ALLEN RESIGNATION WATCH- DAY ONE

ARE THERE ANY RACIAL SLURS THAT GEORGE ALLEN HAS NOT USED?!?!?!

UPDATE: OK, this is officially the end of the campaign.

Another Update by Not Virginia Centrist: Check out the latest George Allen slur...this one is a shameful rant against Beloved Governor Doug Wilder. And for the love of God, WATCH THAT VIDEO...Doctors say that this kind of laughter will add 10 years to your life!

Yet Another Update by Not Virginia Centrist: Washington Post story up.

Comments

Has he called you a Christ-killer yet?

[TMU]

"Has it occurred to you, you nerd, that that's not very nice?

We Jews believe it was Santa Claus who killed your Jesus Christ.

If there's one thing that I can't stand, it's an ethnocentric racist.

Now you take back those things you said about Aristotle Onassis."

Ah, the Kinkster.

Now Now.

The only way George Allen is going to leave is by an election defeat.

We have all known about this for years. We speculated in 1993 and we were pretty sure in 2000, just no one came forward.

I have to agree with Dannyboy, this election is not over and Allen probably will maintain a very slim lead. Why? Most of his loyal supporters just don't care about what they are now calling a "character assasination."

The real wait-and-see game is whether or not some of those loyals will stay at home and whether some will vote for Webb.

Don't dare discount the 72 hour GOP campaign. And don't dare forget the $8 Million dollars that Allen has to blow.

U.S. Army weighs in on Allen : http://bands.army.mil/music/bugle/calls/taps.mp3

(rip from RK, tip to v-l)

[marco]

Ben,

No need to get your panties all wet yet.

When you look at this, compare these hit pieces to the military women who came to Richmond and opened themselves to media scrutiny.

In this instance, you have a Salon piece, the New York Times, and Larry Sabato. Sabato won't answer questions and only seems willing to repeast hearsay.

Bring these witnesses forward to public scrutiny. Hold a press conference. Let the press ask questions.

Don't stand behind hearsay.

[UVA08]

Sabato is a respected independent voice in politics. Why would he risk it all to lie about George Allen??

Wow

Larry Sabato has been celebate for twenty years, so he could save up the load he just blew up Allen's ass tonight.

[James Young]

It's no wonder Ben has raised this. Allen's withdrawal is the only way that Webb can win.

[Not Harry F. Byrd, Sr.]

The GOP 72 hour campaign? You gotta be kidding me.

A - You mean the 72 Hour Campaign promoted by George Allen media football player defender Doug Jones??? (http://www.rpv.org/contents/spotlight/doug_jones.shtml) I thought he was just a non-politically-connected football player defending Allen's character? I'm confused.

B - The GOP has no ground game in Fairfax County. NONE.

The $8,000,000, I worry about. I'm not clear what he's going to spend it on at this point. Maybe he ought to give it to a college and get another endorsement.

[Harry]

Is there another debate on the schedule?

[Denis Lemieux]

I'm with Anon 9:17 up there. In the immortal words of Winston Wolfe, "Let's not start sucking each others dicks just yet."

Webb's campaign has done a good job of staying out of the path of the trainwreck, but now Virginians need to see Jim as his own man and worthy of the office he seeks. It's not enough to prove Allen's an idiot, we have to show Webb as a Senator.

tradesports : Webb offer $45 / Allen bid $55.

Getting close.

Turtle and hare kinda race.

[Denis Lemieux]

Hey Marco, you want a press conference?

Where's Allen's first wife?

[Denis Lemieux]

Hey Marco, you want a press conference?

Where's Allen's first wife?

[marco]

All of these driveby shootings perpetrated by the liberal media amount to the political equivalent of premature ejaculations.

If we take things to the next logical step, you'll claim that George Allen killed puppies while listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd.

At some point, people are going to start smelling the bullshit that the Webb campaign is trying to sell.

The only problem is that in their haste to assasinate the character of a public servant, they have failed to tell us how Jim Webb will vote on just about any issue.

Remember this...and you heard it here first...people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Live by muckraking, lose because of muckraking.

[Denis Lemieux]

Hey Marco, you want a press conference?

Where's Allen's first wife?

Where's Webbs first wife?

Oh yea, in the bed with his second.

[marco]

Denis Leary:

Bring her on. If you think you have something, put on a stage with a microphone.

Don't be such a wuss. Do it. Put up or shut up time.

To anon. at 9:36:

What's this about Webb's first wife being in bed with his second?

marco, ao if Allen's first wife comes forward, are you going to attack her too? the thread is getting thinner...

[UVA08]

Ignore the hard right on this one. They will defend Allen if he applied to become the next grand wizard of the KKK. This is about the Independent vote. Democrats and Independent make up over 60 percent of the electorate in Virginia so it they who we should be directing our energy towards, not these people making asinine excuses and attacks for Allen.

Why wouldn't Larry answer Matthews' question as to how he "knows" that Allen used the n-word? All he would say was that he was sure that he did, but he wouldn't back it up.

Does lefty Larry want to be known as the guy who brought down Allen?

Denis:
To paraphrase Full Metal Jacket, someone in the webb campaign has been screwing you in the ass without giving you the common courtesy of a reach around.

[Denis Lemieux]

Hey Marco, you want a press conference?

Where's Allen's first wife?

Wondering where the A-Trolls were.

[Sterling Ambivalence]

As Neil Patrick Harris might say on a TV show, this race is LEGENDARY!

"But now another former acquaintance of the senator's has come forward, saying that Allen once used the word "nigger" in his presence in the early '80s. Chris Taylor, a University of Alabama professor of anthropology, says the incident occurred in about 1981 or 1982, when Taylor (then a UVA graduate student) visited Allen (then a Virginia attorney just beginning his political career) at Allen's cabin in Earlysville, Virginia."

What he told TNR:
I met him twice actaully [sic]. I did two modelling [sic] jobs with his then wife and she told me about some puppies they were trying to give away. I told her I'd like to take one. So one evening I went out to their place in the country near [Charlottesville] somewhere. There was a pond quite close by. I asked if they had any waterfowl landing there. George told me about the ducks and geese that sometimes landed there and about the ducks who tried to raise their young but who would have them all devoured by the big turtles in the pond. Well, why doesn't someone kill the turtles and eat them? I asked. George said 'only the niggers around here eat em.'

[Sterling Ambivalence]

Link to the TNR piece (subscription req.) http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w060925&s=lizza092506

[Denis Lemieux]

Hey Marco, you want a press conference?

Where's Allen's first wife?

[Not Huey Long]

Marco, James, et al, I know this may be tough for you, but...

READ BETWEEN

THE LINES

Sabato has personal information, i.e. he heard the word(s) come out of the horses's ass. This will all be laid out when Sabato breaks the official word on a larger stage.

[marco]

Denis:
I'm still wondering if you've gotten your reach around yet?

LOL
the RPV article is mysteriously missing

LOL

Sweet jesus this gets funnier and funnier.

[marco]

Not Larry Sabato:

If Larry Sabato wants to step up to the plate and face the full scrutiny of the public and all of the questions that will necessarily be asked, let him do so.

And, yes, I can read between the lines. He does not have first hand information. He is merely spouting hearsay.

The problem for Sabato is that he can't be "Mr. Crystall Ball" and part of the story at the same time.

Marco's hopping mad.

[marco]

To anon. at 9:56:

You are fucking "A" right that I am mad. I didn't just fall off the turnip truck. And, I damn sure know what liberal character assasination looks like when I see it.

[Matt in VA]

I can smell the desperation from my laptop. Memo to Allen supporters: Allen's definition is going to be damn hard to recast. It's the reality, you should probably start coping.

Need a confirm on the TNR story. What up?

[Not Huey Long]

As I just said, I'm sure Sabato will elaborate in the coming days, and obviously, he'll be questioned thoroughly. Secondly, how do you know he's "spouting heresay"...obviously you have some inside information not privy to the rest of the world. Please do tell...

[Denis Lemieux]

Hey Marco, you want a press conference?

Where's Allen's first wife?

Not for a minute do I think Larry Sabato is depending on heresay.

There is another scheduled debate for Allen/Webb on October 7 in Richmond. It will be broadcast on tv.

WILTING WEED!!!!

[ifthethunderdontgetya]

Don't cry, marco. Polo!

[Not Huey Long]

Marco, maybe you're upset because it's finally sinking in that you've been staunchly defending a racist?? I imagine it's tough being an apologist for an incompetent bigot. I recommend ten deep breaths. And as someone else said, this is character suicide, not assasination.

[marco]

NHL:
I can read between the lines. If Sabato had first hand information, he wouldn't have even talked about it.

Why? Because he would not want to place himself in the middle of a story as a material witness.

Instead, he has likely been fed information.

Either way, until and unless he is willing to step forward and face a full array of questions, he should stay out of the story.

My guess is that he will more fully explain himself. However, his reputation as a political pundit will be harmed.

His Democrat background is no secret. And, his dislike of George Allen is not either.

[NotFrenchCheese]

Not for a minute should the Webb supporters get over confident. I believe Larry Sabato went on to say that Webb could not win without winning on the issues - not this latest scandal.

But today has been a great day for Virginia. If George Allen is full of hate, he deserves to be exposed.

[MarcoLovesAllen]

marco: Your supporting a racist son of a bitch. Just accept it.

[Denis Lemeiux]

Marco-

You paint your bald spot?

Watch out, Marco, snapper's gonna bite ya, better duck!

[Denis Lemieux]

Hey Marco, you want a press conference?

Where's Allen's first wife?

Hey! Denis finally got his reach around. Was it Saunders or Jarding?

[ifthethunderdontgetya]

Keith O. Watch it.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/09/25/olbermanns-special-comment-are-yours-the-actions-of-a-true-american/

[Denis Lemeiux]

Saints 17
Falcons 3

[Mister Mailbox]

Marco, when will you think about me? When will you think about the little black children who cried when Allen screamed the n-word repeatedly in their presence?

[Denis Lemeiux]

Saints 20
Falcons 3

Good God Almighty. One of only many more to come.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/content/2006/09/george_allens_r.html

Allens' getting N-bombed back to California.

[Neal]

Hey, at least George can look on the bright side; He hasn't insulted the American Indians yet.

But it's early...

[Virginia Centrist]

BREAKING NEWS

ANOTHER ALLEN SLUR REPORTED:

http://www.virginiacentrist.com/2006/09/breaking-another-allen-slur.html

C'mon idiots, it's not "heresay," it's "hearsay."

A-Team? donde estan?

"Preponderance of evidence".

Real time implosion of Allen campaign:
tradesports has Webb up $8. Only one Webb offer left on the table at $50. Webb's taking the lead!

Sorry... can't resist. Marco, I know you'll get whistful.

http://www.students4allen.com/GenericPage/DisplayPage.aspx?guid=4D34E38D-D43D-430B-BF8F-62CA3C1BF7BE

[Dannyboy]

That video is funny, but messed up. Allen's 2008 dreams are just that, dreams. He's gone. Hell, he'll be lucky to keep his Senate seat.

Marco:
You want a Republican's take on this? Here you go:

http://www.raisingkaine.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4725

[akaison]

It's not over. But, I will say this much to any of the so-called conservatives (who are really just racist's good ole boys here): if you don't think Sabato's opinion is respected in VA politics, then you have no fucking clue about VA politics. He's a moderate to conservative commentator who is well respected. You can keep thinking this will blow over all you want. All that will get you is another Oliver North.

[Dannyboy]

Marco:
Sorry, he's a FORMER Republican.

[Not Harry F. Byrd, Sr.]

Duck Season!

(any takers)
(or maybe I should say Turtle Season!)

i'm a proud democrat and admitted moderate. i thought all of this racist allegations were kind of bunk today, but this account by a former GOP activist who encountered Allen twice is damning.

[Virginia Centrist]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[akaison]

does the weekly standard count as republican because they have a problem with allen now too.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Matt in VA]

Why do you have to get me all excited like that? I thought it was Allen caught on tape using more racial slurs.

[Denis Lemieux]

Not to deviate from the task at hand (and risk this post mysteriously appearing every 30 seconds like the last one)
but did anyone actually check out the students4allen site? I was moved by their cutting edge issue, deisgner bag knock offs. I'm not kidding.

We have to get that video on the news somehow.

[LAS]

Holy Crap!

"You mark my words," Allen said. "Jesse Jackson can't win in Virginia. Hell, he's so far-out that even the niggers won't vote for him."

It gets worse...

"Just because we've got a black face in the governor's mansion doesn't mean the niggers are taking over." Doug Wilder, America's first African American Governor, had taken office in Richmond a year earlier.

Glad I'm NOT a fly on the wall to see Wilder's reaction to THAT.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/25/AR2006092500542.html

[military man]

$20 to the first person who publicly thanks cowboy george in person (and preferably on tape) for everything he's done to keep the niggers down.

As awful as George's past behavior is, it's also somewhat tragic that college is now fair game for campaigns.

Think of the impact on future generations: the only electable candidates will be the folks who spent their college years quietly avoiding being recorded on Webshots or YouTube.

Thus, while I celebrate the downward spiral of George Allen, I also mourn for the well-behaved, utterly bland leaders of tomorrow.

What's for dinner?

[ifthethunderdontgetya]

Anon @ 11:23

Nothing Senator Macacawitz said in college would even be in play if not for the fact that he's still playing the same racist card now, in the 2006 Virginia Senatorial campaign.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r90z0PMnKwI

That's the point.

[military man]

in case you're too young to catch that 11:22pm reference:

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2003/10/blowing-novaks-cover.html

cowboy george was no more believable in his denials today than jesse helms was on that broadcast, when he said, "One of the worst spankings I ever got was when I used [the "n"] word, and I don't think I’ve ever used it since."

yeah, right jesse.

[LAS]

And now for something not-so-completely different...

This morning's EXAMINER breathlessly reports that Webb's campaign is girding their loins, so to speak, for the inevitable and expected attack on Webb's military career. The Swiftboat guys are on Allen's team--of course--and they are quite ready to GO THERE--if and when they find the goods.

Which got me to thinking about Webb's Navy Cross citation--you know, where he basically threw his body between the grenade and another marine? What will Allen's group do with that, I wonder? Trot out the man whose life he saved to say, "hey, Webb kept me from getting that medal!" or "Hey, I WANTED to die!"

I speculate; meanwhile, all Allen's people had was another mention of the cartoon. It's not possible that this is all they've got,is it?

A-Trolls?

Fair enough, ifthethunderdontgetya, I'd agree with that.

Still, I shudder to think what future campaigns will unleash when digital-age kids start running for office. Whoo boy...

[Denis Lemieux]

Wild On Condoleezza?

The future is now.

ANYONE WANT TO PLACE BETS ON HOW FORREST GOT HIS NAME?

SEE YA GEORGE.

[notroberthurt]

I've stayed quiet for a long while, but this is the most amazing political race I've seen in years in the Commonwealth.

To put this in proper perspective, I want everyone to think back about 4 months ago right after the Dem primary.

No one seriously believed Webb would defeat Allen and even NLS was constantly talking about the inept campaign.

But more than that, during that time period George Allen was the golden boy of the VA GOP. I believe you will find may conservative blog posters using the term "rock star." And everyone who was anyone in the VA GOP was clinging to Allen for all they were worth.

Now less than four months later, we're not just looking at a Webb upset. These revelations are so toxic that anyone who wants to preserve their political futures in the GOP should be quickly distancing themselves from the same golden boy. It's not even debatable. He has literally insulted one fourth of VA voters (Asians and African-Americans). This is the biggest collapse since Trible choked against Marshall Coleman in 89 with even larger implications for the entire GOP.

Amazing.

Man, I'd hate to be George Allen's dog tonight.

[Phyllis Schlafly]

I'd be George Allen's bitch anyday.

or his first wife.

I'd rather be his turtle.

Or his horse

[ifthethunderdontgetya]

I think even G.F.A.'s turtle might be in trouble now.

I would actually love to hear Vince Harris' take on this right now. He's the only Republican I ever thought had an IQ over 100; does he still blog at TC anymore?

[Dannyboy]

ifthethunderdontgetya:
I agree. Without Macaca, I think most people ignore these charges. But now, they seem a possibility. And the more that these come out, the more that possibility becomes a likelihood.

[Dannyboy]

Maybe if George Allen goes out and eats a turtle tomorrow, this whole thing will die down.

Check mate.

[LAS]

Personally, I'd hate to be Bennie Lambert.

[plunge]

Those African American ministers supporting the anti-gay amendment mentioned in the WP article sure look pretty damn stupid as of about now.

The ministers are principaled. Allen is not.