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Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss (R) will not seek another term. Instead of running again in 2014 Chambliss has decided to retire, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss will announce this morning that he’s dropping plans to run for a third term in 2014, a decision certain to set off an avalanche of Republican candidates who will seek to replace him.
Word out of Washington is that Chambliss broke the news to his senior staff this morning.
Chambliss was probably going to a face a primary challenge because he is seen as compromising too much with Senate Democrats. Polling by PPP found that Chambliss may have been vulnerable to a conservative opponent running to his right.
Chambliss had a decent job approval rating and PPP found he would have been a strong general election candidate if he survived a primary. Without him in the race, Democrats chances of picking up the seat would have improved some but it is still going to be a tough contest for Democrats to win. Mitt Romney did won 53 percent of the vote in Georgia last year.
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If Democrats win this one, it’ll be with somebody who makes Joe Manchin look like a Democrat.
Nothin’ to see here.
Let us not forget that this traitor ran ads during his 2002 campaign against Viet Nam War multiple amputee Vet, Max Cleland, with a photo of Osama bin Laden in it. Idiotic GA voters, of course, gleefully leaped on this LIE of epic proportions and voted for Chambliss.
Support the Troops, much, Chambliss? Hypocrit much, Chambliss? Creep much, Chambliss?
This disgusting specimen should slink far far away and slither under the rock that he came from. PTOUI!!!!!
Traitor is the wrong word. It doesn’t go far enough. Saxby was a Vietnam era Chickenhawk attacking a Vietnam veteran multiple amuputee.
Don’t disagree with you. Best word I could come up with quickly. If you think of something more descriptive of that despicably disgusting scumbag, then let me know.
That is one campaign that really pisses me off BIG TIME, which is saying something. My loathing of morally bankrupt creepy cretin Chamliss knows no bounds.
The other thing is: I once heard Max Cleland interviewed on the radio (may have been Terri Gross, but I don’t remember now) about how he felt about that campaign. It was quite a few years after that election massacre. Cleland literally broke down on air and bawled like a baby for how badly he had been *betrayed* by that shithead lying scumbag Chambliss, who basically REFUSED (if my failing memory serves) to take back that slander (or is it libel??).
DISGUSTING!
Cleland was really *hurt* by that attack, which was utterly & completely unmerited on every single level. I do believe that the stench of shithead KKKarl Rove hangs over this, as well. Figures. Disgusting filth.
Well, I’ll work on appropriate terminology.
I posted in homage to the former ‘Nam vet poster from Georgia who hasn’t been here for many years. His favorite descriptor for Saxby was “odious.”
Oh, frabjous day! There will probably be a rightwing steel cage death match. Better stock up on popcorn now…
Unfortunately, whatever sacrificial lamb the Democrats can cajole into running will go down to defeat. And the Senate will more than likely end up with something slightly to the right of Rand Paul, but the more the Teatards strive for “purity” the crazier they get, and maybe one day even Bubba and Jim Bob will realize… [Yes, I really AM a cockeyed optimist. Why do you ask?]
It’ll be tough. I don’t know if the English language has one single word that encompasses what Saxby truly is: A lying, repellent, cowardly piece of decayed weasel shit that gives pond slime a bad name.
I’d scour my OED, but I lost the magnifying glass a few years ago…
C’mon Marion — don’t pull your punches. Tell us how you really feel ;-)
HEY — I was trying to be polite! (Which is REALLY hard for me when discussing Saxby…)
With politics leading the way in the demise of our republic, I expect a scum sucker lower down the evolutionary slime than Saxby to be nominated/elected in that
greatConfederate state. Not that hard to find in Georgia, unfortunately.Wasn’t that Willard sitting next to Jimmy Carter at the inaguaraton…er maybe not.
Speaking of Georgia and Jimmy Carter, how bout running his grandson for the seat. I’m sure Willard would love it.
One reason I have a soft spot in my head for Chuck Hagel, voting machines and all: He was just about the only prominent Republican, and certainly the only Republican Senator, to ream out Chambliss for this. Hagel and Cleland were on different sides of the aisle, but Hagel was a ‘Nam enlistee who with his brother had enough of a taste of war, face-melting toxins and all, to know exactly what it meant for Max Cleland to come back with only one of his original four limbs.
That’s why I think, if Hagel’s SecDef nomination is shot down, Obama should nominate Cleland in his place.
Well, the mainstream media are already crying big tears at the political death of this moderate hero’s denunciation of gridlock. Chambliss should be waterboarded for what he did to Max.