Whoops! Just realized that Joe addressed this in an update to an earlier post.
According to John at AMERICAblog, Larry Sabato has spoken out on this issue:
Professor Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia, who is a big deal, says he doesn’t believe George Allen when he says he never used the N-word. Sabato says Allen DID use the N-word, whatever he claims to the contrary. And even more interestingly, Sabato says there is “other evidence” that he won’t go into on the show that proves Allen has used the N-word. Wow. According to Josh Marshall, Sabato and Allen both graduated from UVA in 1974. Does that mean Sabato knows first-hand that George Allen is a racist?Sabato is probably the biggest, most important political observer in the state of Virginia. This is huge.
Check out the MSNBC video here.
Sabato said the same thing in person yesterday on Hardball. My question, why hasn’t Allen’s phoney stance and persona been exposed before? The man has ambitions for the Presidentcy. At least no one, except the rabid Bush haters, can claim that Bush is a closet racist.