[Dems_R_Losers]

Allen losing this election would be pretty big. The Democrats would pound it that they have now won two straight statewide elections in a "red state." Mark Warner's campaign for President would get a huge boost. And Jim Webb will become the new media darling. They'll spin the hell out of his being a former Reaganite who is now a Democrat senator. Very dangerous.

People seem to be forgetting something else fishy about this. Does anyone remember who George Allen followed as Governor of Virginia? Doug Wilder! Does anyone seriously think that Wilder would have let George Allen get away with hiding all this racism?

And another thing about Larry Sabato. He was a student-government geek at UVA. People like that had ZERO contact with football players. I was the same type of political geek at a large Southern university in the 1970s, and I can tell you I never had any contact with football players. I would be surprised if he was ever even in the same room with George Allen in college. I'll bet he did hear of some cracker football players using racial slurs, but I'll bet just as much that George Allen is guilty only of being on the same football team with some rednecks.

This is all a manufactured smear, of the worst possible kind. And George Allen will nevr recover from it, even if he wins this election. IMO, he needs to come out with both barrels firing, demand that Jim Webb speak about this and demand that he deny any association with the smear and prtomise that nobody in his campaign will ever speak about it. He really needs to put the Democrats on the defensive about their smear tactics if he has any chance of recovering. Virginians really don't like this kind of gutter politics.

[twigs]

Boy, do I ever remember Wilder! He completely ruined the career of Chuck Robb, although Robb helped him do it. While I was glad to see Robb out of politics, I didn't like the way it happened. Wilder was one nasty man. He had his eye on national office. I'm glad his character was revealed--and kept--in Virginia.

I would not assume that "rednecks" filled the football at VA in the early 70's. At that time, football players mostly had to have the same qualifications for admittance that other students had to have. And they got few concessions once they were there. I don't remember the football team having a winning year while I was there. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong. The running joke was always that the only way our football could win was to have both teams take the SAT and the winner would have the higher scores.