A few updates, from www.raisingkaine.com,
George "Bush" Allen has a new excuse: he's an idiot, and doesn't know what he's saying half the time. Raising Kaine quotes the Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Allen said, "For folks to think I would know what sorts of genus of monkeys are in eastern Asia, ascribe a lot more intelligence to me than I actually have."
George Allen's Norfolk fundraiser featuring John McCain was an utter failure. Raising Kaine quotes the Daily Press:
The evening was billed as a "veterans for Allen" rally, but the hotel's conference room was less than half-filled, even after a phone push for a larger turnout. Veterans came from as far away as Colonial Heights, but their numbers were little greater than the reporters and camera people who were there.
As it was, the rally started 10 minutes late and finished more than 20 minute early, according to a campaign worker's schedule.
Also see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/16/AR2006081601696.html
A DSCC report notes a long history of violence and bullying from George Allen. It kind of reminds me of what George W.'s frat-brothers said about him.
From the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), this pretty much sums it up about George Allen, in his sister's own words (bolding added for emphasis).
August 16, 2006
By: Phil Singer, DSCC
Virginia got a chance to see the real George Allen this week when he bullied a 20 year-old Webb volunteer on the campaign trail. But the fact that George Allen is a bully is no great secret: Anyone who reads his sister's book and checks out the stories she tells would see that Allen has a long history of bullying. Here are excerpts from Jennifer Allen's book, Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter:
Explaining why she is scared of heights, Ms. Allen writes that "Ever since my brother George held me over the railing at Niagara Falls, I've had a fear of heights." [ Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, page 43]
Referring to George's relationship with one of her boyfriends: "My brother George welcomed him by slamming a pool cue against his head." [ Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, page 178]
Referring to George's early leadership skills, Jennifer wrote: "We all obeyed George. If we didn't, we knew he would kill us. Once, when Bruce refused to go to bed, George hurled him through a sliding glass door. Another time, when Gregory refused to go to bed, George tackled him and broke his collarbone. Another time, when I refused to go to bed, George dragged me up the stairs by my hair." [ Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, page 22]
Referring to George's early career aspirations, Jennifer wrote "George hoped someday to become a dentist. George said he saw dentistry as a perfect profession - getting paid to make people suffer." [ Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, page 22]
Referring to George's habit of terrorizing a Green Bay Packer fan in their neighborhood, Jennifer wrote that the fan's mailbox often "lay smashed in the street, a casualty of my brothers' drive-by to school in the morning. George would swerve his Mach II Mustang while Gregory held a baseball bat out the window to clear the mailbox off its post. . . . Lately, the Packers fan had resorted to stapling a Kleenex box to the mailbox post to receive his mail. George's red Mustang screeched up beside us, the Packers fan's Kleenex mailbox speared on the antenna." [ Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, page 16]
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