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The Spectacle Blog
George Allen will get his chance to win back the Senate seat he lost to Jim Webb in 2006. Allen, also a former Virginia governor, won the Republican primary. With just under 78 percent of precincts reporting, Allen is winning 65 percent of the vote to Jamie Radtke’s 24 percent.
Radtke wasn’t the best funded Tea Party candidate in the country and Allen’s disastrous campaign six years ago clearly didn’t cost him much support from Virginia conservatives. But the primary does show the limits to a conservative primary challenge based mainly on Bush-era deviations. Radtke famously said the Tea Party wouldn’t exist without the failures of Republicans under George W. Bush and she hit Allen for supporting earmarks, debt limit increases, No Child Left Behind, and Medicare Part D.
Paradoxically, Allen probably benefited from the half dozen years out of office. Otherwise, it would have been easier for Ratke to paint him as an entitled incumbent like Richard Lugar. In any event, Webb is retiring after only one term and Allen will face off against fellow former Gov. Tim Kaine. The polling between Allen and Kaine has been tight, and the race may come down to which presidential candidate carries Virginia in November.
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Occam's Tool| 6.12.12 @ 8:34PM
Here's to Allen! Webb was worthless.
William R| 6.12.12 @ 11:07PM
Only in your eyes because want to find endless wars on behalf of your country.
PCPSmokerII| 6.12.12 @ 8:34PM
Hopefully he is "apologied-out" relative to "macacca."
Also, next time you want to insult a liberal drone, forget the exotic names, just call him a "leftist scumbag." Better yet, talk about how Bill Clinton had anal oral sex in the Oval office. Criticism of Clinton usually pisses them off.
C Bowen | 6.12.12 @ 8:37PM
The Tea Party was used and abused, entirely routed. Obviously, Virginia "conservatives" are not all that much at 65-24.
Truth to Power| 6.12.12 @ 10:12PM
What would a neo lib no about conservatives? You are just a whiny Obama supporter in sheep's clothing.
C Bowen | 6.13.12 @ 8:07AM
What would a neo lib no (sic) about conservatives?
These conservatives you speak of apparently don't want to cut spending, close down departments, or eliminate the income tax. Not much different then Obama.
Truth to Power| 6.13.12 @ 9:12AM
When you are a big O supporter (and you are) you won't be shutting down anything.
GoVirginia!| 6.13.12 @ 8:48AM
Amazingly unknowledgeable about this race. Ms. Radtke did this entirely on her own: no help from the Repubs, no obligations to outside interests. A 38 year old mother of three tore 25% of the vote from a very well known figure in Va and national politics! She raised a million dollars by herself, ran a great campaign by herself, and won a solid number of counties and cities from Allen...by herself. Allen needs to take note of this and it is why I think she did this, RINO's beware. Betcha Allen runs to the right as fast as ever he can.
But we are soooo happy that the porn writer decided to retire. Now if we can just get rid of that "other" Warner. Little Timmy Kaine has not got a prayer of winning in Virginia. He was a terrible governor with very poor instincts (closing the interstate rest areas to punish the citizens) and an Obama clone/BFF.
Alice Moore| 6.13.12 @ 9:18AM
I voted for Mrs Radtke. God Bless her. I will be voting for Allen in the General. I want George Allen to not only run to the right, but, to legislate that way.
W. James Antle III | 6.13.12 @ 11:32AM
She was a good, underfunded candidate GoVirginia!, but the results were what they were.
William R| 6.12.12 @ 11:08PM
Webb should have run as a Republican. Good man who was so turned off by the NeoCons in the GOP.
Truth to Power| 6.13.12 @ 9:18AM
Jim Webb voted for ObamaCare. This again demostrates what paulbots are all about. They are about Obama.
Here is Jim Anlte's take of what you refer to as a good man:
" But once he was elected, the man Andrew Ferguson called “the most sophisticated right-wing reactionary to run on a Democratic ticket since Grover Cleveland” compiled a conventional liberal voting record virtually indistinguishable from Harry Reid’s."
Paulbots are married to Obama.