for their due dilligence on disclosures regarding this story.

Clearly it is understood that those who haven't gotten the word that Allen is damaged goods will be making accusations these stories are the product of some left wing conspiracy. However, as Republicans are coming out and saying they heard the same thing reflects well on honest Republicans, and also makes clear that the people publically defending Allen do not have clean hands.

America does not care anymore about this issue. Blacks folks have no political currency in the culture except for being a soundbite or a reason for publications to score some white guilt points to discuss on Sunday at church (the most segregated day in America).

I wish Salon would start outing everyday white americans who have contempt for me. Please start publishing the names of lawyers, clerks, priests, insurance agaents, drivers, cooks, drives and reporters who call me nigger 24/7.

Disclosure at this level of American life has more value and currency in truth..

The seemingly unending stream of evidence pointing to the racist and sadistic elements in Senator Allen's personality are creating an unremarkable political problem. Senator Allen's claims of long-standing liberal values regarding race are obviously absurd. His political ship is taking on water fast.

I too am proud of Salon for pursuing this avenue. If the Democrats aren't willing to highlight Allen being unfit for office, all the more need for the media to take this on. As a Northern Virginia resident, I am not hopeful though. Even if it was revealed that Allen had sacrificed small animals and children, there is enough stupidity in the rest of Virginia that he will most likely be re-elected. Our alternative? Mr. "The Naval Academy is a horny woman's dream", for whom I will still vote because I am that desperate. In preparation for the November elections, I am seeing more and more yellow bumper stickers advocating a "yes" vote on the hateful and shameful marriage amendment to our Constitution. Last night I watched Jon Stewart making fun of Virginians. While I wished he would distinguish between Northern Virginians and the rest of the state, he was very funny and yet, I am embarrassed to be seen as part of this Neanderthal voting bloc.

" Another teammate..." implies that this is someone new, who we haven't heard from before.

But this is one of the teammates who was quoted in your Sunday piece; all that's new is his willingness to be identified.

I get as much schadenfreude as the next guy from watching Allen's campaign crumble around him, but this sort of misleading slant is precisely the thing that the folks at Fox News will jump on to "prove" that the left is out to make Allen look even worse than he already does.

If - and this is a deep excursion into the subjunctive - there is any justice - then this obviously lying, loser asshole is officially done - and we may put the fork in him.

Northern Virginia is rapidly becoming one of the most cosmopolitan spots in the US - and now Allen has not only slurred African-Americans - with his macaca routine he decided to slur the - what 1.2 billion souls on the Indian sub-continent? - and let us keep in mind that 300,000,000 or so of those slurred folks are Muslims living under an unstable military dictatorship perched atop what could easily become a militant Islamic fundamentalist populace - who - in the event of toppling the dictatorshipo - would mean a fundamentalist Islam with nukes!

I don't believe that a moronic and reckless white supremacist is really what we need represetning our interests at this point in time.

Next, allen will promise to go through bigot rehab. Seven steps: nigger; nigrah; darkie; coon; colored; Afro-American; black. You can do it, George. On your own time, after you lose. Honky cracker.

Growing up in south Texas in the 50s and 60s, I certainly heard many racial slurs, not just epithets but everyday, unremarkable references that were so racially bigoted, even if those using them weren't vociferous racists, that I cringe to recall them. That kind of language was so widespread that it would hardly even be noticed -- by those who weren't the objects of it -- much less be condemned.

George Allen is about my age. Am I surprised that he would have used those kinds of slurs when he was growing up, even in southern California? Hardly, though he came from such privilege that we might expect something better from him.

But that he would still use them when he was in college in the 70s? That's a lot harder to get past. By that time, we'd been in the Civil Rights era since we were young teens, and as a nation we were trying to come to terms with our past, in a way that we really hadn't done before. Not recognizing that the times were changing -- or worse, recognizing the changes but still persisting in the old, bad ways of the past -- seems to show a racial attitude that wasn't just an unconscious product of its time and place.

It seems that Allen's past attitude was a skeleton that he'd managed to keep hidden in the closet pretty well. Now that it's out, his current attitude is most truly revealed when we see how he reacts to being discovered. Unfortunately for him (and maybe fortunately for us), his act is too much like "ignore that man behind the curtain" to be credible.

One thing he can't do credibly is deny that he ever used such words. Nor can Jim Webb. What they can do is acknowledge their own past and apologize for it, because it was as wrong then as it is now. Only now, there's no excuse for it at all, and lying about the past just makes him look like he's still got something to hide.

New Orleans?

Wow, that would be a first for a Republican!

I don't understand why George Allen is running away from his racism. He is the quintessential GOP candidate: racist, arrogant, cruel, and the dimwit son of wealth and power. He's George W. Bush redux. So Republicans, what's the problem?

The Republican Party, circa 2006, is unabashedly fascistic. It won't be long before their activists are wearing uniforms and breaking windows. If George Allen goes down in 2006, watch an even worse specimen, with better spin doctors, rise in 2008.