Know what a Saxby Chambliss is?
Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss weighs in on his Democratic challenger:
 “He’s a [U.S. Sen.] Chuck Schumer [D-N.Y.] hand-picked guy,” Chambliss told reporters at a morning press conference, just hours after voters picked Martin over DeKalb County CEO Vernon Jones as the Democratic Party nominee. “And there’s no more liberal member of the U.S. Senate than Chuck Schumer.”
Wait a minute. According to the National Journal, there is no more liberal Senator than Barack Obama… just as in 2004 there was no more liberal a Senator than John Kerry… which suggests that if Obama were to lose this election and in four years the Democrats were to decide to nominate, say, Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson — generally considered the most conservative Democrat in the Senate–, Nelson would somehow magically become the Senate’s most Liberal member.
But if Saxby Chambliss were to cite Obama as “most liberal”, at least he would have a source of some kind. For the life of me I don’t know where he plucks this “no more liberal a Senator than Charles Schumer” from out of. Maybe this can be a sport… there is no more Liberal a Senator than — fill in the blank, whoever you happen to be mentioning at the time.
Anyway, for more items on this political race, I suppose you can go to www.bluegeorgia.com. I don’t know if such a site exists, but I sort of assume every state has a representative web-blog put up by some Democrats where the word “blue” is attached to the name of the state and followed by the suffix “.com”. Except for the “new” states, which I sort of assume the word “blue” is substituted for the word “new”, because the two words rhyme and it is thought to be clever. If this is the case, it is a good way to take a gander at the down-ticket political races. The Georgia Senate race is the current “sleeper race du jour” in the Democratic blogosphere, a title that is in constant shuffling, with races being quietly dropped away when subsequent poll numbers show the “on the cusp of” title running the other direction. In this we are spared of Kansas Senator Jim Slattery, for instance, and don’t any longer have to amuse ourselves with Nebraska Senator Kleeb. But for the moment “Senator Jim Martin” is all the rage, as Vernon Jones — who from all appearances appears to be a Republican, and there is some digging to do to figure out what a “Vernon Jones” is — lost that primary.