Palin To Hit Campaign Trail In Georgia Senate Runoff
Sarah Palin is going back on the trail!
Palin will be criss-crossing Georgia this Monday on behalf of GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss, in the final day of campaigning for the very unpredictable Senate runoff, the Chambliss campaign just announced.
Palin will be holding four rallies across the state, in a race that will make the difference in the Dems' efforts to get 60 seats this year, along with the Minnesota recount. This runoff election is all about jazzing up the base -- and whatever her faults, few if any Republicans did as good a job of that this year as Palin.
Chambliss has had some big names coming in for him, like John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney. Democratic challenger Jim Martin, who is lagging by a few points in the polls, has had Bill Clinton and Al Gore come in for him, among others, but one huge Democratic name has eluded him: Barack Obama.
Barack should not pull away from the transition to stump in Georgia.
November 25, 2008 9:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
I agree. Palin's appearance will be enough to mobilize the democratic base and some Independents.
November 25, 2008 9:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
Agree 100%.
November 25, 2008 10:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Also too!
November 25, 2008 12:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Amen to that. It's a shame he hasn't done more already.
November 25, 2008 10:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
(1) Palin campaigning may do as much to mobilize the Democratic base as it does the Republican base.
(2) Enough of the "but Obama isn't campaigning for Martin" stuff--he's got much bigger fish to fry than one senate race in a red state. And nobody would like to see that repugnant individual who is the current Senator defeated more than I would, but PE Obama has better things to do.
November 25, 2008 9:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly right. Barack has shifted from campaign mode to governing mode, and that will keep him more than occupied from now on.
Yep, Palin could stir up the good guys as much as her worshipful cult.
November 25, 2008 9:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
...uh the good guys are her "worshipful cult"...It'll be 55/45. You better concentrate on the Coleman race.
November 25, 2008 10:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, that's right. That said [rant alert] I want the runoff to be over. I want whatever can give her excuses to come to the mainland to be over. Goddammit, stay in Alaska forever! [/rant alert]
November 25, 2008 10:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
December is when the Alaska legislature meets to negotiate the new budget. Palin is suppose to be preparing a spending budget with an extremely lean pool of money so there will have to be some painful cuts in expenditures. Taking off to Georgia on a repug boondoggle for a runoff election that has nothing to do with pending state business sounds like she's shirking her responsibilities as the governor in favor of head of the repug ticket for 2012. We'll see how this plays out in Alaska when they get their budget handed to them.
November 25, 2008 10:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
"Permanent campaign mode" was part of what made the Bush administration such a disaster, according to insider Scott McClellan.
Better that Obama stick with his main job now. It's more presidential than going down to Hicksville and getting mixed up in that cracker-fest with Chickenhawk Chambliss.
Let Shrill Sarah shake her conehead for Chambliss. Southern redneck and northern redneck, them's her kinda people down there.
November 25, 2008 10:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hide your gobblers Georgia. Palin is known to slaughter them with her bare teeth!
November 25, 2008 9:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
Gobble, gobble, gobble, BLLLLLAAAAACCCCHHHHHH!
November 25, 2008 10:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, what happened to the tongue picture?
November 25, 2008 9:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Too many people were getting tingles up their legs--or sparkleburst shots! :-)
November 25, 2008 10:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
I have seen polls that have Chambliss comfortably ahead. Palin's injection into the campaign should tighten the numbers up.
November 25, 2008 10:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ten bucks she thinks she's going to Georgia to negotiate a peace treaty with the Russians.
November 25, 2008 10:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
I heard that if you use a high power telescope from a tower in Georgia you can see cuba. Maybe she's going for foreign policy experience for her 2012 run.
November 25, 2008 10:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
I would think she gonna point them in the right direction so they can see Russia from their doorsteps too.
November 25, 2008 10:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
...you must be one of the "low information" Obama voters who keep mistaking Tina Fey for Sarah Palin.
November 25, 2008 10:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Nah, he or she isn't. Fey is intelligent and can speak in complete sentences and isn't a buffoon. Rambo of the Northwest is a fool, can't speak in complete sentences and doesn't know squat. Big difference.
November 25, 2008 10:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
I didn't want to go into that much detail...the poor Sarge easily gets overwhelmed when he's confronted with contradicting arguments.
November 25, 2008 10:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Stop Insulting Fey.
November 25, 2008 10:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Unlike you Sarge, I know the difference between and actress(Fey) and a comedian(Palin). You need to find that medic...sounds like you're due for another happy pill.
November 25, 2008 10:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Whether Tina says them or Sarah says them, they're still the same words...
November 25, 2008 10:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
..you must be one of those low information voters who co-signed a ticket where the VP candidate didn't know what a Vice President did. Sweet.
November 25, 2008 12:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
You mean the one with the same qualifications as your number one guy...well minus writting 2 books about herself?
November 25, 2008 12:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm talking about the guy who is usually the smartest guy in every room he walks into, as opposed to a person picked solely because she has a pair of tits - the same person who didn't know what the Bush Doctrine was and couldn't name one solitary newspaper off the cuff. More times than not she came across like a retarded stroke victim. That's the person you voted for jackass. Congratulations. lol
November 25, 2008 1:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
THIS
November 25, 2008 10:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
...won't work anymore...no one's paying attention.
November 25, 2008 10:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
Someone's in a foul mood today...
November 25, 2008 10:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think that he is upset that rambo is comin' to georgia and he is starting to see the handwriting on the wall for the GOP.
November 25, 2008 10:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
Don't go 'round tonight
There's a bad mood on the Right
November 25, 2008 10:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
...not really...y'all left Moose hanging for a couple of minutes so I threw it in.
November 25, 2008 11:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
go fuck yourself
November 25, 2008 12:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
THIS
November 25, 2008 12:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
IS!
November 25, 2008 10:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
EXCELLENT
November 25, 2008 10:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
NEWS
November 25, 2008 10:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
FOR
November 25, 2008 10:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
REAL AMERICANS!
November 25, 2008 11:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
AND A FILIBUSTER-PROOF SENATE!
November 25, 2008 11:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
Good grief. As if we Georgians don't have enough angst over having Chambliss as our Senator - Now we have to have Palin in our state talking her nonsense.
November 25, 2008 10:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
My condolences. . . but look on the bright side--you may see a great SNL routine out of it!
November 25, 2008 10:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
I hope this'category 5 moron' continues to overshadow the G.O.P.
She accurately represents the G.O.P.
November 25, 2008 10:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well, she best not show up at Tara for refreshments,,,,,, white trash gets fed out back +after+ the 'help' has their fill. Standards must be maintained, afterall.
November 25, 2008 10:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
This race is tilting more in favor of Saxby. That's why Rudy, Palin and co are showing up to be associated with a winning campaign.
Let us hope for an upset.
C'mon Georgians!
November 25, 2008 10:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
The gift that keeps on giving!
November 25, 2008 10:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Did Putin rear is ugly head when the lower 48 states were sleeping?
November 25, 2008 10:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
If Palin's "executive experience" is so important, who's the chief executive in Alaska when Caribou Barbie is doing her celebrity tour down in Georgia and elsewhere in the lower 48?
November 25, 2008 10:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
Todd. He's running the show anyway. Rambo is just a figurehead.
November 25, 2008 10:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Chambliss is representative of everything that is wrong with the GOP. The Republicans rolling out the big guns and having to support this guy does more harm than good.
Wesley Clark questions McCain's readiness and the GOP Outrage Machine comes out in full attack mode, Chickenhawk Shameless compares Max Cleland to Osama Bin Laden and Republicans elect him. Blatant hypocrisy, but par for the course.
The Republican Party stands for nothing anymore except going into the gutter to get elected.
November 25, 2008 11:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
"Wesley Clark questions McCain's readiness and the GOP Outrage Machine comes out in full attack mode, Chickenhawk Shameless compares Max Cleland to Osama Bin Laden and Republicans elect him. Blatant hypocrisy, but par for the course."
Except for the fact that your characterization of events is incorrect. Chambliss never "compares Max Cleland to Osama Bin Laden." He stated, truthfully, that Clelland voted against the President's DHS plan several times and that showed Clelland wasn't "leading" in the area of national security like he was claiming he did.
November 25, 2008 11:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Huh? Talk about trying to rewrite history and spin like a top. You guys are a piece of work.
November 25, 2008 11:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKFYpd0q9nE
Where was the comparison to Bin Laden?
November 25, 2008 11:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
Very beginning of the ad. Do you remember khe sanh?
November 25, 2008 11:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
"As Americans face terrorists and extremist dictators, Max Cleland runs television ads saying he has the courage to lead, but he's voted against President Bush 11 times since July..."
You consider that calling him or comparing him to a terrorist?
November 25, 2008 11:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
Keep spinning. Do you remember khe sanh?
November 25, 2008 12:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
...I'm not the one spinning reality to fit my view point.
November 25, 2008 1:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
See, that's the problem. You don't even recognize the spin, like you keep ignoring my point about khe sanh and the outrageous smears against cleland. No spin necessary by me to see the purpose and intent of the outrageous ad by chamblis, he of five draft deferments. If you can't see it, that's a shame. However, a substantial number of your fellow georgians saw it as cleland coddling terrorists, a traitor and in league with bin laden. You don't see that, too bad.
November 25, 2008 1:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
WTF does Khe Sanh have to do with the ad (I wasn't ignoring it...just didn't see the relevance)? And no, saying someone isn't leading and voting with the President isn't the same as saying they are Bin Laden supporters. It is however, pointing out that something was preventing him from supporting the bill. In this case it was his Ecclesiastical devotion to the unions and it led to his down fall.
November 25, 2008 1:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't recall unions being mentioned in the ads and what is the fixation with unions? Absurd.
Khe sanh is where cleland was blown up according to his bio that you referred to before and couter twisted and distorted and demeaned. He was blown up choppering into khe freaking sanh. When he jumped off the chopper some wacko gung ho fool had dismantled the safety devices on his hand grenades and one fell off when he jumped out of the chopper, blowing cleland up. And you jerks have the gaul to talk about "unions" and to attack his patriotism and demean his service and claim that he is unpatriotic and coddling terrorists. Disgusting and Pathetic.
November 25, 2008 1:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
"And you jerks have the gaul to talk about "unions" ...
Oh yeah, I forgot how you kept telling everyone here to quit criticizing McCain because of his service in Vietnam.
November 25, 2008 2:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
I actually did. Go back and check if you like.
November 25, 2008 2:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Unionization of DHS workers is the sticking point for Cleland's vote. It was his decision and it cost him.
November 25, 2008 2:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, if it makes you feel better to smear a patriot and a vietnam veteran who was horribly injured in the service of his country, I guess you will stick to your lame justification. Republicans are so hypocritical.
November 25, 2008 2:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
That ad is worse than disgraceful. It's reprehensible.
November 25, 2008 12:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
...only because it's a Republican running it against a Democrat. If it were the other way around you'd be saying "...it is the truth...I'm not sure what the problem is." Or did you condem Dan Rather for his phoney story and fraudulent documents?
November 25, 2008 1:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
See, here is another one. No I don't condemn rather. I actually think that it was true and the funny thing is that there is a kernal of truth to the allegation. The king was partying stateside in the guard with his buds, while people like cleland were getting blown up in vietnam. There is no kernal of truth to the smear that cleland was coddling terrorists, or was unamerican, or was unpatriotic. None. It was a lie and distortion. Big difference. I'm sure that you don't see it that way, of course.
November 25, 2008 1:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
So making up a story and supporting it with phoney documents is better that telling facts and supporting it with facts...?
November 25, 2008 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
I disagree with your conclusion about what transpired. Something fishy went on, but the facts were the facts. He was partying hearty in the us in the guard while people were serving their country and getting blown up in vietnam.
November 25, 2008 1:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
I guess I was being a bit too subtle for you.
"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."
-- Sen. John McCain, quoted by CNN, on the campaign ads used by Saxby Chambliss (R) against Sen. Max Cleland (D-GA) in the 2002 U.S. Senate race.
What was that about being a Republican or a Democrat?
November 25, 2008 1:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was talking about your statement, but if you'd like I agree. You are as wrong as John McCain on this one.
November 25, 2008 2:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who do you suppose is paying for this "guest" appearance? And are extended family members also part of the entourage-so even more money? Follow the money - always good advice for illuminating the workings of the GOP.
November 25, 2008 11:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
Another question, who is paying for the clothes? Another shopping spree at neiman marcus?
November 25, 2008 11:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
Just in time for Christmas!!! She's probably thanking her lucky stars for the runoff!
November 25, 2008 11:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Speaking of just in time for Christmas!!!
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashacg.htm
November 25, 2008 11:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Halloween would've been better timing. {Shudder}
November 25, 2008 11:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's number 2 on my Christmas list...right behind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D99NHb6B03s
November 25, 2008 11:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Not a surprise. You'd be better off getting facts as opposed to reading coulter lies. I am sure she will be dropping bombs all over the place now in the lead up to the release to sell books to the wingers. Talk about an echo chamber. Pathetic.
November 25, 2008 12:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
She won't be saying much (except for something like errrrrh errrrh eeerrrrrrrh!): Good News! Coulter's finally silenced!
November 25, 2008 12:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
There's just too many leaks for SFC to plug all by himself.
November 25, 2008 12:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
your ass would be shot by the time you got that thing open and ready to use.
November 25, 2008 12:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good point and very funny. Same problem that you have carrying a concealed weapon for "self-defense." By the time you reach for it, your a** is shot. Wingers are so delusional.
November 25, 2008 1:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now I get it. You only buy a gun like that if you were planning on using it proactively. For instance, you've had a bad day and you're taking a nighttime stroll w your trusty "flashlight/automatic weapon" and you happen to see a couple of liberals and decide to take them out. The police show up and they question you but you just say "no one here but me and my trusty flashlight".....
November 25, 2008 3:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ann Coulter is a man, the Adams Apple is a dead giveaway.
November 25, 2008 12:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
whining- the last resort of a loser. She's smart though. She knows there's an audience of wingnuts out there shaking their fists at the "unfairness of it all".
November 25, 2008 12:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Superb question. Alaska taxpayers would be my guess.
Of course, for the welfare ice kingdom, that actually means taxpayers in the other 49 states.
November 25, 2008 11:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
There's some great shoppin' in Atlanta!
November 25, 2008 11:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
No Mas! No Mas! Aye Dios Mio!
November 25, 2008 1:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
She is polling even to Obama in the 2012 election may have to ask her about this when she stops by here in Georgia. http://2012obama.com/presidential-polls/palin-obama-2012-presidential-election/
November 25, 2008 3:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh brother. 13 votes for obama to 12 for palin. That is hilarious.
November 25, 2008 3:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
..now it's tied...a momentum shift.
November 25, 2008 4:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Uh oh, look out palin's got the big mo.
November 25, 2008 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wonder what she's going to wear when campaigning for Chambliss? Those designer duds she supposedly "donated to charity"?
November 25, 2008 4:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
This racist (Chambliss) should be barred from public office and Palin should be sanctioned by the good people of Alaska and the good people of the Alaska State Legislature for her support of a known member of the Ku Klux Klan (Chambliss). If you dig deep enough, Chambliss probably has a shadowy past that includes participation in lynchings of Blacks and other minorities in his past.
November 25, 2008 7:45 PM | Reply | Permalink