Palin Recycles Old Stump Speech In Georgia, But Replaces ‘McCain’ With ‘Chambliss’
Palin Recycles Old Stump Speech In Georgia, But Replaces ‘McCain’ With ‘Chambliss’
Today, Gov. Sarah Palin traveled to Georgia to campaign for Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R), who faces a tough runoff election tomorrow against Democratic challenger Jim Martin. In the first of four stops today, in Augusta, Palin told the crowd, “The eyes of the nation are on you,” adding, “The stakes are so high” and that “America is counting on you.”
Yet despite Palin’s insistence on the importance of the Chambliss race, she apparently couldn’t bring herself to write a new stump speech. Instead, she recycled many of her favorite lines from this fall, substituting Chambliss’ name for Sen. John McCain’s:
Palin On Washington:
On CHAMBLISS: Too many politicians forgetting why they were sent to Washington. Well, Saxby has not forgotten and he has not forgotten who it is that he is serving. He is serving you, residents of Georgia, and he is serving all of America. He knows we must put government back on your side.
On McCAIN: In Alaska, we went back to basics. We put government back on the side of the people, and John and I will use the same approach to reform Washington in our administration. We will never forget the people who hired us. We will be there to work for you, the good people of America.
Palin On Government Working:
On CHAMBLISS: He knows you do not have to feel you are working for your government, but your government must be working for you.
On McCAIN: John and I…we don’t think you should be working for government; we think government should work for you.
Palin On Independence:
On CHAMBLISS: Saxby has not forgotten why he was sent to Washington. He has stayed true to his principles. Today those principles are needed more than ever. Senator Chambliss, he has such a strong, independent spirit. And that’s another reason I really like him.
On McCAIN: John McCain and I, what we represent is that maverick independent spirit that will not let the self-dealing and excessive partisanship get in the way of what’s right.
Palin On Herds:
On CHAMBLISS: Saxby doesn’t just run with the Washington herd.
On McCAIN: John is his own man. He doesn’t run with the Washington herd.
Yesterday, Palin’s home-state newspaper, the Anchorage Daily News, sharply criticized her for campaigning for Chambliss, citing Chambliss’ dirty campaign tactics against renowned war hero Max Cleland in 2002. “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,” the editorial said.
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What else would you expect from a turkey slaughtering bimbo?
¶ AIO
December 1st, 2008 at 2:35 pmPLEASE no more Bimbostien stories. Let her fade away into the insignificance she so richly deserves
December 1st, 2008 at 2:35 pmSarah who???????
December 1st, 2008 at 2:38 pmPalin is an incompetent tool of the machine. She is an extremist where social conservatism is concerned, represents an outdated "hawkish" stance on foreign policy, and was dishonest about her opposition to the Bridge to Nowhere. Let her fade into political obscurity.
December 1st, 2008 at 2:39 pm“Palin Recycles Old Stump Speech In Georgia, But Replaces ‘McCain’ With ‘Chambliss’”
OY, those speeches worked so well the first time around... NOT.
December 1st, 2008 at 2:40 pm...she might ask herself why she is using her conservative star power to support such a reprehensible Republican chicken...
Maybe she likes to see 'em get big and fat then cut their heads off and bleed 'em in a bloody vat.
That's the only thing that I can figure; that or no political morality.
¶ AIO
December 1st, 2008 at 2:40 pmPlease, please, make it stop!
PEACE
December 1st, 2008 at 2:41 pmMax Cleland is an American hero.
Chambliss is a racist good 'ol boy that used the Rove machine to warp, distort & lie about Max, a triple amputee. It may have been the dirtiest campaign in the last century.
I don't know much about Martin, but I know enough about Chambliss to encourage any Georgian here to vote for Martin.
December 1st, 2008 at 2:41 pmEugeneDebs Says:
PLEASE no more Bimbostien stories. Let her fade away into the insignificance she so richly deserves
I think she should be the front and center face of the Republican Party as it falls apart at the seams. It will be a true winner to have her represent the Republican Party, winner for the Democrats that is.
December 1st, 2008 at 2:41 pmBe nice. She doesn't know that many words to begin with. Besides, given her inability to speak in anything resembling coherent sentences the audience presumably isn't listening to the text anyway.
December 1st, 2008 at 2:42 pmpaleolib Says:
Be nice. She doesn’t know that many words to begin with. Besides, given her inability to speak in anything resembling coherent sentences the audience presumably isn’t listening to the text anyway.
Yea,
December 1st, 2008 at 2:44 pma speech pattern that matches her audience, especially in the backwoods of Georgia.
Hmmm...has she accused Jim Martin of "palling around with terrorists"? Has she told her audiences they are "real Americans"? Has she accused Jim Martin of being a socialist? A traitor? Not patriotic enough?
That will probably be next. Once you memorize a stump speech, you want to get as much mileage from it as you can.
December 1st, 2008 at 2:47 pmThe Bimbo eruption- the gift that keeps on giving.
snark
December 1st, 2008 at 2:51 pmDoesn't she have some polar bear cubs to kill ?
December 1st, 2008 at 2:53 pmI'm sure that there are 'traditional' Republicans who cringe everytime they see Palin's name attached to anything Republican. But, in all honesty, I have no sympathy whatsoever for those 'Republicans' that have allowed their party to be taken over by the neo-cons and the Religious Right.
You reap what you sew....
December 1st, 2008 at 2:55 pm“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,” the editorial said.
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Because she really isn't a leader. She's a follower, and still takes orders from the GOP machine. It's the GOP machine who wants Chambliss to win in the worst way, and they're pulling out all the stops (including their wind-up doll) to do it.
I just hope nobody asks Sarah what it is a Senator actually does -- although that might be a good revealing thing for the voters if she demonstrates as much knowledge of a Senator's role as she knows about what a VP does.
December 1st, 2008 at 2:56 pmcaption:
"Clap once, and the light goes off... clap twice,
December 1st, 2008 at 2:57 pmand it comes back on!!!
Sarah Palin puts the T in twit. Unbelievable...
December 1st, 2008 at 2:58 pmI'm not going to criticize Palin that much for this one. Obama also recycled parts of his speeches.
The only difference is Obama's speeches, whether recycled or new, are infinitely times better than Palin's. Obama's speeches are definitely worth listening over and over again.
December 1st, 2008 at 3:02 pmPalin On Herds:
On CHAMBLISS: Saxby doesn’t just run with the Washington herd.
On McCAIN: John is his own man. He doesn’t run with the Washington herd.
Thus becoming their own little herd.
All three soon to be turned out to pasture.
December 1st, 2008 at 3:06 pm“As a justifiably proud military mom, stop!!
That right there should have been pause for cause for Mrs. Palin to NOT support a man who would denigrate the service of a man who gave his body up in combat. But what do you expect from a group of people who wore Purple Heart Band-Aids during their convention in 2004. As a three (3) time Purple Heart recipient, and the leader of Men who also received this award who lived and died, Saxby Chambliss and the "herd" are a disgrace to ALL of wear or have worn the uniform, and Mrs. Palin will find out how it feels if or when her son gets his.
Do I sound "bitter" I damn sure do, I am tired of the Chicken Hawk Brigade. Period. Mrs. Palin you should be ashamed to be associated with someone who would disgrace a man like Max Cleland and Tammy Duckworth all because of politics, POLITICS!!!
And you wonder why the Repuppetcans are on the way out, we're ALL tired.
RIP
December 1st, 2008 at 3:09 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
~RIP~
December 1st, 2008 at 3:14 pmSarah has a limited repertoire of tricks. I doubt if she can walk and chew gum at the same time.
I find her truly embarrassing.
December 1st, 2008 at 3:14 pmThank you John McCain and the McCain campaign for setting the Republicans up to fail in 2012. Bush/Cheney/Rove set them up to fail in 2006 and 2008, but 2012 will have more to do with McCain picking Sarah Palin. She is now the de facto leader of their party whether the "Wall Street Republicans" like it or not. McCain could have set up someone like Romney or Pawlenty to be the next generation GOP leader, but instead he picked Palin, making her the GOP's most famous name and front-runner for 2012.
It almost makes you wonder if the Palin pick was a subconscious F-You to the Republican establishment by McCain.
December 1st, 2008 at 3:19 pmYet despite Palin’s insistence on the importance of the Chambliss race, she apparently couldn’t bring herself to write a new stump speech.
I don't think that Sarah Palin has ever in her life written a speech. If she had, it would have been incomprehensible. I think that one of the McCain campaign speech writers simply took an old speech and put in Chambliss' name where McCains' name was previously. We can only hope that the recycled campaign speech works as well for Chambliss as it did for McCain.
December 1st, 2008 at 3:20 pmc'mon, Alaska,
Impeach her already!
Put her out of our misery!
December 1st, 2008 at 3:21 pmPalin On Herds:
On CHAMBLISS: Saxby doesn’t just run with the Washington herd.
The herd that Chambliss runs with has been thinned considerably in the last two elections.
December 1st, 2008 at 3:24 pmMy fellow prisoners: I think I'll change my name to Saxby.
Saxby Thum.. I like it..
December 1st, 2008 at 3:25 pmGeorgia resident---General Election called twice by Obama 1st time to early vote, 2nd time to see if I voted early, Wife was called to vote early, daughter was called twice 1st time to early vote, 2nd time to see if she needed a ride.. So far for the run-off ZERO contacts by the vaulted ground game... at least 5 robo-calls all pro Sackless..Sackless Shambles will win the run-off easy..there doesn't seem to be any democratic GOTV effort. 57-43 Sackless goes back...
December 1st, 2008 at 3:25 pmDidn't anyone tell Palin that we don't torture? Watching her babble incessantly about nothing absolutely constitutes torture to my ears...
December 1st, 2008 at 3:27 pmflailin palin isn't even creative enough or intellectually curious enough to recycle speeches from someone who matters? that's sad
December 1st, 2008 at 3:28 pmShe is not without her admirers, still...
December 1st, 2008 at 3:28 pmI saw one of the 4"x6" McCain/Palin car window decals that had "McCain" removed, to where it just said "Palin".
You could still see the image of the top half of the sticker in the dusty rear window.
Yikesee.
There are a lot of republicans who are more disgusting than Palin, but, right now, I can only think of one: bush.
December 1st, 2008 at 3:31 pm"Palin On Herds:
On CHAMBLISS: Saxby doesn’t just run with the Washington herd."
funny, i didn't know parasitic maggots like chambliss were known to be good runners. who knew?
December 1st, 2008 at 3:33 pmI saw one of the 4?x6? McCain/Palin car window decals that had “McCain” removed, to where it just said “Palin”.
Here in the intellectual backwoods (Texas, in other words), we were subject to the complete fcuking idiocy of people in Highland Park (the wealthiest community in North Texas) who displayed gigantic 4x6' signs that simply read:
"PALIN!"
And now, I will go back to ignoring every single mention of this retarded simian.
December 1st, 2008 at 3:38 pmAren't her 15 minutes of fame over yet?
December 1st, 2008 at 3:40 pm"why she is using her conservative star power to support such a reprehensible Republican chicken hawk,”
Because Repukes have no honor, or morals of any kind.
December 1st, 2008 at 3:48 pmIf Chambliss doesn't run with the herd, does that make him a maverick? Hmmm, better check with VoteSmart . . .
Huh.
Oh, here's a sample of interest group ratings:
You don't get much more mavericky than that.
December 1st, 2008 at 3:48 pmPalinese-a nonsensical dialect comprised chiefly of jingoistic
December 1st, 2008 at 3:49 pmpablum designed to proselytize amongst the uneducated.
OMG It's AbleCluster...
December 1st, 2008 at 3:57 pmWho...?
December 1st, 2008 at 4:10 pmcaption:
December 1st, 2008 at 4:19 pm"Here's the church. Here's the Steeple. Open the doors and see all the People. Damn this game never grows old"
Soembody, Anybody, Please make the Crazy Lady go away! I know she'll embarass the Republican party no end, costing them election after election, but seeing her again and again is most assuredly in violation of the Geneve Conventions against torture! On the more positive side, however, since she can successfully clap, does that mean she wins the ice cream cone?
December 1st, 2008 at 4:27 pmImpeach! There's Still Time! (Plus its the Perfect Holiday Gift to the World!!!)
caption:
"Guess what I've got in my hands boys and girls!
December 1st, 2008 at 4:35 pmThat's right, a fresh goooshy turkey gizzard!!!"
I don't get it -- I'll never get it. Sarah doesn't know anything about anything. On her own, spontaneously, she has yet to construct a single cogent, grammatically correct sentence.
I can only assume that any idiot who s an Evangelical Christian is popular with this crowd, notwithstanding serious flaws in judgment, ethics and erudition.
December 1st, 2008 at 4:52 pmRepetition is the key to marketing and brand recognition. A message does not have to be true or even intelligent. Just keep repeating it over and over and thousands will line up at 5 a.m. and not care who they trample on their way into the store where there lies no real deal at all.
December 1st, 2008 at 4:58 pmI feel like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight...
December 1st, 2008 at 4:59 pmWhen will this PTA mom go the hell back to her place?
December 1st, 2008 at 5:04 pmTake at look at this crapola:
Team Sarah Educates, Mobilizes Pro-Life Georgia Voters
http://www.christiannewswire.com/index.php?module=releases&task=view&releaseID=8824
December 1st, 2008 at 5:07 pmLater, she trumpeted the time that Saxby spent in a P.O.W. camp... Oh, no wait, that's right Saxby is a chicken hawk who got a deferment due to a football injury. Wow, with ads like he runs you'd think he actually served his country. I guess he's just a terrible person.
December 1st, 2008 at 5:16 pm#21 - Tired of Fighting. You said this better than anyone else possible could. Thank you for your service, sir.
December 1st, 2008 at 5:23 pmPalin: she doesn't have a speech writer any more, so she has to rely on regurgitating the ones written for the campaign.
December 1st, 2008 at 6:03 pmShows you how sincere she is.
repugs stutter all the time. They repeat the worst part of history over and over again or until we get it right. All they do is change from lies/empty promises to death and destruction.
mooseyak is a prime example of a repug.
December 1st, 2008 at 7:02 pmcasanium Says:
I'm not going to criticize Palin that much for this one. Obama also recycled parts of his speeches.
The only difference is Obama's speeches, whether recycled or new, are infinitely times better than Palin's. Obama's speeches are definitely worth listening over and over again.
Recycled is one thing. A few adjectives her and there.
But using the same old tired lying stories on another person is totally different. repugs don't have a clear view.
December 1st, 2008 at 7:08 pmI think that Bible Spice passed her intellectual peak (the Kelly Bundy limit) by the time she was nine. If she had to learn a new speech she would forget something like her kids' names or how to walk. I really can't recall a more profoundly stupid candidate for high office.
December 1st, 2008 at 7:45 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
You, Sir, have said it so much better than I ever could. I, too, was appalled at the shameful way they disgraced the awards earned by the military and especially the way they treated Senators Kerry and McClellan.
Thank you for your service to your country and may peace be yours!
December 1st, 2008 at 8:33 pmIt is naive to think that Sarah Palin is really campaigning for Chambliss. She is in fact campaigning for herself to be the next president.
December 1st, 2008 at 10:44 pmHer plan is to stay in the limelight until she announces her bid for presidency in 18 to 20 months from now.
She saw a nice opportunity to go to Georgia,and Chambliss is looking for any help he can get.
It worked for both of them.!
a sarag palin bikini wax
is just what the republicans
need. sorry bobby, waxed
eyebrows don't work.
:)
December 2nd, 2008 at 12:14 am1,$s/John McCain/Saxby Chambliss/g
Works on my machine.
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:43 am@EugeneDebs - I second that. Maybe if we stop reporting, she'll go away. Or maybe she'll double down on the crazy talk.
I happen to believe she's a useful idiot, same as George W. Bush. Chambliss will win with or without her, but she'll claim credit and that will further embolden her. I think it will take a truly devastating defeat in Iowa and New Hampshire in 2012 to put her over the shark once and for all.
As soon as she stops being useful, she will find herself under the nearest bus. You can bet on it. No more Fox Noise, no more Charlie Gibson, no more nothing. I bet there are lots and lots of Republicans out there right now who are cringing at the idea of Sarah Palin once again running for any office that involves moving to Washington, and really, really wishes she'd keep her ass in Alaska where nobody heard of her before John McCain thought disgruntled Clinton voters might shift allegiance to anyone with a vagina, even if she didn't have anything of value between her ears.
At least Hillary Clinton is smart. Can you imagine Palin at the State Department? (shudder)
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:52 am