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DEL.ICIO.USWhy Romney and Huckabee won’t be in Georgia at the same time
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Mitt Romney has confirmed what you read here this morning — that he’ll be down here to campaign for Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss.
This from the Boston Globe:
Romney — the former Massachusetts governor who sought the Republican presidential nomination this year and could well do so again in 2012 — plans to appear at rallies on Friday in Atlanta and Savannah, as well as at a series of private event fundraisers.
His political action committee, Free and Strong America, has already given Chambliss $5,000 to aid his runoff campaign against Democrat Jim Martin after giving him $2,300 during the fall campaign.
Politico uses the same canned quotes:
“This is a critical election whose outcome will be important to maintaining a balance of power in the Senate,” Romney said in a statement. “It is critical that Republicans safely retain the ability to filibuster in order to prevent the worst abuses of single party rule.”
Romney will be the third former GOP presidential candidate to make the trip to Georgia. The first was John McCain. Mike Huckabee appeared over the weekend.
There’s a reason that at least two of them didn’t appear together. Huckabee has a new book, Politico points out, that says this about his primary opponent:
Romney, Huckabee, writes, was “anything but conservative until he changed the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for president.” At another point, Huckabee portrays a Romney proposal to encourage more investment in the market as, “Let them eat stocks!”
…. Asked to respond, Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said Huckabee was acting small. “This type of pettiness is beneath Mike Huckabee,” Fehrnstrom [said]. “If we’re going to move the party forward, we need to offer more than personal recriminations. Unfortunately, in this book, Mike Huckabee is consumed with presumed slights, and he seems more interested in settling scores than in bringing people together.”
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By captain america
November 18, 2008 11:35 PM | Link to this
huckleberry/romnoid two sides of the same anti-christ coin
By AJCManagement
November 18, 2008 11:58 PM | Link to this
Captain america is Will Jones.
By trig palin
November 19, 2008 12:47 AM | Link to this
ima pro-birthin’
By cnote
November 19, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this
Never been a big fan of populists. Huckabee needs to drop the class warfare rhetoric and not worry about how much money Romney has earned.
By jacksmith
November 19, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this
WE HAVE MORE TO DO:
Democrat Jim Martin is in a runoff against Bush Republican Saxby Chambliss for the Senate seat from Georgia. Bush’s Saxby Chambliss voted against spending a few measly dollars to provide health care coverage for Georgia, and Americas needy children. But he supported wasting hundreds of billions of your dollars, and the life BLOOD of Americas finest on an unnecessary war in Iraq.
At a time when 47 million of you have no health insurance coverage, and over 100 million of you with insurance are just one major illness away from complete financial destruction. Bush and Saxby Chambliss voted to make the heart break of bankruptcy relief even harder for all of you to use.
You see, Bush and Saxby Chambliss, and his family don’t have to worry about their health care coverage. They have the finest health care coverage your tax money can buy for them. Courtesy of you. The American Tax payer. In fact, no one but the super rich can afford the health care coverage you the tax payer provide for Saxby Chambliss, and his family for FREE! with your tax dollars.
He supposedly works for you. But he doesn’t think you and your family should have access to the type of taxpayer supported FREE health care that you provide for him, and his loved ones for FREE!. Doesn’t that just make you BURRING MAD!
Vote for JIM MARTIN for US senator from Georgia. Vote for JIM Martin who will be on your side. Vote for JIM MARTIN who will work with President Obama and a majority congress for you. Vote for JIM MARTIN most of all for your-self, your family’s, friends, and loved ones. Vote for JIM MARTIN for a better America, and a better World.
Don’t let Saxby Chambliss make a chump out of you by tricking you into voting against your own best interest. Saxby chambliss is NOT! on your side. He’s not one of you. He is on George Bush’s side. And we all know what a catastrophe the Bush Chambliss administration has been the past 8 years.
Contact all your family and friends and do every thing you can to see to it that JIM MARTIN and GEORGIANS! take that senate seat back for Georgia, and America. No matter where you live in America. This is important to you. President Obama will need all the help, and power you can give him to try and fix this catastrophic mess that the Corrupt Bush Chambliss administration has created.
As I said before you will have to vote in overwhelming numbers to overcome the Bush Chambliss “Let Them Eat Cake” vote fraud machine. Vote early if you can. Then help everyone you can get to the polls and vote for JIM MARTIN. You and your loved ones don’t have to be Saxby Chambliss’s victims anymore.
I know you will get it done. Just like you did for President Obama.
God bless all of you
jacksmith - WORKING CLASS… :-)