Poor George Allen, he doesn't like being a Senator. But, he's running for re-election anyway. If Allen is so unhappy in his current job, he should retire. But since he's running anyway, Virginians can make his life better by voting him out of the Senate in November:
George Allen makes little secret that he is bored with life in the Senate.Allen isn't even subtle about his disdain for his current job. If the Senate is too slow for George Allen, he should get a new job.
"I made more decisions in half a day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate," Senator Allen said earlier this month as he dashed into a recent Republican fund-raiser in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Over eggs and hash browns with a Republican crowd in Davenport, he lamented about being in the Senate, "It's too slow for me."
Senator Allen, Republican of Virginia, had traveled to Iowa with designs on the White House in 2008, so his musings on his job's duties may not sound surprising. With his conservative voting record and down-home folksy manner — he wears black lizard-skin cowboy boots and tucks a tin of chewing tobacco in his suit pocket — and his name recognition as the son of a famous football coach, he has been crisscrossing the country, pitching himself as an alternative to Senator John McCain.
One other thing: Imagine if a Democratic Senator who was thinking about running for President in 2008, who is also facing re-election this year, said he or she was bored and really didn't like being a Senator. The media would have a field day.
