Washington Post Editorial - Let Reagan Be Reagan

By: JennyE
Published On: 9/15/2006 2:19:30 PM

Allen-Wadhams attempts to cry foul over an outright weak issue for them makes the Allen camp look immature.

The Washington Post weighs in:

The Gipper makes a posthumous appearance in Virginia's senatorial campaign. So what?

Friday, September 15, 2006; Page A18

IT IS A TICKLISH thing for Sen. George Allen, a Republican running for reelection in Virginia, that his Democratic opponent, James Webb, once worked for President Ronald Reagan. And it is especially awkward for Mr. Allen that the Gipper seems to have admired Mr. Webb, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, and said so. But the fact remains that Mr. Webb did serve Mr. Reagan, both as Navy secretary and as assistant secretary of defense, and that the late president once lauded him publicly before a large crowd at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. So it is easily within the bounds of fairness that the Webb campaign is airing an advertisement that includes 10 seconds or so of Mr. Reagan paying tribute that day to Mr. Webb's "gallantry as a Marine officer in Vietnam."

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Comments



Wow, I missed this; thanks for posting (PM - 9/15/2006 5:57:12 PM)
http://americablog.b... has a great piece up right now about Allen attending a conference and giving a speech alongside the likes of Ann Coulter, Falwell, Dobson, "David Duke" Perkins, etc.

When Allen ran for Governor, he successfully was able to escape being pinned as an extremist.  (He ran with the lamentable Mike Farris, so Allen looked like a moderate in comparison.  Farris got beat.)

It's time to point out to voters who Allen's close friends are.  Like Falwell, who has said:


• After the September 11, 2001 attacks Falwell said on the 700 Club, "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen."
• "AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals."
• "I hope to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we don't have public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them."


Shhhh !! (loboforestal - 9/15/2006 6:18:50 PM)
http://brianpatton.o...

Falwell says that Webb is an okay guy.  Let those guys sit on their hands for a couple of months.  Don't get 'em stirred up.



Okay, Ann Coulter then. (PM - 9/17/2006 10:14:20 AM)
She's the dinner speaker at the event where Allen will be making a main speech.  Here are some Coulter quotes:

"I think we had enough laws about the turn-of-the-century. We don't need any more." Asked how far back would she go to repeal laws, she replied, "Well, before the New Deal...[The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start."---Politically Incorrect 5/7/97

"God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.'"---Hannity & Colmes, 6/20/01

The "backbone of the Democratic Party" is a "typical fat, implacable welfare recipient"---syndicated column 10/29/99

To a disabled Vietnam vet: "People like you caused us to lose that war."---MSNBC

On Princess Diana's death: "Her children knew she's sleeping with all these men. That just seems to me, it's the definition of 'not a good mother.' ... Is everyone just saying here that it's okay to ostentatiously have premarital sex in front of your children?"..."[Diana is] an ordinary and pathetic and confessional - I've never had bulimia! I've never had an affair! I've never had a divorce! So I don't think she's better than I am."---MSNBC 9/12/97

"I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote."---Hannity & Colmes, 8/17/99

"I think [women] should be armed but should not [be allowed to] vote."---Politically Incorrect, 2/26/01

[Columbine reference] "If those kids had been carrying guns they would have gunned down this one [child] gunman. ... Don't pray. Learn to use guns."---Politically Incorrect, 12/18/97

"I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the 'hood to be flogged publicly."---MSNBC 3/22/97

"Let's say I go out every night, I meet a guy and have sex with him. Good for me. I'm not married."---Rivera Live 6/7/00

"Anorexics never have boyfriends. ... That's one way to know you don't have anorexia, if you have a boyfriend."---Politically Incorrect 7/21/97

"The swing voters---I like to refer to them as the idiot voters because they don't have set philosophical principles. You're either a liberal or you're a conservative if you have an IQ above a toaster. "---Beyond the News, Fox News Channel, 6/4/00

"My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that's because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism."---MSNBC 2/8/97

Why does George Allen hang out with people like her?