Dick Cheney on Monday evening:
It's great to be in DeSoto County, Mississippi, and in the fine city of Southaven. (Applause.) And may I say at the outset that there's no doubt in my mind that Greg Davis will be a winner tomorrow. (Applause.) - Dick Cheney
Yes, and the insurgency is in its last throes.
Cheney was just one part of the multi-pronged campaign desperate attempt by the GOP to hold onto a once safe, Republican seat. More than a million dollars, robo-calls from George Bush and John McCain, scary black man ads, and of course, the San Francisco librul threat:
What we need in Washington is a strong conservative congressman from Mississippi -- not another Democrat going to bat for Nancy Pelosi. (Applause.)
But just as it had in Illinois and Louisiana, the strategy failed. In fact:
When the Republicans made the bizarre decision this week to send Vice President Dick Cheney into Mississippi to campaign for Republican Greg Davis, Childers objected to Davis inviting "Big Oil's best friend, Dick Cheney, to North Mississippi" and linked Cheney's candidate to "the skyrocketing cost of gas."
The Republican Party is finding out that their latest version of the Southern Strategy isn't working...and when they lose that, they are left with the issues. And they lose there too.