Senator Allen: Dumb and Dumber (Falls Church News-Press)(VA)

[ovidsen]

I thought this was short and to the point.

The behavior of Virginia Senator George Allen last week can only leave folks shaking their heads. Singling out a person of non-Anglo appearance for a derogatory, if not racial, slur and the suggestion that he, apparently by virtue of his appearance alone, cannot be familiar with Virginia, was about the dumbest thing anyone, much less a U.S. Senator in a re-election fight, could do.

I am not sure if it is a career-ending moment for the senator. But lesser incidents have been for others.

The sad reality is that Sen. Allen is probably too dense to recognize, even after all the national notoriety this indiscretion has received, the damage he caused himself.

http://www.fcnp.com/624/benton.htm

FYI, Falls Church is a close-in suburb on DC, at the west end of the Orange Metro; mostly Democratic but the GOPhuckers lurk!

[goclark]

1. Now he is a racist! nt

[rodeodance]

2. I recall he initally supported Trent Lott when he made that comment

about---oh dang, I forget this name==the real olf Senator. Well, anywhy, supposedly some repugs had a chat with him that night, as the next day he spoke harshly about Lott.

[TlalocW]

3. Strom Thurmond

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