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Mr. Combat Boots is going down. The Drudge Report has this story plastered at the top of the page.

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:

Go ahead and read the thing, if you have the stomach. I warn you, it's pretty grapic. This is not one or two passages; this is a consistant pattern in Webb's writing, which makes one wonder what kind of sick imagination this guy carries around. In light of the Mark Foley scandel, this particular passage is especially disturbing.

– 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 son in his arms, turned him upside down, and put the boy’s penis in his mouth.”

Bantam Books, NY, 1st Edition, 2001, (hard cover), page 333.
Quote is from para. 10,.Chap. 34.

Is this the kind of "sick, twisted freak" (as Glenn Beck would say) who should be representing Virginia, or any state for that matter, in the United States Senate? Is this guy the great Reagan Democrat who would chart a new course for the Democratic Party? is this the man who the MSM would have us believe will unseat one of the great conservative voices in Congress, George Allen?

Webb is already having problems with the more socially conservative African-American vote in Virginia, a vote George Allen has been rigorously courting with a significant degree of success, despite the allegations of racism flying around his campaign. Additionally, these new revelations are going to further drive home the point the Allen campaign has been making over the past two months, that Webb is hostile to and demeaning toward women, which will further turn off his base and energize Allen's. Add the Marshall-Newman Amendment to define marriage in the state constition as between one man and one woman, and to prohibit back door strategies like civil unions, a measure that enjoys a broad amount of popularity in the state, and we'll be seeing "vales voters" coming out in droves on November 7. Since Allen has consistantly outplayed him on the issues, Webb's only chance was to drag this thing into the gutter, and now it has backfired. The Democrats forgot that two can play at that game.

To top it all off, the RNC is running this new, devestating ad, that just further emphasizes the point about Webb's attitude to women i made above. H/T The Allen Blog.

Game over, man. Game over.

Cross-posted at Icythus