The Washington Post, in a rare act of actual reporting, gives us the news that "I'm not a candidate yet but will be" George Allen is raising money through his PAC. He also has a spiffy new website where he describes himself as "scholar, athlete, governor, and senator." Sorry, that tag line made me chuckle. Even if your a genius, who bills themselves as a scholar? Who does that?
Look, I know it sounds like I'm drinking too much Haterade when it comes to Allen, but he's not what I am looking for right now. After working so hard in 2009 and watching the great constitutional conservatives winning primaries all over the country - I'm looking for someone who talks about liberty and limited government with equal parts passion and intellect, someone like Rand Paul or Mike Lee or Jim DeMint or . . . dare I say . . . Ken Cuccinelli or Corey Stewart or Bob Marshall. I don't want someone boiling down every complex problem to a football analogy.
George, I'm with you. His performance in '06 was bizarre. That was a seat that was never in danger, Bush or no Bush. He put it in danger and gave it away.
Posted by: Another Chris | July 18, 2010 at 04:27 AM
I am thrilled at the prospect of George Allen running for Senate in 2012. I wish him all the best in winning the Republican nomination.
Posted by: Jim Webb | July 18, 2010 at 02:33 PM
You know if you changed George Allen's name to Ronald Reagan and Bob Marshall's name to George Bush and Jim Webb's name to Jimmy Carter then we'd have us a time machine to about 1979. They said the same thing about Reagan running again. George Allen when he's on his game, and trust me folks, he is will each Jim Webb's lunch and pick his teeth with the carcass of a Sierra Club endorsee like Bob Marshall. Oh yeah that same Sierra Club who's funded by... GEORGE SOROS.
Posted by: Lee Talley | July 18, 2010 at 08:02 PM
"Even if your a genius, who bills themselves as a scholar? Who does that? "
The kind of person who dresses up in a cowboy costume to campaign does that.
The kind of person who endlessly makes silly football analogies and throws a football around to remind you he was a quarterback (albeit an undistinguished one) at UVA does that.
The kind of person who shamelessly trades on the name he shares with his famous late father to remind you of the Redskin connection does that.
A numb nuts like George Allen does that.
If George Allen is the 2012 Republican Senate nominee the happiest person in Virginia will be Jim Webb.
Leave George on the bench where he belongs.
Posted by: Leave George on the bench | July 19, 2010 at 11:04 AM
"You know if you changed George Allen's name to Ronald Reagan and Bob Marshall's name to George Bush and Jim Webb's name to Jimmy Carter then we'd have us a time machine to about 1979. They said the same thing about Reagan running again."
Mr. Talley I can't believe you are comparing Ronald Reagan's narrow loss to a sitting U.S. president with George Allen's loss to Jim Webb. It's not even close.
Reagan was swimming upstream and nearly pulled off a stunning feat. He did not make a gigantic mistake to lose the nomination, he nearly did the unthinkable.
George Allen took a race that should've been a double digit victory and talked himself into a defeat to a man he should've never lost to. Jim Webb might've run the worst campaign to win a Senate seat anyone has ever seen.
In the process Allen cost Republicans the Senate and left us with no conservative standard bearer so that John McCain (FOR GOD SAKES JOHN MCCAIN) ended up as the nominee in 2008. I am not saying Allen would've beat President Obama, but I do think the defeat wouldn't have been as large and the downballot damage would've been less.
So no. Please God no. No more George Allen. No, no, no 1 million times no!
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Posted by: Jordan 4 | September 18, 2010 at 02:36 AM
George Allen, George Allen, George Allen.... has no one heard of Jamie Radtke?? Get on the ball folks.... there are other candidates. Pay attention ! I'm not choosing one over the other, I just want people to be informed!
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