Anchorage Daily News: Palin is Still Stupid

The editorial editor Matt Zencey lays some truth on the decaying GOP poster girl.

Gov. Sarah Palin is putting her conservative Republican fame to work in Georgia, stumping for Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, who is in a tough runoff for re-election.

I wonder if she knows the true measure of the man she is eagerly helping.

Chambliss was elected to the Senate in 2002 by running one of the most reprehensible campaigns of modern times. He was up against incumbent Democrat Sen. Max Cleland, a Vietnam War veteran who lost both legs and his right arm to a grenade during that conflict.

Chambliss avoided serving in Vietnam. He got four student draft deferments, and when his number finally came up, he was medically disqualified with knee troubles.

In the best Karl Rove fashion, Chambliss the draft-evader attacked Cleland the war hero for being soft on terrorism. Distorting Cleland’s votes about workplace rules for the new Homeland Security Department employees, Chambliss portrayed him as a tool of terrorists like Osama bin Laden.

Here’s how the Almanac of American Politics (2006) described it:
“Chambliss ran an ad, much attacked in the press, showing pictures of Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Max Cleland, and saying that Cleland 'voted against the President’s vital homeland security efforts 11 times.’” (Those “vital homeland security efforts” Cleland opposed were intended to strip homeland security employees of union rights and other workplace protections.)

The man who couldn’t bring himself to serve in the military said a man who left three limbs behind in war was a weakling who would turn the country over to terrorists.

Chambliss was a congressman during the 9-11 attacks. Congressional Quarterly’s “Politics in America 2006” noted that Congressman Chambliss “quipped that one route to security would be for local sheriffs to 'arrest every Muslim that comes across the state line.’”

So there you have the fine American that Palin is trying to re-elect to the U.S. Senate.

Gov. Palin’s eldest joined the Army and has been deployed to Iraq. 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.

Comments

[Mad as Hell]

This sure doesn't say much for the people who continue to support this ass wipe! The most outstanding result of Obama's election, is the vast number of people who have obviously learned the difference! I still have to pinch myself just to realize what a miracle we've just experienced! I'm so proud!

[Dusty]

piece forgot to mention that mccain reportedly called the chambliss campaign "reprehensible"....

people of georgia.....you have an opportunity to shed a large part of your "cracker" image by getting rid of this truly reprehensible scum who evaded military service in Vietnam while Georgia sons were dying over there...

this piece of mierta chambliss is truly in the low life, scumbag category of unpleasant creatures who have served in the US Senate...

[lawton]

People don't seem to undertand that the klan and it's ilk still reign in Georgia!