"The one Hillary's worried about is George Allen." (as funny as Colbert

[underpants]

though not intentionally)

Kathleen Parker once again doesn't disappoint in her failure to make any actual point.

The title is

Allen ain't nothin' but a hot dog

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/kathleenparker/2006/04/28/195595.html

If you mention George Allen outside Washington and Virginia, most people still don't know who he is. Yet the spin machine trying to cast Allen as a racist - as prequel to his presidential candidacy - already is operating at full throttle.

Thus, before millions of Americans are able to match Allen's name with his face, they'll likely be able to link his name to the label - racist


Allen, indeed, is a favorite among Republican Party players. He's also the one Democrats worry about most, according to an insider who told me: "The one Hillary's worried about is George Allen."

If Allen were in high school today, maybe he'd get a tattoo or wear a ring through his nose, but in the early '70s kids didn't have many options for self-expression or shirking convention. :shrug: You could grow your hair, maybe, or do something really radical like wear a lapel pin.

Lizza and others have pointed to other "signs" suggestive of Allen's "race problem," such as a Confederate flag he used to display in his home that was part of a flag collection. Allen also had a noose hanging from a ficus tree in his law office that was part of his Western collection and symbolic of his tough attitude toward crime.
:rofl:


Lizza otherwise does a fine job of painting a lively portrait of a man so naturally colorful, a writer doesn't need adjectives. He's a tall, friendly former football player who loves country music, chewing tobacco and cowboy boots. He also loves being a Virginian, even if he grew up elsewhere, and loves being Southern, even if he's not quite.

[madmom]

1. I grew up in the 70's we protested had sit ins, burned our bras and

quite a number of other things, where was she?

"in the early '70s kids didn't have many options for self-expression or shirking convention. :shrug: You could grow your hair, maybe, or do something really radical like wear a lapel pin. "

[underpants]

2. Really? and what kind of lapel pin did YOU wear?

:eyes:

Yeah no way to shock the folks back then other than the old lapel pin huh?

(and yes I did avoid the obvioius "A PLEDGE PIN??" Animal House reference)

I swear Parker must have some really nasty photos of people in the newspaper business either that or she is just another voice into the orchestrated highly organized BIG LIE machinery of the right wing.