Tomorrow Gov. Palin will be stumping in Georgia for the incumbant
Senator Saxby Chambliss. Does she even know anything about his
background? Another example of a probable sell-out to the GOP for
personal gain.
Article by Matt Zencey:
Gov. Sarah Palin is putting her conservative Republican fame
to work in Georgia, stumping for Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby
Chambliss, who is in a tough runoff for re-election.
I wonder if she knows the true measure of the man she is
eagerly helping.
Chambliss was elected to the Senate in 2002 by running one of
the most reprehensible campaigns of modern times. He was up against
incumbent Democrat Sen. Max Cleland, a Vietnam War veteran who lost
both legs and his right arm to a grenade during that conflict.
Chambliss avoided serving in Vietnam. He got four student
draft deferments, and when his number finally came up, he was
medically disqualified with knee troubles.
In the best Karl Rove fashion, Chambliss the draft-evader
attacked Cleland the war hero for being soft on terrorism.
Distorting Cleland's votes about workplace rules for the new
Homeland Security Department employees, Chambliss portrayed him as
a tool of terrorists like Osama bin Laden.
Here's how the Almanac of American Politics (2006) described
it:
"Chambliss ran an ad, much attacked in the press, showing
pictures of Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Max Cleland, and
saying that Cleland 'voted against the President's vital homeland
security efforts 11 times.'" (Those "vital homeland security
efforts" Cleland opposed were intended to strip homeland security
employees of union rights and other workplace protections.)
The man who couldn't bring himself to serve in the military
said a man who left three limbs behind in war was a weakling who
would turn the country over to terrorists.
Chambliss was a congressman during the 9-11 attacks.
Congressional Quarterly's "Politics in America 2006" noted that
Congressman Chambliss "quipped that one route to security would be
for local sheriffs to 'arrest every Muslim that comes across the
state line.'"
So there you have the fine American that Palin is trying to
re-elect to the U.S. Senate.
Gov. Palin's eldest joined the Army and has been deployed to
Iraq. As a justifiably proud military mom, she might ask herself
why she is using her conservative star power to support such a
reprehensible Republican chicken hawk.