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Chambliss defeat would be justified
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 27, 2008 08:57pm |
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| Category | Opinion |
| News Date | Monday, October 27, 2008 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Many white Georgia voters remain reflexively Republican, so the state may stay out of Obama’s reach. And Chambliss may well hold off the challenge from Democrat Jim Martin. But the Republican senator deserves to go down in flaming defeat.
Generally, Chambliss has been a reliable lap dog to George W. Bush. Chambliss has voted to keep troops in Iraq. He has voted against expanding a low-cost health insurance program for children. He has opposed broader federal support for stem cell research. He broke with Bush only when he shouldn’t have, supporting farm subsidies, the wasteful welfare program for well-off agricultural interests.
Chambliss also hasn’t shied from demagoguing when he believed he needed to. Although he initially supported a comprehensive bill on immigration reform, as Bush did, Chambliss backed away when his jingoistic base howled its resentment. No stranger to shameless hypocrisy, Chambliss had been among a handful of Georgia politicians to blast the old Immigration and Naturalization Service for rounding up illegal farmhands during the late 1990s. After Vidalia onion farmers complained that they were losing their cheap labor, Chambliss denounced the INS for “bullying tactics.” These days, he’s more likely to talk about secure borders.
If Chambliss is defeated by an advertising assault free of context or fairness, score a win for retributive justice. He won the seat by running one of the most despicable ads in the Republican playbook —- no easy thing to do. |
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