David Holman
Blame George Allen. Blame Jim Webb’s campaign. Blame the Washington Post. But any way you look at it, “macaca” has legs in the polling. A new SurveyUSA poll finds Allen edging Webb by 48 to 45 percent if the election…
The Democrats seem to have confused a corporation that provides jobs (and, by the way, is now toeing their line on emergency contraceptives, the environment, and health care) for a political opponent. At least Mayor Daley gets it ($): if…
Dave, I have to second your post. My sense of it, after watching the video and through my experience with Allen, is that when he shoots off his mouth, it is not out of malice but carelessness. He thought of…
He visits Lebanon to mourn the humanitarian situation, but claims not to make any political judgments. As admirable as that humble instinct is, I suspect that stepping into the fray at all is necessarily political, especially when I see this…
For a lighter look at D.C.’s misguided bid for congressional representation, check out Stephen Colbert’s hilarious interview with delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton.
Wlady, I didn’t catch that, thanks to my news exile (which ends when I get “wired” again next week). But what strikes me about it is the shamelessness. Usually, such threats are veiled. But dragging the kids’ tuition into it?…
John Denver was right. Though I think he was referring to his euphoria rather than the altitude. But at 7000-plus feet, Pagosa Springs, Colorado drove his point home. It really is harder to breathe. Sitting in the Albuquerque airport (they…
And then there are advantages. George Allen is looking at a 12-to-1 fundraising edge over Jim Webb in the Virginia Senate race.
This article appeared in the June 2006 issue of The American Spectator, as its cover story. To subscribe, click here. ASK GEORGE ALLEN IF HE’S RUNNING for president, and Virginia’s junior senator demurs like any politician facing re-election this year….
Sorry if anyone’s tired of the Virginia political news, but it looks like Jim Gilmore is getting serious about running for governor in 2009, opening a state PAC (via NLS). It would be his second term — Virginia allows multiple…
