A reader asked why George Allen and Anne Rubels divorced, making it sound like George dumped Anne. Note the time line below:

1977 » Graduates from University of Virginia Law School

1979 » Marries Anne Patrice Rubel

1979 » Loses first campaign for Virginia House of Delegates

1981 » Elected to Virginia House of Delegates

1983 » Divorced

I worked at Ch. 29, in Charlottesville, when Anne was the spokesmodel for Brown Automotive ads, which were produced at and ran on Ch. 29, during the time she married George. I also was involved in the first live remote broadcast Ch. 29 ever did; the location was the restarting of the Albemarle County fair in 1979; the interviewer was Rex Hodge, now at WVPT in Harrisonburg, and one of the the interviewees was George, in his first, unsuccessful campaign. I spoke to Anne then, and she was not happy at that time about his political ambitions; I suspect she was relieved that he lost. Then he ran again, and won.

Anne, a model-beautiful tall thin blond, married George when he was a young lawyer with a struggling new practice. She knew she did not have all of what it took to be an ambitious politicians wife; so the marriage went downhill as George's political fortunes rose.

Ever heard the old cliche "once burned, twice shy?". Google around for a full profile of George, and check out the story about how George "tested" Susan, his second wife, to see if she was ready to be a "politicians wife" before he proposed.

I wonder if Senator Bird ( aka the Grand Kliegal(sic) - or whatever) used the word "Nigger" before. If he did don't you think he should resign from the Senate?

No longer could a United States Senator say what Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina said in anger when President Theodore Roosevelt invited a moderate Negro, Booker T. Washington, to lunch at the White House: "'Now that Roosevelt has eaten with that nigger Washington, we shall have to kill a thousand niggers to get them back to their place.'" 57

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n57 WILLIAM A. SINCLAIR, THE AFTERMATH OF SLAVERY: A STUDY OF THE CONDITION AND ENVIRONMENT OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO 187 (Afro-Am Press 1969) (1905) (quoting Senator Benjamin Tillman).

AN OPEN LETTER TO JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS FROM A FEDERAL JUDICIAL COLLEAGUE, 140 U.Penn.L.Rev. 1005, 1021 (1992).

I posted this at Polipundit:

So lame? Get over it? Eff u! I wager that 3/4ths of the Republicans in Congress use “nigger” to this day when they think they are in safe company. Why don’t one of you crafty GOP bloggers ask Richard Burr about an annual frat party he attended in college at a party called “Five Screaming Niggers"? I know why. You don’t want to know! You know why you don’t want to know? You don’t care! You are now, always have been, and always will be the party of bigots. You just dress in polo shirts and tell your nigger jokes at your clubs except when your token puppet nigger is there with you.

Is is true you sock puppets are gay, Bert? No one has claimed Democrats lack failings. They've been remarkably limp as the "loyal opposition", and Webb has a poor track record when it comes to being a women's rights champion. All that said, Allen's still a cracker, a bully, and unfit for office. How about orifice, there Bert 'n Ernie? go play with people your own age.

Webb is a Democrat. They don't do bad things.

I'm still waiting for all the oh-so-concerned libs and Salon types to show a smidgeon of outrage over Jim Webb's encouragement of sexual harrasment at the Naval Academy.

The silence is deafening.

1001 random lies killed Al Gore. Michael Dukakis had an exaggerated Willy Horton scandal to deal with.

The point: Republicans beat Democrats ALL THE TIME by trumping-up graphic charges.

The first person to float the Willy Horton charge was not a Republican. It was AL GORE in the 1988 primary races against Dukakis and other Dem hopefuls.

Bzzzt. You lose!

Family values, ah those family values. Looks like the Allen family and the Addams family were kin, with George the Thug playing Lurch. His sister's stories are perhaps even more chilling than his klan wannabe tendencies. Bigots and bullies, all welcome under that big fascist tent. Crackers, anyone?

Anne Patrice Rubel was Allen's first wife. They parted ways when he got serious about politics. Was it because he intended to hide his Jewish heritage? Is Rubel a Jewish name? Could be. Why doesn't someone find out. If she was Jewish then how could he have not known...this guy never, ever tells the truth.

Senator George Allen’s racial remark to a 20 year old Indian man last week, has re-highlighted accusations that the Senator is a bully and a bigot. Senator Allen’s sister, Jennifer Allen, documents many cases of her brother’s bullying in her book Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter. Read the excerpts below.

Explaining why she is scared of heights, Ms. Allen writes that “Ever since my brother George held me over the railing at Niagara Falls, I’ve had a fear of heights.” [Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, page 43]

Referring to George’s relationship with one of her boyfriends: “My brother George welcomed him by slamming a pool cue against his head.” [Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, page 178]

Referring to George’s early leadership skills, Jennifer wrote: “We all obeyed George. If we didn't, we knew he would kill us. Once, when Bruce refused to go to bed, George hurled him through a sliding glass door. Another time, when Gregory refused to go to bed, George tackled him and broke his collarbone. Another time, when I refused to go to bed, George dragged me up the stairs by my hair.” [Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, page 22]

Referring to George’s early career aspirations, Jennifer wrote “George hoped someday to become a dentist. George said he saw dentistry as a perfect profession - getting paid to make people suffer.” [Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, page 22]

Referring to George’s habit of terrorizing a Green Bay Packer fan in their neighborhood, Jennifer wrote that the fan’s mailbox often “lay smashed in the street, a casualty of my brothers' drive-by to school in the morning. George would swerve his Mach II Mustang while Gregory held a baseball bat out the window to clear the mailbox off its post. . . . Lately, the Packers fan had resorted to stapling a Kleenex box to the mailbox post to receive his mail. George's red Mustang screeched up beside us, the Packers fan's Kleenex mailbox speared on the antenna.” [Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, page 16]

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