Courtesy of Wikipedia.

In 1994, North unsuccessfully ran for the Senate as the Republican candidate in Virginia. Republican Senator John Warner of Virginia endorsed Marshall Coleman, a Republican who ran as an independent, instead of North. On the eve of the election, former first lady Nancy Reagan told a reporter that North had lied to her husband when discussing Iran-Contra with the former president. North lost to incumbent Democrat Charles Robb.

Note that Nancy Reagan said North lied to President Reagan.  This is the guy who George Allen is so happily posing with...

In 1994 Jim Webb kept his opinions to himself about North until North publicly ridiculed Robb's military record in the WSJ.  Then Webb put together a group of former military officers to rebut North's characterization.

Why?

"You can't build ethics in government if you don't have ethical people in government."

Webb, a classmate of North's at the U.S. Naval Academy and Naval chief under President Reagan, said he was saddened that several former Reagan administration officials who still privately voice reservations about North's fitness to serve have publicly endorsed him.

"The message they're sending is that conduct which has betrayed the public trust can be excused when political expediency is at stake," said Webb, who declined to name names.

More from the Roanoke Times, 8 Oct 1994:

Webb refrained from making public statements about North after the then-Marine emerged as a central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal in the mid-1980s. North was convicted of three felonies: destroying documents, providing misleading information to Congress and receiving an illegal gratuity. An appeals court later overturned the convictions on grounds that testimony North gave a congressional panel in 1987 under a promise of immunity may have been used against him.

Another speaker was Robb's own commanding officer, Col. Roger Barnard. Senator Bob Kerrey also spoke up.

Barnard said Robb served with distinction in combat despite efforts from above to keep the president's son-in-law out of harm's way. Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, a Democrat, said the Senate race is not a question of which candidate was the best military officer.

"This is about who lied and who told the truth," Kerrey said.

William Cowan, a Naval Academy graduate who served three years in Vietnam, took issue with North's past embellishments of his military record.

Cowan referred to a New York civil trial in 1985, when North testified under oath that he served two tours in Vietnam, commanded a company and worked in special operations. Cowan said North served one term in Vietnam, commanded a platoon and was not involved in the "black world" of intelligence.

I graduated from USNA an served my career in the Navy.  I believe Ollie North is a disgrace to the Naval Academy and the USMC.  He and his companions were a bunch of crooks who took advantage of a President who was verging on Alzheimer's disease, at the expense of the law and the American public. 

The name James Webb is synonomous with valor, integrity, and every positive ideal that the U.S. Naval Academy has to offer.

Okay, Okay, I know I am not the person with the most political wit, but I love that shot of Felix and North. It should show the world what kind of Ass Hole Allen is.

ALSO Seeing his education commercial on TV about encouraging our young ones to become engineers is the biggest crock of shit I ever heard. Allen and most neo cons are anti education. And as someone who has talked to a lot of teachers about this standards of learning that he inacted--I can say 99.95% of teachers hate it. They're teaching to the test. All this accountability shit Allen talks about is bull f'n crap--Not worth used Allen Toilet paper. Jim Webb should get him on this. Especially about traditional black colleges getting cuts under Allen. AGAIN ALLEN IS ANTI EDUCATION. Really you just can't say education and Felix Allen in the same sentence, thatwould have been like Hitler promoting Hebrew school to Germans in WWII.

Great picture. kc.

the more likely you are to be a Republican.

That is why more Republicans fall for crap like "intelligent design," "trickle-down economics," and "George Allen" and "Tom Davis" are moderate.

That is why most college professors are Democrats; they have to have advanced degrees and people with college degrees are more likely to recognize opportunistic politicians repeating history because they learned what that history was.  Republicans, who used to cry that the professors were over-educated liberal elitists, are now saying there are too few neo-cons as university professors because they are discriminated against, rather than educated so as not to be foooled by their shenanigans.  They say they need to overcome the prejudice with "affirmative action" quotas!

Outreach to convicted felonies.  Or embraching traitors who circumvent our constitution and blowoff Congress.

In the picture, Allen is embracing North, who had just defeated Jim Miller for the nomination.  Jim Miller had been a Reagan cabinet official.  North ran against Miller by bashing Reagan budget deficits and a Reagan official (remember also that Reagan fired North): 

National Review,  May 30, 1994  by Rich Lowry

THE Ollie North mailer decries, "A record of higher taxes, bigger government, and cooperation with liberal special-interest groups." Typical GOP attack rhetoric--except the target was a Reagan budget director. "Jim Miller is throwing mud at Ollie North to hide his own record," it continues, depicting Miller as a closet supporter of the NEA and bi-lingual education.

The fact that money raised from conservative retirees in Minnesota (hit up for North contributions by Richard Viguerie) is spent smearing a Reagan loyalist is just one of the ironies in Virginia this year.

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So in 1994 it was okay for Allen to side with a Reagan basher.  (The charges against Miller were not true, BTW.)

Yawn. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

I forgot this little gem I uncovered.  North appealed his conviction, and on appeal was aided by the A----C----L----U

That's the price progressives pay for sharing fairness.

The ACLU defends civil liberties for people regardless of whether they agree with their politics. That is why they have sometimes gotten in the awful position of defending Neo-Nazis.

It is rare to see conservatives apply principles as evenly as the ACLU.