[Red Badger]

Details? Not enough votes..........

[TommyDale]

The Washington Post defeated George Allen by pursuing the Macaca incident.

[theDentist]

A few observations of my own:
1) "Macaca. " Look, if you don't know what a word means, don't use it to describe someone. I didn't buy his explanation that he didn't know what it means, I doubt you can make up a word that would be an ethnic slur that pretty well describes the guy you're trying to point out.

2) When your opponent and his minions accuse your of racial incidents, you get up on a podium and denounce them in the LOUDEST VOICE POSSIBLE for as long as you must. You DEMAND the person making the accusation be brought forward, and you file a suit if you must. Just saying "it didn't happen" won't work.

3) Know your ethnic heritage. Maybe he didn't know his mother was Jewish, but I have doubts. But even if so, you stand up and in the LOUDEST VOICE POSSIBLE for as long as you must you DEMAND the reporter apologize to yourself, to your family and that they explain in great detail why they even asked such a question, and you don't stop until you get that reply.

4) Wonder aloud why slurs against you and your name keep coming from people who support your opponent?

5)Hire a better staff for opponent research. A letter from 1979 was the best "dirt" he could come up with?

6) Talk about the economy, your record. Explain why you voted against a particular bill he's throwing out there. I Voted against it not because of this as he says, but because I didn't want $40 million to be used studying the life history of dung beetles".

7) If you can't do these things, give up.

[Alberta's Child]

When the full post-mortems on this race are done, I predict that military votes for James Webb were a much bigger factor in this race than anyone realizes.

[elc]

That chart doesn't really explain the breakdown of votes though. Doesn't show how the independents voted (mostly for Webb I guess); doesn't show what percentage of republicans actually voted; what about military vote?

I'd like to see a breakdown of that compared to his last election.

[Mad Dawg]

FWIW, here's my first post-mortem on Allen:

A big part of this election for anyone was the MSM. This election was more a victory for the power of the MSM in its death throes than for anything else. They used their power by miss-stating issues almost invariably in ways which favord the dims. Repeatedly saying and writing "Stem-cell" instead of "Embryonic stem-cell" is probably the clearest example.

Virginia is changing demographically. When we, Yankees though we be, moved here in 1982 (but we moved from Mississippi, so some of the Yankee had rubbed off already), our area was strongly conservative. Now Albemarle County is thick with liberals. Our precinct went for Goode, Allen, and for the protection of marriage amendment. Our county went strongly against marriage and Republicans. If the Dims can find candidates, they'll be running the Sheriff's and the Commonwealth Attorney's offices next year. Our area used to send conservative Democrats (and the occasionaly Republican) to the state senate, now there'e a tendency in favor of liberal Democrats, the late Emily Couric being a prime example.

I think the shift in demographics is taking time to penetrate the skulls of the over-confident Republicans. I was personally involved in a trial where it was clear the Commonwealth Attorney thought that a charge of assault on a Law Enforcement Chaplain would trump the prevarications of the defense in a he-said/he-said type of case. But for our new population, a white deputy and clergydude is, if anything, less worthy of credit than a black defendant. OBVIUSLY (the the jury) there was a strong possibility that the charge was made out of lingering conservative hatred....

What this means is: "macaca" incidents. Either Allen was REALLY tired from campaigning or whatever, or he was over confident of his appeal, not realizing there was a new crowd to whom he had to make his case. After all, he'd won so may elections with such enthusiastic support from so many of us. It didn't occur to him that the newsies and the newcomers would be waiting eagerly for any crumb of a reason to rip apart somebody with a southern accent, cowboy boots and cowboy hat, and a conservative record.

We older guard folks, folks who know George and who know, understand, and appreciate the irreverence of a Confederate Battleflag (Take THAT, you snivelling liberal Puke!), we'll cut him a break. But the new folks in town, they're still a little repelled by the South and by Southerners. They don't get it. They came here for the scenery and the comparatively lower taxes and land prices.

These are the folks who prompt us to get bumper stickers that say,"I don't CARE how you did it up North!" They think we SHOULD care, that we should know that they have come to save us from our southernness, and we should be grateful.

It's ONLY if you don't know this, don't appreciate it, that you will let words like 'macaca' (whatever the h*ll that might actually mean) come out of your mouth when you are within a furlong of a person of less than lily-white complexion and within a mile of a newsie.

Me, I'm thinking of sending some money to Santorum.

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[Old Professer]

Even a monkey knows better than to swing beyond his reach.

[GOP_1900AD]

We already know the one (jibberish) word answer. I won't bother with writting it. Some people are just oafs.