Meanwhile, at Camp Macaca…

G. Felix Johnson: [shouting] The sheriff's a ni….

(last word inaudible due to loud church bell)

Harriett Van Johnson: What did he say?

Dr. Sam Johnson: He said the sheriff is near.

(h/t Uncle Smokes over at House Atrios.)

So here is where we are.

Poll: Allen Tied With Democrat in Va.

By BOB LEWIS

The Associated Press

Friday, September 29, 2006; 11:45 PM

RICHMOND, Va. -- U.S. Sen. George Allen's Democratic opponent has closed the gap in the race, reflecting two difficult weeks for the first-term Republican battling claims of racial insensitivity, according to a poll released Friday night.

Allen and Jim Webb each had the support of 43 percent of the respondents, according to the MSNBC/McClatchy Poll conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc.

Twelve percent were undecided and 2 percent backed independent candidate Gail Parker.
Allen, who was positioning himself for a 2008 presidential race as he sought re-election, led Webb by 16 percentage points in a Mason-Dixon poll two months ago.

Allen saw his support in drop in the polls since he singled out a 20-year-old Webb campaign volunteer of Indian descent at a nearly all-white rally on Aug. 11 and called him "Macaca," a word considered a racial slur in some cultures.
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And while this is delightful news in the Relative Universe of politics, Real Americans who turn their eyes to this fight for power in the capital of the barbaric Old Confederacy may well ask, “Why is G. Felix Allen only tied? Why isn’t this steaming load of Johnny-Reb-Come-Lately racist stoopid losing by a fucking furlong?”

Why, when the news of the day – every day – is something like this…

Another teammate confirms Allen used "N-word"

The Virginia senator's denial spurs a former friend to come forward with memories of Allen's racial slurs: "I don't know how George can look himself in the mirror."
By Michael Scherer

Sep. 29, 2006 | A former football teammate of Sen. George Allen decided Friday to go on the record with recollections of the Virginia Republican's alleged racist behavior during college.

Edward J. Sabornie, a special education professor at North Carolina State University, had previously spoken to Salon about Allen's behavior on the condition of anonymity, because he feared retribution from the Allen campaign. In a Salon story on Sunday, Sabornie was quoted as a "teammate" who remembered Allen using the word "nigger" to describe blacks. "It was so common with George when he was among his white friends. This is the terminology he used," Sabornie said in that article.

Sabornie said he has now decided to let his name be known because he was upset by how Allen responded this week to the Salon story. "What George said on Monday really kind of inflamed me -- that it was 'ludicrously false' that he ever used the N-word," Sabornie told Salon. "I don't know how George can look himself in the mirror after saying that."

Since Sunday, four other named acquaintances of Allen have told news organizations that they witnessed Allen using a racial epithet or demonstrating racist behavior. Allen, and his campaign staff, have denied each of the claims.

Sabornie, a registered independent who considers himself a liberal Democrat, was first contacted by Salon on Sept. 17. In the past, Sabornie said he has shown support for Allen, even writing him a congratulatory letter in 2000 after Allen was elected to the Senate.

But Sabornie said his opinion of Allen dimmed after the senator called an Indian-American student "macaca" at a recent campaign rally. "That was the catalyst," Sabornie said. "I saw the old George."
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--- hasn’t G. Felix Allen sunk like a neutronium turd in a mountain lake?

The simple reason – the one that’s killing us and that we fervidly refuse to talk about as a nation – is that beneath men like Allen is a rock-solid base of compacted human garbage.

The large and largely invisible base of his Party go conspicuously unnoticed and uncommented upon year after year after year. All high-priced musing and pothering is reserved either for “the horserace” -- the specific tactics a given candidate is using and how effective they are at moving the 11% of the voters perpetually in the middle -- or the Democrats and how they will or will not falter and fail to capitalize on one blunder after another.

What is not discussed – ever – is that for around 43% of the voting public there is literally no sin great enough, no molestation severe enough, no deception lethal enough, no fuckup massive enough, no scandal horrifying enough, no hypocrisy towering enough, no racism overt enough to potty-train them away from their belief that a vote for the GOP is a vote for Jebus.

They are the 900 lbs. gorilla in the Lincoln Bedroom that the press will glancingly cover issue-by-issue, but few if any in the MSM will discuss as the coherent and cancerous phenomenon that they are.

However every now and then, when a G. Felix Allen shows his ass too many times in quick succession, he has to Paul Revere himself through every Middlesex village and farm apologizing for being such a racist toady if he wants to keep his job.

And the problem with that little strategy is, of course, when you’ve gotten where you’ve gotten frolicking with swine, and you suddenly have to scramble out of the wallow, wipe some of the pig shit out of your hair, and swear on the life of your dear Jewish Mommy that you never, ever handle nasty pork, the porcine pals who got you your job in the first place might just take offense.

And it might sound something like this (emphasis added)...

9/29/06, 11:13 am EST

George Allen vs. Johnny Reb

If the Democrats manage to win the Senate in November, it might just be because George Allen, the incumbent Republican in Virginia, can’t stop apologizing. First, he apologized for using the odd word, “macaca,” in referring to an Indian-American volunteer for his opponent, Democrat James Webb. Then, he sort-of apologized for not admitting that he is part Jewish, possibly (we don’t know) because he ws afriad of offending some of his fundamentalist Christian voter base. (He says that he only found out in August that his mother, who was born in Tunisia, is Jewish.)

But Allen’s weirdest, and funniest, predicament came yesterday. Months after it was revealed in the New Republic that he used to sport a Confederate flag, and days after it was revealed that he was often known to use the “N-word” when referring to black Virginians, Allen is now in trouble with the group called Sons of Confederate Veterans. (Remember, Virginia was the seat of the Confederacy.) Allen apologized for the flag flap and denied the “N-word” thing. But the Sons group now want an apology, too.

“The denunciation of the flag to score political points is anathema to our organization,” said a leader of the Sons group, offended that anyone would not be proud of the rebel flag.

-- Robert Dreyfuss

Bwahahaha!

This is what it looks like when one has let the coolant levels in the Pretty Hate Machine fall too low and the loony Core of the GOP is exposed and starts to get all pissy and meltdowny and demands public showings of faith.

Because the terrible truth is, it would not matter one iota if George Bush started randomly executing people in the Rose Garden or if Denny Hastert got caught fucking dogs with a Bible; 43 percent of this country would stand up and cheer for the former, and blame Clinton and gays for the latter.

Hell, the public execution of random scary brown people would probably drive Republican numbers up a tick or two.

Rove has finished the work Atwater started: gathering up the various species of scum this nation has produced into a single Party, and keeping them warm and yelping mad on a steady diet of lies and demagoguery.

We are truly two countries now, and one of them is truly insane.