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Webb Rebuked for Lies

The Washington Times weighs in on the Virginia Senate race:

Attack ads are one thing, but blatantly erroneous attack ads should be exposed for the political tricks they are. One such ad is Democrat James Webb's current "Steer" commercial alleging financial misdeeds by Sen. George Allen -- which Mr. Webb should promptly retract. The ad wrongly claims that Mr. Allen "tried to steer government contracts to a company that paid him in stock options," wrongly claims that Mr. Allen "hid those options for years" and wrongly claims that the options are worth $1.1 million. None of this is true.

Being a Virginian, I have been inundated with press coverage of this race. For months now, it's been "macaca" this and racism that, even in the national media. As I have stated before, this just isn't enough for me. I want to see the issues, and some substance. I pretty much know where George Allen stands, seeing that he's been my governor and my Senator. And while I don't agree with the Republican agenda, I at least feel that I know what it is.

The Democrat agenda is just to be anti-Bush. And Jim Webb's agenda seems to be that he's not George Allen. But that covers a lot of ground. If he can't be more specific than that, and he continues to approve ads that are not just misleading (we expect that of politicians) but bald-faced lies, I just don't see how I can be asked to vote for him.

Back to the Washington Times:

How could the Webb campaign think people wouldn't detect all this? They probably think voters are just too distracted by the flurry of charge-counterchange to understand and really care about the truth. Don't be fooled by such election-year tricksterism.

Exactly. I am an undecided, libertarian-independent voter who is going to be left with only one candidate I can take seriously - George Allen. Virginians simply aren't being offered any other choice. Whatever complaints I have about him, I can at least say that I know what he wants to do, and I can believe him.