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DEL.ICIO.USA Democratic attempt to create some rain for the McCain appearance
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Democrats are out to make the Thursday appearance of John McCain for Saxby Chambliss as awkward as possible.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is passing around a 50-second web-only ad intended to remind viewers of the reaction by the former GOP presidential candidate reaction to a Chambliss TV ad that had helped the Republican oust U.S. Sen. Max Cleland.
“I’d never seen anything like that ad. Putting pictures of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden next to the picture of a man who left three limbs on the battlefield — it’s worse than disgraceful. It’s reprehensible,” the ad quotes McCain as saying on CNN in 2003, a year after the election.
See the ad below.
But if you expect McCain to repeat himself, keep in mind that the Arizona senator owes his Georgia colleague. Both Chambliss and Johnny Isakson stepped out on a pretty thin limb just last February, when they put their names behind McCain’s presidential campaign — while the majority of other Republican heavyweights in the state went elsewhere or stayed on the sidelines. Yes, Georgia Republicans went for Mike Huckabee — but a debt is a debt.
As a matter of fact, the McCain event will be in the same facility where Chambliss and Isakson gave their presidential endorsements.
Meanwhile, Chambliss is having a media-heavy day: A morning radio interview with WBMQ in Savannah; “Fox and Friends” afterwards, a studio appearance with Neal Boortz on WSB, with a Glenn Beck appearance and a press conference in the offing.
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By Matilda
November 12, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this
This won’t matter to the “Party First” Republicans who’d rather vote for the lowliest, most dishonest crawling scum whose actions completely defy their own stated values, as long as there’s an “R” by his name, than vote for a Democrat of any proven caliber. Fortunately, the REAL “Country First” Americans are coming out in record numbers to take our nation back from those (like Senator Chambliss) who’ve let us all down.
By Sissy Saxby
November 12, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this
Sissy Saxby celebrated Veterans Day by making a new commercial attacking Vietnam Vet Jim Martin.
By drewdc
November 12, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this
there have been and will be some pretty nasty ads out there on both sides. let’s stick to the important issues like keeping a balance between the branches of government.
By Copyleft
November 12, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this
That’s kind of a new priority, isn’t it Drew? I mean, I never heard much clamor from the right about “balancing the three branches of government” back when the Republicans had a disastrous stranglehold on everything.
By mcgrf
November 12, 2008 9:03 PM | Link to this
Let’s face facts here; the Dem’s had control of government mostly from FDR til Reagan and didn’t do a lot of anything except steal our monies for their pet projects. The Rep’s took over and didn’t do anything but continue to steal our monies for their pet projects. Now the Dem’s are back and why should we expect anything but the same? Our SS fund “lock box” has always been a farce, with the only question being which “party” is stealing the money today. In the words of Thomas Jefferson, the biggest danger to the Republic is a two party system.
By Republicans4Martin
November 13, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this
Jim Martin is the right man for the job, period. We need a change in this state now; we need to remove the old guard that has done nothing for us. The tax issue is the least of our worries. It’s a bunch of bull; a story that the parties come up with in their ads to turn the masses against the other politian. If the party thinks we’re that stupid to think that’s all there is to it (tax isssues), then they’ve got another thing coming. Republicans for Jim Martin!!!
By Southwest GA Libertarian
November 13, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this
Chambliss lost me with the quotes from the article below.
I still say Buckley is the man for the job, but I will be voting for Martin in the runoff, since Buckley is no longer an option.
http://www.albanyherald.com/stories/20081113n5.htm