James Webb For Senate

I got to interview George Allen on my TV show back in '92 (and remind me to finally get on the stick and create that website I've been sitting on lo these many years), when he first ran for governor of Virginia. Simply put, he's a dope. Son of a coaching legend, former QB for the UVA Cavaliers, and while his first 18 years came growing up in southern California (when his old man coached the Rams), he was, by the time of our interview, a cowboy boot-wearin', southern-drawlin', and, when the cameras weren't hot, tobacco spittin' good ol' boy, who later liked to hang the Stars & Bars in his executive office in Richmond. There's yer clue right there.

In short, he's a three-dollar bill -- the phony kind, not the queer kind (unless, uhm, you heard something?).

And so here's to a former Reaganaut, now Dem in the race for Allen's seat: James Webb:

Webb, who was secretary of the Navy under Republican President Ronald Reagan, resigned in protest of cutbacks in the Navy fleet. He has been a strong critic of the war in Iraq, saying that the Bush administration has never developed an exit strategy.

Webb is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and served in the Marines in the Vietnam War. He is the author of the nonfiction book "Born Fighting, How the Scots-Irish Shaped America," as well as six novels.

Allen, as some of you might know is now the front-runner for the GOP nomination in the '08 Presidentials, i.e., if you can believe the screwballs. Just what America needs: another goddamned right-wing dope.

An upset by Webb, then, would be extra-sweet. Stay tuned.