McCain asks Georgia voters to back Sen. Chambliss

[onehandle]

Source: AP

ATLANTA – Republican John McCain implored Georgia voters Thursday to back Sen. Saxby Chambliss in next month's runoff, warning that Democrats will increase taxes and cut defense spending and the GOP needs to strengthen its ranks.

"I didn't think I'd be back on the campaign trail quite this early," McCain told some 1,500 people in his first political appearance since losing the presidency to Barack Obama last week. "But there is a lot at stake here. ... I'm asking you to go into battle one more time."

Chambliss failed to cross the 50 percent threshold and faces a Dec. 2 rematch with Democrat Jim Martin. Georgia's election results were certified Thursday and the final tallies show Chambliss falling just short, with 49.8 percent of the vote. Martin earned 46.8 percent and Libertarian Allen Buckley, also in the race, pulled 3.4 percent.

His voice rising, McCain told the crowd that Chambliss, a first-term senator, "is doing what we Republicans should have done for eight years and that's restrain spending." And in a commentary on his Election Day loss, the Arizona senator added, "We let spending get out of control and it cost us a lot of our conservative base."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081114/ap_on_el_pr/georgia_senate

[AndyTiedye]

1. Can the Dems run Ads of McCain Denouncing Chambliss…

…for his smears on then-Senator Cleland in 2002?

[onehandle]

2. They already have a web saying just that.

They need cash to run it on the idiot box.

http://martinforsenate.com/

[AndyTiedye]

3. Just Donated!

[Demeter]

4. Chambliss Now Officially Toast--the McCain Kiss of Death!

Thanks, John!

With enemies like McCain, who needs friends?

[olegramps]

5. McCain represents just how far the Republicans have descended.

How can anyone have an ounce of respect for Republicans when McCain, who was their candidate for the presidency, backs a slim bag like Chambliss. McCain is the epitome of hypocrisy. These people have demonstrated that the don't have a shred of decency.

[atreides1]

6. Not only the Republicans

But McCain has now removed any doubt that he's all about Party first, and Country when it's convenient.

McCain just another dishonorable failure.