Posted on 04/28/2006 5:58:15 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Oh, so you just dragged in something that had nothing to do with the story, for no particular reason. Now I understand. :)
Shad's a good fish, but a lot of people love the roe - the big egg sac - and it's considered a delicacy. You can have that, as far as I'm concerned; I save people a lot of money on caviar for the same reason.
http://www.thenibble.com/reviews/main/fish/Draft1/images/shadroe.jpg
Hey I am a New Yawker and a Lawn guy lander to boot.
I love all things country. I think VA can also get too 'East Coast liberal' ...especially around the beltway.
I would vote for Allen over Giulliani in a New York minute(though I think Rudy was the right thing for NY City at the time he was elected). But Rudy is far to liberal and anti constitution for a national post.
Thanks! Wake me when it's voting day '08. No need to worry about it since it is already decided.
Why you bringing up Kerry's cavorting with the enemy and Kennedy's running from the scene of an accident allowing a woman to drown? That's old news. George Allen picks his nose, chews tabacco, and wears cowboy boots for criminy sakes!
What "redneck" stuff? I suppose he could walk around using phrases such as "chill out" and turn on a lot of folks, eh?
By the way, Reagan drove an old Jeep, wore blue jeans (sometimes with the big belt buckle!), chopped wood, chainsawed trees, and built fence around his place. And I just betcha he chewed on a piece of straw at times while doing all the above. Sure hurt him, didn't it.
But Reagan lived out west on a ranch. George W. Bush spent most of his time in Texas and owns a ranch. In contrast George Allen in cowboy boots looks like a frat boy going to a costume party.
There is a difference between logical local flair and contrived hokiness. The more Allen tries to slip in his drugstore cowboy look as an 'Aw shucks, this is just plain 'ol genuine me' the more he comes across as superficial and trying too hard. Who wants that in a leader?
It's not the least bit contrived. Until he moved into the Governor's mansion, he lived in a log home in the mountains outside of Charlottesville.
It's not an act.
Allen: Rebel flag was teen 'attitude'
Magazine reports on the rebel symbols he had in high school
...As a high school student in California, "I generally bucked authority and the rebel flag was just a way to express that attitude," Allen said in a written statement to the magazine. "Life is a learning experience and I have learned quite a bit in the ensuing 36 years."...
...But Dick Wadhams, Allen's campaign manager, called the article "a predictable hit piece by a very partisan liberal magazine. Apparently, they are taking Senator Allen very seriously as an effective Republican senator."
>I think VA can also get too 'East Coast liberal' ...especially around the beltway.<
Oh, do I ever agree with you! One of the things I love about George Allen, is his ability to raise the ire of not only the Country Club, snooty, Linwood Holton type Republicans, but he can also send the elitist, snobby rich Democrats into a foaming-at-the-mouth meltdown.
It's delicious.
A good take on the attire!
Corin,
As someone who was at the same time and place as Allen, I can confirm this 100%. I also wore a confederate pin in High School. Hell even some black kids did, it was no f'n big deal. We were as harmless as the idiots that chanted "Ho Ho Ho Chi-Min" at assemblies, or steaked the quad at lunchtime. It was a right of passage back then, and this was in southern California, where you would probably be expelled at a minimum for the same behavior today. Good place to be FROM.
All of this PC just about makes my head explode.
This is the story the left will run with, in fact on the loony left websites they've been honing the story for a while...the confederate pins, the racial grafitti...whatever it really said.
It's best to get out in front of it and NOT run away from it at all. The reality is that MOST of the country did not get on buses during the civil rights movement, and did little to further a good cause.
If the PC standards at the time were trying to force down an opinion...I'm sure there were alot of idiotic high school boys who did the opposite just BECAUSE....big deal.. unless you're running for pres. Allen should repeat what he states about bucking authority...that rings true.
Is there any high school kid who doesn't want to buck authority at least once in his lifetime? Like I said - if this is all the Leftist MSM has on Allen - he will breeze thru this.
Agreed. And I can assure you, the left has trotted this out every time he's run for office.
steaked = streaked
American Spectator has a good rebuttal/ripping this piece to shreds
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9746
You know, just when I am enjoying an interesting article the writer throws in a comment like that, reminding me how elitist and patronizing the left really is. I'm still deciding if I'm going to keep reading.
LOL!
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