Sep 18th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
The New Face of GOP Minority Outreach
George Allen! No joke! He’s a featured speaking at a Virginia GOP rally “designed to reach out to minority voters in Fairfax County.”
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September 18th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
It makes, sense, now that Strom Thurmond is no longer available.
September 18th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
It’s possible that the Republicans want to have the media remind their voters of the “macaca” moment in order to stoke resentment. Actually, I assume that’s what’s going on; it’s what they’re running one elsewhere.
September 18th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Macaca!!!
Okay if there was any doubt before, Obama has it in the bag, although it was good the race tightened up b/c of Miss Tina Fey-glasses lady b/c Obama’s fundraising went thru the roof.
September 18th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Will there be a MonkeyFest again?
September 18th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
he’s representing the macaCainians
September 18th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Must read Lizza’s TNR Allen profile from ‘06. Anyone have a link? I’m almost certain it was pre-macaca and thus quite prescient.
September 18th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
In Fairfax County, of all places. The harmless kid he picked on and called “macaca” was born and raised in Fairfax, whereas George Felix Allen was a California transplant who somewhere along the way took to teaching dark-skinned people what “real Virginia” is all about.
The only logic I can see to this Allen-minority-outreach scheme is that McCain is probably getting killed in Northern Virginia even more than Allen got killed there 2 years ago. Allen’s a hometown favorite in comparison! Who else are they going to get to go to NoVa, Jim Gilmore? I almost feel for the GOP in my state. It’s a pretty conservative population with no appealing conservative political figures.
September 18th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Did he bring his noose and confederate flag for show n tell?
September 18th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
As an Indian-Novan, I really don’t know what he’s thinking. I knew macaca, S.R. Sidarth both at TJ and UVA and though I can’t generalize too much, he’s pretty much ralled most Indians to his cause. Most all Indian-Novans I know pretty much want to drive the ghora out.
September 18th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
The Virginia GOP is in serious trouble. Mark Warner is going to take John Warner’s senate seat and Obama will take the state in the national election. Now, if only that idiot Terry Mcauliffe will stop pretending that he’s a Virginian, then we can follow Kaine with a third straight Democratic governor.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
I second Brian. I worked for Terry McAuliffe. A useful partisan cheerleader, not to mention a prodigious fundraiser…but a completely implausible statewide candidate.
Well maybe not implausible, but certainly embarrassing if you believe your Governor or prospective Governor should have even the thinnest grasp of public policy. He’s the most aggressively anti-intellectual person I’ve ever met in politics. Sarah Palin is cerebral by comparison.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
If you macacan’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
I’m baffled, too. I’d be willing to buy that the GOP is trying to bring grievance-mongering up again if it weren’t for someone who was dead to rights on those accusations rather than borderline. Chalk it up to the competence of the GOP machine that decided that arch-right hated failed governor Jim Gilmore would be a better senate pick than intelligent, moderate-ish Tom Davis.
September 18th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Yes, the VA GOP is in a death spiral, at least in NOVA. I live in Tom Davis’ district and Gerry Connolly will take the seat for the Dems. I saw this article about the George Allen rally and thought it was pretty hilarious, something the Onion would write.
September 18th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Donald Trump just stuck his foot in his mouth during a live interview with Wolf Blitzer.
September 18th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Why is this an issue? Does anyone think that any “minority” person (or decent “majority” person) would be attending this “outreach” function anyway? So Allen and his buddies can all wear sheets and it won’t matter. Or they can wear monkey suits and it won’t matter. Or they can dress up as mice and go around munching cheese and it won’t matter. The only people who would be interested in this “outreach” are bigots who will doubtless find it funny. They can stand around and ask oh so cutely, “Where’s all the minorities? We have watermelon for them,” just as Bush could crawl around on all four under tables and ask, “Where are those WMDs? Oops, they’re not here. Maybe over there?”
September 18th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Has LoneDipshit ever posted a comment on ANY blog in which he didn’t promote himself?
September 18th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Faux-redneck racist thugs are now a minority group in Virginia.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Roschelle -
I read the link, I don’t think what Trump said is contradictory. He claims to believe that Palin is perfectly qualified for the job, but he also believes that she wouldn’t have gotten the pick if Hillary were still in the picture. So, other political considerations would have come into play. Is he wrong?
September 18th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Minorities in NoVa?
So he’s reaching out to Koreans?
September 19th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Re # 13
Believe it or not, former Governor Gilmores’ opponent in the Rethuglican convention, William Marshall, makes Gilmore look like a left wing pinko commie. Marshall is somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
I guess they’re not too interested in recruiting South Asians…
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