The would-have-been-Republican nominee says, “I screwed up,”

[underpants]

Allen on Macaca incident: ‘I should have never called him anything but yellow shirt.’»

2006, then-Sen. George Allen (R-VA) seriously damaged his re-election campaign when he was caught on video disparaging a young Indian-American as “macaca.” “This fellow here, over here with the yellow shirt, macaca, or whatever his name is. He’s with my opponent,” Allen told a crowd of supporters. Asked about the incident while speaking in Florida yesterday, Allen said that he “screwed up” and “should have never called him anything but yellow shirt“:

“I screwed up,” Allen said. “It wasn’t an intentional thing, if I had any idea that they’d make such an issue out of a non-existing word … I should have never called him anything but yellow shirt.”

Allen continues to claim that macaca was “a non-existing word,” but the fact is that macaca was a pejorative epithet that existed before Allen used it.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/24/allen-macaca-yellow-shirt/

[speedoo]

1. Same thing McLiar said to Letterman. nt

[Elidor]

2. It's scary to think that Allen stood a good chance of being the GOP nominee this year

I can see him beating McCain in the primaries, if his career - oops! - wasn't over by then. I love self-immolating republicans, which is almost redundant anymore.

Also note that Allen doesn't mention any sensitivity toward actual racial issues. He just wishes he'd kept his mouth shut.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

3. That guy needs to have his ass,...kicked.

I know that sounds aweful but, this man operates on a 'rule of the jungle' level and SHOULD HAVE HIS ASS SOLIDLY KICKED,...at least, twice, to prove his NEED for some serious sense of humility.

Sick man, period!

[gratuitous]

4. "A non-existing word"

I mean, heck, everyone knows it's knee-grow! That other word is just made up! Non-existent!

[Riddler]

5. Typical repuke.....it's everybody else's fault for making an issue out of it,

instead of his fault for saying it. These asshole's never take personal responsibility for anything.

[Swamp Rat]

6. That's 'non-existing' apology too.

Fucktard