Posted on 01/23/2011 4:02:01 PM PST by US Navy Vet
Forbes has been mentioned for statewide on numerous occasions. As far as I know, he’s ruled that out. At least for now.
But, he’s young.
Forbes turns 60 next year (and is a month older than George Allen). Not exactly “young.”
I had no idea.
Then again, 60 isn’t nearly as old as it used to be.
Yeah, he’s actually the second oldest Republican member from Virginia (only Frank Wolf is older). I’m generally not a big fan of post-60-somethings running for long terms in the Senate. At that point, you’re looking at them (just for a basic 2 term/12 year period) getting up towards the mid to late 70s, by about the time senility and arrogance of incumbency start to overshadow the positive reasons they were sent in the first place.
I was a fan of Jim Bunning’s in KY, but at 73 during his race for a second Senate term in ‘04, he was already showing clear signs of senility that would eventually force his retirement. It’s too bad we couldn’t have had him in the Senate back when he was a younger man. We need younger people in that body that have more a vested interest in the long term for this country, not folks choosing to use it as a nursing home until they hit their 80s, 90s or 100...
What's your point?
Iceskater raises some good questions about George Allen. And yes, I supported Allen in 2006 too.
I thought he was young too for some reason. Weird.
George Allen back in fighting form to take apart DemonRats during his Governor heyday, like the end of Rocky III would be ideal, but George Allen doing a replay of his wimpy 2006 campaign would be a disaster for us. It would be like the awful Rudy Boschwitz '96 or Adali Stevenson '56 campaign, another ho-hum politician coming out of retirement and trying to the same thing as last time, somehow expecting a different result.
Personally, I think the jury is out on whether Allen has realized and learned from his mistakes in 2006 or whether he just thinks he ran in a bad year and he'll win by default this time. His own worst enemy in '06 were his hardcore fans, IMO. They basically told Allen to ignore the polls showing the race was tightening and laughed off Jim Webb as a weak opponent with zero chance of winning ("if the polls say Allen is 5 points behind, that means he's REALLY 10 points ahead!"). As a result, Allen spent most of the campaign season on default mode, phoning-it-in and didn't attempt to run a real campaign until the last 3 weeks or so, when it was too late to repair the damage Webb had inflicted. Allen should pretty much avoid hiring anyone who spent the '06 campaign telling him it was in the bag.
I haven't seen any of the ol' Fightin' George Allen emerge since then, and a few things I've seen from his are troubling, like his needless "press release" as a private citizen in 2008, congratulating Obama on his "historic" victory. Just a pointless milquetoast exercise to get the mainstream media to approve of George's actions.
Hopefully he's done some soul-searching since then and is prepared to relentlessly pound the socialist RAT agenda into obivion. If he shows signs of that, I'll back him. If he doesn't, we need to find someone new.
I do like Randy Forbes, but I had no idea he was that old. In an ideal world, I feel like Rick Santorum and George Allen should swap states if they want to attempt a political comeback. Santorum's passionate Christian conservative image would probably play better in Virginia (plus one of the reasons he lost his Senate seat is he was as a Virginia resident), whereas Allen's more folksy demeanor and family background in football industry would probably play better in Pennsyvania.
I’ve made a promise to myself that I’m not going to fight this out here.
Let me just say that this is not 2006, this is not the 2006 campaign. The problem advisors that gave him the bad advice (and that he unfortunately listened to) are not around this time. And that’s intentional.
Put simply, he’s back.
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