No, George Allen should not have acted like a drunken fool on the campaign trail.
Now, was he acting like a "drunken fool"? Not really. The videos, et al, show that Macaca man (S.R. Siddarth who has other relatives in Democrat politics) was actually getting up in the man's face with his oversize camera.
This is exactly the trick used in Afghanistan just a few days before 9/11 to assassinate OUR GUY who was going to be leading nationalist forces against the Taliban on the ground (just in case we had to clean things up over there).
I don't think the people who were supposed to protect George Allen should have let Macaca guy get that close but somebody wanted to be polite.
Better to be safe than sorry and find somebody to do the beatdown if the authorities won't.
Sad to hear about the Standard's reporter, but somebody ~ probably the Coakley broad herself ~ thought he was too close ~ and, I'd say that given the history of Massachusetts people who've been Senator and who've been assassinated, she was fair to think that.
Now she's unleashed the dogs of war on the campaign trail, so I'd say civility by our candidates in dealing with their "newsies" should come to a big screeching halt.
You've got people around on their side like Rahm Emanuel and you just know he'd hold an assassination on somebody if he thought he could get away with it and pick up a seat.
It's suddenly become too dangerous for gentlemanly behavior.