Shipp: "Chambliss' fearlessness serves as a dramatic reminder of how weak and impotent the once all-powerful Democrats have become in Georgia."
Bill Shipp writes:
Just back from a Senate Intelligence Committee fact-finding trip in Iraq, Chambliss declared last week: "Every time I go over (to Iraq) the improvements in the conditions are truly amazing. It is very encouraging for me to see the progress."
Georgia's senior senator went on to praise President Bush's surge strategy to quell the Iraq insurgency and express overall optimism that the United States is doing well in Iraq.
Chambliss is a savvy politician who understands his constituents. So he must feel safe in continuing to heap unrestrained praise on the Bush plan for Iraq.
To be sure, Georgia is one of the few states in which Bush's popularity has not fallen through the floor. The Peach State has maintained a strong military presence in the Middle East since the outset of the war in that region. Many Georgians perceive a failure to support Bush's policies as a failure to support our troops. In parts of the country, the Bush-troops connection has all but vanished.
In this reddest of the red states . . . Chambliss seems totally secure. He is expected to have no primary opposition next year. Among Democrats, only DeKalb CEO Vernon Jones has announced he will challenge the one-term senator.
Hardly anyone gives Jones much chance of victory, but his anticipated candidacy has chilled the ambitions of several white Democrats. Understandably, they think they would have little chance of winning the nomination against a well-known African American in a primary dominated by black voters.
Chambliss' fearlessness serves as a dramatic reminder of how weak and impotent the once all-powerful Democrats have become in Georgia. In describing American "success" in Iraq, Chambliss is virtually thumbing his nose and daring the opposition party to recruit a genuine challenger.
Just back from a Senate Intelligence Committee fact-finding trip in Iraq, Chambliss declared last week: "Every time I go over (to Iraq) the improvements in the conditions are truly amazing. It is very encouraging for me to see the progress."
Georgia's senior senator went on to praise President Bush's surge strategy to quell the Iraq insurgency and express overall optimism that the United States is doing well in Iraq.
Chambliss is a savvy politician who understands his constituents. So he must feel safe in continuing to heap unrestrained praise on the Bush plan for Iraq.
To be sure, Georgia is one of the few states in which Bush's popularity has not fallen through the floor. The Peach State has maintained a strong military presence in the Middle East since the outset of the war in that region. Many Georgians perceive a failure to support Bush's policies as a failure to support our troops. In parts of the country, the Bush-troops connection has all but vanished.
In this reddest of the red states . . . Chambliss seems totally secure. He is expected to have no primary opposition next year. Among Democrats, only DeKalb CEO Vernon Jones has announced he will challenge the one-term senator.
Hardly anyone gives Jones much chance of victory, but his anticipated candidacy has chilled the ambitions of several white Democrats. Understandably, they think they would have little chance of winning the nomination against a well-known African American in a primary dominated by black voters.
Chambliss' fearlessness serves as a dramatic reminder of how weak and impotent the once all-powerful Democrats have become in Georgia. In describing American "success" in Iraq, Chambliss is virtually thumbing his nose and daring the opposition party to recruit a genuine challenger.
posted by Sid Cottingham | 1:02 PM
3 Comments:
It's too soon to start talking about victory for chambliss. There is a long way to go before november 2008 rolls around & by then we'll see how much support chambliss really has in this state if he keeps supporting bush policice on the war in Iraq, & to say that failure to support bush policies means a failure to support our troops in this state is total bull.
any chance you will provide more of your own commentary on issues?
Everyone keeps talking about Jim Marshall is the perfect challenger to Chambliss but I think the perfect challenger to Chambliss is Sanford Bishop. Bishop can stand toe-to-toe with Chambliss on issues that are perceived to be his strenght like agriculture, intelligence, military ( bishop served in the U.S. Army ) taxes, terrorism. Bishop is conservative on social issues, & is mostly conservative on the rest of the issues. He has done more for farmers in this state than chambliss has even though chambliss was the chairman of yhe agriculture committee. Bishop can really challenge chambliss in middle & south georgia which is mostly rural. Plus in a primary Bishop can beat vernon jones in which moer than 50% of primary voters are black.
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