Silent George

By Michael J.W. Stickings

In Virginia, the new George Allen campaign strategy seems to be to keep him as far away from the media as possible, lest he say something stupid, such is his wont.

But what does it say about a political candidate -- and an incumbent U.S. senator, no less -- that the best and perhaps only way for him to win is to shut the fuck up?

Indeed, what does it say about George Allen as a human being?