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You betcha Sarah Palin is popular with the GOP crowd in Georgia.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lent her rock-star status to U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss this afternoon in a state fly-around that GOP strategists hope will help put Chambliss over the top in Tuesday’s Senate runoff against Democrat Jim Martin.

Palin was greeted by cheers of “Sarah! Sarah!” in what is decidedly Republican country: south Houston County. More than 2,700 people RSVP’d for the rally at the Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agricenter, one of several appearances for the duo today across Georgia. Meanwhile, Martin is mustering his own strength for Tuesday’s runoff, appearing in Macon this afternoon with veterans and in Atlanta this evening with rap star Ludacris.

And, where is Obama?

Barry lent his “organizers” but not his own political Capital.

‘Cuda 1 – Barry 0 – providing Chambliss wins.

With Hillary going to the State Department who replaces her in the Senate?

New York Gov. David Paterson will make the call — the first time a New York governor has had to make the call since Rockefeller picked Charles Goodell after Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Paterson was out with a statement today (in full after the jump) after Clinton was named Secretary of State, saying, in part, that he was “proud” of Clinton and that New York was losing a “powerful voice.”

On replacing her, Paterson said he is “consulting with a wide variety of individuals from all across New York State. I expect to announce Senator Clinton’s replacement when the position becomes officially vacant.”

Several names have been floated, including state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, son of former popular Gov. Mario Cuomo, Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, U.S. Reps. Kirsten Gillibrand, Brian Higgins, Nydia Velazquez, Jerrold Nadler, Nita Lowey (who reportedly wants to stay in the House), Steve Israel, Gregory Meeks and Louise Slaughter, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown (the city’s first black mayor) and Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión Jr. Even NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s and Caroline Kennedy’s names have been thrown out there.

Flap says Caroline Kennedy fits the bill. Wasn’t it, after all, her Uncle’s former seat?

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is running for California Governor. The race is in 2010 but Newsom is already gearing up for the campaign.

Today, the good Mayor, a champion of gay marriage in California, releases his State of the City address – all 7 1/2 hours of it.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has been crafting his State of the City speech for months and will debut it today – all 7 1/2 hours of it – on his very own YouTube channel.

The format allows the tech-savvy mayor – who has more than 10,000 Facebook friends and whose official Web site has received 27.6 million hits this year – to reach a wider audience and speak directly to anyone who’s interested without the filter of the media or grumbling from critics.

“We have a lot we want to share, but it gets filtered,” Newsom told The Chronicle. “To do an address that’s unfiltered, what better way to do it than on YouTube?”

It also allows the wonky, long-winded Newsom to leave no detail on the cutting-room floor. The mayor’s staff will release the speech in 10 chapters this week, and each one is about 45 minutes long. Health, education and the environment are the subjects on tap for today.

There you go: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom – “Whether You Like it or Not.”

And, believe Flap, should Newsom make it out of the Democrat primary election (he won’t) the video below would be played over and over again.

This time for the Long Beach area – an area with a higher than average gay/homosexual population.

The site includes details about business owners and employees who donated to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign (including at least one Google map). One big target in Long Beach has been the owner of numerous El Pollo Loco franchises. This can be a problem if you like that chicken. As one commenter on the website said: “This one is the saddest for me as WKS Restaurant group owns most of the El Pollo Loco franchises (over 50) in So Cal and several Denny’s and Corner Bakery Cafe’s in CA, AZ, and Utah. El Pollo Loco is one of my favorite restaurants. I am working on the locations so I know which ones I can’t go to anymore …”

Yet another blacklist to deter donors to the next attempt (likely in 2010) to legalize gay marriage in California.

Exit question: What kind of damage is the gay rights community doing to their movement by vindictively attempting to control the thoughts of California voters?

She’s BACK.

Did anyone really think she wouldn’t be? In the “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” category, the woman who stepped away from Obama’s campaign after calling Hillary Clinton a “monster,” was listed on Obama’s change.gov, per AP, as being part of the Agency Review Team for the State Department. We wonder what that first meeting between Power and Madame Secretary Clinton will be like. (She apparently made a gesture to bury the hatchet.)

Flpa knew Power would return.

But, that first meeting with “The Monster” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton WILL be awkward.

Update:

And, more awkward for supporters of Israel.

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Sarah Palin will be campaigning in Georgia today for GOP U.S Senator Saxby Chambliss while Obama stays in Chicago hob nobbing with Hillary Clinton as he appoints her as Secretary of State.

Hummmm, guess who is trying harder?

Yeah, the dumb, hockey mom who does not read the New York Times and The Atlantic?

The LEFT had better come up with better MEMES for Sarah Palin because she is more than the know-nothing RUBE as portrayed by Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live.

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