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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-11 07:26 AM
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'Macaca' George Allen is back, because the Tea Party has made it ok to be openly racist.
Former Senator George Allen -- the once-leading religious-right candidate eyeing the run for the presidency in 2008, until his "macaca moment" lost him the election and his aspirations -- is said to be running against Sen. Webb in 2012.

Allen, the former U.S. senator and Virginia governor, plans to tell supporters within a week that he is mounting a campaign to retake the Senate seat he lost to Democrat Jim Webb in 2006, according to Politico.

There was no mention of a possible run on Allen's website Monday. But he did post his picks for this past weekend's NFL playoff games. For Allen's sake, we hope his political future fares better than his prognosticating skills. The son of the former Redskins coach went 1-3 in the weekend games, correctly picking only the Green Bay-Atlanta game.

Allen, 58, has already begun to line up key staff members for his 2012 run, according to Politico. Webb beat Allen by only 1 percent (thanks in part to an insensitive comment Allen made at a campaign stop in southwest Virginia) and has sent mixed signals about whether he will seek re-election. But DNC Chairman Tim Kaine, a former Virginia governor who could be the Democratic nominee if Webb were to bow out, has been telling friends he thinks Webb will run, Politico reported.

http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/return-maccaca

2012 is going to be nasty.

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era veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-11 07:41 AM
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1. That drunken bum, you FFV folks want this turd?
He wanted to be POTUS. I would rather have Boss Hogg, not as smarmy.
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deminks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-11 07:43 AM
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2. Yes, and to criticize them for their violence and racism will incite violence and racism,
but their violence and racism does not incite violence and racism.


:sarcasm:
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-11 11:09 AM
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3. actually, some nutbar Teabag woman wants to challenge him in the primary
When George Allen is too far left for some folks, then it's time for me to find another place to live...
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