The New No Nothings: Allen And Young

Here's a great ticket for a new No Nothing Party: George "Macaca" Allen and Andrew "Jews, Koreans and Arabs" Young.

The No Nothings arose in the mid-1800's as a nativist movement opposed to immigration at a time when a large wave of Irish Catholics were arriving in major eastern cities in the U.S.

Virginia Senator George Allen and former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young would make a good crossover ticket for a new No Nothing movement. Allen's recent referral of a young Indian-American campaign worker as "macaca" and his "welcome to America" comment to the Fairfax County (which has a large ethnic population) resident qualify him to head the ticket. As a bonus, Allen's unqualified support for every one of Bush's failed policies makes him, literally, qualified as a Know Nothing.

Andrew Young would seem like a more unlikely candidate for the Know Nothings, but his recent comments in support of Walmart have pushed him into contention for the VP slot. For those who missed it, Young applauded Walmart for pushing out the "mom and pop" stores that had served African-American communities for generations. His rationale:

"[T]hose are the people who have been overcharging us, selling us stale bread and bad meat and wilted vegetables. And they sold out and moved to Florida. I think they've ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it's Arabs; very few black people own these stores."

Nice move, Andrew--you managed to offend even more ethnicities than Allen.

The Curmudgeon's (Jewish) grandfather owned a mercantile store in the small town of North, South Carolina, where he served the local African-American community for years, extending credit when no one else would, giving items to needy families and providing jobs to young men and women who otherwise would've been stuck working in cotton fields.

Anyway, Young has been dropped by Walmart, for obvious reasons. So now he has time to get together with Senator Allen.

Sadly, they'd probably get quite a few votes.