First they whip the macaca issue to a frenzy then they nail Allen for over-apologizing. Allen better start counter-punching now.
The more you apologize, the guiltier you look.
His PR team has pissed down their leg on this one. Terrible job on their part. He would have been better off calling his brother Bruce and having one of the Tampa Bay Bucs PR people handle this one.
I wonder if he actually knew what he said?
It is about time we make the *Democrats* apologize for sympathizing with people like Saddam Hussein and Aub Musab al Zarqawi.
Mike Wallace should apologize for sucking up the apocalyptic madman in Iran too.
Allen is stupid to keep apologizing.
Once, I'd love to see someone stand up and bark back at these people.
If what he's said is true, he should just stand up and say, "hey, our staff gave this guy a nickname, it means nothing and never has, it's just a nickname...end of story."
Talk about being played for a chump....
Allen should say "I've already addressed the error." and decline further comment
He's repeating the same mistakes as Trent Lott. He needs to just shut up.
He's toast. Another spineless wimp senator. Good riddance.
Allen should have called the guy a piece of merda and been done with it.
He is losing more votes for apologizing than he would by just keeping his mouth shut.
He should just say that he's tired of that tar baby and all the curry sniffers should put some ice on it. :~O
AGAIN??? This is apology #4! He should tell the Media - "I apologized and that's it!"
All George has to do is say something nice about McCain.
Hey Dana, I'm still waiting for the WaPo's apologies.... Any old time now...... No need to stand on ceremony.... Just go ahead and seek our forgiveness....... Whenever you're ready to confess....... I'll give you a list of things to apologize for if you need help getting started. You can start with this phony 'insult' you've created with George Allen.
Allen should never have apologized. He should have just laughed it off and called them all useless "macacas" and let them just fume and rage about it.
This made him look very weak. Not good. You can't genuflect to your political enemies just because they get tough. You need to get tougher and meaner. Frankly, I'm looking around for somebody else to support now. Allen isn't hacking it.
Allen's campaigning recently has to be one of the WORST managed campaigns in recent senate elections.
Allen has managed to blow away a double digit lead to a lead of a few points , what a fool and a wimp!
This repeated apologising has to be a really bad piece of political strategy, a putz like Webb should be on the ropes now, instead its Allen on the defensive..
No, I don't consider Brownbach remotely viable with this cohort (he went "soft" on illegal immigration, is a very poor speaker, and comes across as dull, among other things), so I doubt it will be him. So who is left, that one can reasonably expect might decide to go for it to fill the vacuum, as opposed to those who say they won't, such as Condi Rice (who would probably not fill the bill anyway)? Or is no one left, and the three are the viable choices, in which event some in this neighborhood will not be happy campers?
He's apologized, and now he needs to take control of the campaign.
Has there ever been a more poignant example of media bias favoring the Democrats than this piece by the Washington Post....I don't think so.