macracka. it is all the more debilitating to shoot yourself in the foot when that foot is in your mouth.

Not only would he survive he will thrive.  This is the USA.

Or is it a French-Tunisian ethnic slur? I’m listening to Randi Rhodes’ show on Air America Radio from Aug. 16 (we download podcasts of it down here). I strongly advise that you find a station and tune in.

Randi says Allen’s mother is a French citizen who grew up in Tunisia. For the white Frenchies, “macaca” is a derisive term applied to the dark-skinned North African natives. (“Caca” means human excrement in French, and a caller to Randi said “macaca” means “little turd.”) So we have Allen uttering an ethnic slur that his mother taught him, then lying about it with this made-up story about it meaning “mohawk.”

And it’s a French insult word! (Allen apparently speaks fluent French.) Do the Republican racists know that one of their U.S. senators is spewing French? If they did, they’d be after one of their own with pitchforks!

Are republicans born insensitive and stupid or they go to GOP institute of lying and scamming?

Well ... now we REALLY have it in a nutshell: Southern political strategy: The majority of voters are dumb, not just racist.

If Senator George Allen survives this on a national level ... I won’t just be surprised, I’ll be nauseated.