I've been following this George Allen/monkeyMohawk story for a few days now on Wonkette, and, I'm super-disappointed in the senator. Sure, he's exhibited racist tendancies for years, but this is a man who is 2 years away from a hard-core run at his party's nomination for the BIG JOB. Where the hell were his Josh and Toby types to go, "um, yeah, not such a good idea to call the man by a racist term and THEN push the issue by implying that the man was new to America." For the record, he was born and raised in the USA (Ironically enough, Fairfax, Virginia).
The good news is, is that this exactly the type of thing is what Jim Webb needed to get some national press and to boost his challenge into high gear. Send the man a dollar, and see the grassroots grow.
With the latest foul-up from the Political Realm in mind, I now present my top 10 ways to not run for political office in 2006:
10) Referring to a person of color as a monkey. (George Allen)
9) Trying to cover up those remarks by claiming that you were really referring to them as a "shit-head." (yeah, that's so much better).
8) Hiring Mel Gibson for any sort of PR (fine, it hasn't happened yet...but it could!)
7) Saying ANYTHING "off the record" or "anonymously". (Michael Steele)
6) Turning your name into a stupid-ass pun (Joementum, anyone?)
5) Laying the smack-down on the Capitol Hill Police (I'm Cynthia McKinney, bitch!)
4) Having a voting record that says you voted for the war in Iraq
3) Referring to a person of non-color as a "plain vanilla man" (alls fair in love and Eleanor Holmes Norton)
2) Screwing your intern, killing her, and dumping her in a park. (Sorry, that was a flashback to 2002. Nowadays, that sort of stuff is apparently "acceptable.")
1) Being Katheryn Harris
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