George Wallace Jr. is full of crap. He was a loyal LIBERAL Dem throughout the era of Reagan, even when the gipper won Alabama by an absolute landslide. His daddy was a economically left-wing New Deal Democrat who happily REJOINED the RAT party and endorsed the likes of Jimmy Carter after his failed "third party" bid didn't work.
George Wallace Jr. is a "Republican" for one reason and one reason alone: AFTER the GOP revolution of 1994, it became extremely difficult to get elected statewide in Alabama as a RAT, so Wallace "had to" join the GOP to continue to cling to power.
The Wallace's will say or do ANYTHING to stay in power. George Wallace Sr. went from being mindly pro-civil rights (early 50s), to hard core segregationist (60s), to affirmative action luvin' liberal (late 80s) who won the majority of the black vote.
Having the son of Mr. "Segregation Forever" on the GOP ticket is almost as embarrassing as when the son (Jeff Tomczak) of one of Chicago Mayor Daley's top Democrat Machine activists (Donald Tomczak) call himself a "Republican" solely to "win" out in the staunchly Republican Will County (suburban turf) and then promptly got indicted and convicted over the hired trucks scandal in Chicago. The media loved that one, now they could falsely claim a "Republican" was involved in the Chicago RAT fiasco.
The national media would have loved to have the son of the biggest Democrat race baiter on the planet as the face of "Republicans" in Alabama. And people say Roy Moore embarrases the GOP? Roy Moore looks like saint compared to Wallace.
Meanwhile, I whole heartily endorse the Riley/Strange ticket in 2006.
Not being al Alabama resident, I didn't know that.
In any event, Strange won the runoff with 54% or 55% of the vote, sweeping Birmingham and Mobile.
I jave wondered about that about media reaction to George Wallace Jr. But I thought Wallace Senior had rehablited himself even with the media it seems. I wasnt sure if there would be baggage