Hundreds of thousands of Maryland voters will get a call from Sarah Palin on Monday, urging them to vote for business investor Brian Murphy in Tuesday’s Republican primaries.
Murphy, the underdog challenger to former Maryland Gov. Bob Ehrlich, is releasing the robo-call to more than 250,000 likely Republican voters.
In a one-minute recorded message, Palin bashes Ehrlich’s record as governor, as well as the job of his Democratic challenger, Gov. Martin O’Malley.
“See the record spending and record taxes of the last eight years put Maryland in a hole,” Palin says. “But Brian Murphy and [running mate] Mike Ryman will hold firm against higher taxes and reckless spending. And they’ll enforce our immigration laws. And they’ll root out government waste and fraud and abuse.”
Palin, a conservative icon, was careful to appeal to Maryland’s far right.
“Brian Murphy and his running mate, Mike Ryman, are the only common-sense, pro-life, pro-Second Amendment ticket in the race,” she said. “Brian and Mike are proof that Republicans don’t have to abandon their principles.”
The robo-call was released hours after John McCain — who chose Palin as his running mate in the 2008 presidential campaign — endorsed Ehrlich.
