They succeeded in getting liberals more in tune with the election to turn Mr. Allen out of office.
More importantly, THEY SUCCEEDED IN GETTING CONSERVATIVES TO TURN AGAINST MR. ALLEN, IN FORUMS SUCH AS RIGHT HERE ON F.R. AND ELSEWHERE.
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
Let's keep on piling on Senator Allen. After all that is what the liberals want us to do and we have to be obedient you know. They want us in an internecine, reactionary mode, rather than united, backing up one of our own (see voting record) and going on the offensive.
The last thing the GOP needs is another politically correct redneck.
Grow a pair, Senator.
This is great. Let's keep eating up our own, rather than uniting behind someone we need in the Senate...let's give that Virginia Senate seat to Webb(D) anyway. He'd be much better than Allen anyway, vote wise. In fact, we need more lib dems in the Senate. Oh my my The liberals love over at DU and elsewhere must love watching us go for the bait and implode.
You wrote (loudly), "THEY SUCCEEDED IN GETTING CONSERVATIVES TO TURN AGAINST MR. ALLEN, IN FORUMS SUCH AS RIGHT HERE ON F.R. AND ELSEWHERE."
Nope, sorry. You can't blame liberals for Allen's seeming inability to keep his foot from his mouth or, for that matter, blame conservatives such as myself for feeling no enthusiasm whatsoever for his presidential aspirations.
Allen is in a close race with a tough opponent, and knew that he would be under a media microscope, yet somehow couldn't refrain from making an (admittedly) vague racial aspersion. Or association. Or whatever the heck it was.
I am tempted to believe, though, that Webb sent his man to innumerable Allen events on purpose: highly visible, always there, getting under Allen's skin, hoping to provoke a response--any response--from Allen. Since Webb's man is (evidently) obviously of Indian extraction, then any response by Allen to this kind of calculated pseudo-stalking could be tied to his supposedly racist sentiments. And it worked, probably better than Webb and his people could've dreamed.
Allen was outplayed. If he doesn't do well against Webb, a relative neophyte to electoral politics, imagine how he will do against someone like, say, Hillary. It would be like watching a duck swimming in the shark tank at the zoo.