In Georgia, McCain Saves The Worst For Last
Update: Thanks everyone for contributing to Martin's campaign. Keep 'em coming!
Oh good, we don't have to stop being mean to John McCain even though the election is over.
Leading up to last Tuesday, it became no secret that the principles, character and integrity that once made John McCain the Republican that Democrats didn't totally hate were for sale, and cheap. If there was any question whether it was temporary ambition-driven insanity or a true transformation into villainhood, it was squashed by the wheels of Sen. McCain's plane when it hit the runway today in Georgia.
Now, hiring Karl Rove, who eight years prior masterminded a rumor that McCain had fathered an illegitimate black child to sink his campaign, is unprincipled. Making nice with Jerry Falwell, who blamed gays and abortionists for 9/11, and whom McCain rightly once called an agent of intolerance, is at the very least opportunistic. It's not excusable to do these things in order to tweak the odds of your shot at the presidency, but at least it follows some kind of sensible thought pattern. So what the hell is John McCain doing in Georgia?
As always, offering his support to a lowlife he once had nothing good to say about.
Saxby Chambliss has been employed as a U.S. Senator for six years due to a very successful ad campaign that painted Max Cleland, a man whose seat in the Senate was a wheelchair due to having left three limbs on the battlefield in Vietnam, as a friend of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. I plagiarized most of that last sentence though... from John McCain:
"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."
John McCain is in Georgia today helping Chambliss defeat another Vietnam vet, Jim Martin, who he faces in a runoff election on December 2nd. Clearly, when John McCain says something bad about you, it means he'll be helping you out a few years down the line. The maestros conducting the South Carolina calls in 2000? According to McCain they deserved "a special place in hell," which must have been his 2008 campaign war room, since it became their place of employment. "Disgraceful and reprehensible?" Start the plane!
I don't know if John McCain's memory is starting to go and 2000-2002 is just a bit fuzzy, if he got so used to pissing away his principles for the good of the party that by now it's just reflexive, or some combination of the two -- but I do know this: Jim Martin has decency and honor on his side, and Saxby Chambliss has John McCain.
John McCain just got his ass whupped by decency and honor, but that decency and honor was well-bankrolled. Jim Martin needs some help bankrolling his. DotPAC has set up a fundraising page for Jim Martin on ActBlue in the name of vengeance for Max Cleland. We can add defeating John McCain to its raison d'etre, since once just wasn't enough.
Let's beat John McCain again, and restore some honor to Max Cleland's seat.
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There is more at stake in the Georgia run-off election than just another senate seat. The recovery of the United States Economy is at stake. If Democrats cannot get a filibuster proof majority of 60 seats then the Republicans can prevent any improvement in the economy and everything else. If Franklin D. Roosevelt had not had a Democratic majority in congress the Great Depression would have lasted for 20 years because the Republicans voted against every program that he introduced. There wouldn't be any Social Security today if the Republicans had been in power then. There wouldn't be any G.I. Bill for Veterans. Will somebody please tell me why a Vet or anybody on Social Security would ever vote for a Republican? Some voters do vote for the people who don't have an ounce of compassion for them or their children but continue to support their party's choice. I'll be damned if I am going to vote for anybody who doesn't have my interest at heart.
Send a strong mssg to hate mongers ,stand by us Georgians ,Help GOTV ,we all are one ,consider Ga a must win like those swing states ,It will make you proud when we win
Need more volunteers so we can make sure nothing fishy happens on dec 2 nd
Pls help
Ga needs volunteers so local folks can be poll watchers and help GOTV ,there is a lot of fraud happening ,it is easy to blame the people ,but we did GOTV ,only prob was that the electronic machine shave no paper trail & so many absentee ballots were thrown out .need more attention .If all you guys who did so well in helping out in states like Ohio & florida showed up to help ,we georgians would be grateful for your support ...Need more eyes to watch what happens here .This is part of USA too
Pls help turn Ga blue
Pathetic. Hopefully, McCain will help out Chambliss the way he helped out other repubs... we could use more seats... ;-)
Yes We Did!!
McCain sold his soul in the quest for more power and in return got ... nothing!
It's hard to think of anything McCain has said that isn't contradicted by something else he 's said.
Question: Why is it that only Republicans get the privilege of labeling an opponent "flip-flopper"?
Because "thinking" people understand that as you learn more about a situation or the landscape alters, it's sometimes necessary to follow a different course. Question: After you've learned or realized something is wrong or perhaps even detrimental, why would you continue that action? Are you truly "smart" or wise for not admitting that you didn't "know" or had incorrect or inconclusive data?
I never agreed with the "FlipFlop" mantra -- unless it was clear that the change was due to appease a following instead of "flipping" because it was the right thing to do.
Well said!
It wopuld be hilarious , but deserving, if Chambliss lost, and polsters found out that the reason he lost was that he brought John McCain in. Thank you John McCain for nipping Sarah Palin in the bud.
Although we have obviously come a long way, as evidenced by Obama's election, we still have a long way to go. the writer talks about how McCain lost the election 8 years ago because of the false rumor spreaded by Rove that he "fathered a black child".
By this comment, people still consider it to be some type disgusting act when a white person has a child with a black person.
Actually this isn't the most disgusting part of the comment. The most disgusting part is that there are those who still insist on labeling a child from a white and black couple as "black".
How can a white person produce a "black" child? Wouldn't that child be bi-racial or both black and white, at the least? Why can't that child be labeled as "white"?
It is part of that stigma created first by the racist slave owners who decried that any person with an ounce of "black blood" is considered to be black, as if to think that they were preserving the purity of the white race while all the while humping on black female slaves and producing those "black" children.
Again, it tells me where we still are and how far we still need to go.
The most disgusting part of this is that McCain hired the VERY people who siad these things about his family to run his 2008 campaign. Tucker Bounds, e.g. The man has no honor regardless of an artful concession speech.
Look, the whole John McCain black child thing was saying that while he was married to Cindy he had a black child out of wedlock - presumably while committing adultery -- and yes they did throw the black child bit in there to make it even more scandalous presumably, but it was mostly a scandal about having a love child outside of his marriage.
You know, that old Republican strategy of just throw whatever mud you can at your opponent, doesn't matter if there is any truth in what you say, and hope that some of it will stick and that people won't bother to investigate anything, but will simply believe what they hear. And repeat often.
It seems to work with Faux News anyway.
I believe the most important thing to take away from this controversy is how Sen. Chambliss represented the people he supposedly counted their votes on. It was during this six-year term of Sen. Chambliss, I believe, that seventeen-year-old Genarlow Wilson, a promising high school football star, was convicted as a child rapist because he and his fifteen-year-old girlfriend had underage consensual sex. It was certainly a lack of judgment for these kids to do that, but he was sent to state prison on a sentence that many convicted killers don't even serve. In addition to that travesty of justice, a comic book store owner was convicted of distributing pornography to children even though he had no idea that he let a pair of boys have some free comics he was about to get rid of, one of which featured a nude drawing of Picasso, which was the only evidence used to convict the comic book seller.
I have come to the conclusion that during the six years Sen. Chambliss and his fellow ilk were allegedly serving the state of Georgia, the state became one of the most backwards states in the country when it came to its justice system. It is long time for the Republican regime in Georgia to go and let some fresh faces populate the state's seats of government, preferably from the Democratic party.
If anyone read the Rolling Stone article on John McCain, it is clear that this IS the real John McCain. The man we thought we knew in 2000 was a fraud. Perhaps that was the man John wanted to be, but never could and now he's not even pretending.
Barack Obama is meeting with him on Monday. I really hope he's not planning on offering him a place in his cabinet. This is not the kind of man we want representing our new president, our country or us.
We need to go to his website and let him know.
John MCCain has become a two bit low life racists. Since losing to OBAMA he has become worst. John can't except losing to a brilliant blackman. I won't be surprise if he becomes hte permant guess oon HANNITY AND LAMBIAUGH.
Unfortunately, that his base now and Palin and he are still working it.
Chambliss has one of the worst voting records on vets issues in the last six years. A vote for Saxby is a vote against our troops!
The fact that Chambliss won the way he did, plus the fact that it is again a close race is a sad commentary on the state of Georgia. As far as McCain , this doesn't surprise me. He has totally sold out any respectability or honor he ever had. He is nothing but a puppet for his republican masters.
I never had the honor of meeting Sen. Cleland, and yet, I know him.
He is that special individual that we all hope ourselves to be. He epitomizes strength of character, honor, bravery, and integrity. When treated so incredibly shamefully by Chambliss and the despicable Rove smear machine, Max picked himself up and moved on, without the slightest bit of public indignation. Ya see, Max knows very well how to pick himself up and move on. When you talk about class and guts, think of this inspirational man.
I love Max Cleland, and I pray that Georgia will too......b
Nam Vet
All McCain had to do was be who he always was. Once he sucked up to Falwell and employed all of Rove's henchmen he gave up the mantel of "maverick.
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