Yes, we cats know that the big debate is happening as we write this, but we're not prepared to comment on it yet. In the meantime, we have a bone to pick with someone named "Quentin Kidd," who was cited as an expert on Virginia politics in a story on the debate that WAMU-FM broadcast this morning.
Jim Webb (left, above) "accidentally won a seat in the US Senate," this Kidd person said. To which we cats say, WTF?
There was no "accidentally" about it. Jim Webb won his Virginia Senate seat in 2006 for a lot of reasons — but a big one was the videotape of Republican incumbent George Allen ridiculing a Democratic tracker and calling the young lad, who happened to be of Indian-American descent, "Macaca" — a racial slur.
Webb's victory was no accident for two reasons: 1) S.R. Sidarth, the Democratic Party operative, attended the Allen event with a purpose, not on a lark. 2) George Allen, a bigoted, entitled fool, acted accordingly. Both reasons are based in logic and fact, not serendipity.
Folks, this is what Republicans are like. We know it better now, after seven years of Barack Obama in the White House. But George Allen's ignorance and hate was the first faint glimmer of how badly the GOP would behave in the social media age. Now, in fact, it almost seems quaint. Except that it's not. We cats HISS.
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