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I’ve been following the
Allen/Webb race very, very closely as a Webb supporter, and I’d like to throw in a few thoughts from what is obviously a partisan point of view. It seems to me that George Allen is coming apart from the unexpected pressure of going from being an “unbeatable” Senator and prospective Presidential candidate to a guy who is in a dead heat with a candidate who is running his first race. In that sense, Jim Webb has already won something.
Webb is not only a combat veteran, but a combat hero, highly decorated for his valor as a United States Marine in the jungles of Viet Nam. He was steady under fire. To him there is no pressure in a political debate. That is just conversation. This guy brought real scars home. He does not lose his cool. Watching the Meet The Press debate was like watching a man and a boy, and George was “the boy.”
And there was the difference also of style. Allen relied upon the classic spiel of “talking points” and platitudes. He is good at it. But it does not suffice under hard questioning. Webb on the other hand is a genuine thinker, an independent, and nobody’s boy. And since his thoughts are his own, they have a ring of truth, rather than Beltway baloney. So Webb won that round. If it had been a prize fight it would have been stopped in the second round on a TKO.
And that “Macaca” business! I watched that video several times when the story broke. And I read a lot of the press around the incident. Rich Lowry of the estimable conservative magazine National Review commented that he didn’t think George was “racist,” but that he appeared “to have a mean streak.” Maybe*1 maybe not. I
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