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With his Confederate-flag-draped past, Sen. George Allen is in trouble for using a term for monkeys -- and racial slur elsewhere in the world -- to ridicule a dark-skinned man at a campaign rally.
  • sigh... These Republican fellows...

    I LOVE these guys.

    Yale/Harvard grad, spends months at a time vacationing (at taxpayer expense) in his estate in Texas. What does he call it? "My RANCH." Sternographers/reports in the White House detail dutifully back up his script.

    Now we have Allen. California bred, privileged son of celebrity aping a home-spun good ol' boy. A sports celebrity, so it's more Real American than, say an actor. Reporters dutifully back up his script.

    What really cracks me up is when these elites try acting "down home". They can't even be racist like real good-old boys. Guy can't even call them coloreds a nigger - using instead a French/Belgian equivalent.

    How sissified. I'm dissapointed. I expected so much more from these GOP headliners.

    Talking out of class here, but growing up in California, I knew a lot of these guys. Would sprout off their crap and push around smaller Asian-American students, chuckling because of their size difference. After school, 10 friends would take out these guys like a mechanic dismantling a car. No more racist crap from them for the rest of the year. Ah, the good old days...