Posted on 12/03/2008 5:36:32 AM PST by AmericanMade1776
There was a story going around that Obama would go if it was close. Personally,I think he was told not to do it when they found out Palin was going to campain for Saxby.
Think about it,"Showdown at High Noon". Palin verses Obama. Who can pull the biggest turnout.
Saxby wins,and Sara beats Obama before he is even sworn in!
That’s why Nancy Pelosi has been openly calling for a centrist Congress next year. The libs are howling. But she and the others know how these things swing.
Unfortunately, they will not be able to change things. Obama will look wimpy and indecisive and make lousy decisions. The right will be energized and the obama-lovers will be dispirited. We will take the Congress back.
I never thought of that. You may be on to something.
So,then the GOP’s spin should be that BHO was afraid to go up against Palin.
Then again, they are the “Stupid Party.”
Yes, we are so backward here.We balance the budget,have a surplus and don’t ecpect the rest of the country to bail us out.
I like what you said.
For a second, I thought it was "The Onion" because it doesn't seem real...
But then I realized that it doesn't seem funny either.
I think BHO and the dems where afraid to go one on one with Palin.
On the friday before the election it was announced Sara was coming to Jeferson City Mo. for a Rally on Monday.(workday) 20,000 people showed up. Tuesday (election day) central Mo.had the biggest turnout in over 50yrs.Mcain/Palin carried it big.
The communists need not worry about a super-majority - there are enough turncoat RINO’s in Congress.
How do you know this? I contacted him and informed him that I was against the bailout as did several people I know. Did he publish a for and against count?
This moron really believes that voting in Obama was a portent of even more. He has no idea that the Democrats have peaked, and it's all downhill from here. When they lose the Congress in 2010 he and his liberal cohorts will talk about voter "temper tantrums" and accuse us of being knuckle-dragging Neanderthals.
Let him, I say. Let him drink his cool-aid every day.
Georgia, where American resistance to Obamanation started. The first to stick a finger in the Ones eye. It is only the beginning of a “historic” presidency and one that will become Carter 3 (Not Clinton 3—Clinton really did do a few things besides play with the interns).
No flame from here.
I didn’t like the mans politics and am glad he lost to Chambliss.
They lost, and nobody can throw a infantile fit for losing quite like the far-left. They lost on candidate quality and message. The Obama campaign sent 100 of their paid campaign workers down here; they had the NAACP doing election day poll transportation; ACORN was out in force in Fulton and Dekalb counties; Obama robocalls, and yet they lost.
They lost because Jim Martin has the candidate appeal of an empty bucket. His voting record is so far left that even the typical Georgia Democrat couldn’t get too excited about him. His message was kitchen-sink campaigning at its worst. Martin’s campaign, like Obama’s was “I’m all things to all people all the time.” But the difference here was that Georgians had a voting record on Martin that proved his far-left ways, wherein Obama had a record of voting “present” and the Soros money machine spinning his far-left record lying to opposition groups along the way.
Saxby lost my support with amnesty and drove off the cliff with the bailout vote. However, I can personally attest to the fact that Saxby seems to understand who got him this win - real conservatives. After appeals made to me by fellow FReepers, I began volunteering for Saxby to check out the situation. The hardest workers on his campaign were not the Washington kids airlifted in, but the rank-and-file Georgia conservatives who swallowed their pride and voted for cloture and divided government.
At last night’s Saxby party, he spent over two and a half hours talking to everyone and personally thanking every volunteer and donor in the room. Through the power of eavesdropping, I heard several people remind Saxby they are looking for him to stay in line with conservative principles and deny further bailouts and amnesty attempts. In every case I heard, he seemed to genuinely listen and appeared graciously attentive.
Now is the tough part. It’s time to hold him, Isaakson, and the GA House delegation to the volunteers, donors, and voters who got them where they are. If GA FReepers don’t know their Congressman or their GA Senate staffers, they’ve got ONE month to establish a relationship. Reward them with donations and thank-yous. When they screw up, tell them. If problems persist, Isaakson should be the first one to go. We have a large state full of conservative talent. Holding onto politicians who don’t support the principles and ideals of their people only harm the mission of conservatism, the GOP, and the people of our great state.
It’s not a liberal crying, in Nichol’s case, it’s a Marxist crying.
Voinovich - only Barbara Boxer stands between him and the title of “Stupidest Senator”.
Hahaha! We did it!! Now the libs are crying. They didn’t come out and vote for the white guy Dem, they only wanted the free stuff they got for voting for Obama. Thanks to Sarah Palin for coming to Georgia, and special thanks to TeamSarah.org for rallying members to assist with the campaign. Very special thanks to out-of-staters who volunteered their time to work the phone banks thru the internet. Georgia spoke for America. We want our country back. Saxby listens to his constituents and Georgia knows it!!
Um, dumbass author should know that Chambliss was THE first Republican ever elected to that particular Senate line in Georgia in 2002 (indeed, there wasn't a Republican in that seat even during Reconstruction), making him a 21st century Senator. Indeed, electing Martin would've been a return to the past of the 19th and 20th centuries. VA & NC going rodent for Senator was also a return to the past, since neither had elected Democrats in those seats since 1966. But, hey, let's not let facts get in the way of demogoguery.
On the whole I agree with your assessment. Martins campaign was certainly a strange one for someone running in GA. To run as the candidate most willing to lick Obama’s boots in the state that has earned the reputation of being a conservative bastion made very little sense.
As to Saxby, I have had my issues with him and have had occasion to tell him so, and there was a point back a ways when I thought I could not support him. But in the end as you say he seems to have realized who it was that brought him to the dance and that’s what matters.
He voted "against", and that was what I requested when I called his office. The lady said that most people were against the bailout.
I assume the lady was telling the truth.
LOL, yes the past of the last 6 years. That past John? He probably is deliberately misleading people as opposed to being a moron.
I still remember that idiot Olberman alleging theft and wondering how Republicans won in Florida’s first district because voter registration was democrat. I would have fired him for airing such rank ignorance when you’re supposed to be a political expert.
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