I have no warm feelings for George Allen, but I hope in the depths of his soul he does not beleive the judiciary to be a greater threat than Al-Qaeda. However, attacking Al-Qaeda doesn't gain one any political points with the far right. Don't beleive me? Take a look at his website.

Under his laughable "Jeffersonian Conservative" values, he does not mention Al-Qaeda ONE TIME in his war on terror subsection under 'security'. He mentions free elections and democratic governments, but never mentions Al-Qaeda.

Then go and take a peek at his section on Virginia Values. His VERY FIRST statement is stopping an out of control judiciary.

So clearly in terms of priorities, George Allen views controlling the judiciary as more important than controlling Al-Qaeda.

I'll give you a hint... it's not al-Qaeda.

you don't think the war on terror is in the "purview" of a Senator.  I mean, there are Senate committees on both Homeland Security and Armed Services.  I think the war on terror might be relevant to them.

I suspect this is being generous.  "Eliminating" the independent judiciary seems to be the non-euphemistic approach that some on the far-right are taking.  I'm guessing that Allen hasn't spent much time following the reasoning of our Founding Father's on the topic. 

Can you show me where George Allen supported or defended these comments.  All I saw was a statement by his press secretary that they wouldn't comment.  I certainly hope you're not saying that just by speaking at Regent he endorsed those comments.  If you are, you're gonna piss off a lot of VA voters.

I'm only referring to the person who accepted the invitation to speak at Pat Robertson's college.

Anyway, when Felix's spokesman says that Robertson's comments were taken out of context, that's a defense in my book.

simply because he spoke there then you're going to piss of all the people who go to Regent, work at Regent, are associated with Regent, watch 700 Club, etc.  That's a ton of people, many in the Hampton Roads area where Webb wants to make inroads.

If you're not labelling him guilty for his appearance but simply guilty because his press secretary said the quote was taken out of context...then you won't piss off any voters because no one will care.  It's a complete nonissue.

between the janitor at the university and a sitting Senator representing 7 million people who affirmatively accepted an invitation from campaign contributor Pat Robertson to speak at his university.  So I think we're allowed to hold SENATOR Allen's actions here to a higher standard then those on the list you trotted out.  Nice try, though.

In any event, Allen defended the comments (as you seem to have admitted) which is bad enough.  And defending comments that put our U.S. judges as a higher threat than terrorists - yeah, keep dreaming that it's a nonissue.
 

but you're right, I'm dreaming because I don't believe something from the past that no one cared about at the time is suddenly going to become an issue.

Come on people, if Webb is going to win this campaign we have to have a campaign about substance, not this garbage.  Webb is a "different" candidate but we're all playing the same tired old games.

If you're fine with your Senator defending comments like that, I guess we're at an impasse.

Let's remember that Allen endorsed Chris  "Africans will have sex with anything with a pulse" Craddock.  A decent politician would have withdrawn the endorsement.

I believe I would put him in the evil class.  He's a religious huckster, who profits immensely from Jesus Christ's word.

I doubt anyone at that so-called university, including the parents who send their kids there, is going to vote for Webb anyway.

Some nice references from Wikipedia about Robertson's un-Christian money-making life:

*In the late 1980s, Pat Robertson sued now former House Representative Republican Pete McCloskey, for libel over his statements that Robertson's father used his influence to keep his son out of combat. After the trial date was set of March 8,the day of the Super Tuesday primaries, Robertson dropped the suit, possibly fearing the parade of decorated Marine officers who were scheduled to testify against him would scuttle his presidential ambitions. The case was dismissed, and Robertson agreed to pay McCloskey's costs.

*Among his more controversial statements, Robertson has described feminism as a "socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."[10] Many of Robertson's views mirror those of the evangelical activist Jerry Falwell, who has made frequent appearances on The 700 Club. He agreed with Falwell when Falwell stated [11] that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were caused by "pagans, abortionists, feminists, gays, lesbians, the ACLU and the People for the American Way."

After public outcry regarding the dialogue, which was conducted via television monitor and took place only days after the attacks, Robertson claimed that his earpiece was malfunctioning, and that he was unaware of what he was agreeing with at the time.

On the June 8, 1998 edition of his show, Robertson denounced Orlando, Florida and Disney World for allowing a privately sponsored "Gay Days" weekend. Robertson stated that the acceptance of homosexuality could result in hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, terrorist bombings and "possibly a meteor.

*Robertson repeatedly supported former President of Liberia Charles Taylor in various episodes of his 700 Club program during the United States' involvement in the Liberian Civil War in June and July of 2003. Robertson accuses the U.S. State Department of giving President Bush bad advice in supporting Taylor's ouster as president, and of trying "as hard as they can to destabilize Liberia."[13]

Robertson was criticized for failing to mention in his broadcasts his $8,000,000 (USD) investment in a Liberian gold mine.[14] Taylor had been at the time of Robertson's support indicted by the United Nations for war crimes, and prosecutors also said he had harbored members of Al Qaeda responsible for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. According to Robertson, the Liberian gold mine Freedom Gold was intended to help pay for humanitarian and evangelical efforts in Liberia, when in fact the company was allowed to fail leaving many debts both in Liberia and in the international mining service sector. Regarding this controversy, Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy said, "I would say that Pat Robertson is way out on his own, in a leaking life raft, on this one."[15]

Robertson has also been accused of using his tax-exempt, nonprofit organization, Operation Blessing, as a front for his own financial gain, and then using his influence in the Republican Party to cover his tracks. After making emotional pleas in 1994 on The 700 Club for cash donations to Operation Blessing to support airlifts of refugees from Rwanda to Zaire, it was later discovered, by a reporter from The Virginian-Pilot, that Operation Blessing's planes were transporting diamond-mining equipment for the Robertson-owned African Development Corporation, a venture Robertson had established in cooperation with Zaire's dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, whom Robertson had befriended earlier in 1993.

An investigation by the Commonwealth of Virginia's Office of Consumer Affairs determined that Robertson "willfully induced contributions from the public through the use of misleading statements and other implications" and called for a criminal prosecution against Robertson in 1999. However, the Virginia Attorney General Mark Earley, a Republican whose largest campaign contributor two years earlier was Robertson himself, intervened, accepting that Robertson had made deceptive appeals but overruling the recommendation for his prosecution.[16] No charges were ever brought against Robertson.

*On his The 700 Club television program, Pat Robertson has sharply criticized elements of the United States government and "special interest" groups that don't share his views. In interviews with the author of a book critical of the United States Department of State, Robertson made suggestions that the explosion of a nuclear weapon at State Department Headquarters would be good for the country, and repeated those comments on the air. "What we need is for somebody to place a small nuke at Foggy Bottom,"[17] Robertson said during his television program, referring to the location of the State Department headquarters. State Department officials said they believed the comments to be in extremely bad taste, and have lodged official complaints against Robertson for his remarks.

There's a lot more info at the Wikipedia site.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_robertson

Anyone with a true sense of morality would have given a speech at that "university" condemning Robertson.