What America needs is a sympathizer of the racist confederacy like George Allen running for President in the Republican party. Please.
Images of Allen are like a Civil War version of Where’s Waldo, with the Confederate flag replacing the bespectacled cartoon character. First, as The New Republic reported last week, there’s the senior class photo from Palos Verdes High School with Allen wearing a Confederate flag pin. Now we learn that the Confederate flag appears as a decoration in Allen’s first statewide ad, even though he has long maintained that the flag did not adorn his home after 1992.
Some conservatives have recently argued that the revelations about Allen’s high school photo are irrelevant because the picture is so old. “[I]f we’re going to scrutinize people’s high school records as we vet them for public office, nobody gets to run,” columnist Kathleen Parker wrote last week. But, as revealed by the 1993 campaign ad–as well as the accounts of Allen associates now stepping forward–his embrace of the Confederate flag is even more extensive than tnr previously reported. According to his colleagues, classmates, and published reports, Allen has either displayed the flag–on himself, his car, inside his home–or expressed his enthusiastic approval of the emblem from approximately 1967 to 2000.
As a southerner, I recognize that feelings toward the Civil War are more complicated and ambigous than simple good vs. evil. However, there’s no question that there is something deeply morally deficient about this Californian appropriating Confederate flag regalia in the 1960s — the sixties! — in order to forge his political identity. Incidentally, the most frightening racists I’ve ever seen have been people waving the battle flag in small town Indiana and Ohio. Fucking creepy.
Apparently Allen’s son is named Forrest, after Confederate General and KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest. He didn’t give his son a relatively uncontroversial name like Lee, or Jackson, or Bo; no, he went straight to the most antagonistic, divisive Civil War figure of all. What else do you need to know about this loon? This guy’s done, I bet.
About 8 years ago in Nashville, some dude put up a statue of Forrest on his own private property right by the interstate for all to admire. Naturally, this was accompanied by threats to shoot anyone who might deface the thing. Nothing makes you prouder of your heritage and your city like a weirdly proportioned, silver and gold fiberglass Big Boy statue of the founder of the KKK, let me tell you.
Here are some pictures so you can appreciate the freakshow ugliness of the thing.
http://www.bouzou.com/art/power/forrest.html
Maybe the kid’s named after Gump. That’s not too much better, though.
Apparently Allen s son is named Forrest, after Confederate General and KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest.
So was Forrest Gump.
Heh. The only thing the people in the South hate worse than Yankees and Californians, is carpetbagging Yankees and Californians.
And that’s Allen in a nutshell. Doesn’t matter that he goes out of his way to play redneck; I knew a few people who tried to out-Bubba the Bubba’s and they were universally scoffed at.
Does anyone really know who Allen named his son after?
Maybe he’s named after his grandfather, or uncle, or Allen’s sleigh, or his ancestral home, or the misspelling of “Forest”, or anyone of 47 million things
43 million, Frank.
That narrows it down…
Megadittos Frankster. Duros is wrong. Allen could only have pulled that name out of his — hat. Or F-Troop. Don’t forget Forrest Tucker.
But, seriously, folks:
John Cox is the first Republican to announce his candidacy after he was encouraged by the reaction he received in Iowa especially after getting a standing ovation when he outlined how he will solve the illegal-alien debacle.
In April, Cox, a successful businessman from Chicago, appeared and spoke at three district GOP conventions in Iowa where, according to his campaign aides, delegates “leapt to their feet in a very vocal show of support” after opining on the border security issue.
Yep, Cox is a winner. Hope they nominate him. That’s what this country is a-hankerin’ for.
From WingNut Daily:
Cox says his background as a CPA and businessman gives him unique qualifications many politicians don’t have.
“I’ve created jobs,” Cox said. “I built a $100 million business. Is that bad experience? Would I have better experience if I’d been a career politician?”
Said Cox: “What we ought to have in the White House is someone who has actually lived, created jobs, given to their communities and struggled.”
And he’s running as on outsider. I think he’s just what we need: someone who wants to run government like a CEO. Why didn’t anybody think of that before?
I’m not endorsing the guy — I’m just saying that he’s a more serious candidate than Allen…
If they could get Lott out of the Majority Leader’s chair, I guess Allen is doomed…
Beansy
How am I wrong?