Posted on 10/15/2005 6:03:01 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
A TOBACCO chewing, horse-riding, cowboy boot wearing politician called George could be the Republican party’s choice for president in 2008. With George W Bush in political freefall, speculation is intensifying about his successor. The rising star among conservatives is George Allen, senator for Virginia and former governor of the state.
The son of a famous American football coach, Allen is a minor figure compared with prominent rivals such as Senator John McCain and Rudolph Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, but he is more politically mainstream and potentially acceptable to Republican stalwarts.
Bruce Allen, general manager of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers pro-football team, has no doubt that his elder brother can go all the way to the White House. “He has always been a leader,” he said. “I would never underestimate what he is able to do. He’s very real and that’s what makes him special.”
Those close to Allen’s unofficial campaign place his chances of winning his party’s nomination at 60-40. Although no senator has won the presidency since John F Kennedy, Allen has hands-on experience as a governor and a folksy, populist touch.
No matter how smart his suit and tie, he is never separated from his “lucky” cowboy boots. Nor will he ever give up his chewing tobacco and spittoon, according to an insider, although he is said to be a Virginia gentleman rather than a Texas swaggerer like Bush.
Sean Hannity, an influential right-wing radio and television host, has been boosting Allen’s prospects by comparing him with Ronald Reagan, a friend of Allen’s father, and declaring him capable of winning every state in the South against Hillary Clinton, the Democrat favourite.
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But he dips Copenhagen!!
http://sicsempertyrannis.blogspot.com/2005/10/will-smokeless-tobacco-snuff-out.html
Egads! sarc//
All I can say is I used to dip and doesn't Al Gore still smoke?
"Maybe...if he plays sidekick to Condi."
Is that you Dickie Morris? still plugging your book? What part of Condi's 'NO' to running don't you get?
By George go George!
The RATS are emboldened by their victory in VA and are trying to come up with a challenger to Allen. They'd like to knock him out of the presidential race by beating him in the Senate.
Didn't George Allen play quarterback for UVA? That's gotta count for something.
As for Allen, at least we know he won't allow the anti-tobacco Nazis to further ruin American business.
I had the same feeling.
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