Martin Uses McCain’s Words against Chambliss
On the same day that former GOP presidential hopeful John McCain campaigned in Georgia for incumbent Sen. Saxby Chambliss, his Democratic opponent used McCain’s own words against Chambliss.
The Jim Martin campaign issued a reminder that McCain in 2003 had harsh words for a Chambliss ad that compared former Sen. Max Cleland (D-Ga.), a triple-amputee Vietnam veteran, to Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.
“I’d never seen anything like that ad,” McCain said 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
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