Exactly. The Macaca incident was way overblown.
Methinks Allen will be back on the stage some day.
He could try running for Senate again when John Warner retires in 2008, or he could even try running for Governor again--Governors here can serve two terms, but they have to be non-consecutive. Allen was Governor from 1993-1997.
The Senate race in 2008 would be interesting, because that potentially sets up a George Allen-Mark Warner race. And that doesn't set up to Allen's advantage, as much as I like the guy...Mark Warner is popular here (God only knows why) and probably could've gotten elected to a second term as Governor had he been eligible; instead, we got Tim "The Eyebrow" Kaine, Warner's Rat successor.
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He chummed the waters. Yes it was overblown, however, he's the one who said it, not the WaCompost. He ought to have been a highroader in all respects from the get go. He allowed the opposition to tweak him and that's all she wrote. Not cool enough. Even if he had said "and there is the opposition" left it at that and simply pointed to the guy, it still would have been dumb.