How Does He Sleep at Night?

I've had my doubts about John McCain's character ever since he kissed up to George W. Bush after the nastiness that was the 2000 South Carolina primary. Yeah, politics, strange bedfellows -- I get that. But I could not cozy up to someone who allowed his campaign staff to go after my child. Not. Ever.

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Now McCain is campaigning for Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), who faces a runoff against challenger Jim Martin. In 2002, Chambliss ran against incumbent Sen. Max Cleland, a triple amputee Vietnam War veteran, and had the unmitigated gall to question his patriotism. Unfortunately, the smear job worked, and Chambliss won the race. Here's what John McCain said about Chambliss' sleazy tactics at the time:

"I'd never seen anything like that ad," McCain told CNN in 2003. "Putting pictures of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden next to the picture of a man who left three limbs on the battlefield -- it's worse than disgraceful. It's reprehensible."

Yet McCain was in Georgia yesterday campaigning for Chambliss, a man who avoided military service (those bad knees haven't slowed him down on the golf course, though), against Martin, a fellow Vietnam vet. He's supporting Chambliss, who told his white base, “The other folks are voting,” and also said about black turnout for early voting, “There has always been a rush to the polls by African-Americans early...It has also got our side energized, they see what is happening.”

I'd call that reprehensible.

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Georgia's Senate runoff is scheduled for December 2. Click here to contribute to Jim Martin's campaign. If you want to contribute to Chambliss, you're at the wrong blog.