If you’re not a Georgia resident, there’s nothing you can do other than pray for a victory for Saxby Chambliss in the Georgia runoff election scheduled for December 2nd.
But if you happen to be a Georgia peach like I am, then get out there and vote for incumbent U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss in the runoff.
Chambliss finished ahead of his opponent Jim Martin (Dem.) by about 110,000 votes, but he captured only 49.8 percent of the popular vote. According to Georgia law, a candidate must win 50 percent of votes to be declared the winner. Close but no cigar.
Chambliss has a 100 percent pro-life voting record throughout his entire six-year term in the U.S. Senate. He also supports the Fair Tax and has been a strong voice for Georgia’s military community.
A win for Chambliss is critical. The Dems are hungry for his spot in the Senate because it looks like Martin’s victory over Chambliss would give the party 60 seats in the Senate – the golden number they need to prevent a filibuster. No wonder rumors of ACORN “recruiting” voters and drumming up support for Martin abound.
I’ll be voting tomorrow. Advanced voting begins today and ends on Wednesday, November 26th. Find advanced voting times and locations here.
WE HAVE MORE TO DO:
Democrat Jim Martin is in a runoff against Bush Republican Saxby Chambliss for the Senate seat from Georgia. Bush’s Saxby Chambliss voted against spending a few measly dollars to provide health care coverage for Georgia, and Americas needy children. But he supported wasting hundreds of billions of your dollars, and the life BLOOD of Americas finest on an unnecessary war in Iraq.
At a time when 47 million of you have no health insurance coverage, and over 100 million of you with insurance are just one major illness away from complete financial destruction. Bush and Saxby Chambliss voted to make the heart break of bankruptcy relief even harder for all of you to use.
You see, Bush and Saxby Chambliss, and his family don’t have to worry about their health care coverage. They have the finest health care coverage your tax money can buy for them. Courtesy of you. The American Tax payer. In fact, no one but the super rich can afford the health care coverage you the tax payer provide for Saxby Chambliss, and his family for FREE! with your tax dollars.
He supposedly works for you. But he doesn’t think you and your family should have access to the type of taxpayer supported FREE health care that you provide for him, and his loved ones for FREE!. Doesn’t that just make you BURRING MAD!
Vote for JIM MARTIN for US senator from Georgia. Vote for JIM Martin who will be on your side. Vote for JIM MARTIN who will work with President Obama and a majority congress for you. Vote for JIM MARTIN most of all for your-self, your family’s, friends, and loved ones. Vote for JIM MARTIN for a better America, and a better World.
Don’t let Saxby Chambliss make a chump out of you by tricking you into voting against your own best interest. Saxby chambliss is NOT! on your side. He’s not one of you. He is on George Bush’s side. And we all know what a catastrophe the Bush Chambliss administration has been the past 8 years.
Contact all your family and friends and do every thing you can to see to it that JIM MARTIN and GEORGIANS! take that senate seat back for Georgia, and America. No matter where you live in America. This is important to you. President Obama will need all the help, and power you can give him to try and fix this catastrophic mess that the Corrupt Bush Chambliss administration has created.
As I said before you will have to vote in overwhelming numbers to overcome the Bush Chambliss “Let Them Eat Cake” vote fraud machine. Vote early if you can. Then help everyone you can get to the polls and vote for JIM MARTIN. You and your loved ones don’t have to be Saxby Chambliss’s victims anymore.
I know you will get it done. Just like you did for President Obama.
God bless all of you
jacksmith – WORKING CLASS… :-)
The link I included isn’t working, but here’s the kind of change I can believe in: http://www.katewicker.com/2008/11/change-i-can-believe-in.html
Jacksmith,
First off, I appreciate you not personally attacking me in your comment and simply expressing your views. I do wish I had a way to personally email you. I also wish I had more time to address each of your arguments in support of Jim Martin and President-elect Obama, but alas, my kiddos will be up soon and deserve my time and attention more than this blog. You can get a taste for my views here.
I do want to address your health insurance argument because if I hear that 47 million uninsured number one more time I may throw a tantrum that makes a toddler look like an amateur. I do think it’s wrong that government officials get “free” health care courtesy of us, but I think it’s wrong for anyone to get that. The statistic you and all the media continue to to cite is very misleading. It includes illegal aliens, people between jobs who will soon have health insurance again, as well as people who make over $75,000 and I’m sorry, but that’s far less than my family makes (not to play “keep up with the Joneses or to cry poor), and we can afford health insurance, but we don’t have a flatscreen TV. My husband drives a very old car and we just last year purchased our first new car. We don’t even pay for cable television. We bought a townhouse when we would have liked to buy a “real” house. We make choices. Health care is something our family needs, so if paying for it means we can’t afford other perks, then so be it. Unfortunately, I feel like some Americans want their paycheck to only be diverted to things like vacations and entertainment. Furthermore, I think some people don’t WANT to have to pay for health insurance. Frankly, I’d rather spend that big chunk of money on something more fun, too, especially since we are blessed to be a healthy family. But that would be irresponsible.
We already do have programs in place to help the truly needy: Medicaid and Medicare. People seem to forget about these programs. This isn’t to say we can’t work to improve quality and access to health care. I want the same outcomes as Martin and Obama – I just don’t trust government to give us better health care.
What makes me burning mad is that people don’t realize that Obama’s plan for health care won’t be free at all. Taxpayers will be picking up the tab, and health care quality will suffer.
I just want you to consider for a moment that you’re in a terrible accident and your leg is mangled. Now you have two options. Your leg can either be amputated, or you can have several reconstructive surgeries and also have months and months of rehabilitation. Most people would choose the surgeries and rehab to save their leg. However, under government-controlled health care, the choice is no longer yours. A doctor is encouraged to perform the amputation. Why? Because it’s cheaper and government wants more money in its pockets. When we ask government to provide for us, we may get some “freebies,” but it’s trade-off because we end up losing certain freedoms. I’d rather pay for health care insurance and have some say in my care then leave it up to government bureaucrats.
In addition, people keep saying plans like Obama’s will improve access to care. I say otherwise based on what I’ve seen in other countries that have moved toward socialized medicine. Just like ER waits are long in the U.S., so, too, will be a visit to your family practitioner. And when you’re put on a yearlong waiting list to get an MRI to see if that suspicious mass is cancer as happens in places like Canada all of the time, you’re going to have a bigger worry and complaint. We have two Canadian friends who were diagnosed with cancer and ended up coming to the States to pay out-of-pocket for their health insurance.
I understand I’m probably not sounding very compassionate, but I’ve done a lot of reading on our healthcare system and I do not feel “free” healthcare that comes in the guise of a push toward government-controlled health care is good for this country or for those people who truly do need assistance with their health care.
I can see why Obama’s rhetoric and eloquence moves people, but it’s not realistic. He’s going to have to ask more than just upper income earners to pay higher taxes to support his litany of social programs. Nothing in life is free – except God’s love and grace. Thank goodness for that.
Finally, you mention America’s needy children. Well, here’s the problem with all those state programs that have programs like Peachcare, etc. If you don’t spend all of the money the federal government allocates your way for this program, then it gets taken away. In other words, if you’re fiscally responsible or if you don’t have as much needy children as the next state, you lose your funds. So what do you do? You make sure to spend every cent of the taxpayers’ money even if you don’t really need it. That’s what government, including government under President Bush who was regrettably a big spender, does: They squander your money. Like Chambliss, I would not have voted for spending more money to provide coverage in Georgia. This doesn’t make me uncaring.
Of course, one my biggest fears about government-controlled health care goes back to my pro-life issues. Jim Martin may work for you, but he certainly doesn’t work for our future. He, like Obama, sees babies as disposable. And my fear is that pro-choicers like them will encourage Americans to stick to the two children that fit the American dream with their programs (e.g., only offer universal healthcare coverage to the first two kids you have), especially since they don’t want to have to pay for health care for more children.
On a completely different note, everyone keeps talking about the economy and how it’s suffering under the Bush administration. Yet, Dems control Congress. Moreover, the numbers really started dropping when Obama started winning the Primaries. Why? Because investors were shaky thinking a candidate with socialist, economy-busting views might be elected.
I could never, as I’ve said over and over, vote for pro-choice candidates in good conscience because of my views on human dignity. But there are many other reasons I wouldn’t vote for Martin and why I didn’t vote for Senator Obama. I’m all for progression and the right kind of change, but don’t want his kind of change.
Blessings,
Kate