Senator Blasts Kerry's Military Voting

[Onlooker]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=4&u=/ap/20040221/ap_on_el_pr/kerry

ATLANTA - A leading Georgia Republican, speaking for President Bush's re-election campaign, predicted trouble for John Kerry in the state's primary next month.

Sen. Saxby Chambliss contended that Kerry, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, has a weak voting record on military affairs.

A spokeswoman for the Massachusetts senator called Chambliss an attack dog for Bush and encouraged anybody who wants to debate Kerry's military record to "bring it on," a slogan of the Kerry campaign.

Chambliss said in a conference call arranged by the Bush campaign: "When you have a 32-year history of voting to cut defense programs and cut defense systems, folks in Georgia are going to look beyond what he says and look at his voting record."

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"For Saxby Chambliss, who got out of going to Vietnam because of a trick knee, to attack John Kerry as weak on the defense of our nation is like a mackerel in the moonlight that both shines and stinks."
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My take on this is that the Repugs are worried that Kerry's war hero record will prevent Rove from running a photo op campaign. Kerry was brave and patriotic, while Bush was a coward and selfish. (Remember 9/11 when Bush hid in the sky rather than order his plane to land in Washington?)

[MidwestTransplant]

1. Saxby SHAMbliss

is a sick person.

[Jackpine Radical]

7. I think it's spelled Saxby SHAMELESS.

He's the guy who won Max Cleland's seat by attacking his patriotism. Cleland, you may recall, lost 3 limbsin the military operation that lifted the Siege of Khe Sanh in the spring of '68.

[saigon68]

18. Here's More

ELECTION 2002
Ralph Reed Discusses Georgia’s Republican Revolution

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/news/021107d.asp



RALPH REED: Pat as is often the case with a great victory like this, it was a team effort. Saxby Chambliss, our new senator is a respected four-term congressman, very well liked by the President, and the President came in here early and often for him. He, too, built a strong grassroots organization. And Saxby is chairman of the House Subcommittee on Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security. He’s a leader in Washington, on agriculture, on the budget, on education, and he will be an impact player in the Senate immediately.

[bucknaked]

10. Okay, Senator, guess who was Sec of Def during the 1st Bush admin...

...and proposed (and got) Defense cuts that would've made Clinton blush? Guess who's proposals for further cuts(had they gotten another 4 years) were not only on par, but almost exceeding the cuts made during Clinton's first term?

(the answer is Dick Cheney... not to mention a handful of other rehashed-members and associates in this current admin)

[bluestateguy]

2. Oh, this is too good to be true

Come on, JFK this is like a pitcher serving up a hanging curve ball to Sammy Sosa. To have Saxy Chambliss attacking Kerry's record on national security is a blunder of monumental proportions on the other side. It's up to the Kerry team to knock this out of the park.

[PsN2Wind]

13. Kerry should point out that HE

knows exactly how military equipment works down to seeing someone trying to kill while you have them in your gun sights. Unlike the guy with the mint julep name. Where DID you serve Saxby?

[saigon68]

16. Saxby Chambliss Chicken Hawk Extraordinaire

Wednesday, October 16, 2002 gainesvilletimes.com

Chambliss attack ad against Cleland both misleading, reckless


http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/stories/20021016/opinion/297860.html

U.S. Rep. Saxby Chambliss, the Republican in the contest, is airing a television ad in his contest against incumbent Sen. Max Cleland, the Democratic Party candidate, that features Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Chambliss' message: Cleland is soft on homeland defense and doesn't support President Bush

Cleland, after all, knows more than a little about fighting for his country. As a company commander during the Vietnam War, he lost an arm and both legs.

Chambliss, who was granted deferments during the war, is quick to unfairly characterize Cleland's commitment to the security of his neighbors and countrymen.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. I posted this before. Keep it up so that all DUers can see

what a sick little facsist "Chambshit" really is.

[saigon68]

4. Saxby Chambliss is an Evil Mother Fucker

Actually he's more than that. I will get banned if I say MORE.

He is the DRAFT-DODGING piece of work that trashed out Sen MAX CLELAND and said Cleland was unpatriotic and supported Osama. It worked, because apparently a lot of "Simple Folks " believed his crap.

a little sniveling Dork named Ralph Reed helped him.

There are links aplenty that show this shit.

He would jump in a lake and screw fish (eliminated the F-Word) if he thought he could get an advantage by doing it. He is the devils Spawn.

Rant</off>

[Journeyman]

5. Why does Chambliss believe. . .

that every program and system proposed for the military should be automatically approved? Does the junior Senator from Georgia not see any room for analysis or thought in the Pentagon's budget, or must everyone, like he, prostrate themselves before every "big gun" waved before them?

[buckeye1]

6. This could be the strategy.

Use surrogates to attack,while Bush takes the high road. The new law requires Bush to say he approves of every ad. This will make negative ads out of the question.

[truthisfreedom]

11. you can expect to see the same thing with Kerry... it's a necessary evil

now that the law has changed. you'll see terry attacking bush relentlessly as kerry takes the high road. what's new? politics sucks.

[Jackpine Radical]

8. Thank you Saxby Shameless. I feel better about Kerry's voting

record now. I always thought he was a little too hawkish.

[saigon68]

23. Kerry ia a pacifist compare to the evil Darth Chambliss

The only thing missing on Chickenhawk Chambliss is a dark black cape and a light sabre.

[Room101]

9. Kerry should bring out his medals .............

This will be a very Orwellian election.

[grasswire]

12. I believe....

....it's time to take a REAL close look at those voting machines in Georgia. It's widely thought that Chambliss was elected through election fraud.

[lyonn]

21. who will do it

This issue has been suggested since the election and it seems no one is looking into it. Would it be congress's responsibility? It appears people will be voting with these trail-less machines. Should be interesting.

[leesa]

14. Who cares what Chamblis thinks...he's a coward and a fraud.

[saigon68]

17. He has Ralph Reed as his puppet master

Ralph Reed

Ralph E. Reed Jr., President of Century Strategies, was College Republican National Committee (CRNC) Executive Director, 1983-1985.

According to the web CRNC web site, "Ralph’s national reputation for strategic insights and grassroots organizational skills provides Century Strategies’ political and corporate clients with added assurance that their public policy goals will be achieved.


http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Ralph_Reed


"As chairman of the Georgia Republican Party (2001-present), he helped elect U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss, Sonny Perdue as the first GOP Governor in 130 years, and gained control of state Senate for first time since Reconstruction. During his tenure, the state party budget increased from $5 million to $10.7 million, the donor base grew from 12,000 to 34,000, and the party built a grassroots network of over 3,000 volunteers

[PsN2Wind]

15. Kerry should point out

that if the Pentagon could find all those hundreds of billions of unaccounted for funds, they could afford damn near any program they need.

[mobuto]

19. Quoting John Randolph on Henry Clay - awesome reference

"For Saxby Chambliss, who got out of going to Vietnam because of a trick knee, to attack John Kerry as weak on the defense of our nation is like a mackerel in the moonlight that both shines and stinks."

Cleland's awesome - he's of course quoting from John Randolph's description of Henry Clay, which was a lot more nuanced that Cleland's attack was intended to be. Randolph said Clay was brilliant, yet corrupt. Chambliss is just corrupt - he does not shine.

Cleland should also remember that Clay then challenged Randolph to a duel, whereas I think Cleland's best pistoling days are behind him.

Now do you suppose George W. could make allusions to 1820s political debates?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

20. They're scared. They're desparate.

This election is going to be good.

[saigon68]

22. Max Cleland is pissed at this Chicken hawk

a fish shining in the moonlight.