[CharlesWayneCT]

This is probably just the beginning. The Virginia Senate Race has been ugly, driven by the DailyKos, MoveOn, DU folks, and their local counterpart RaisingKaine.

They called Allen a racist. They said his son was named after the founder of the KKK (imagine having to go to school after THAT gets circulated about you). They said his grandfather was a Nazi collaborator who was arrested by the allies. They said his mother was a racist that taught him to swear in foreign languages as a child.

They said he was anti-semitic, and was ashamed of his heritage. They said his supporters "booed a jew" at a debate.

Good people know that what you said 30 years ago doesn't define a man. Republicans are pretty good about that, and pretty fair about treating people fair. But good republicans won't sit around and protect Webb after seeing what Webb has done to Allen.

[Ganymede]

Will the white men in Virginia who have never hurled racial epithets at a black person please stand up?

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Why is it that I have been able to get through my life w/o ever calling a white person "whitey"..."honkey"...or whatever stupid racial epithet there is for a white person. And, no, I've never referred to a fellow black as a "nigger." All our ignorant.

[Antoninus]

I'm going to start calling Webb "the W-word" and democrats "the d-word."

His supporters truly are SCUM--make that, "the s-word."

[F.J. Mitchell]

Tell us your definition of epithet, Mr. Webb.Inquiring minds want to know this, so we can understand your holier than thou attitude towards your opponent.