Instead of the more passive "to be George Allen-ed", I would have studied how not to "George Allen" your opponent's staffers and your constituents.

To be "George Allen-ed" suggests a level of victimization.  That is exactly the opposite lesson that should be learned.  Allen's whole problem was that he refused to take responsibility for irresponsible behavior in a timely manner.

George Allen did it to himself.

doesn't "not getting George Allen'ed" mean dancing real fast so nobody spits nasty shit on your shoes?

I agree that he did it to himself.  It -- the whole Macaca thing -- was an unforced error.  Plus, he was pretty weak on the substantive issues that mattered in the last election. 

So how do you stop from being George Allen-ed?  I guess you'd have to have campaign appearances that are strictly invitation-only, where only known party loyalists are allowed to attend.  That way nobody would see how fundamentally unqualified you are.  You'd try to avoid debates as much as possible, and if you can't, you'd have to "hug your opponent" on the issues.  It would be hard to win an election that way, unless you had tremendous funding and somehow you got the press to eat out of your hand, or alternatively, unless you were able to smear your opponent so effectively that even the press is biased in your favor.  But all that could never happend, could it? 

because he acted like George Allen. It's part of a larger pattern, not an isolated incident. Let them cry about it. The man's a bully who got what he deserved.

I think Allen's bullying contributed to his loss, but I read somewhere it was mainly because he was the frontrunner.  Personally I think its also because he really didn't have an organization for a Senate run.  He was hoping the Democrats as usual pick a liberal to run in a mostly conservative state and when the time came to make cameos like at debates, the victory speech, he'd take Jets from Iowa back to Virginia and make 'em.  But getting back to the frontrunner status is that he was the frontrunner for Senate reelection and the frontrunner as presidential timber. He had no experience as frontrunner because every election the liberal Democrat from up North in Virginia was expected to win. The media said so. That's when he'd win from coming up behind in a don't-count-me-out-just-yet way when a boxer that is well past his prime gets back into the rimg one last time.

That's why I would agree that GOP who don't want to get George Allened because of Macaca, are always will be forever seeing just one reason of the man's downfall.  It was everything. Not one thing.

"George Allen-ed" is Republicanese for, "caught being a racist asshole".

To build on JPTERP's comment, the problem to avoid is not "being George Allen'ed", it's "being George Allen"!