices are heard equally. You are welcome back anytime sir, and thank you for your service.

[Rabun County (GA) Republican Party @RabunGOP]

@OfficialCWATSON When people look at the 47th Administration of Donald Trump they may look upon @SecRubio as one of the most effective secretaries of State over the last hundred years, rivaling Kissinger

[Rabun County (GA) Republican Party @RabunGOP]

The @ga9_gop will be hosting a televised debate of US Senate and 9th District congressional candidates on March 23rd with the live audience of approximately 400 Republicans.

We urge @Buddy_Carter @MikeCollinsGA @DerekDooleyGA @JonMcColumn to all commit to participate in this.

[Rabun County (GA) Republican Party @RabunGOP]

@JonMcColumn @JonMcColumn we hope you decide to participate in the @ga9_gop televised debate on March 23rd.

[Tim Scott @votetimscott]

Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it.

[RNC Research @RNCResearch]

Gavin Newsom is harboring 33,179 aliens in California jails with ICE detainers. Their crimes include:

-399 homicides
-3,313 assaults
-3,171 burglaries
-1,011 robberies
-8,380 dangerous drugs offenses
-1,984 weapons offenses
-1,293 sexual predatory offenses

[Rabun County (GA) Republican Party @RabunGOP]

Be sure to mark your calendar now, the @RabunGOP has an exciting lineup of great speakers.

We meet the 3rd Monday each month and our first meeting in 2026 is on Jan 19th.

Candler school supt. Dr. Fred Bubba @Longgrear is running for state school supt.

[Rabun County (GA) Republican Party @RabunGOP]

@timechols Tim, it's great to see you still in the fight. There's been a great deal of fear about data centers. Ratepayers can justifiably feel hoodwinked in having to pay for all the cost overruns from plant Vogtle. As soon as they were turned on we got 100's of data centers in Georgia.

[Rabun County (GA) Republican Party @RabunGOP]

Our thoughts are with @BenSasse during this difficult time. He was one of the most courageous senators during his time in Washington. He will be greatly missed.

[Ben Sasse @BenSasse]

Friends-

This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.

Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do.

I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all.

Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints.

There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come.

Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son.

A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears.

Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet.

Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective:
“When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.”

I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape.

But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9).

With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices,
Ben — and the Sasses

[Rabun County (GA) Republican Party @RabunGOP]

@TeamOverhaulGA I wish you guys could make one where he confesses that, even after 6 years in the Senate, he has never once set foot in Rabun County. We promise you we'll play it all day long on our website

[Rabun County (GA) Republican Party @RabunGOP]

our County Needs YOU!
VOTE on Tuesday, Nov. 4th!
Also November Meeting of the Rabun GOP, Christmas Party & Parade Float - https://t.co/C9f2NN9K5z

[Rabun County (GA) Republican Party @RabunGOP]

@OfficialCWATSON We really don't need @brad_polumbo applying the Good Housekeeping seal of approval to Nick Fuentes. Some of us think for ourselves.

[Rabun County (GA) Republican Party @RabunGOP]

One final week of early voting. The @RabunGOP just sent out over 8,000 MMS messages to Rabun County conservatives. Please support @timechols & @FitzJohnsonGA
#rabun #gapsc #gagop #ga9gop

[Rabun County (GA) Republican Party @RabunGOP]

Rabun GOP Octoberfest Meet, and More - Early voting underway and there are important races for every conservative to vote on . October 20th Meeting with three speakers, Details of Christmas Party announced . https://t.co/NSPqdcvk4m

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@OfficialCWATSON Christian, we're not all that confident they've even managed a modicum of success in instilling students to be good servants.

[Rabun County (GA) Republican Party @RabunGOP]

@WileyThruster @bluestein Come on @bluestein , be fair and even handed in your reporting.