George "Macaca" Allen Trounces Kool-Aid Drinking Challengers in GOP Primary

I was pleased with the results of today's GOP primary for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jim Webb.  And it's not because I'm a fan of my former law school classmate George Felix Allen - although believe it or not he was actually sort of cute many years ago in a bubba kind of way.  And it's not because I haven't known George for a long time - in fact, I met my former wife while in law school at a party co-hosted by Allen who was certainly living up to his party boy image (I'm sure the Christoifascists at The Family Foundation would have been shocked).   No, I'll be supporting his Democrat opponent Tim Kaine in the run up to the November election.

No, I'm please with the results because they are a powerful rebuke to the Kool-Aid drinking crazies who were his opponents: Tea Party nut job, Jamie Radtke, Slideshow "Sodomy is Not A Right" Del. Bob Marshall, and professional Christian and gay-hater E. J. Jackson.  That Bob Marshall couldn't even break the 10% mark demonstrates that outside of Marshall's home district (where his constituents must be drinking severely tainted water), he's too crazy even for today's theocratic and insane Virginia GOP.  As for Jackson, his candidacy was always a joke - apparently he still hasn't figured out that he's merely used as a prop to make the Virginia GOP and The Family Foundation look less white supremacist leaning than they are in fact.   Here's a vote tally with 88% of precincts reporting:

 Candidate                     Vote %

Allen  . . . . . . . . . . . 146,015   65%

Radtke . . . . . . . .. .   52,340    23%

Marshall . . . . . . . . . .15,115     7%

Jackson . . . . . . . . . . .10,783   5%

And Tim Kaine wasted no time in going on the offensive against Allen who rubber stamped every spending bill laid before him by Chimperator Bush and Emperor Palpatine Cheney and who voted for the Iraq War debacle.  Here are highlights from the Washington Post:

Kaine quickly made clear how he would attack Allen in their head-to-head matchup.  “Voters already had the chance to experience George Allen’s vision during his last term in the Senate, which turned record surpluses into massive deficits, added trillions to our debt, and put opportunity for a select few ahead of opportunity for all our businesses and families,” Kaine said in a statement Tuesday night. “George Allen’s approach helped create our economic mess; Virginians can’t afford six more years.”

For Allen, the race represents a chance at redemption after his dramatic reelection loss to Webb in 2006. Allen appeared to have that contest well in hand — and was already mulling a run for president in 2008 — when he referred to an Indian-American volunteer for the Webb campaign as “macaca,” an ethnic slur in some cultures.

For Kaine, the contest marks a return to state politics following a detour to serve as President Obama’s Democratic National Committee chairman. Rising from the Richmond City Council to become the city’s mayor, then lieutenant governor and governor, Kaine sought to craft a reputation as a moderate willing to work with both sides of the aisle, in the mold of his longtime friend, Sen. Mark Warner (D).

Neither Virginia nor America needs George Allen back in the U.S. Senate.  Hopefully a majority of Virginians will recognize this fact and keep Allen in retirement.