Well... (Bubby - 8/24/2006 4:06:30 PM)
California Beach Hippie is closer to the truth than this:
Virginia's United States Senator
Salon.com has an article up (you may need to watch an online ad to access it) about how the Virginia Senate race has turned around since...Entitled 'George Allen raises money for Jim Webb' by Michael Scherer, it covers how the race has changed in the last 12 days and what hurdles still remain for Webb but what really caught my eye was Mudcat's assessment at the end of the article.
But the macaca incident may hurt Allen's ability to demonize his opponent, especially if Virginians see Allen's attacks as an extension of the bullying behavior he exhibited last week. "Their plan was to spend a lot of TV money on offense," said Dave "Mudcat" Saunders, a Democratic strategist who is helping the Webb campaign. "And now I think they are going to be forced to spend a lot of money on defense. Defense doesn't win you any new votes."This is especially true if a backlash against Allen's comments develops among rural Virginians, whom Allen often calls the "real Americans" in stump speeches. Mudcat, an anti-Allen partisan who lives in southern Virginia, says he believes that Virginians will increasingly see through Allen's act to his roots as the wealthy child of a football coach who grew up near Los Angeles. "He is a California beach hippie," said Saunders, who recently wrote a book about how Democrats can win Southern elections. "He is a guy from outside our culture who comes in here dressed like Gene Autry and tarnishes our culture."
Worth a read...
Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time... Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.
General Thomas J. Jackson.
Thanks!
Wearing sandals and love beads.
With long hair and a head band.
Eating vegetarian- lots of sprouts.
Playing guitar.
Tuning in, turning on and dropping out.
Making love not war.
It's easier for me to picture him stomping on someone like that, and laughing about it.
"Senator Allen, I knew hippies, I have worked with hippies-and you are no hippie."