Playing the race card will backfire. People are sick of all this stuff.

Left by dianne on September 26th, 2006 at 8:38 pm

I doubt this one will backfire. Allen foolishly claimed he had never used the word, and now everyone who has heard this racist jerk say it is coming forward to report it. If he had been smart enough to refuse comment, nobody would even be talking about it, but now everyone is.

Heck, I’ll admit I’ve used the word. Once again, it’s not the crime, it’s the stupid cover-up.

Allen is one of the stupidest and most arrogant politicians in the world. He is going to get stomped.

Left by Dan on September 26th, 2006 at 9:17 pm

This never would have come up if he hadn’t called an American born of Indian immigrants ‘maccaca’ a derisive term used by the French for Arabs. How would Allen know such a term? His mother is French/Algerian.

He’s just as phony as George W. Bush: the son of cosmopolitan privilege attempting to pose as a back-slapping good ole boy. What a loser.

Left by Preston on September 27th, 2006 at 6:45 pm

The left is jumping on him because they sense his weakness. He’s taken a couple of political hits and his opponent may just be able to pass himself off as conservative enough to get elected here.

Webb is even running a campaign ad with video of Reagan announcing Webb’s appointment as undersecretary of something or other (defense I think). An appointment which, if memory serves, he actually only held for a couple of months before quitting.

The obvious inferrence is, of course, if he’s conservative enough to have been in the Reagan administration…

The problem is that his ad doesn’t even identify him as a Democrat and there are enough politically unsavvy people here that they may vote for him thinking that he’s an R.

I don’t know what Dan bases his assessment of Allen as “arrogant” upon but he is definitely not “stupid”. Politically inept at times, definitely, but not stupid. As far as as “arrogant” based upon the times I’ve met him personally at political functions and my correspondence I’ve had with him and his staff, he doesn’t come off that way to me at all. He’s always been very friendly, very receptive to ideas and very responsive to my concerns. He changed his position on the “assault weapon” ban expiration based upon input from his constituency and decided not to push for it’s renewal in spite of the President’s pledge to sign it.

Senator Warner, on the other hand, has yet to respond to any of my communications with his office whether by telephone message, e-mail or legacy mail. He has always struck me as very uncaring about individual constituent’s concern and supported renewal of the “assault weapon” to the bitter end in spite of the thousands of communications he received in opposition.

If any Virginia Republican Senator is to be voted out, I would hope for it to be Warner, not Allen.

Left by Sailorcurt on September 28th, 2006 at 3:30 pm