Billmon at Whiskey Bar has close tabs on Virginia’s Senators:
Back in the early ’80s, when I lived in Virginia, one of our Senators (not John Warner, but a senile old fart named Scott) was voted the dumbest man in the U.S. Senate. As it happened, I actually had met Scott once or twice, and I can’t say the honor was undeserved.
Nor was it unusual. The Old Dominion has been producing politiicans of very little brain for many years now — a case of reversion to the mean, I suppose, after giving the nation the likes of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
Even by the state’s contemporary standards, though, Allen is a dunce. One of the few politiicans, in fact, who could make people refer to John Warner as “the smart one.”
Which, needless to say, could make him a hot prospect for the GOP presidential nomination.
Click on the link above to see what Allen said and the Whiskey Bar parry.