Posted on 12/03/2008 2:50:53 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss won re-election Tuesday in the Georgia runoff, giving the party a face-saving victory in an otherwise dismal election cycle and dashing Democrats' hope for a supermajority to ram their agenda through Congress. Continues...
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Chambliss wins in landslide; Sarah Palin widely blamed
Liberals are so afraid of Sarah Palin that they rolled out one of their biggest guns to campaign for Jim Martin in Georgia -- Ludacris! (Their biggest ugly gun -- Rosie O'Donnell -- was too busy boarding up the windows on her new TV gig.)
But still the Obama puppet lost to Saxby Chambliss, 57% to 43%. (Al Franken swiftly issued a statement that he's contesting the Georgia results.)
Now that Bush is on his way out, libbies need someone new to hate. The scared little darlings feel so threatened by Sarah, they're mustering their most sophisticated, analytical arguments against her, such as, "Palin is stoopid!", "Palin is dum!", "Palin is a more on!", "Sara is a stoopid dum more on hik!". For convincing "proof", these brainiacs cite their own silly caricatures of her, as "reported" on the pages of their own New York Times. (In the holiday spirit, maybe Bush will pardon liberals for committing idiocy.)
Democrats keep telling themselves that Sarah's "15 minutes" are up, that her star is fading away, which must be why they can't stop whimpering and whining about her. The "fading star" has faded into getting almost as much coverage as Obama. Campaigning in Georgia, the washed-up has-been Sarah drew huge crowds in Savannah, Augusta, Perry, etc. Six-thousand at the Gwinnett Center in Duluth. The Washington Post reacted with impotent rage, using a porno reference in their headline: Palin does Georgia.
Speaking of purported newspapers, liberals at the Anchorage Daily News even attacked Sarah merely for campaigning for Chambliss because Chambliss six years ago defeated their sainted Max Cleland, who apparently is off-limits to criticism because he blew his own limbs off in an accident in Viet Nam.
In an editorial, Matt Zencey sniffed that Chambliss won the 2002 election by "running one of the most reprehensible campaigns of modern times," which itself is one of the most reprehensible lies of modern times. Naturally, liberals keep repeating it. Chambliss ran an ad criticizing Cleland for insisting on absurd union rules for workers at the Homeland Security Department, especially the useless workers. Liberals were so livid at the ad, they threatened to go to the U.N. to pass a resolution.
The ad had pictures of Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, but also the U.S. military. Given liberals' fondness for the ol' Kurds-gassing, mass-graves-filling former Butcher of Baghdad, it's anyone's guess which of the other two pictures libbies were complaining about -- bin Laden's or the U.S. military's?
Obama ran attack ads mocking McCain for his war injuries and libbies were probing the size of Bristol Palin's belly but Chambliss "ran the most reprehensible campaign of modern times" because he criticized Cleland for pimping for union thugs.
In response, buffoon Cleland went Mary Mapes on Bush. After getting his butt handed to him, Cleland spent gobs of time on TV attacking Bush for his National Guard service, apparently auditioning for a job at CBS. Cleland complained hysterically that Bush didn't go to Viet Nam to serve his country, as opposed to Bill Clinton, who fought on the battlefields of Arkansas. Service in Viet Nam consisted of "shooting cattle and dogs for fun," "razing villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan," according to the liberals' other phony war hero, John Kerry.
In an interview on MSNBC at the time, Cleland told both viewers that the lack of pay stubs proved Bush was AWOL during the 12-month period in question, May '72 to May '73. After the White House produced the pay stubs approximately 3 seconds later, Cleland demanded to know why Bush, who got an honorable discharge, left the National Guard early in '73 when the war was practically over.
The losercrats tried the same 'so-and-so is a chicken hawk!' in the Georgia Senate runoff and -- in a total shock -- it flopped again.
But notice something -- I'm not gloating! I've decided to go with a no-gloat approach, and I'm sticking to it. It's awfully tempting to gloat about the fact that polls predicted a very narrow win for Chambliss, who went on to win in a landslide. But am I going to mention how wrong the pundits were? No. That they've got egg on their faces? No. That they look stupid and out of touch? No. Nor am I going to mention how the media were all set to shout from every rooftop that 'Chambliss's narrow win (or hoped-for defeat) is a further repudiation of Bushitler', blah, blah, blah. Not a peep from me either that tonight is a preview of the 2010 midterm elections. Oh, and did you catch the glumness at CNN when the numbers started rolling in? Heh, heh, heh! Whoops, wasn't gloating -- honest!
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
Wanna bet?
I'm just waiting for the dems to use the "Nuclear Option", and prove to McCain and Graham that the chicken$h!t "gang of 14" is dead and gone.
Great piece - well written. Both true, and funny!
Couple or three thoughts:
(1) regarding “Six-thousand at the Gwinnett Center in Duluth.” That’s a complete sell-out, and more were there just to be part of the happening. ( I live about 2 miles from the arena and the traffic effect was, um, ‘noticeable’) Sarah continues to be a powerful draw for the committed, motivated, engaged Conservatives here in Ga.
(2) The local Atlanta rag (AJC) did put the Chambliss win on the front page, but in about 40 column inches of blah blah blah could NOT find the ink to print the margin of victory.
(3) Only Fulton, DeKalb, Clayton, and Richmond counties went ‘big’ for Martin (DeKalb almost 4:1 for Martin). Those counties are majority “minority” population counties. If we are ever to have an open discussion about race in this country, we gotta look at how this election season broke along racial lines.
I agree. I laughed out loud on Monday listening to the radio in the car when they announced the rallies. Saxby was having a rally at Gwinnett Civic center with Sarah Palin and Martin was having a rally downtown outdoors with Ludacris in the cold rain. That says a lot right there.
That was the funnest read I’ve had in long time...thanks.
We will never have an open discussion about race in this country without some sort of ugly catharsis that is even more wrenching than this last November's election (which completely shattered the remains of the racial fairy tales I once chose to believe in). Perhaps on the day an open season is declared on anyone who passes for caucasian, with no bag limits and no restrictions-- THEN what you hear may be open and unfiltered.
Mr. niteowl77
Good one!! The Democratic Underground posters are foaming at the mouth, and many of them are attributing the wide margin of Martin’s defeat to Palin. That means they will step up their attacks. Since many in the MSN take their cue from the Daily Kos, and DU, you can expect MSNBC, and CNN to do likewise.
Even if Sarah hadn’t come to GA, Saxby still had the state. Not to sound racist (but I know it will anyway!), but a majority of Martin’s votes came from those who voted straight Democrat (Obama). Without Obama on the ticket this go round, many of those didn’t come back out to vote. Buckley’s votes went Saxby. Like another poster stated, Atlanta pretty much went Martin, with the rest of the state [less a couple of other areas] going Saxby. A little extra never hurts, but he could have taken the state without Sarah’s help.
Thought I was reading Ann Coulter!
Throngs of them immediately bombarded both of them and yanked that damn chain as hard as it would go. Both quickly did the about face. I have no dream that their hearts and minds were changed, only their tunes. And, when they jump back on that immigration wagon, I'll be there along with the rest of Georgia to yank their chain again.
Had it not been for the filibuster thing, I would not have voted for him (or the other, for that matter).
“...sarah palin widely blamed...”
she’s beautiful, intelligent, courageous and likes to go hunting; the ideal woman. (and she just slapped every member of the leftist “mainstream” press right across the face.)
i like it.
Gloating may be considered "not nice", but it sure as hell is FUN
Makes me feel better all over than any place else.
They still have Olympia Snow and Susan Collins, sorry!
But she kills turkey`s...Libs I guess do not eat turkey?
Yeah but at least they felt good about it.
Gaffer.. Very well stated. Thankfully we will continue to at leasst be able to yank any chain to our Federal government..
O’l Saxer just has to remember to dance with the one that brung him.
And she has the audacity to be happy.
You go, Sarah.
Then she shouldn’t have bothered to come.Alaska is a looong way from Georga and she has a state to run. Why hell,none of the other high profile Republicans should have bothered either!
What happened to Chambliss’ “razor-thin 3 point margin”? Those lying MSM scumbags tried to steal another one, didn’t they?
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