Georgia Republican Senate candidate David Perdue is taking what might seem an unusual approach in criticizing his opponent, Democrat Michelle Nunn — he’s criticizing her for her father’s vote in the 1970s to give the Panama Canal back to Panama.
“We’re being sold the same bill of goods by my opponent,” Perdue said at a stump speech in Blue Ridge, Ga., according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “She’s trying to say ‘Oh no, I’m going to go to Washington and work together with the other side like my daddy did’
“I want the Panama Canal back, y’all. You know, I remember. I remember in 2008 when [then-former Sen.] Sam Nunn stood up and gave on TV —and it’s on YouTube right now, you can see it. Go look at what Sam Nunn said about our commander in chief. He said Barack Obama will open up a new day for America. He’ll protect our military. He’ll be good for our veterans.”
As the Georgia newspaper noted, Nunn backed then-President Jimmy Carter in 1978 when he asked Congress to vote to return the canal to Panama.
The TPM Polltracker finds Perdue with a 0.1 point lead over the rest of the field.
Wow; probably wants his slaves back too.
YEAH? well those Frank Perdue chicken ads were awful!
He’d just outsource them.
Okay.
He did.
He is.
He is.
By the way, if you have to reach back and talk about what your opponent’s DAD said or did in 1978, you’re on pretty weak ground. What an absolutely desperate move by Perdue. He must really be losing - and knows it.
This is the tactic of a desperate man who can see the Senate seat slipping from his grasp.
And he believed that he would sail comfortably to the Senate without breaking a sweat.