Indulging in Idle 2008 Speculation
I get asked all the time who I think the Republican nominee might be. Given that there are 1005 days to the 2008 general election, I have to admit I haven’t given it much thought. Today’s Hotline on Call reports that no less an authority than Sean Hannity is declaring Senator George Allen of Virginia the frontrunner. I figure that’s as good a guess as any. He’s always seemed to me the kind of conservative who doesn’t turn off moderates as much as he should. That’s the scariest kind of conservative: nutty enough to make it through the Republican primary process but smooth enough to bamboozle general election swing voters.
Allen also grew up in Southern California: he attended Palos Verdes High School and UCLA. (His father was coach of the Los Angeles Rams.) I would think that might give Republican strategists hope that Allen could put into play this ordinarily very safe Democratic state.
March 26th, 2006 at 10:00 am
[…] Back in October, I posted my belief that Senator George Allen of Virginia is as likely as anyone to be the Republican nominee as anyone, despite having no more cerebral heft than George W. Bush. As DCCC Chair Rahm Emanuel said at a lunch event my wife and I attended a few weeks ago, the country likes a “happy conservative” and, Emanuel said, Allen fits the description. (When asked who he saw as the Democratic nominee, Emanuel made it abundantly clear he’s a Hillary Clinton person.) […]