[jla]

A FISCALLY LIBERAL, socially moderate, inarticulate, Southern, GOP insider is worth about 40% of the vote.

Maybe Irish can juxtapose Allen's record on all of the above with Sir Rudy's?

[Blackirish]

Allen voted..

Farm bill...yes

Medicaid bill....yes

Highway bill...yes

Energy bill...yes.

I understand that Allen was new to the senate and had to curry favor with W and the rest of the GOP big spending senators but it will be hard for him to run a campaign based on fiscal discipline and smaller government.