Cragg said Webb told him the Watts story during a 1983 interview for a Vietnam veterans magazine. Cragg, who described himself as a Republican who would vote for Allen, did not include the story in his article. He provided a transcript of the interview, but the transcript does not contain the ROTC story. He said he still remembers the exchange vividly more than 20 years later.

Hmmm,

Cragg said he approached the Allen campaign through a friend after hearing Webb's answer to the Times-Dispatch reporter's question about using the N-word.

No corraboration, The Allen campaign trots this guy out (while the MANY people with accounts of Allen are coming from the media, not the Webb campaign)... I smell swiftboat and panic from the Allen Camp, but it's not like Chris LaCivita has ever done something like this before (Oh, right).

2. Find friends of Allen to attack the accusers.

3. Find some Allen supporter who will throw the same story back at Webb.

4. Send a message to the A-Team and the paid hack (which Allen had to recruit) to blog like crazy that this shows Webb is worse than Allen, that RK was behind the deer head, that Webb supporters "can dish it out but can't take it", that the BS Allen supporter is legitimate while the many varied Allen accusers are clearly paid by Webb, RK, and NLS to say things they know aren't true.

It's a "by the book" slimefest from the Allen camp.

Honestly, I don't see this doing much damage to Webb in the classic sense.  But the more likely goal of Allen's team is to create an over-the-top negative atmosphere in order to suppress voter turnout.  The negativity combined with endless he said/she said will confuse and annoy the general voting population into staying home.  Advantage: Allen.

If they can't win fair and square (which they can't), Allen will try to trick Virginia into re-electing him.

Slime indeed.

1) Nancy Reagan is SOOOO offended by Webb running the Reagan ad.  Nancy Reagan is one of the strongest women around.  She can speak for herself.  We haven't heard a second peep out of Nancy about the Reagan ad.  Gee George, if you really want to honor Nancy Reagan, why don't you do as Webb does and support her very worthy cause of Fed funding for embryonic stem cell research?

2) Several military women are still SOOOO offended by Webb's 27 year old article.  These are supposed to be strong military types.  I might argue they're not.  Regardless, George could really honor these women by doing what Webb did when he was Sec. of the Navy and support expanded roles in the military for women.

3) Susan Allen wouldn't marry a racist.  Oh puhleease!  Susan Allen can answer the question as to why she married such a clod.  Of course her answer will be scripted because the Allen campaign doesn't let women speak for themselves!

Last night I saw a national democratic add in support of Cardin. When will the national folks begin to help us in Virginia? If they give up on red states like Virginia- one of the reds showing signs of being in play again-- we'll never have a hope of becoming the majority party nationally, and locally we can look forward to the mess in the state legislature as permanent state.

It seems to me, even republicans are getting tired of Allen- Now it's time for Jim to give voters a reason to vote for him. We need hard hitting frequent TV for the Fairfax/Loudon/PWC swing voters.

2) Where did I dismiss facts and not address the issue.  The issue is the HISTORY of the treatment of women.  Webb has recanted his 27 year old story by ACTIVELY promoting more positions for women in the military.  What has Allen done except victimize women?  Again, move on!

3) How do you know it wasn't scripted?  Are you Susan Allen?  Need proof please.  No proof, move on!

I think you should be banned, you aren't worth the time to respond to.

What I still don't get is why you are insisting on going down with Allen's sinking ship of a campaign when many conservatives (The Weekly Standard, William F Buckley, George Will, etc.) are fighting over who can abandon ship quickest.

How long can you tread water???

How can you vote for a guys changes his stripes every so often.

Grammer aside, It is amusing that someone with the blog name 4TheGipper would ask this since Ronald Reagan was a Democrat before becoming a republican...

It is not as ironic as the fact the Henry Kissenger has a Nobel Peace Prize but it is ironic.

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How About Reporting This? = Another top ranking general supports Webb

Michael Shear on Allen vs. Webb = Discussion of the entire situation

Quote of the Day: "They are slime" = Webb campaign discussing Allen campaign

What Did Bush Do to Prevent 9/11? = GWB and 9/11

Myspace Launches Massive Voter Registration Effort! = Voter Registration

Iraqis Want U.S. Out, When Will Rep Davis (VA-11) Listen? = Tom Davis and a recent Iraq poll

Ha! Try Blaming the Bloggers or the Webb Campaign for This, "A Team!" = Confederates disavowing Allen

Webb/Edwards Video = Video of Webb event

George Allen: More Pond Scum Rises 

Unravelings = Discussion about Allen staff
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At the very best there are four articles that deal with Allen's racism problems.  But that's a real stretch because there is only one direct article on the matter.

But we don't ban people that easily.  You'll have to keep up your BS for a while before we boot you.  Just ask I.pub - he lasted for over a year.

Maybe you're onto something.  For every idiotic republican comment we see we'll ban a random republican user for a day.

:-) just kidding

like even chris matthews said, he'd like the VA senate race to talk more about Iraq.

but wait.. would Allen really really want to talk about the issues.

Your party has failed you. It's horrible you can't admit it. By your loyalty you have condoned thier behavior, and there actions.

Wow.

And yes, I really want the candidates to focus on the issues. 

I left, just like a lot of republicans are leaving either independent or to the democratic party.

Why, because the GOP has lost core principles.

People who stood for something like Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Ike Eisenhower.

Those republicans are ones I can be proud of.

I supported Bush in 2000, but after enlisting in the Navy in 2001 serving made me see things differently.

And I am not alone.

I don't call lying to America about WMD, core principles.

I don't call saying in 01 we'd hunt and kill bin laden, and then in 04 and onward saying he's no longer important core principles.

I don't call auctioning off our ports to an arab nation dubai who has terrorists core principles.

I don't call making the largest increase of government spending core principles.

I dont' call ingnoring the constitution that I have fought for, and so many have fought and even died for core principles.

I don't call changing the geneva conventions so it protects yourself from charges, core principles.

I don't call giving illegal immagrants amnesty core principles.

I don't call not protection our borders core principles.

I don't call getting all of our contributions in campaigns from oil companies, while gas prices go up, and record profits soar core principles.

I don't call voting for your own payraise as politicians do, while my pay goes down core principles.

I don't call cutting miltary wages, by giving the military it's lowest payraise in over 14 years.

I don't call not voting for troop body armor, and having family member pay for it out of their own pocket core princples.

I don't call not listening to family members of those lost on 9/11 with everything they have asked for since then. budging to create a comission to investigate, refusing to testify, lying before the commisssion core principles.

I don't call calling dissenters in this country in the likes of those who appeased the nazi's questioning the patriotism of those of us who merely ask questions, and demand answers in A DEMOCRACY core principles.

George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Ike Eisenhower, and even Ronald Reagan are turning in thier graves because of how far from "freedom" we have come.

The GOP leadership talks about "core principles".

They divide us over gay marriage, abortion, faith, god, patriotism.

But this is just a distration, we have REAL problems in this country. Like our democracy eroding.

You want to talk about core principles, look at everything I have listed, and this is just the beginning.

I have faith, that someday you GOP loyalists will be sorry for how you have betrayed our national interests, our constitution, our democracy, and our future.

Don't talk to me about core principles.

That is one definition of a troll, thus you are troll rated.

your an idiot.

How can you even protest that when Allen has worn a confederate label pin almost his entire life.

or the fact, that he had a confederate flag in his offices from his law practice to governor.

And.. he does a bad job of acting like he's a southerner not only in person but in movies too.

Good ol Hollywood Felix.

(b) You're an Allen operative and you're not black

Did you know that Jim Webb did 6 years of pro bono work clearing the name of an African American Marine, Sam Green, who had been dishonorably discharged for war crimes for which he was innocent? Webb continued for the last three years after Green had committed suicide to clear his name for his mothers sake.

So you won't vote for Webb because a fundraiser is being held in the home of a person who sells the confederate flag? Guilt by association?

According to The New Republic:

Images of Allen are like a Civil War version of Where's Waldo, with the Confederate flag replacing the bespectacled cartoon character. First, as The New Republic reported last week, there's the senior class photo from Palos Verdes High School with Allen wearing a Confederate flag pin ("Pin Prick," May 8). Now we learn that the Confederate flag appears as a decoration in Allen's first statewide ad, even though he has long maintained that the flag did not adorn his home after 1992.

Take your weak fastball home...

If my hero, Martin Luther King Jr. were somehow alive today. and he could decide what candidate to support..

Do you really think he'd support George Allen.

And.. also BA.. Who does the NACCP support in this race?

Hmmmmm......