Charlottesville Democrat Harry Tenney relates a story of Sen. Allen punching his wife in the early 80s, apparently jealous over money she was earning as a model. Harry is a well-respected man — don’t doubt for a minute that he believes this is true.
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Harry may well believe it to be true.
But the alledged “victim” says it’s a pile of crap.
But you knew that.
Of course he knew that, but Waldo loves being a gossip where Republicans are concerned. He’s a great hypocrite that way.
The contrast between the two canidantes could not be stronger. A wanna be cowboy bully, who loves to push others around but has never put HIS ass on the line.
I thought you Republicans where all about real men? Whats up?
Everyone must read this (it is from Jim Webb’s company commander in Vietnam)
Why I Would Vote for Jim Webb if I lived in Virginia
by Michael Duncan Wyly, Colonel, USMC (ret)
3 November 2006
If I lived in Virginia my vote would be for Jim Webb because I know him and came to trust him and saw and felt the confidence his Marines had in him while I was his Company Commander in combat in 1969. We were together every day and night; our relationship was professional, yet nothing missed my notice then because so much was at stake. I was asked recently by a reporter from the Norfolk Pilot, why, in my opinion, Jim Webb was so respected by the men he led in 1969; why they were so loyal to him and still are to this day. The reporter did not publish my answer so I want to make it clear, here.
My answer came implicitly without having to think: “Because they knew he would always be there for them, even at great risk; and he placed enormous value on human life.” When I was his company commander he never hesitated to voice an opinion if he had an idea of a way to make a move more safely. The lives and safety of the men in his charge came first, and they knew it. When Dale Tucker, one of his squad leaders was shot in the abdomen during an ambush on the 20th of April, 1969, Lieutenant Webb went into the kill zone without hesitation, pulled him out, and gave him first aid. He performed similar rescues of several Marines on the 9th of May of the same year. That was the same day he risked his life to recover the body of Jim Ward, knowing how important this would be to Corporal Ward’s grieving family back home. Lieutenant Jim Webb stayed with his men all that year and the acts I have described here characterized Jim’s performance for the entire twelve months that he remained in combat before being ordered home.
As I have remained in contact with Jim through the years, the same characteristics that I came to know in ‘69 have continued to define the man he is. He is an intellectual as well as a man of strong character. As a novelist, his understanding of human nature, good and bad, is tangible; and his passion to see good overcome evil is compellingly clear. I have read all of his books and I recommend them to every American as a means of understanding your country better, and mankind better.
More importantly, I commend Jim to you as the leader this Country needs. Jim’s ability to make decisions has been forged through a multiplicity of diverse life-experience that few men ever have. He makes decisions according to the dynamic and changing situation that life is and he can be depended upon to make the best decision for his Country that he holds so dear, and the men and women of Virginia, who like his Marines in 1969, are to him, his family.
Jim Webb embodies humanity’s two greatest virtues, courage and integrity. Courage first. I place courage ahead of integrity because it is impossible to sustain the latter without the former. It often takes courage to tell the truth. In all the years I have known Jim Webb, even under the toughest pressure, he has never compromised on either. If Jim says it, it’s true. And if it’s true, he has the courage to say it – and he will.
The problem is that there’s a stark contrast between the competing claims.
On the one hand, we have the Allen campaign issuing press releases with claims by his ex-wife that he’s the most wonderful man on earth, which is something not commonly heard from ex-wives. These press releases are surely written by the campaign itself, who simply has her sign off on it, as all press releases are.
On the other hand we have people who have talked with Mrs. Waddell and her close friends who have been told that he abused her. We have Allen’s sister’s book in which she documents that Sen. Allen has a significant history of physically abusing loved ones, so we know that such behavior is entirely within character. We have two arrest warrants for Sen. Allen during the period in which they were married for which no documentation exists.
Finally, we know that women who have been abused (mentally or physically) do not behave in a rational manner — that is, rational as you or I would understand it — towards their spouses, ex- or otherwise, often refusing to condemn the abuser, defending him no matter how violent or extreme the abuse, etc. Now, this logic on its own is dangerous — it leads us down the path of claiming that the stronger a woman’s denial that she’s been abused the more likely it is that she’s been abused, which is crazy. But when combined with evidence of abuse, such as witnesses and testimony from the victim, it’s a factor strongly worth considering, particularly given the campaign-generated denials that Mrs. Waddell has been signing off on.
It is wrong to state or imply that evidence to the contrary has been ignored here. I have factored it in all along, and we have had intelligent discussion here about it. I hope you’ll continue to participate in that discussion, likewise considering all of the facts.
You are part of the rebel alliance and a traitor.
“Holding her is dangerous. If word of this gets out, it could generate sympathy for the rebellion in the Senate.”
Don’t even try to out-geek me. ;)