Webb sends Allen a message: He knows how to fight

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(It's good to see people taking notice of Webb....)

Late last October, with a little more than a week left before the gubernatorial election, The Washington Post published a poll that showed Democrat Tim Kaine with a small, but significant lead over Republican Jerry Kilgore.

In response, Kilgore campaign manager Ken Hutcheson ripped the Post poll as ridiculous and contemptible.

Kaine, of course, won the governor's race by a comfortable six-point margin, racking up wins in once reliably Republican enclaves in Hampton Roads and Northern Virginia.

There's another big race this year, this time between incumbent Republican Sen. George Allen and Democrat James Webb - and a poll just came out.

Conducted by pollster John Zogby for The Wall Street Journal, the survey suggests the Senate race will be a real contest, with Allen leading Webb by a narrower margin than anticipated, 48.8 percent to 43.5 percent.

Cue Allen's campaign manager: "The Wall Street Journal should be embarrassed to print this," said Dick Wadhams. "This poll is a joke ... Zogby has long ago been discredited."

What, not ridiculous and contemptible?

(more here:

http://www.dailypress.com/news/opinion/dp-61831sy0jun29,0,2525935.story?coll=dp-opinion-editorials

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1. Good opinion piece from my hometown paper!

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Webb (to his credit) declined to amend the Bill of Rights for the first time in history and, so, Allen's folks took aim and fired, saying that Webb, a former Navy secretary in the Reagan administration and highly decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, "continues to demonstrate he is totally beholden to the liberal Washington senators who dragged him across the line in the Democratic primary." At this point in the proceedings - such political defining being all-too-familiar - the Democrat candidate normally goes weak in the knees and starts hemming and hawing, saying, no, no, he loves his country, too, and so forth.

Not Webb. His campaign packed in double canister and unloaded right back, pretty much telling Allen and his people to go stuff it. "George Felix Allen Jr. and his bush-league lap dog, Dick Wadhams, have not earned the right to challenge Jim Webb's position on free speech and flag burning."

Ouch.

Then, for good measure, another volley: "People who live in glass dude ranches (a reference to Allen's summer employment in Nevada during the Vietnam War years) should not question the patriotism of real soldiers who fought and bled for this country on a real battlefield."

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