George Allen Announces for GOP Nomination for U.S. Senate
By Shaun Kenney | Monday, January 24th, 2011 | PoliticsThe long wait is over. George Allen is in.
Don’t forget that the Bearing Drift poll is still open.
Update: Bearing Drift’s exclusive interview today with George Allen
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Shaun Kenney
Shaun Kenney is the Chairman of the Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors, former Communications Director for the Republican Party of Virginia, and an active blogger since 2002. Shaun lives in Thomas Jefferson's backyard with his wife, six children, and a modest attempt at a farm in Kents Store, Virginia.
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GO GEORGE!
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Oh please.
George Allen is a FAKE Tea Partier, who today is for limiting federal spending after spending six years voting for every Team Bush spending increase when he was a Senator.
Those are other people’s ideas he now hopes to ride back to being important. He is a flim-flam man, not a leader.
The only energy is the consultants and now aged insiders who want to again feed on his campaign.
I don’t know that a Radtke is an answer, nor that Marshall can mount an actual campaign, but Allen is not the answer.
Ciao
PS. And he’s never been remotely pro-life (except for those who think Parental Consent is brave pro-life legislation). He wants to keep abortion legal, period.
And oh yeah, I’m pretty sure pretty-boy George is now coloring his hair.
Ick.
Ciao
“I don’t know that a Radtke is an answer, nor that Marshall can mount an actual campaign, but Allen is not the answer.”
So, basically, what you’re saying is “Go GEORGE”?
You need to look at the spending and the deficit under Bush. It ain’t as bad as the liberal press made it out to be. It’s not good, but given the endeavors that we HAD to undertake, it’s fair. The REAL problems beegan under two Democrat-controlled houses in 2008, when the deficit SKYROCKETED.
Bulletproof Monk, Yes the deficit did skyrocket under a dem controlled houses.. And WHY did the dems win the house and senate? A simple answer will do.
BPM:
Bush/Allen/Rove rammed through massive govt spending, [Presciption Drugs, No Child -- nuff said] in building ’30 years of Republican control’ of Washington.
Epic fail.
No sir, Radtke or Marshall or most anyone untainted by that will be better than Allen … but I still think there may be more better alternatives (as candidates, if not as individuals).
Cheers
PS. And I still say “ick, he’s coloring his hair”. Lame.
I’m looking for a senate candidate who is both conservative and has a chance to win. So far the only one that fits that bill is Allen. If another viable candidate decides to jump in then we can talk about it. Until then I will be supporting Allen.
“If another viable candidate decides to jump in then we can talk about it. Until then I will be supporting Allen.”
Wow! That is quite an endorsement. “We don’t have anybody who is worth a damn, so I am supporting Allen.”
Just, wow!
And Monk, that is quite an alibi for what was done when both President Bush and Senator Allen were in office.
“It ain’t as bad as the liberal press made it out to be.”
Really? You are just going to sweep egregious fiscal profligacy under the rug as if it didn’t happen and claim it is all just something the “liberal media” made up? And you expect independent voters to take Republicans seriously?
I assume that by “endeavors that we HAD to undertake” you mean the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Well, if these were wars that HAD to be undertaken then we should have made provisions to pay for them. That’s what fiscal conservatives do. That’s what America has ALWAYS done. Until the Bush administration. And it continues under the Obama administration. No shared sacrifice. Wars on the credit card and tax cuts to boot. That is not conservatism. Never has been. Never will be. That is pandering to nincompoops who want a free lunch.
And your nonsense about it not being so bad and that it’s just the way it’s portrayed by the liberal media line doesn’t pass the laugh test.
You are like the Stalinists who were adamant the United States should stay out of WWII right up until Hitler invaded Russia and then the very next day they conveniently forgot what they had been saying for two years and began demanding we get in and open a second front immediately. Like them, you whole heartedly supported every bit of the fiscal irresponsibility of Bush and Allen right up until the Democrats took back Congress. Then you conveniently forgot everything you had been saying for six years and suddenly became a born again fiscal conservative. It was all the evil Democrats.
You say it was not so bad? You are right. It was not so bad. It was terrible. It was disgusting. It was damaging to our country. And Republicans are just as guilty as Democrats.
Talk about a battle for the soul of the party? Until the denial of recent history ends the soul is lost.
Allen ain’t the answer.
I have nothing against Sen Allen except my fear that he has one more inept campaign inside him. The Dems and their agitprop section at the Washington Post are ready to rerun their Bush43 tapes and find some new macaca to write 60 articles on. He will lose many independents if my acquaintances are any indication. If he wins I promise to come on here and apologize for doubting him. Will supporters come on and do likewise if he loses? Not that it will help the country. Remember that he gave the Dems the Senate in 2006? And no I am not a Radtke supporter. I think some fresher face would be best like Mizusawa or someone similar.
[...] The lead political story around the Commonwealth for the past 24 hours has been the announcement by George Allen that he plans to run to retake his old Senate seat that, in spite of an all-out witch hunt sponsored by the Washington Post, he narrowly lost in 2006. You can see Allen’s video announcement here. [...]
I Strongly second what Not Dick Cheney said.. Allen is deja vu all over again.
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