Posted on 12/02/2008 7:55:26 PM PST by rabscuttle385
WASHINGTON - If you stand by the right edge of the seventh-floor window in the Pennsylvania Avenue office and crane your neck just so, you can see the Capitol, where George Allen made his living for six years.
That ended in 2006, when he was denied a second Senate term by the voters of Virginia and Democrat Jim Webb.
Allen is on the outside, looking in.
Over his shoulder and much easier to see is the Ninth Street tunnel and the road out of town, to his home near Mount Vernon.
It's the road to freedom, Allen says, sitting at a desk in a small office that he rents from former Republican Sen. Paul Laxalt of Nevada and spitting tobacco juice into a paper cup that once held his morning coffee.
"There is a freedom in not having to do this, that and the other when there are better options," he says of the demands of running for and occupying elected office.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailypress.com ...
An example of the power we have given to a biased media.
An example of the power we have given to a biased media.
They won’t have George Allen to kick around anymore.
He LET them ruin him over it by not standing up and defending or explaining himself at all about it. He’s just another loser like Dole or McCain in the scope of things.
Still, a testimony to the power of the media. Which is what we saw in this latest election.
It wasn’t so much the “one word issue” that caused his defeat. It was the fact that he caved to the politically correct crowd and whined apologized a thousand times. He would have won had he stood tall and said: “Yeah, I said it; deal with it”. But, no, he fell into the Libs trap.
When are the Pubbies gonna grow some ‘nads like James Carville. Love him or loathe him, the guy has balls and people fear him and respect him. Few Pubbies are feared OR RESPECTED today.
It was actually larger than that. The one factor different in the Allen 2006 campaign from the previous 20 years was the presence of Dick Wadhams and the running of a Presidential campaign and not a Senate race. When the "macaca" hit the fan, they were not prepared to deal with it. Nor were they prepared to deal with Webb when he began to close the gap.
Allen is not without blame. But you can rest the loss of that Senate seat (and add to it the loss of Colorado) at the feet of Dick Wadhams.
I still say Governor Allen’s most productive move would be to run fer Governor of Virginia again. He was an excellent Guv—as compared to a serviceable Senator. If he ever had that burning in his gut to be POTUS (by running in 2016), he’d do it as a 2-time VA Governor, imho...Dave
And to think, but for one word, this man might have been our President-Elect.
Oh well.
Regards...Dave
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