THE EARMARK

Listen up, Washington!  Your former denizen, George Allen (R-VA), is about to lecture you, and he’s going to begin just as soon as he can get the American public to pay attention.

In a blog post entitled “George Allen’s Road Back?“, Politico’s Ben Smith writes…

A book is often a start on that road, and Regnery announced today that they’re publishing one by the former Virginia senator:

The book, due out next year, will be called, “The Triumph of Character: What Washington Can Learn from the World of Sports.”

Although the book’s publicists are revealing few details (apart from the exciting news that Allen was an excellent rugby player in college), we imagine that Allen plans to admonish his colleagues to:

- Display a noose in a tree at one’s law office in a former Confederate stronghold.

- Call a dark-skinned constituent “macaca” to incite taunts from a redneck audience.

- Allegedly use racial epithets against African-Americans.

- Deny being Jewish.

The only caveat is that, according to Allen’s book title, Washington politicians need to learn these lessons via the world of sports.  Well conveniently enough for our purposes, Allen personally has a NFL Hall of Fame father of the same name!  So all the tips listed above still apply!

Now as for Ben Smith’s prognosis of an Allen comeback, we urge GOP leadership to proceed slowly with this.  Sure, a book on “character” is going to vault Allen into the 2012 presidential dialogue, but will it really be enough to hold off the surge generated by Mark Sanford’s guide to a healthy marriage, Bobby Jindal’s public speaking manual, or Sarah Palin’s tome on perseverance in the workplace?

Because at the current rate, those books are definitely on their way!