George Allen has to be fairly confident over his prospective run for President in 2008.
It isn't that the media loves him. It isn't his ability to speak to the Republican base, or his rock-ribbed Conservative credentials. Or even that media insiders have declared him the most likely GOP nominee.
Nope. It's that Dems are starting to say that he's stupid, or an "empty suit."
If there's a more accurate predictor of Republican electoral success than that, I don't know it.
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You do realize that if the following people were nominated, we wouldn't call them dumb:
1. Bill Frist
2. George Pataki
3. John McCain
4. Sam Brownback
5. Tom Tancredo
6. Rudy Giuliani
7. Jeb Bush
8. Condi Rice
9. Mike Huckabee
10. Chuck Hagel
That about covers the entire field.
We wouldn't call any of those people dumb. No chance. Because they're not dumb.
But Allen? He's anti-intellectual, at best...
And how many of those people are considered "Conservatives"? Perhaps half. And you know as well as I that the typical Dem playbook is to equate "Conservative" with "stupid." Plus, you wouldn't call "dumb" many of those that your fellow Dems have not compunction about calling "dumb."
BTW, anti-intellectualoid is not anti-intellectual.
I (Tony A.) concur with Mitch's overall remarks. Allen looked extremely sharp this weekend on Russert's show.
TC, you wouldn't recognize "hard right" if it kicked you in the teeth. Pataki?!?!? Guiliani?!?!? At least three on this list are pro-abortion/anti-Constitution. A number have tried to make their bones by pandering to the so-called "main-stream media."
Moreover, anyone who labels anyone on this list "hard right" needs to get a handle other than "Too Conservative."
Sadly, Allen will never be able to escape the "racist" moniker for past comments. He just doesn't have broad enough appeal. Brownback has the same problem as his appeal is so far into neocon Christianity that he'll never appeal to any but the most radical.
McCain really appears to be the strongest, simply for his "across the aisle" moderate appeal (and he's a badarse).
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