Dear Saxby, Take a long, last look around....

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Saxby mocks the Tea Party. If the birth of the Tea Party can be traced to one elected official it's Saxby Chambliss (WSJ citation at end of this post)

11/27/12, "Regarding Saxby Chambliss," Erick Erickson, RedState

"A couple of years ago a mutual friend from Macon went up to see Saxby. There was a tea party rally going on. As our mutual friend sat in the office waiting for Saxby, his staff stood around ridiculing the tea party activists going by as simpletons, uneducated, hicks, and nuts. Chambliss himself has been overheard talking disparagingly of tea party activists in the Capitol Hill Club and elsewhere.

He has become entrenched in Washington, DC and thinks that we here in Georgia are the problem, not him. In 2005, he was convinced that we here in Georgia were the problem on immigration. Since then he’s been convinced that we here in Georgia are the problem by not sending enough money to Washington, D.C.

In fact, we here in Georgia should convince Saxby that we are a problem — his problem in his path to re-election. We can and should make him fight for it and, the Good Lord willing, drive him from office in 2014. Georgia requires that a candidate in a primary secure 50% of the vote to get to the general election. A couple of well funded challengers could pull Saxby below 50% thereby forcing a runoff fight between Saxby and a conservative challenger. Saxby, being from South Georgia, has a weakness in the metro-Atlanta area. That weakness, combined with a libertarian four years ago, forced Saxby into a runoff election.

A conservative from metro-Atlanta could put Saxby Chambliss in peril and we should work to make that happen." via Conservatives4Palin, via Legal Insurrection

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10/29/10, "Birth of a Movement, Tea Parties arose from conservatives steeped in crisis," Wall St. Journal, Blackmon, Levitz, Beraon, and Lauren

"Ms. Martin, a software manager by training and part-time blogger,

• was cleaning houses to help pay the bills after her husband's temporary-staffing business collapsed.

They were in danger of losing their home.

As her family's fortunes crumbled, Congress—

including Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), 

for whose campaign Ms. Martin had volunteered— 

voted for President George Bush's bill

• to bail out the big Wall Street banks.

Ms. Martin was enraged.

"It wasn't because the government didn't bail my husband's business out," she says. "Sometimes it stinks when your business goes bad. But it's part of our system.… 

The government doesn't need to come in and hold a business up and keep it from failing."

"In the span of a few weeks in February and March 2009, the two women met on a conference call and helped found the first major national organization

• in the tea-party movement.

Within months, they became two of the central figures in the most dynamic force in American politics this year."...

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Ed. note to Saxby Chambliss and his staff: You hicks and hayseeds apparently don't get out much. I'm a longtime Tea Party supporter. I live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, have lived here for many years. I have a 4 year college degree from a major university in the northeast as does everyone in my family. 


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