Fact Sheet: Saxby Chambliss and Jim Martin Fight for Georgia's U.S. Senate Seat

Martin and the Obama machine are being very dishonest in this race.

Martin & the Democrats are continuing to spread the lie that Saxby in some way defamed Cleland six years ago. It is not true. Read more, and view the actual ad, here:

http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2008/20081030141731.aspx

Martin & his allies also downplay his very liberal record. For instance, ontheissues.org reports, on the abortion topic, only that he supports Roe v. Wade, and does not mention at all that he voted against banning the barbaric partial-birth abortion procedure.

The dishonesty in this campaign is rampant, but it is coming from the Democrats, not from Saxby Chambliss.

This race is critical. If the Democrats are not moderated by the need to get past a GOP filibuster to pass their most radical bills, you can kiss what's left of the most important protections in the Constitution goodbye. No more 10th Amendment, no more 2nd Amendment, no more Free Exercise Clause of the 1st Amendment. Adios to the most important parts of the Bill of Rights. That has been happening already, thanks to the liberal domination of the courts and the Democrats' existing control of Congress, but it is going to get worse, lots worse, under President Obama, and with a very lopsided Democrat majority in Congress.

You should worry about what the liberals might do to the economy, too. Obama and his Congressional allies are threatening to thumb their noses at the 31,000 scientists who have signed the petition against global warming hysteria and carbon caps. Martin, Obama, and nearly all the congressional Democrats are committed to this pseudo-scientific nonsense, and if they go through with it you could see Obama achieve what FDR managed: turning a 2-3 year cyclical recession into a 10-15 year catastrophic depression.

The country is going to move severely to the Left, and the Constitution & economy are going to suffer, regardless of how this race comes out, but Chambliss' reelection would slow the rot. If the Minnesota Democrats steal Coleman's seat for Al Franken, as seems likely, then either Jim Martin or Olympia Snow (a Republican in name only, who generally votes with the Democrats) gives the Democrats 60 votes to get past any Republican filibuster attempt. If not, then Martin plus Snow are needed to get 'em to 60.

As Steven VanNuys notes, "one party having virtually total control over the government is a breeding ground for corruption and grave mismanagement." That's what a vote for Jim Martin is really a vote for.

As Walter Cronkite used to say, "it ought to scare you to death."

Dave Burton

Dave Burton of NC 8:10AM December 02, 2008