Quick quiz. Who said this in 2002?
"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."
That would be one Senator John McCain, lambasting Saxby Chambliss for the ads he ran against Max Cleland.
And yet, today:
U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will campaign for U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Chambliss’s campaign has confirmed.
Chambliss is locked in a tight runoff with Democrat Jim Martin that will be decided Dec. 2. The post-election race has attracted national attention as Democrats attempt to get a 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority in the upper chamber and Republicans try to prevent it.
Meanwhile, he might not be alone according to Cillizza:
Expect [Sarah] Palin to make some appearances in key races — maybe as soon as this month for Sen. Saxby Chambliss in his Georgia runoff — to show her drawing power and popularity among grassroots Republicans.
The GOP wants this one, bad. The NRSC has begun to run ads attacking Jim Martin.
Support the Martin campaign here.
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McCain To Campaign For Saxby Chambliss; Will He Have Company?
K.O.D.
is this supposed to help?
Well, it will be a turnout election, and McCain did carry GA by 5 points.
Just one more example of the fact that McCain basically threw his integrity out the windows with both hands. For him to campaign for Chambliss? But I guess he figures it’s too late for him to try to cloak himself in honor now… he’s gone too far down the road already..
Forget McCain we need Sarah to piss off our voters to make them angry enough to vote! We need her to get a hoard of people chanting Death Threats again.
We need Press Coverage from the Main Stream Media lots of Press Coverage.
We need for Sarah to stake her Cred Big Time on a losing race.
We do need for Sarah to get a brain and save the hate for prescreened, invite only, no reporters and no recording devices small rallies.
I’m no longer sure that McCain ever had integrity.
That should be we do not need for Sarah to get a brain.
McCain’s a whore. So what else is new?
He looked deep in Lieberman’s eyes and saw a kindred spirit….
The worse the economic news is in the coming days, the worse it will be for Chambliss. This is going to be a bad, bad, bad Christmas season and IMO the silver lining is that Martin has a fighting chance if voters are mad enough.
McCain changed his mind on torture after being tortured himself my guess is he is either amoral or he had a stroke.
Rut roh…even the WSJ thinks McCain is honor-challenged.
McCain is just showing that he’s such a mavericky reach across the aisle straightshooter that he will stump for a braindead reactionary hack.
Not necessarily. Limpy Limbaugh is happily calling it the Obama Recession. The Republics will all quickly get behind that saying and will deny that Republics have ever been in charge of government.
I don’t suppose we will be lucky enough to get a Bush appearance?
Thanks BT.
I guess it is a good thing for McShitforbrains that hypocrisy is not terminal.
In all sincerity, why would you want the loser of a Presidential race to campaign for you? Honestly. Wouldn’t it only serve to remind their base what he has cost them? And with the Gallup Poll popularity number for Obama almost 20% higher than his electoral margin what could Suxby Shameless be hoping to achieve with that?
Sorry, lettin that whole logic thing run away with my brain.
That’s my take on him, too. When, exactly? Must have been when he was no more than a blink in his PR manager’s eye.
We need to push back on that one. But I’m not to worried the voters this election seemed to have stopped listening to Rush. The MSM blew the Public’s trust by pushing us to war.
Rush and the MSM have lost the ability to create
realitynews, they lost it when they lost our trust.Yeah, but the runoff is in, what, December? That’s before O even takes office. People are stupid, no doubt, but it’s a stretch to say they’ll blame Obama, IMO.
I wish some enterprising reporter from the MSM would quote McCain’s 2002 statement to his face, and ask him what has changed since then.
Hopefully the Dems and Obama have anticipated that line of attack and have a plan to combat it. God help us all if they haven’t.
Maybe Leno can ask him tonight. Seems the comics are the ones doing the reporting these days.
Thanks BT.
digg
Obama staffers moving into Geogia
http://politics.nashvillepost……o-georgia/
Yeah the Blogs can’t do the counter attack all by themselves, all the time.
I prefer to talk about the news and new ideas.
The more I read about the GOP the more head shaking I do.
How can you lambast someone and then campaign for them? Talk about being two-faced, sheesh.
Not to put any pressure on ‘em or anything. . .
That’s interesting. The problem Martin will have is the lower turnout and greater R participation normally seen in such a case. Obama himself making an appearance would help a lot.
makes you wonder what Max Cleland is thinking …..
Except that McCain carried GA.
According to AP Obama’s campaign is sending people there as well.
Possibly the same thing I am…
This is getting to be too easy.
Just run that quote from above in an endless loop, followed by a voice over that says “Now McCain’s here, supporting Chambliss? Hypocrisy–A Republican value.”
Will Lieberman be able to stop himself from campaigning for Chambliss?
Lieberman might be wise to keep a low profile for a while. So let’s hope he campaigns for Chambliss!
New Twolf1 post on front page: “Lieberman Must Go Once and for All”
Oh it will help here, republicans here love McCain and I think they will turnout just to block the democrats from getting more seats.
I don’t really see the prestige loss thing. Obama himself didn’t win Georgia and, as is the case in most of the South, I can’t remember any decent human beings elected statewide in Georgia since Max Cleland and Jimmy Carter.
Goddammit President-Elect Obama, send in your New Model Army.
Yes, it is that important!
I live
therehere. How can I help?