Posted on 04/28/2006 5:58:15 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Webb is a phony opportunist, he'll be lucky to hold Allen under 60%.
We had an excellent candidate, he just ran a truly horrible campaign.
Oh no, we wouldn't want to give that impression in our snide hit piece.
Libs have nothing but personal attack to offer. All Republicans are nothing but differing combinations of racist, stupid and mean.
No matter who we nominate in 2008, the extreme left will protray him as a racist.
George Allen - a Neo-Confederate like they did to President Bush
Rudy - The father of police bruality
Mitt Romney - The Mormon Church didn't allow blacks to become Elders until 1978.
McCain - He comes from AZ, a state with few blacks. Thus he is insensitive to the needs of Al Shartpton.
We'll agree to disagree. Kaine ate him up in the debates.
Granted. But that was really more a symptom of the poor campaign than the poor candidate.
Jerry Kilgore performed much better as a candidate for Attorney General. As a candiate for Governor he got some really, really, really bad advice.
Why would they scream rudy is the father of police brutality?
Sorry-I should have said IMHO.
The universal health care is actually looked upon favorably by conservative economists at the Heritage Foundation. It shifts the costs from the govt to the indivuduals who are on the public rolls.
Agreed
Bumping for a later read....thanks for the ping!
Kilgore has to be held responsible, not his campaign manager. He couldn't bring his advisors on stage to debate Kaine. It was one on one with each candidate being asked to articulate their policies and be nimble enough to counter their opponent.
Jerry Kilgore performed much better as a candidate for Attorney General. As a candiate for Governor he got some really, really, really bad advice.
Different office, different criteria. If he followed that "really, really, really bad advice," then it is a more of a reflection on his judgment and political savvy than those who gave him the advice.
I'm not saying Kilgore wasn't to blame, he certainly was. What I ~am~ saying though is that he's a much better and brighter person and candidate than what we saw. And a lot of that was controlled by the "experts."
I've seen more than one candidate ruined by the "experts."
Kilgore ~is~ better than what we saw.
It is either that or my lying eyes.
I am not here to apologize f or why they fought, although modern historians might contemplate that there truly were different perceptions in the North and South about those reasons, and that most Southern soldiers viewed the driving issue to be sovereignty rather than slavery. In 1860 fewer than five percent of the people in the South owned slaves, and fewer than twenty percent were involved with slavery in any capacity. Love of the Union was palpably stronger in the South than in the North before the war -- just as overt patriotism is today -- but it was tempered by a strong belief that state sovereignty existed prior to the Constitution, and that it had never been surrendered. Nor had Abraham Lincoln ended slavery in Kentucky and Missouri when those border states did not secede. Perhaps all of us might reread the writings of Alexander Stephens, a brilliant attorney who opposed secession but then became Vice President of the Confederacy, making a convincing legal argument that the constitutional compact was terminable. And who wryly commented at the outset of the war that "the North today presents the spectacle of a free people having gone to war to make freemen of slaves, while all they have as yet attained is to make slaves of themselves."No wonder Mr. Webb's campaign said this Kristian Denny Todd, press secretary for James Webb, the other Democrat seeking the Senate race nomination, said Webb thought the New Republic article "hit below the belt." She said Webb wants a "campaign about issues, not one filled with personal attacks." (RTD, April 28)
I sent the link to Harris Miller for Senate.
NR is the best the lft can do and they can't help but be dull. It reads like a too wordy article from one of the free weekly rags.
Well Corin, you just couldn't "chill out", you had to mention that.
Now George Allen will never get the metrosexual vote!
The fact that the mudslinging has begun so early - while Allen is busy running for re-election to the Senate - confirms how seriously opponents take his presidential candidacy.
Allen, indeed, is a favorite among Republican Party players. He's also the one Democrats worry about most, according to an insider who told me: "The one Hillary's worried about is George Allen."
...In California in the early '70s, when everybody was smoking dope, protesting the Vietnam War and waging lovefests, slapping a Confederate flag sticker on your red Mustang and wearing a Confederate lapel pin was most likely the act of a rebel, not a racist.
Thanks for posting that one, Corin.
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