Who Is George Allen, Anyway?

By: George Allen's Noose
Published On: 9/25/2006 2:24:19 AM


That is the question posed by columnist Jonathan Alter in the October 2 issue of Newsweek.

I think a lot of Virginians are finding themselves asking the same question these days.

A few choice quotes:


   Despite more than a decade as governor and senator, Allen is facing a dangerous question: who is this guy, anyway?



   High-school classmates recall that before a basketball game against a black team, he and friends secretly scrawled anti-white racial slurs on their school building, in an attempt to build resentment toward the black players.



   None of this may matter. Allen has more money than decorated Vietnam vet and former Navy secretary Webb, and money is critical in Senate races. But if Webb wins, it will be because, in his awkward rookie way, he's more authentic than Allen. You get the sense that he knows who he is and where he comes from, and if he didn't know, he'd find outGÇöand hold the ham sandwich on the High Holidays.



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Comments



This is very significant (Leaves on the Current - 9/25/2006 6:11:43 PM)
--considering how utterly mainstream Newsweek is, and how utterly mainstream Jonathan Alter is.

Consider, too: he wrote this before the N-word-in-college story broke today.

What you're starting to see is a consensus in the mainstream media: sooner or later, George Allen is toast (or perhaps I should say: sooner or later, George Allen is last week's hamentaschen).

Let's make it sooner!



P.S. Best line in this article: (Leaves on the Current - 9/25/2006 6:35:16 PM)
"After he finally issued a statement confirming the story [of his ancestry], Allen suddenly began to play the religion card, suggesting that people were blaming his mother for the 'macaca' slur because 'either she or her father was Jewish.' From denial to victimhood in three days."

"From denial to victimhood in three days."  Pretty much sums up the Allen campaign's principled footwork recently, doesn't it?



Denial to victimhood in three days (RayH - 9/25/2006 7:47:19 PM)

Now that's what we want in a leader! Oh, yeah.

Allen is doing a great job of self-destructing. It's quite a show, but still too soon to conclude that he will lose.

James Webb must WIN!