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George Allen to announce Senate bid Monday
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| 1/23/11
| By DAVID CATANESE
Posted on 01/23/2011 4:02:01 PM PST by US Navy Vet
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To: rabidralph
George Allen did stay in the race. Webb barely beat him in 2006.
What are you talking about?
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posted on
01/23/2011 4:43:57 PM PST
by
Carling
(Remember November)
To: US Navy Vet
Allen is a weak character who gets rolled over by MSM at the slightest opportunity.
He may be conservative but he is a weak candidate, hope he does’nt win the primary.
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posted on
01/23/2011 4:44:20 PM PST
by
GregH
To: FlingWingFlyer
“IMHO, it is. I wish him luck. He got the shaft with that commie RAT macaca fiasco. What a joke.”
One might be able to reasonably conclude that had it not been for “Macaca”, Obama’s health care takeover would have failed.
I wish him luck, in any case.
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posted on
01/23/2011 4:45:30 PM PST
by
BobL
(PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
To: Carling
Ha, ha. I misspoke. Allen’s apologizing for macacca made him appear weak and that’s what I was alluding to. His campaign imploded and now, his time has passed.
To: Will88
The essence of the Macaca thing was not the term or the hyperventilation - but the fact that the opposition campaign was following him 24x7 with video waiting for such an opportunity to exploit. Two lessons - 1) Allen needs to do the same thing to his opponents (in terms of surveillance, not provocation of such an event), and 2) he needs to survey and record his own events, so that context can be given to anything the other side selectively edits and tries to throw and make stick against him as a sound-bite.
Rush Limbaugh is fortunate in a sense that he has had hearing loss - the need for transcription has saved him often, defusing some phony controversies that his opponents have tried to launch against him. In a similar way, Allen and other conservative candidates need to accomplish the same thing, in effect a transcription, of everything they do in a campaign. And then, there needs to be a rapid reaction team that can deliver the record to the media quickly to stamp these false controversies out.
To: Brilliant
I didn’t say that. Try to live up to your nick.
I won’t support him in the primary. The general is another question.
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posted on
01/23/2011 4:57:36 PM PST
by
iceskater
(11/2/10 - the beginning of the beginning of restoration.)
To: US Navy Vet
Maybe Allen won’t lead off his campaign by apologizing for “macacca”. If so, he’ll already be ahead of where he was in ‘06. I believe that election might have been stolen anyway. Those late(LATE) reporting precincts from dem strongholds in Northern VA looked awfully dammed suspicious, HOURS after the polls closed on election night. I was on the state elections website watching it.
It was as if they were holding back to see how many votes they needed.
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posted on
01/23/2011 4:58:03 PM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: Corin Stormhands; randita; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; LdSentinal; justiceseeker93
I don’t know if this is such a good idea.
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posted on
01/23/2011 4:58:14 PM PST
by
Clintonfatigued
(Illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit)
To: iceskater
What did he do as a Senator that made him not a very good one?
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posted on
01/23/2011 4:58:34 PM PST
by
Raider Sam
(They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
To: Joe Boucher
He is not really a RINO but he is a wimp.
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posted on
01/23/2011 5:00:34 PM PST
by
bmwcyle
(It is Satan's fault)
To: Vision
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posted on
01/23/2011 5:01:43 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: rabidralph
I would think anyone with a little bit of smarts would know what that meant. At least not blindly accept someones words on the spur of the moment.
I don’t know that much about him but I do know Sarah.
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posted on
01/23/2011 5:03:10 PM PST
by
TribalPrincess2U
(demonicRATS= Obama's Mosque, taxes, painful death. Is this what you want?)
To: TNCMAXQ
I was born in VA but have spent my adult life moving around the country. So I cannot help you with that. Allen could have beat Webb but he wouldn't fight after the Macaca incident. I think he had his eyes on higher office but he didn't have the spine to earn it then. Maybe he learned something over the last six years.
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posted on
01/23/2011 5:03:21 PM PST
by
Nuc 1.1
(Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
To: Nuc 1.1
To: Wally_Kalbacken
The WaPo wouldn’t run a “macaca” story for weeks on end on Webb, even if Allen had it on tape.
Remember Webb’s pedophilia story in the ‘novel’ that he wrote? That went nowhere, yet if you read it, it is perverted.
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posted on
01/23/2011 5:14:11 PM PST
by
Carling
(Remember November)
To: US Navy Vet
He blew it. He was a lousy Senator. He had his chance. Let someone better. No more 2nd or 3rd generation losers like Allen or Bush anymore.
To: scooby321
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posted on
01/23/2011 5:49:25 PM PST
by
Nuc 1.1
(Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
To: US Navy Vet
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posted on
01/23/2011 5:53:48 PM PST
by
montag813
(http://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona)
To: US Navy Vet
Jamie Radtke from Richmond is the tea-party candidate for US Senate.
More here Radtke for Senate
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posted on
01/23/2011 6:03:00 PM PST
by
mac_truck
( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
To: US Navy Vet
Definitely a good thing. Allen is reliably conservative and was a superbly responsive Senator and Governor. The political map has tilted right in VA since the "Bushitler" climate of 2006. Better still, the WAPo has lost much of their former influence. I see Allen winning this round.
That said, the real man to watch down here in VA is Ken Cucinnelli. I expect to see his name on the national scene by 2020.
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posted on
01/23/2011 6:49:10 PM PST
by
jboot
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