there is not only "Born Fighting", but all the journalism and commentary that Jim has done during the years.

The idea of the line "fiction writer" is to try to tar Jim with making things up.  They also tried that with their Hollywood stuff, but when it turned out Allen had more entertainment money by far than Webb, it kind of blew up on them.

So we need a forceful response from the campaign -- distribute Jim's forceful pre-war statement against the Iraqi endeavor and combine it with some clever line that the one propagating fiction is when George Allen says he voted to make America safer, or something to that effect.

This is the Rovian way -  take what an opponent thinks is his strength and turn it into a weakness.  Take your supposed weakness and find a way to wrap it around your opponent's neck.

You could also try a line like this from Jim -- "at least when people buy one of my novels, they know that it is fiction.  But when they accept any of George'statements, do they realize they are getting less reality than I put into any of my novels?"

Or perhpas Jarding or Kristian can make a statement like that, since it was not Allen himself who made the remark.  And someone more clever than I am can probably phrase /shape this better.  But the gist seems about right to me.

Don't hold your breath; I don't want you to turn any bluer :)