Actually I don't think Allen has a racist past I just think he wanted to be Redneck Southerner and he created a whole persona around it. I think the only thing that should be looked at about Allen is his record in the Senate and as Governor.
He CHEWS?? :-D OH MY GAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWD! The LameStream Press will have a fit over that fact!! LOL!!!
I'm likin' George Allen more already. :)
Senator Allen is no phoney, he is a real person. Authentic. Which is more than can be said for the author of this hit piece.
We're suppose to forgive and forget yesterdays transgressions comitted by adult Democrats and yet hold grudges against the youthful indiscretions of Republicans committed 25 years ago.
Allen will be the nominee. I think Romney is more qualified but it will be impossible for a ormon to get elected. Maybe the VP sot although I think Allen Rice oar Allen Pawlenty would be a better ticket.
GEORGE ALLEN ping
A hit piece on Allen. He will be in a relatively tough race against Jim Webb. The New Republic and the Dems would like to see Allen defeated in 2006, or at the very least, be in a close race in order to derail his 2008 Presidential plans. This is the opening salvo of the 2006 campaign meant to paint Allen as a racist, pseudo-Southerner. Look for the picture of him wearing a Confederate flag pin in his high school yearbook to be widely distributed in the urban areas of Virginia.
Shad Planking?
Isnt that what Rosie O'Donut and Ellen DiGenerate do?
Oh, horse...poopie...thousands of Virginians wear cowboy boots.
Thanks for posting this. I wasn't about to register with them online to post it. I think we'll see a lot of this kind of hit piece.
Can he fire up the conservative base? That remains to be seen.
Unfortunately the story is far too long and almost unreadable.
>None of this means Allen is a racist, of course. He is certainly not the same guy today that he was in the '80s. But his interest in Southern heritage and his fetish for country culture goes back even further. And what's truly improbable is how someone with his upbringing ever acquired such backwoods tastes.<
Good grief. No, Mr/Mz New Republic writer, of course you aren't implying Allen is a racist. Why, of course you've done no such thing.
At least Allen is genuine in his penchant for things Southern (go ahead, New Yawkahs, gasp away). He didn't have to hire a "redneck tutor" like Mark (Mr Ed) Warner did to get elected in our Commonwealth
Was he an adult member of the KKK? Wrote about hating that the military would be integrated?? No???
Then when nominee Allen gets attacked for what he did when he was 16 years old, the Republican counterattack should be to ask when Mr. Byrd of W. Va. will be appropriate censured for his far worse egregious adult sins.
"Mr. Allen is known as a racist in our Southern California society which is why we feel he relocated to an environment which was more supportive of his view points."
Or maybe it's because relocating would make the commute a little more bearable with dad being the Redskins new head coach and all.
This article is laughable. Just throwing stuff against the wall to see if anything sticks. Hard to believe cowboy boots could wig anyone out as much as they apparently did this author.
This is the story the left will run with, in fact on the loony left websites they've been honing the story for a while...the confederate pins, the racial grafitti...whatever it really said.
It's best to get out in front of it and NOT run away from it at all. The reality is that MOST of the country did not get on buses during the civil rights movement, and did little to further a good cause.
If the PC standards at the time were trying to force down an opinion...I'm sure there were alot of idiotic high school boys who did the opposite just BECAUSE....big deal.. unless you're running for pres. Allen should repeat what he states about bucking authority...that rings true.
American Spectator has a good rebuttal/ripping this piece to shreds
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9746
You know, just when I am enjoying an interesting article the writer throws in a comment like that, reminding me how elitist and patronizing the left really is. I'm still deciding if I'm going to keep reading.
Oh no, we wouldn't want to give that impression in our snide hit piece.
Libs have nothing but personal attack to offer. All Republicans are nothing but differing combinations of racist, stupid and mean.
I am not here to apologize f or why they fought, although modern historians might contemplate that there truly were different perceptions in the North and South about those reasons, and that most Southern soldiers viewed the driving issue to be sovereignty rather than slavery. In 1860 fewer than five percent of the people in the South owned slaves, and fewer than twenty percent were involved with slavery in any capacity. Love of the Union was palpably stronger in the South than in the North before the war -- just as overt patriotism is today -- but it was tempered by a strong belief that state sovereignty existed prior to the Constitution, and that it had never been surrendered. Nor had Abraham Lincoln ended slavery in Kentucky and Missouri when those border states did not secede. Perhaps all of us might reread the writings of Alexander Stephens, a brilliant attorney who opposed secession but then became Vice President of the Confederacy, making a convincing legal argument that the constitutional compact was terminable. And who wryly commented at the outset of the war that "the North today presents the spectacle of a free people having gone to war to make freemen of slaves, while all they have as yet attained is to make slaves of themselves."No wonder Mr. Webb's campaign said this Kristian Denny Todd, press secretary for James Webb, the other Democrat seeking the Senate race nomination, said Webb thought the New Republic article "hit below the belt." She said Webb wants a "campaign about issues, not one filled with personal attacks." (RTD, April 28)
I sent the link to Harris Miller for Senate.
NR is the best the lft can do and they can't help but be dull. It reads like a too wordy article from one of the free weekly rags.