[JCEccles]

Standards ARE the point. Webb has fallen far short of them. He has no shame, no sense of personal decency. His character is squarely in issue.

[Rembrandt_fan]

You wrote, "His character is squarely in issue."

I agree, but not for the same reasons. Webb has run a despicable campaign, setting up Allen on that 'Macaca' deal, going so far as to align himself with the Kos Kids and the MoveOn crowd, throwing mud without substance--and that isn't even delving into his motivations for switching parties, or his weirdly abrupt and psychologically suspect, hot-headed resignation from the Reagan Administration. Like I said previously, he can be beaten on the character issue, but invoking his fiction as ammunition is bad thinking--and worse--bad strategy.