Last weekend on “The Score” radio show, my colleague Scott Lee interviewed former senator (and current GOP Senate candidate) George Allen. I was somewhat agnostic on how Allen would perform. However, there were flashes during that 15 minutes of air time of the old George Allen – the one who won a huge, come from behind victory for Governor back in 1993 and the man who swept Democratic incumbent Sen. Chuck Robb from office in 2000. It was almost enough for me to think “yeah…this guy can win it all.”

And for me, who has been rather hard on Allen since his electoral debacle in 2006, that’s quite a change.