Posted on 12/04/2008 8:29:42 AM PST by lewisglad
Chambliss: ‘Dynamite’ Palin turned out vote By Klaus Marre Posted: 12/03/08 10:29 [ET]
Newly reelected Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) credited Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with firing up his base and allowing him to cruise to a victory over Democrat Jim Martin.
“Sarah Palin came in on the last day, did a fly-around and, man, she was dynamite,” Chambliss told Fox News on Wednesday. “We packed the houses everywhere we went. And it really did allow us to peak and get our base fired up.”
Chambliss beat Martin by three points on Nov. 4 but did not reach 50 percent of the vote, making a runoff necessary. However, the incumbent easily beat his challenger Tuesday, more than quadrupling his margin of victory, and in the process kept Democrats from reaching a filibuster-proof Senate majority.
Chambliss heaped praise on Palin, saying she has a “great future” in the GOP.
“I can’t overstate the impact she had down here. All these folks did a great job coming in,” he said, referring to former presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Rudy Giuliani. “They allow you [to] add momentum to where we were in the campaign. But when she walks in a room, folks just explode.”
Chambliss also said he has “no idea” whether Martin would have been more successful had President-elect Obama actively campaigned for him
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Did Palin really increase turnout? Were there more Republican votes in the runoff than the original election? If so, some credit would absolutely have to go to her.
I’ve never had a local runoff election. Can you vote in the runoff even if you never voted in the original election?
...and nary a peep from the MSM about this.
Of course, had Chambliss lost, it would have been pinned sqaurely on Palin’s shoulders.
Time to change from “It’s Bush’s Fault” to “It’s Palin’s Fault”
but, but, but she was such a drag on the McCain ticket I thought...
Chambliss beat Martin by a muck higher percentage than he did in the primary. Chambliss also beat the polls which, just days before the runoff, had him ahead by 2 or 3.
This doesn’t fit the MSM’s overall negative Palin narrative, so don’t expect any reportage!
Sarah should be named the head of the RNC. Let her campaign in tough district in 2010, and win congress back!!
If one thinks about it, Gov. Palin is the only positive thing McNut did for us conservatives; and it was by mistake on his part, which was in our favor.
LOL!!!
I love your word “muck” muck better.
If we keep Sarah and other conservatives up front, we’ll win in 2010 and 2012. The Republican Party needs a fresh start and the energy Sarah brings to it.
The first FUN we republicans have had in an election in years. Hopefully many more. This UAW thing looks promising too, democrats sweating. Havent seen that in a while.
I notice GWB and Cheney were not asked to show up at this. GWB was too busy sticking his foot in his mouth on his legacy(please shut up!). But he may have helped us by causing anti-bailout-mania with the public that Obama will get to work with. How about anti-stimulus package-tax rebate-mania next???
Also, in the runoff Chambliss beat Martin by a much larger margin than he beat Cleveland 6 years ago. In 2002, Chamblis won about 52% of the vote and Cleveland about 48%. In the run off it was 58% Chambliss 42% Martin. How much is due to Sarah Palin-how much due to the fact that Martin is very left wing etc.Hard to say. But clearly Governor Palin energized the base.
Good. Sarah helps stave off the looming Dem super-majority, and Chambliss now owes her next time around. She was there at HIS invitation, which suggests that he gets it.
This is what Sarah Palin can do we she is freed from having to plug all that RINO maverick garbage with McCain.
By the way, did McCain help out Chambliss in the run-off?
But we've smelled it.
A friend of mine in VA believes that the Pubbies will pick up seats in 2010, as opposed to 2006. There was no positive energy in 2006, only the fear of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker.
Sarah brings that positive energy to the base, and Saxby's victory was proof of the pudding.
With every sneer that comes from the Beltway/Liberal/MSM elites when Sarah's name is spoken, the stronger is the bond between us and our Sarah.
I know they've got Bobby Jindal in their sights now, which will be a big mistake on the part of Dems.
How much better off do you think he, and she, and us would have been if he had made up his mind a few months earlier, instead of throwing her in the lion's den on a few days' notice? The stumblebum did all of us a great disservice.
I'm convinced some of her interview gaffes were because she was so concerned about contradicting something McCain had said or done previously. If she'd had three or four months with his advisers to get his platform memorized, and get totally up to speed on national and international issues, imagine how powerfully she'd have come across. If you go back and look at her prior debates and interviews before the campaign, she was just dynamite.
-ccm
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