Posted on 08/23/2006 12:58:59 PM PDT by Blackirish
"We are our own worst enemy."
I know!! I keep thinking one of these days the repubs will figure it out!! sheesh!!
(read my tagline :O) )
They hate Allen because he home-schooled his kids and goes to church frequently.
We are hearing the same garbage here from some Freepers who don't know they're supposed to be different than the trash at the WarshPost. Makes me suspect that's who they are.
It's the haircut ~ the picture demonstrated that. Guy is rather strange ~ into bizarre dress and behavior.
Now there will be another 2 weeks of Dems/media bloviating about this response.
Why don't you move to Virginia and file as a write in candidate and run against him, then, if you feel so strong about it? The last I heard, the Republican primary is over, the man is a conservative, and he is running against a liberal Democrat. Why don't you just get with the program? Otherwise, fine, run against the man.
Apologize...I didn't know he had extracted his foot far enough from his mouth yet to apologize.
Un-friggin-believeable how stupid some modern pols are.
I wish people would just shut up about Senator Allen and quit acting out their roles in the script entirely compiled by the lib dems who precisely want to see GOP implode into internecine warfare at this late stage before the General Election, and stand back and watch, just as you say, GOP eat up their own. Why fight when it can be counted on that conservatives will take one of their own out to the cross and crucify him over piddling issues.
You would think some people here don't give two cents about losing the Senate.
AFAIK Allen doesn't homeschool his kids. He certainly didn't while Governor or while he was running for Senate.
You are probably right that he didn't "homeschool". However, he co-sponsored the legislation to prevent discrimination against homeschoolers.
Yes, I know. I've known him since he was in the House of Delegates.
And yes, he's been supportive of homeschoolers.
Ok anyone still this wimp called Allen is Presidential material?
He may be a good senator, but somehow this apology repeated many times over should end his hopes of winning the Presidential library.
Americans do not want a wimp as their President, especially when the nation is at war.
'but somehow this apology repeated many times over should end his hopes of winning the Presidential library.
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oops..i meant Presidential primary.
I see he's following the footsteps of Trent Lott. I suppose next he'll spend a sunday in a black church and then come out on the side of racial quotas and hate crimes. Geez!
Well, you certainly are entitled to see it that way.
He doesn't jest so stop calling him Shirley ;->
The macaca incident ended Allen's hopes for the presidency.
That's why I say he should say the issue has been responded to, it's over, he's not going to talk about it any more. That is what Bush did with all the talk about his drug and alcohol habits. They can't deal with that. He has to refuse to play their game. If he can make himself out the victim, so much the good, but he has to refuse to play their game.
"TWELVE DAYS after his now-notorious "macaca" comment, Sen. George F. Allen (R-Va.) succumbed to the political equivalent of begging for mercy: He apologized to his victim. Yesterday he telephoned S.R. Sidarth, a student at the University of Virginia who is of Indian ancestry, and said he was sorry for holding him up to public ridicule at a rally held in a 99 percent white county in southwest Virginia on Aug. 11. Mr. Sidarth, who is from Fairfax County, was videotaping the rally on behalf of Mr. Allen's Democratic opponent, James Webb."
"The senator's gesture was apt, but it hardly seemed sincere. Even as he apologized, his campaign continued its two-faced strategy of simultaneously scoffing at the entire incident as what Dick Wadhams, Mr. Allen's campaign manager, has said is a contrivance. To Mr. Wadhams, politics means never having to say you're sorry."
"Mr. Wadhams, an itinerant political hit man known for his nasty attacks on opponents, told Republican leaders in a memo sent over the weekend that the Webb campaign and the media had ganged up "to create national news over something that did not warrant coverage in the first place."
"He continued: "Never in modern times has a statewide office holder and candidate been so vilified." In other words, Mr. Allen is the victim -- not the 20-year-old student whom he mocked with an insulting, possibly racist slur in front of scores of chortling supporters and demeaned by saying, "Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia!"
Unlike Mr. Allen, whose contrition has become increasingly abject over time, Mr. Wadhams has been consistent. His first pronouncement to journalists, a week and a half ago, was to refer to the "macaca" story with a barnyard epithet and insist that the senator had nothing to apologize for. He has stuck with that assessment."
"With Mr. Allen plummeting in the polls and his reelection prospects now in doubt, he and Mr. Wadhams are in damage-control mode. They have dropped their far-fetched insistence that the word "macaca" referred to Mr. Sidarth's hairstyle. But they ought to get their stories straight. Is the Allen campaign really sorry? Or are the senator's adversaries just making a mountain out of "macaca"?"
The Washington Post will keep hammering this issue no matter what Allen does. That should be painfully obvious by the tenor of the editorial above.
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