[JimRed]

Not if Her Heinous has anything to say about it...Warner had better watch his back!

[Fairview]

Mark Warner is such a smooth, slippery snake, he'd wrap his coils around Allen and choke the life out of him.

[stevem]

Anyone running for 2008, in either party, is a long shot - even Hillary - at this point.

On the Republican side, I would say Allen has as good a chance as anyone and better than most. On the Democrat side, this is the first time I have heard Warner mentioned.

[Reily]

As a Virginian I can say the following things about the Warner administration:

1. He raised taxes after running on a platform not to do so.

2. He main accomplishment was to do very little other then raise taxes. He is very much a stealth democrat, he has very little in a record of accomplishment BUT also very little in a record of actually doing harm. (Maybe that now defines a successful democrat!)

3. His most attractive feature as a candidate is he is attractive. He looks good in public and on TV.

He got into office as did his protegee Kaine because a serious of lackluster GOP candidates and campaigns. (Again Warner didn't do ANYTHING so there was little to campaign against regarding Kaine!)

[LSUfan]

From poster EternalVigilance:

A man named Ed Gillespie, whose lobbying firm consists of him and Jack Quinn, Bill Clinton's lawyer, has taken very large amounts of money from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to promote Open Borders.

Ed has shuttled between his cashcow K Street firm and the RNC and this White House for the last six years.

And here's the kicker: Ed Gillespie is now the head of George Allen's PAC.

I think folks should know.

George Allen is an empty suit. His national security credentials are nonexistent. The only true conservative who looks like he might be running is Newt and, if you saw meet the depressed this morning, he makes a lot of sense.

But given his total lack of national security credentials and charisma deficit, I'd have to seriously consider McCain over Allen.

Allen as the nominee pretty much assures a Dem in the White House.

Recently Allen had the audacity to suggest that the US should relax visa requirements for countries that had failed to meet minimum requirements for such relaxed standards.

Allen doesn't get it. He has no national security credentials, has expressed no significant national security thoughts, has introduced no significant national security legislation, and has held no senate leadership positions on national security-related committees.

He is not what we need in this age.

His views on social issues are solid and his fiscal views are good as well. But he falls woefully short on the only issue that really matters while we are in a World War.

[AzaleaCity5691]

Despite what media/pundits and half the political junkies in this country would have you believe, I think Warner is the probable Democratic nominee. I think if Brad Henry is re-elected, he may run too. Because the thing about the Democrats is, in the post-Kennedy era, they have only had success when running Southerners who were percieved as moderate at the time. Every idiot knows this. Therefore, Hillary fails the first test of what's necessary to actually be elected, and never mind the fact she can raise alot of money, Cuomo was able to raise alot of money in 1991 and what happened, and Carter couldn't raise a dime before Iowa as far as 1976 goes. The Democrats are idiots, and they have a consistent record of shooting themselves in the foot, but I doubt it's consistent enough to where they're throwing 2008 away.

Another simple political truth of the post-JFK era, when you run a Southern Democrat at the top of a ticket and have him oppose two Yankees, the Southern Democrat will at least break even in the Southeast. It is for this reason that I think that as a part, we should forget even entertaining the idea of having a non-Southerner as nominee.

[jla]

fyi

[KoRn]

That would be a very interesting race indeed. Being from VA, they were both great governors. I love George Allen, he would get my vote!

[Political Junkie Too]

Here come the Virginians

This guy?

-PJ