Is George Allen Done?
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Elections, General Politics
When the leading conservative mag comes out and basically says you’re done…things ain’t looking up.
In recent weeks, Allen has gone from presidential contender to embattled senator. His mishandling of a name-calling incident, and his ham-handed denial and subsequent revelation that his mother was raised Jewish, have almost eliminated him from the field of serious presidential candidates and even jeopardized his Senate seat. While still trailing in the polls, Allen’s Democratic opponent, the author and former secretary of the Navy James Webb, has pulled within striking distance. This reflects a substantial swing in public opinion; until recently Allen’s lead over Webb was in double digits. Also until recently, a group of senior Republican consultants met regularly to discuss Allen’s strategy for the upcoming presidential campaign. Today, those meetings are devoted exclusively to helping the senator win reelection. Having just stepped out upon the national stage, George Allen now finds himself in danger of being shuffled off of it.
It’s a good profile of the man, his background and it provides some more insight into why he now finds himself in troubled times.
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September 25th, 2006 at 5:08 pm
Let’s not forget that he was just exposed as someone who uses racial slurs…
And that he allegedly put a dead deer head in a black family’s mailbox…
September 26th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
This kind of latent racist behaviour is truly indicative of the Rich Upper Middle Class White Men that run this nation. I am just as guilty as Allen is at Latent Racial tendancies. My own acquired ignorance of other cultures do to my family, as, from what we can tell from this story is Allen’s. The point is, not that he slipped up, but that there is some part of Allen that most likely still believes the things that he heard growing up and most likely actively believed in his youth (when it was socially acceptable). But look, a little light ribbing in the country club locker room about Jigs and Spics aside, it took this incident for America to see the true man inside Allen, and similar can be said of Trent Lott. While these individuals would never write these things on paper then recite them (well Lott did… but you know), they do feel it. While Southern White senators can get elected down south with these kind of racist tendancies, we should be more careful, when we expect them to represent our nation as a whole.
October 27th, 2006 at 8:35 am
Now Come on Justin - Lets give some equal time to the your guys pervert. Weirdo Webb uncovered! Where is the “IS WEBB DONE?” Post? Where is the Foley-esque Outrage? Oh, this just couldn’t get any more entertaining!
October 27th, 2006 at 8:38 am
Good read, I’m buying a Webb book. Of course, just possessing it might be a federal child pornography crime. Yeah, elect this guy and the Pages will have a whole new outlook on “casual Fridays.” I mean, they’ll be IMing some great literature!
October 27th, 2006 at 10:04 am
Yeah, the fiction that Scooter Libby wrote, where a child had sex with a bear, was relevant too.
Ahh Dos…
October 27th, 2006 at 11:18 am
Yes, that was nothing less than a vicious & perverted slandering of the entire bear community. But I find this HIGHLY relevant! Look, we obviously have a culture of lascivious child-sex fantasizers in Washington, D.C.. Why do we want to roll the dice on this guy? Let me ask you this simple question: Would you want your child working for this man? Ask any shrink — sure it starts out as mere fiction, but after a couple of drinks, a little snort of high-grade Beltway coke, some lite hearted kidding, little Jimmy drops a pen and…bang, boy gett’in buggered by Senator. Look Viriginians, your aren’t New Jersey, you take the rectal purity of your adolscent males seriously…just think about that when your in the booth! OH WHAT TANGLED WEBBS WE DREAM OF…
October 27th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
WHAT?!! THE?? F#^%?!! is all that about?
And listen to the crime against FRUIT…
FOUR EQUAL SECTIONS — how is that even done, even in the twisted insane mind of this pervert??!!! Sleipner, please explain…
I actually had that happen once, but enough about me…back to Webb…
He has some fascinating things to say about Nancy Pelosi..
Oh my…Webb-taculous!!