August 29, 2006 – 5:23 pm
The Nation has another picture. This one links him to the Council of Conservative Citizens. The Nation is a bunch of left-wing freaks. But the bleeding isn’t stopping.
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August 23, 2006 – 1:11 pm
George Allen’s week is still going bad. Bob Novak has some bads works to say on him:
Sen. Allen is looking less and less like a presidential contender as his re-election campaign struggles.
He still thinks that Allen will win his Senate reelection.
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August 21, 2006 – 1:30 pm
H/T The Plank:
In the end, I think the party needing to go in a different direction from a conventional conservative approach was the primary reason for his diminished position in the race for the 2008 nomination. This just puts an exclamation point on the view that Allen is no longer a real contender for the nomination.
“This” is the Macaca screwup. I will ignore his other presumptions. Cook continues on the Macaca Screwup:
If Allen decides to pursue the nomination anyway, rivals will raise this incident and previous questions that have emerged as “evidence” that he is accident prone, or has foot-in-mouth disease, and argue that the party shouldn’t risk nominating someone who could self-destruct.
Accurate or not, fair or not, his opponents will argue this and it will hurt. To win the GOP nomination, someone might need to raise at least $100 million before Iowa, and this incident would probably have a chilling effect on fundraising, early endorsements — it would hurt across the board.
I hinted at some of these reasons before here.
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August 18, 2006 – 8:23 pm
So much has been written about this that I can’t tolerate it. I am beginning to agree that this is near fatal to Allen’s Presidential hopes. The reason is not that he’s a racist. It is that it continues to highlight questions about him:
- Is Allen smart enough to be President? One of the standard talking points about George Allen has been that he just isn’t that smart. I have been told this by leading conservative journalists. In response to this, I have gotten the answer from very serious people that, “the press said Ronald Reagan was dumb too. They were wrong then too.” I don’t think that anyone can possibily compare Allen to Reagan again. Reagan had grace, Allen was mean. Reagan could communicate, Allen cannot, even 3 and 4 days after the fact.
- Is Allen mature enough to be President? What kind of guy attacks one person in the audience? This guy wants to be President. He should be talking about his message, not attacking people. He looked like a bully.
Ultimately, these questions will kill him in the next 18-month long pre-primary. Hell, they might just kill him in his re-election. See the latest Rasmussen poll where he is only up 5. (H/T The Plank)
Therefore, the question is where will people go? David Adesnik at OxBlog recommends Brownback. A recent Human Events article recently argued that it should be Gingrich (over Romney). The conservative movement has attacked Huckabee pretty aggressively.
Where do they go?
Update: SaveTheGOP concurs on this analysis
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