Hannity Calls Allen The '08 Frontrunner

First the National Journal's Insiders' poll... representing the "insiders' -- and now Sean Hannity, representing "talk radio" -- labels VA Sen. George Allen the frontrunner to win the 2008 GOP presidential nomination.

An important take-away lesson from what you'll read below: ALLEN SPENDS A LOT OF TIME ON CONSERVATIVE TALK RADIO. And that WILL matter, come 2007 and 2008. (It matters now because fundraisers see it. And money in the GOP chases frontrunners...)

Hannity: "As of today, I think you will be the nominee of the Republican Party in 2008...."

A listener writes: "Allen demurred noting that he was running for re-election in 2006, but he did identify three key issues he's focusing on that people have discussed with him in his travels around the country: illegal immigration, judges, and spending. Hannity also tried to talk Allen into picking former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani as his running mate, but Allen wouldn't bite saying there are many excellent people in the Republican Party." [MARC AMBINDER]