The dirtiest campaign I have ever seen is happening in my state! Lows at new depths!

(((( George Allen paid for this PR message: Do you want a pervert to be your senator? )))))

---from DRUDGE (WHO, OF COURSE PRINTS IT ON HIS PAGE WORD FOR WORD!!):

ALLEN'S REVENGE: EXPOSES UNDERAGE SEX SCENES IN OPPONENT'S NOVELS Thu Oct 26 2006 20:05:37 ET Sen. George Allen, R-VA, unleashed a press release late Thursday that exposed his rival's fiction writing, which includes graphic underage sex scenes.

The press release, as provided by the Allen Campaign:

WEBB’S WEIRD WORLD The Author’s Disturbing Writings Show a Continued Pattern of Demeaning Women· Some of Webb’s writings are very disturbing for a candidate hoping to represent the families of Virginians in the U.S. Senate. · Many excellent books about the United States military and wartime service accomplish their purposes, and even win awards, without systematically demeaning women, and without dehumanizing women, men and even children. · Webb’s novels disturbingly and consistently – indeed, almost uniformly – portray women as servile, subordinate, inept, incompetent, promiscuous, perverted, or some combination of these.

In novel after novel, Webb assigns his female characters base, negative characteristics. In thousands of pages of fiction penned by Webb, there are few if any strong, admirable women or positive female role models. Why does Jim Webb refuse to portray women in a respectful, positive light, whether in his non-fiction concerning their role in the military, or in his provocative novels? How can women trust him to represent their views in the Senate when chauvinistic attitudes and sexually exploitive references run throughout his fiction and non-fiction writings?· Most Virginians and Americans would find passages such as those below shocking, especially coming from the pen of someone who seeks the privilege of serving in the United States Senate, one of the highest offices in the land:

Lost Soldiers: “A shirtless man walked toward them along a mud pathway. His muscles were young and hard, but his face was devastated with wrinkles. His eyes were so red that they appeared to be burned by fire. A naked boy ran happily toward him from a little plot of dirt. The man grabbed his young ---------------------------(p. 183)Prentice-Hall, New York, 1981 (hardcover) Bantam, New York, 1982 (Mass-Market paperback edition), p. 183Trade paperback edition, Bluejacket Books, 1995, p. 183Quote is from 23rd para in Part 3, “Chapter 8: 2300”

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