Posted on 12/04/2008 8:29:42 AM PST by lewisglad
Chambliss: ‘Dynamite’ Palin turned out vote By Klaus Marre Posted: 12/03/08 10:29 [ET]
Newly reelected Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) credited Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with firing up his base and allowing him to cruise to a victory over Democrat Jim Martin.
“Sarah Palin came in on the last day, did a fly-around and, man, she was dynamite,” Chambliss told Fox News on Wednesday. “We packed the houses everywhere we went. And it really did allow us to peak and get our base fired up.”
Chambliss beat Martin by three points on Nov. 4 but did not reach 50 percent of the vote, making a runoff necessary. However, the incumbent easily beat his challenger Tuesday, more than quadrupling his margin of victory, and in the process kept Democrats from reaching a filibuster-proof Senate majority.
Chambliss heaped praise on Palin, saying she has a “great future” in the GOP.
“I can’t overstate the impact she had down here. All these folks did a great job coming in,” he said, referring to former presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Rudy Giuliani. “They allow you [to] add momentum to where we were in the campaign. But when she walks in a room, folks just explode.”
Chambliss also said he has “no idea” whether Martin would have been more successful had President-elect Obama actively campaigned for him
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Did Palin really increase turnout? Were there more Republican votes in the runoff than the original election? If so, some credit would absolutely have to go to her.
I’ve never had a local runoff election. Can you vote in the runoff even if you never voted in the original election?
...and nary a peep from the MSM about this.
Of course, had Chambliss lost, it would have been pinned sqaurely on Palin’s shoulders.
Time to change from “It’s Bush’s Fault” to “It’s Palin’s Fault”
but, but, but she was such a drag on the McCain ticket I thought...
Chambliss beat Martin by a muck higher percentage than he did in the primary. Chambliss also beat the polls which, just days before the runoff, had him ahead by 2 or 3.
This doesn’t fit the MSM’s overall negative Palin narrative, so don’t expect any reportage!
Sarah should be named the head of the RNC. Let her campaign in tough district in 2010, and win congress back!!
If one thinks about it, Gov. Palin is the only positive thing McNut did for us conservatives; and it was by mistake on his part, which was in our favor.
LOL!!!
I love your word “muck” muck better.
If we keep Sarah and other conservatives up front, we’ll win in 2010 and 2012. The Republican Party needs a fresh start and the energy Sarah brings to it.
The first FUN we republicans have had in an election in years. Hopefully many more. This UAW thing looks promising too, democrats sweating. Havent seen that in a while.
I notice GWB and Cheney were not asked to show up at this. GWB was too busy sticking his foot in his mouth on his legacy(please shut up!). But he may have helped us by causing anti-bailout-mania with the public that Obama will get to work with. How about anti-stimulus package-tax rebate-mania next???
Also, in the runoff Chambliss beat Martin by a much larger margin than he beat Cleveland 6 years ago. In 2002, Chamblis won about 52% of the vote and Cleveland about 48%. In the run off it was 58% Chambliss 42% Martin. How much is due to Sarah Palin-how much due to the fact that Martin is very left wing etc.Hard to say. But clearly Governor Palin energized the base.
Good. Sarah helps stave off the looming Dem super-majority, and Chambliss now owes her next time around. She was there at HIS invitation, which suggests that he gets it.
This is what Sarah Palin can do we she is freed from having to plug all that RINO maverick garbage with McCain.
By the way, did McCain help out Chambliss in the run-off?
But we've smelled it.
A friend of mine in VA believes that the Pubbies will pick up seats in 2010, as opposed to 2006. There was no positive energy in 2006, only the fear of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker.
Sarah brings that positive energy to the base, and Saxby's victory was proof of the pudding.
With every sneer that comes from the Beltway/Liberal/MSM elites when Sarah's name is spoken, the stronger is the bond between us and our Sarah.
I know they've got Bobby Jindal in their sights now, which will be a big mistake on the part of Dems.
How much better off do you think he, and she, and us would have been if he had made up his mind a few months earlier, instead of throwing her in the lion's den on a few days' notice? The stumblebum did all of us a great disservice.
I'm convinced some of her interview gaffes were because she was so concerned about contradicting something McCain had said or done previously. If she'd had three or four months with his advisers to get his platform memorized, and get totally up to speed on national and international issues, imagine how powerfully she'd have come across. If you go back and look at her prior debates and interviews before the campaign, she was just dynamite.
-ccm
Yeah, it's a shame that a guy like Chambliss, who voted for the $700 billion bailout, had to use Palin's conservatism to get reelected. Try being true to Conservatism, Saxby. It'll do wonders for your political career......
I'll be watching the actions of the Pubbie Senators from the Northeast. It appears to me that Susan Collins was shocked, and visibly perturbed, by her "good friends from across the aisle" campaigning so vigorously against her. I'm sure Judd Gregg, Olympia Snowe, et.al. paid attention to that as well.
I could be wrong, but I don't think they'll flip to the Dems so easily in the next legislative session.
President-elect Sarah Palin....has a VERY NICE ring to it!
McCain campaigned for Chambliss a few weeks ago, drawing a crowd of about 2,000, and I believe he did a fundraiser there too. Gov. Palin drew the biggest crowds on either side during the runoff. The Dems big gun, Bill Clinton, drew a crowd of 3,000 in Atlanta. Gov. Palin’s crowd in Duluth was about 6,000.
Yes. I’ve often said that Snowe and Collins are good RINOs, meaning that they vote liberal most of the time to please their constituents, but in the past voted with the leadership when it was absolutely necessary—unlike traitors like Lincoln Chaffee, now fortunately no longer with us.
Maine is liberal, but I don’t know how much they’ll like Obama when they’ve seen him in action for a while—or Pelosi. Hopefully you are right, and Snowe and Collins will be back on board, doing the right thing in the crunch. The real crunch will be the SCOTUS nominations and the FOCA bill, I imagine.
Sarah Palin gives me goosebumps. I LOVE HER!
God, if you’re listening, please help us get a President Palin in 2012!
FOCA is the linchpin for me. I don't want to seem like a one-issue voter, but it's secondary to none for me.
Of course, you realize, Jim Martin came to the show with some REAL HEAVIES; Cong. John Lewis, ‘Little Cheezy’, ‘Whack-yo-mama’, ‘Hip-Hop Mop’, ‘RAMMA-DAMMA-DING-DONG’, Etc. Really an upscale, Atlanta-friendly, bunch.
"Chonny and Wooty, you two losers bettah make udder plans.
I gotda funny feeling the Republican Potty tinks you guys are pure crapola."
"Me, I'll kiss anybody's tookus so's I can git federal tax dollahs to bailout
bankrupt Kaliforneeah."
FIRST OFF Palin needs to disassociate herself from the pukeneos AT ONCE---before she gets the virulent pukeneo compulsion to kick conservatives to the curb and religiously cleanse the party.
THIS IS WHAT I MEAN Pukeneo William Kristol, Weekly Standard editor and Fox pundit has pronounced the death of the conservative movement. “Leaderless, rudderless and issueless, the conservative movement, is finished,” Kristol pontificated.
ROTFLMAO. That's what YOU think, you stupid puke.
Kristol and the pukes have this cockamamie idea to have the US invade countries all over the world to establish “national greatness”........... as opposed to what they regard as the standpatness of conservative Republicans (another slap at conservatives).
Pukes depraved secret strategy. National Greatness entails a greater role for the federal government and more---much more--extensive intervention throughout the world to "promote" American values. Notice that the idiotic “national greatness” thingy was NOT ever mentioned in McC's campign speeches. The pukes tightened McCain's leash and allowed him to make ONLY pre-selected statements.
Hey, the nincompoopneos play rough if you don't obey.
McC was allowed to campaign for Big Government and issue criticisms of the role of religion in public life (religious cleansing is a pukeneo fave) . McC read from the puke script---sucking-up to pukes bigtime. McC supported endless war, US intervention........BUT only in places Kristol approves. Plus environmentalism, gun control, gay rights, anti-tobacco legislation...........
...... and.... (drum roll, please).... amnesty.
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Kristol and his pals are not satisfied with the trillions of US tax dollars and young blood thrown down the snake pits of Mideast hellholes. The little jerk Kristol see himself as another short guy with a height complex---Napoleon Bonaparte---or maybe Little Ceasar (and I do mean "little")?
These destructive termites have been eating away at the party structure far too long. We demand David Frum, Michael Gerson, David Brooks, Billy Kristol and his Daddy, dumbhead Douglas Feith, and that whole disgusting cabal of pukeneos, get out of the party.......and stay away from the leadership and influencing the party leadership.
Yep, me, too! She is awesome! Definitely a Rising Star in the Republican Party! Check out TeamSarah.org!
In years, the ‘only good thing that McCain did’ will be seen by conservatives as the springboard to its imminent resurrection and increased prominence in 2010 and 2012 and the eventual salvation for the conservative movement. Whether Sarah leads the movement in 2010 and 2012 is still up in the air, but so far so good.
“Palin said recently she wants the Repub Party to “stand by its principles” and if they don’t she has “better things to do.”
What?! When did she say that?!
Said to Fred Barnes when asked about her future.
(paraphrasing) “Uf the party is true to its principles I may have a future as a national candidate. If not, I’ve got better things to do”.
OMG! That’s awesome!!
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