Posted on 12/03/2008 7:08:01 AM PST by MaestroLC
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), fresh off his win in Tuesday's runoff, said that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) excited the GOP base and helped persuade voters to go to the polls.
"Obviously, you want to peak on the last day, and we had John McCain and Mike Huckabee and Governor [Mitt] Romney and Rudy Giuliani, but Sarah Palin came in on the last day, did a fly-around and, man, she was dynamite," Chambliss said on Fox News Wednesday. "We packed the houses everywhere we want. And it really did allow us to peak and get our base fired up."
Chambliss, who defeated Democrat Jim Martin 57 percent to 43 percent, said that he thought that popularity of the former GOP vice presidential nominee would endure.
"I mean, I can't overstate the impact she had down here," he said. "All these folks did a great job coming in. They all allow you did us to add momentum to where we were in the campaign. But when she walks in a room, folks just explode.
Chambliss called her "a dynamic lady" and said that she had a "great future" in the party.
Love this “Palin ‘12 Change You’ll Be Begging For.” Are you selling them or are they available through Cafepress.
Well, wait until after the inauguration/coronation IF it happens.
I can dream.
Team Sarah has the goal of having 100,000 members by Inauguration day (Jan 20 2009); it already has 60,000 members dedicated to the securing for Sarah the 2012 presidential nomination. Does any blogger really believe that Team Sarah will not reach its goal now that Saxby has been re-elected on Sarah’s coattails?
Well maybe this lackluster SOB has seen the light and will fight for conservative issues in the Senate. The first time he goes along to get along with the libs, he needs to be tarred and feathered.
Well done!
“but Sarah Palin came in on the last day, did a fly-around and, man, she was dynamite,”’
I LOVE it!
In this case, it really was an endorsement by an outsider, and the endorsement meant votes.
Not just a political speech in an empty hall that everybody can ignore.
Thomas Sowell wrote about what Democrats thought about Reagan back in 1980 by citing Meg Greenfield in the Washington post:
It was the wisdom of the other contenders and of most Republican Party leaders, too, not to mention of practically everyone in Democratic politics, that Reagan was: too old, too extreme, too marginal and not nearly smart enough to win the nomination. The Democrats, in fact, when they werent chortling about him, were fervently hoping he would be the nominee. When he carried the convention in Detroit, people I knew in the Carter White House were ecstatic.
And sometimes Republicans even make this mistake of underestimating talent or good ideas on the Dem side. I remember how we all laughing at crazy Howard Dean's "50 State Plan" for the DNC. What a dopey idea to open offices in the deep South, right? Well, Howard got the last laugh. His 50 State Plan was a huge success and now Michael Steele wants to copy it for the GOP.
Of course they are ignoring it. Even conservatives seem to be ignoring it. I'm listening to Laura Ingraham and am wondering why she hasn't mentioned this obvious fact.
I wrote yesterday that they will either ignore her contribution all together even though everyone understands that the key to winning run-offs is to get your base out to vote; or they will dismiss it by claiming, as I heard them say on CNN last night, that social conservatives really like her. Social conservatives is the new code word for right-wing snake-handling religious wackos who live in compounds and stockpile weapons in fear of Armageddon. The MSM will do their best to marginalize Palin to mitigate her appeal.
Chambliss live on Laura Ingraham.....Still defending the bailouts. You could hear the disappointment and incredulity in Laura’s voice with follow up questions. Some RINOS never learn.
>>Some RINOS never learn.
Well, we are just going to have to TEACH them, aren’t we?
“Obama is going to be tough to beat,”
Not after he probably weakens the country, he won’t be so tough to beat.
The GOP has done nothing to us. We just need more conservatives. The GOP is providing the framework to get where we want to go. We have to get more on board.
Don’t know if you received a response in regards to CPAC 2009 - but it is my understanding that she has confirmed to speak there. The only problem is the schedules/agendas as to when speakers will be speaking is not provided until late Jan. or early Feb. - this way more people sign-up for the all-inclusive packages which are more expensive (at least that’s what my business savvy tells me!)
I will be there :)
Me too. I voted FOR Sarah, Mac got the vote by default.
done
Good. Seems Chambliss gets, for now anyway, who he owes a favor to in the future.
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