This has been a topic in Sixers, which was watching the debate yesterday. Allen’s problem — right now and later — is one of demeanor. Whether it’s giving away some specific inner prejudices, I have no idea. But the fact of the matter is he came off as a disturbingly nasty guy in that Macaca YouTube and he apparently hasn’t — or can’t? — learn his lesson.

I might add that if the senator thinks Jim Webb should respect women by listening to what they have to say and do what they say he should (see Hotlineblog…I was trying to leave alone, stop sounding like a broken record), George Allen should listen to the women of NR on the topic of women in the military and drop that line of attack on a 27-year-old Jim Webb magazine article that wasn’t the msygonist screed his campaign is suggesting it was.