George Allen for President? (vanity)

http://www.georgeallen.com/site/c.hgITL5PKJtH/b.1434575/k.BEAC/Home.htm ^

[Corin Stormhands]

OK, since you know who the nominee is, how about a hint on who the VP will be, the suspense is monumental.

You can handle the suspense. You've been pretty good with the drama so far.

[Coop]

I applaud your pro bono work with the handicapped! ;-)

[linda_22003]

"Allen Calls on NFL to Dedicate Season To Pat Tillman", followed a few lines later by "Allen Deplores Political Gimmickry".

As Larry the Cable Guy says, "I don't care who y'are, that's FUNNY". :))

[quantim]

Let me put this another way.  I don't know what is so dramatic about calling the senate "pathetic."  Few would argue this, and the RINOs are just as bad as the dems.  The problem is Allen is a sitting senator of this same pathetic body, even though he is an exception to the rule of idiots there.  I've never even remotely implied that he isn't a good guy, but he's still a senator, and by that association he's unelectable in my view.  That is not a fact, just an opinion.  That's all, it's not complicated. 

Even McPain gets it, and I'm suggesting that this has a whole lot less to do with Allen and more to do with stink attached to him by virtue of being a senator.  If he doesn't take off in the first couple of primaries, he is toast. Enter McCain, Clinton, Biden, Gore, Edwards, Kerry, Lieberman, - and that's just a recent short list and you've got a recipe for failure in flyover counties.  This country, IMO, will not elect a senator, any senator.  It would be a terrible precedent to set at least for the coming generation if the past generation is any indication.

It is too bad that you have a dem governor, else he could resign from the senate, take a high profile WH position in the meantime and shed that senate baggage to be considered a serious candidate.

From yesterday:

McCain's warning

Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, yesterday reached out to conservatives and warned that the midterm elections will be difficult for the Republican Party.
"We Republicans are going to have a tough race in 2006 because the country is not happy with us," Mr. McCain said yesterday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. "We have a 25 percent approval rating in Congress."

[Corin Stormhands]

This country, IMO, will not elect a senator, any senator.

So your candidate is....?

It is too bad that you have a dem governor...

Tell me about it. :-(

[Corin Stormhands]

You don't think dedicating the season to Pat Tillman was the right thing to do?

Allen has a long standing history with the NFL...his dad, his brother, and more.

I don't see how anyone could call honoring a fallen hero "gimmickry."

[quantim]

I like Haley:

http://www.governorbarbour.com/Governor.htm

Ironically as dismal as 2006 could be if the republicans cannot fix their RINO illnesses, our Canadian socialist, union slurping, Kerry slobbering governor is going to get picked off.  It's a 43-43% tie right now and the race is just getting started.  Any incumbent under 50% is pretty much SOL.

[linda_22003]

I think the country might be in better shape if Senators actually paid attention to things more important than football. There! I said it! There are things more important than football, which is a GAME. An overpaid, overhyped, GAME. :)

It's Allen's way of reminding people who dad was. That's why the dang football is in every family picture, even the dressed up ones, where it looks ludicrous.

[linda_22003]

And frankly, he seems to be a nice enough guy, but you were asked to list things he had shown leadership on, and that was your list? With the possible exception of nanotechnology, it was pretty lightweight.

[Coop]

If you think honoring Pat Tillman was about football, I hope you'll excuse me if I don't take your criticism of U.S. senators too seriously.

[jla]

"I support George Allen.
And in the contemporaneous vernacular, 'nuff said."

[jla]

Linda...Ronald Reagan often spoke of the benefits of playing football and how it imparted many wonderful qualites to a man.

[Corin Stormhands]

No, Allen was a football player. He loves the game. The football is not in ~every~ picture. Check the Allen family photo album on his campaign site. 18 family photos. One football, held by his son.

So you don't like football. Fine. That takes nothing away from the fact that Pat Tillman, a former pro football player gave his life in service to protect YOUR right to not watch football. Sorry that doesn't mean anything to you.

As for the list, it was a random sampling. But a pretty darn impressive one. I noticed you ignored the work he did for the NRSC, as well as his standing up to the RATS buffoonery, AND calling for fiscal accountability in government.

I guess those don't mean anything to you either.

[yodi VA]

I can tell you that a lot of Virginia government employees hate him because of job cuts and lots of ex-VA government employees love him for the buy-out that provided for a bunch of early retirements. I love the fact that Mrs. Allen doesn't hesitate to wear a nice fur coat - bless her heart. We'll never have an ideal candidate - the ideal would never run. We'll never reconcile the conflict inherent in the two factions of conservatism - social vs fiscal. In the meantime, I figure Allen will do.

[quantim]

I hope you'll excuse me if I don't take your criticism of U.S. senators too seriously.

Do you take my blanket criticism of senators colloquially and that inept legislative body? Has the senate majority done anything for you lately that you would brag about?  

And why would a particular member of that same body be excused from 'The Great Compromise?'

It's great to see support for leadership, especially if you have someone you can promote, but to deny the negatives of a U.S. senator running for high office is stupendous.

[Coop]

How is it any different than denying the positives?

[johnny7]

At least he wasn't one of 'the gang of seven'.

[quantim]

LOL, when it comes to just about any aspect of the senate I go from a generally reasonable person to just about irrational. I just have to tell myself that 1/3 of them are up for 'disposal' every two years. ;-)

[linda_22003]

Fine. :) I take more substantive legislation seriously. So we differ.

[linda_22003]

I do like football. Especially college ball, and an old friend of the family is one of the "winningest" coaches in college football history. But I have a sense of proportion when it comes to football; it's a game. It's not something on which to base holiness or national policy. And that coach would agree, too. ;-D