To
paraphrase the the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star's
endorsement of George Allen...
George Allen has failed us on Iraq and the economy, but he got us tiny robots! Cool!
Snippet after the flip.
(Note: This has been edited to reflect that the above is the "shorter" version of the endorsement. For definitive source of "shorter" posts, see Busy, Busy, Busy.)
This would be hilarious if it didn't represent just how far Republicans will stoop to dig up reasons to re-elect Bush's puppets.
National politics magnify Mr. Allen's faults. He has rather blindly followed the president in his almost criminally inept prosecution of an optional war in Iraq. When, a few days ago, Mr. Bush's tune on the war changed, Mr. Allen sang along in the new key. It's now time, goes the witless Beltway locution, for Iraqis to "stand up" their military and police forces to defeat the insurgency. This smells like a sellout. Will Mr. Allen acquiesce in the cynical abandonment of an ally, now that fancy theorems and idees fixes have failed to get the job done, to worse terror and deeper chaos?
On the domestic side--again like Mr. Bush--Mr. Allen's laudable belief in the power of markets and entrepreneurship seems to exhaust his economic enthusiasm. There's little left over, once the commodores of commerce have been served, for the common seaman who must wait in real mortgage-and-tuition time for the rising tide to lift his dinghy.
But...(i)n 2003...the senator steered $3.7 billion into research in nanotechnology--building machines on an atomic and molecular scale--on the conviction that it really is a small world after all, or soon will be, and the United States should be leading it...
(And) George Allen's warm body is needed to help Republicans maintain control of the Senate and install federal judges who will prevent and cure the disease of judicial activism that mocks elected government.