Progressive Democrat Issue 88: VIRGINIA FOCUS

The more I hear about Virginia Republican George Allen the more disgusting he seems. Racial slurs and now the implication that suggesting Allen is half Jewish is "casting aspersions." Let me quote from an article on the Daily Gotham, a NYC blog, covering Allen's latest:

Like everyone else, I've been following George Allen's spectacular unraveling for a while; when a sitting Senator throws a racial epithet at someone who is pointing a video camera at his face, you know that there will be further entertainment at that Senator's expense. This is the stuff of which meltdowns are made.

Well, the meltdown is in progress, not least because a lot more cameras are now pointed daily on George Felix Allen. The details are widely known: a reporter at a public forum asked him about his supposed Jewish roots, and whether or why these were being hidden; and entirely true to the form revealed by the Macaca incident, Felix demanded that said reporter not "cast aspersions" on him.

Once more, just to savor this guy's cluelessness: asking whether he has a Jewish background amounts to "casting aspersions". Felix went on to first non-deny that he has a Jewsih background; then to say that he had just learned about it. And here it gets, well, just plain icky.

From today's Washington Post:

Allen's mother said she first began concealing her Jewish roots after meeting her future husband, afraid that she would not be accepted by his parents and fearful that her religion could harm his budding coaching career, which started at Whittier College, a school in Southern California founded by Quakers.

"He didn't want me to tell his mother," she said of the elder George Allen. "At that time, that was a no-no, to marry outside the church." Allen died in 1990.

Leo Mugmon, 92, a longtime friend of Allen's mother who knew her as a Jew in Tunis, recalled her decision to hide her faith when she came to the United States.

"She did not say anything to her mother-in-law or her family," Mugmon said. He added that Etty Allen's father, Felix Lumbroso, traveled from Tunis for the Allen wedding. "Mr. Felix didn't say anything about it. In silence, he sort of condoned it."

Etty Allen said she is relieved to no longer have to keep a secret about her past. She said she hopes the revelation does not hurt her son's bid for reelection to the Senate.

It's 2006, and George Felix Allen's mother feels compelled to hide the fact that she was born and raised as a Jew from her family? What kind of a family is this? Seriously?

Is this an example of Republican family values? Is this what Republicans stand for: intolerance and stupidity?

Write the media telling them just what you think of Allan's racism and anti-Semitism and how you are sick of being represented by such a disgusting human being.