TPM Reader DT on whether Allen’s heritage is fair game …
Of course, it’s fair game. Allen has been talking about “heritage” the whole campaign, if not his whole career. He’s used “heritage” as an excuse for his prior (?) worship of the Confederate flag. Even if you believe the nonsense that “macaca” was just some random syllables he bunched together on the stump and that he wasn’t trying to single out the only non-white in attendance, then his only argument is that he was trying to say he was more authentically Virginian than Webb, which is an argument of heritage.
Of course, he’s also wrong on that count, but he canât say he hasn’t introduced heritage into the campaign.
I would say that the whole line of questioning is reasonable for reasons I noted here last night. But this is part of the mix too.
