George Allen Needs Help

Chris Lacivita is turning to Chad Dotson to turn around the blogosphere for George Allen, according to this story in the Hotline Blog.

Allen's problem isn't a lack of support in the blogosphere, every GOP blog was enthusiastically supporting him two weeks ago.  The problem is with the comments he made and whether any young blogger wants to be tagged and associated with those comments for the rest of their political lives.

It will be interesting to see who is hired, and any changes we see after that in the Virginia blogosphere.  Dick Wadhams has a personal history with secret internet operations in South Dakota, and I hope we won't allow him to bring Virginia discourse to that disgusting level.

Welcome to the new Virginia where young Republicans, and Democrats from the suburbs won't stand for racial slurs- apology or not.  There have been so many Republicans that have gained credibility from this situation by condemning the words unequivocally- and they are the winners in this whole mess.  The ones who chose to embrace or attempt to explain a racial slur in 2006 will have to live with that in the future.

Comments

[GinterParked]

Bring it on!

[phriendlyjaime]

Think they will be on the lookout for blogger shills at the Martinsville conference?

Dirty, dirty money....

[JPTERP]

You mean Chad isn't already on the payroll?

[Shaun]

Welcome to the new Virginia where young Republicans, and Democrats from the suburbs won't stand for racial slurs- apology or not.

... that is a bridge too far, Ben.

Apology accepted IMO, and shame on anyone who doesn't have the character to accept one.

Thus what makes a Virginian stand out in a crowd. Honor and chivalry are still alive south of the Rappahannock, my friend.

Word is that Allen staff is offering to pay some of the more influential voices in the blogosphere to put out information that the blogger would be fed.

[Virginia Centrist]

Keep your eyes on the FEC reports!

[JPTERP]

Shaun has George Allen actually apologized? His campaign manager was once again, saying something completely different this weekend.

[Shaun]

He most certainly did, and in a much more direct fashion than Webb ever apologized for the anti-Semitic flyer...

Back to the topic though, why is it that we can't accept an apology from George Allen? Has political discourse really coarsened to this degree?

Perhaps it's this way in New York and New Jersey politics, but certainly not in the Virginia I grew up in...

Is Ben being paid by Webb??

They clearly leaked this story to him from the beginning and used him so they could be removed from the story.

[brimur]

Nice end line in that article - Bush "has no qualms about helping Allen"! What about those 4 out of 5 undecideds who disapprove of Bush. Do THEY have any qualms with Allen accepting Bush's help?

Mr. 97% proves once again that he's just Bush's little dog.

[Not Huey Long]

How does 'macaca' and the context it was said in correlate to:

"Honor and chivalry are still alive south of the Rappahannock, my friend...Perhaps it's this way in New York and New Jersey politics, but certainly not in the Virginia I grew up in..."?

Utterly ridiculous statements.

[Dannyboy]

I have to agree that getting Bush to come out is an interesting choice for the Allen team. By looking at polls recently, that's exactly what he doesn't need to pull solidly ahead of Webb.

As for apologies, Shaun, I don't think you're the one George Allen needs to apologize too. He doesn't need to apologize to me either. He needs to personally apologize to Siddarth, and not through a press conference. He needs to pick up the phone and contact the kid to personally apologize. According to Sid, he has yet to do this.

[Insider]

NLS is complaining that a campaign enlisted the help of a blogger?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I'm gonna laugh all night at that hypocrisy.

HELP WANTED

Wanted: Bloggers willing to trade integrity for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
If you have a reasonably well established blog site and have up until now been viewed as non-aligned, then have we got a deal for you!
Here's how the program works:
We will send you information that will prove that our opponent is a liberal racist, God hating, Mexican loving abortionist who wants to take your guns away and force men to marry men, and who is an anti-American terrorist supporter who never even was really in the Marines or had any association with Ronald Reagan.

In return we will make sure that you receive bundles of TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS in brown paper bags!

Hey, no problem!

Get your piece of the American dream before all the non-whites take over America!

If you'd like to be involved, without "being connected"....... Just contact the Re-Elect Allen headquarters and ask to speak to Chris Lacivita. A good ole 'Merican boy. Not like that Macaca import....

Or call: 1-800-RAC-ISTS

[Shaun]

Dannyboy, I disagree that he owed the body politic an apology.

Still, Allen has indeed offered to apologize to Sidharth the next time they see each other, yes? Isn't that what the WaPo reported?

I just don't understand why someone would say an apology isn't enough.

I hate to keep bringing up Webb's non-apology for the flyer (because it should have no bearing on how Allen conducts himself), but a comparison of the two gaffes just makes one wonder why Allen is held up to a different standard than Webb by pruportedly objective and outraged citizens.

Just a thought.

[JPTERP]

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Here's another one Anon 7:40 PM

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People of color and the educated need not apply.

HELP WANTED continued:

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Just like the 14 excuses (so far) that we've come up with to defend our candidate, we will give you SOLID evidence that we've made up about our opponent's racist past and activities.

Again, that number is:
1-800-RAC-ISTS

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[Anon 7:40]

Thanks JPTERP! Let's win this thing!

[Jews4Webb]

Maybe Webb hasn't apologized because the flyer wasn't anti semitic? At a minimum to compare the two is awful. Webb's flyer is debateable at best, while Allen's comment is a racial slur in the dictionary in his mother's native tounge.

The stuff coming from "Shaun" cheapens what Jews have really been through.

[JPTERP]

Amen Anon 7:40!

[jews4allen]

I disagree, jews4webb... but then again, you knew that.

[charles]

NLS, I'm not young but I've got no fear of being connected to "those comments", and more than you feared being linked to Webb's inappropriate use of the term "anti-christ".

I know we're supposed to cower at the fear of being labelled racist, but I know what is in my heart and I don't care what a bunch of political opportunists trumps up about me.

But you make the point about how the left uses charges of racism to discourage political discourse and win an argument they can't win with the force of their ideas. If all you have is name-calling, I guess that's what you do.

And the idea that Wadhams could drag the internet any lower than it already is makes me laugh. Not that I want anybody to pull down the discourse, but that ship flew when Webb entered the race.

[Jews4Gail]

Rail is the answer to anti-Semitism, the war in Iraq, AIDS, global warming, racism, and every other problem. Go Gail for Rail!

[JPTERP]

Correction:

"And the idea that WADHAMS could drag the internet any lower . . ."

Should read:

"And the idea that the INTERNET could drag ALLEN any lower . . ."

"anti-semetic" ??? It was anti-fat cat. Does Allen stand by his "macaca" statement?