"Letter to The Washington Times Editor:
I've had it with Max Cleland blaming rascal Republicans for the loss of his senate seat. Like many other Georgia Republicans, I voted for Max Cleland when he first ran. As an Army wife for 28 years, I trusted him with Sam Nunn's senate seat. I knew Max wasn't "the sharpest knife in the drawer", but I did consider him to be an honorable man. Well, I was wrong. Max Cleland's stunt in Crawford confirms Georgians were right to throw Max out of the United States Senate. Max Cleland betrayed the people of Georgia.
Max Cleland lost his senate seat because he served the Clintons, not Georgia.
Georgians were embarrassed when Max dozed off during C-Span televised hearings. The sleep disease which Cleland said explained his on-camera naps, was miraculously cured when Georgians let their displeasure be known.
You expect a sitting senator to prepare, and do well in debates against a challenger, you don't expect a sitting senator to use false allegations against the President and mean-spirited insults to his opponent, as reasons why voters should re-elect him.
Max Cleland did not do his homework, for his debate, or for us. Georgians were embarrassed when Max couldn't question witnesses at hearings, without reading verbatim from staff prepared notes. Woefully unprepared, Max could never offer serious follow-up questions. Instead, Max had to rely on time-filling, corn pone southern colloquialisms, always delivered with a fake, good ole boy grin. That shiny, stinky, "mackeral in the moonlight" turned out to be Max Cleland! "
BTW, did you see the following? Its inspiration was your comment about kerry's silly-looking hand gestures.
Kerry is UNFIT #20: THUMBSUCKER SERIES
PREEMPTION-(the whole ball of wax)
You may recall that my first wife was handicapped, and way back when Max was Secretary of State, he ( or his office ) helped us with some handicap issues.
Even as recently as Impeachment, when I would talk to aids on the Republican side, they urged me to make my thoughts known to Max, because "He's a good guy." I heard that from many, many people. I don't know what happened, but somehow he swung to the dark side. And I understand that President Bush appointed him to a $136,000 a year position, too. I really expected better from him.