Senator (Allen) won't scold backers for tackling heckler

[electropop]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/02/virginia.senate.ap/index.html

POSTED: 12:14 p.m. EST, November 2, 2006

LEESBURG, Virginia (AP) -- Sen. George Allen and Democrat Jim Webb entered the final week of their bitter and sometimes bizarre campaign with Allen refusing to denounce his supporters' manhandling of a liberal blogger and accusing Webb of provoking the incident.

Polls show their race is close and could help determine whether the GOP retains its U.S. Senate majority.

Webb, campaigning in Richmond, said he knew nothing of the incident Tuesday in which men wearing blue Allen lapel stickers put University of Virginia law student W. Michael Stark in a choke hold and slammed him to the floor after an Allen rally at a Charlottesville hotel. (Watch one of the men accuse Stark of "getting personal" before throwing him to the ground -- :53 )

"It was typical of the Webb campaign, wanting to provoke an incident," Allen said Wednesday. He did not say why he believes the Webb campaign provoked the stunt.


Obviously, it's either Webb's fault, or Clinton's fault.

[AlCzervik]

1. Pride goeth before the fall.

[gratuitous]

2. Might makes right, huh Mr. Allen?

After all, if someone says something you don't like, layeth the smacketh down, right? Let both sides square off, and whoever has the most goons wins. And this two-bit tin-plated dictator wannabe was some Republicans' top choice to run for president in 2008?

[electropop]

4. He'll be a great Prez candidate - he'll have lots of time on his hands

in his retirement from the Senate. What else is he gonna do with his time - practice noose-tying?

[C_U_L8R]

3. ooooooh it's the OTHER guys fault

nice try Macaca,
No one MADE your goons beat up a student for asking a question.
A question which, by the way, you still haven't answered.
What is in your SEALED arrest records??

There is a pattern here,

[Beetwasher]

5. STARK NEEDS TO APOLOGIZE!!!

I think it's shameful that he attacked that pane of glass w/ his head. He really needs to apologize for that, the glass didn't do a damn thing!

[xxqqqzme]

6. damn those over zealous staffers strike again

The rethugs have a ral problem w/ them.

[indepat]

7. Why scold backers for doing their jobs as God gave them the intellect to know what their

jobs were? :applause:

[Joe Chi Minh]

8. It'll go harder for him in court, won't it? He should keep his mouth.

Not just when he wants to spit at a woman's feet.

[LostinVA]

9. Stark has NOTHING to do with Webb's campaign

Allen is such a sociopathic tool.

[Jax]

10. Stark called them 'cowardly bullies'

last night on Olbermann. Spot on.

[LeftCoast]

11. Republicans do not apologize

Only Democrats are supposed to apologize apparently.

[KAZ]

12. I can't believe someone hasn't been arrested by now.

It's on national TV for Christ's sake. I need to get me a bat that has "Allen Asskicker" emblazoned on it.

[LibDemAlways]

16. In her book "Fifth Quarter" George Allen's sister

Jennifer writes about the baseball bat Allen kept in his car. She said he used it to vandalize mailboxes. A high school classmate has a slightly different take. He says the bat was inscribed with the words "N----R Knocker" and that Allen and the group of thugs he hung out with used it for other purposes. I'll bet as he was watching his goons tackle Mike Stark, he was wishing he had the bat handy. Must pain him not to be able to participate.

[Gman]

13. What do you expect from a guy

that drug his sister upstairs by her hair and broke his brother's collar bone and put his brother's head through a glass door.

[usaftmo]

14. This race is over...

Macaca needs to pack his stuff now.

[colonel odis]

15. perhaps he just needs a whole set of hecklers to follow him this weekend.

:-)

[leesa]

17. Scold? How about 'charge them for assault'?