REWARD!!! Democrats.com will pay $250 for each sworn statement from a woman who has been spat upon by George Allen.

Sen. George Macaca Allen (R-VA) is so desperate he turned to Matt Drudge* to publicize his attack on former Navy Secretary Jim Allen's novels for their vivid imagery. Allen thinks the important issue is demeaning women:

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.

Does Allen really want to raise the issue of misogyny? What will Virginia women think when they discover that Allen makes a conscious and disgusting habit of spitting tobacco juice on women, as compiled by James L. of SwingStateProject.com?

I stepped near the governor and smiled, told him my name and that I wrote for the local newspaper. Then I asked him a softball question, what some reporters call a "set-up."

"Does Southwest Virginia need these jobs?" I asked.

He stopped and looked straight at me. He had to look down at me, because he stood so tall in those cowboy boots. I thought I spotted a twinkle in his eye, and for a moment, I suspected he might give a humorous, light-hearted answer. Then he leaned forward and looked all the way down at the pavement. I figured he was planning a perfectly crafted answer to my question. I put pen to paper, ready to take it down. His lips puckered as if he might speak.

Then, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia gathered up a glob of tobacco-laced saliva. He used his lips to squirt it out, as if he had practiced. The spit landed just at the tip of my shoe. He grinned, but didn't say a word. Then he walked into the building.

That was written by a former reporter for the Smyth County (VA) News & Messenger. But that was no isolated event. President Jimmy Carter's granddaughter Sarah Carter told a similar story:

My husband’s family lives in Virginia. Several years ago, his little sister went with a friend to a parade where George Allen was making an appearance, and her friend’s Mom got a chance to speak to Allen. While they were talking, he was chewing tobacco. He spit on the ground and a fleck of brown spittle landed on my sister-in-law’s shoe. She was horrified.

So now you know: George Allen spits on little girls.

Sarah

Then there's Ryan Lizza of The New Republic:

It's credible enthusiasm given that, this afternoon, Allen resembles a froufrou version of Toby Keith. He is wearing a blue button-down shirt and brown pants accented with a fat brass belt buckle that says virginia in stylized, countrified letters. And, of course, he's wearing the cowboy boots. They are black, broken in, and vaguely reptilian. From his back pocket, he removes a tin of Copenhagen--"the brand of choice for adult consumers who identify with its rugged, individual and uncompromising image," according to the company--and taps a fat wad of the tobacco between his lip and gum using an impressive one-handed maneuver. As the scrum breaks up, Allen turns away and spits a long brown streak of saliva into the dirt, just missing one of his constituents, a carefully put-together, blonde, ponytailed woman approaching the senator for an autograph. She stops in her tracks and stares with disgust at the bubbly tobacco juice that almost landed on her feet. Without missing a beat, Allen's communications director, John Reid, reassures her: "That's just authenticity!".

And here's one more from the letters section of the Bristol Herald Courier

I was not surprised by Sen. Allen’s crude remarks aimed at a Democratic campaign worker. Several years ago, while I was engaged in research at the Dickenson County courthouse, I heard that then-Gov. Allen was on his way to a groundbreaking for the new Red Onion prison. A friend and I drove up to the site, not realizing until we arrived that it was a Republican-only event.

Allen was escorted by a politician who, noting our presence, made some comment to him and pointed at us. We stood with a small semi-circle of onlookers waiting to shake Allen’s hand, but he deliberately skipped the two of us and continued shaking hands with others in the line.

He made a few remarks to the crowd and then stood with his back to us, turning once to aim a jet of tobacco spit directly at our feet. Although he had never met us before, he made us well aware of his sentiments. A small incident, yes, but very revealing of his attitude. He did not intend to treat Democrats with the slightest common courtesy.

If there are four documented stories of such spitting, imagine how many more stories likes these remain untold?

It's only been two months since a single episode of Macaca's racism led to reports of several more, including his stuffing a doe's head into a black family's mailbox.

I can't wait to find out how many Virginia women have been spat upon by George Allen.

In fact, I'm willing to pay to find out: Democrats.com will pay $250 for each sworn statement from a woman who has been spat upon by George Allen.**

If George Allen wants a spitting contest, let's give it to him Big Time, as Dick Cheney would say.

* Talk about peddling pornography - Matt Drudge peddled every pornographic rumor about Bill Clinton for 8 years! Remember Drudge's breathless "reporting" on the DNA test that was going to prove that Bill Clinton had an illegitimate black son? No cigar for Drudge on that one.

And Drudge's porn peddling didn't end with Clinton. Remember his breathless "reporting" about the reporter who had the affair with John Kerry before she fled to Africa to protect him? No cigar on that one either.

Steve Gilliard points out:

When it comes to matters of sexuality, Drudge attacked the victims of Congressional Child Sex Predators. Now he's upset about books? Please.

Does Macaca think he's going to win over the "values voters" by sending them to read pornography on the Drudge Report???

** To collect your reward, create a login with your real name and post your statement as a New Forum Topic with the subject "George Allen Spat on Me." At the bottom, write: "I swear or affirm this statement is true." Then email us to let us know.

Update 1: Here's another one from TNR's Ryan Lizza which seems to be about George Allen spitting on both his own wife and Mark Warner's wife - perhaps Lizza will reveal more details now that everyone is curious.

One night in New Hampshire, after a few drinks at a pool hall in a college town, the conversation turned to the political troubles of another potential '08 contender. I told a story that had been making the rounds about how this politician once spit on his wife. [Mark] Warner's huge jaw dropped and his face blanched. The table fell silent. "I guess that's not that funny to you, is it?" I muttered. He shook his head. 

Update 2: George Allen's spitting assaults are getting wider play:

Joe at AmericaBlog cites Mark Warner's story and the Southwest Virginia reporter, but misses the other 3 reports above.

Update 3: Digby discovered Allen learned cruelty as a good rightwing "family value" at home with his siblings, based on Allen's sister's book:

Explaining why she is scared of heights, Ms. Allen writes that "Ever since my brother George held me over the railing at Niagara Falls, I've had a fear of heights." [Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, page 43]

Referring to George's relationship with one of her boyfriends: "My brother George welcomed him by slamming a pool cue against his head." [Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, page 178]

Referring to George's early leadership skills, Jennifer wrote: "We all obeyed George. If we didn't, we knew he would kill us. Once, when Bruce refused to go to bed, George hurled him through a sliding glass door. Another time, when Gregory refused to go to bed, George tackled him and broke his collarbone. Another time, when I refused to go to bed, George dragged me up the stairs by my hair." [Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, page 22]

Referring to George's early career aspirations, Jennifer wrote "George hoped someday to become a dentist. George said he saw dentistry as a perfect profession - getting paid to make people suffer." [Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, page 22]

Referring to George's habit of terrorizing a Green Bay Packer fan in their neighborhood, Jennifer wrote that the fan's mailbox often "lay smashed in the street, a casualty of my brothers' drive-by to school in the morning. George would swerve his Mach II Mustang while Gregory held a baseball bat out the window to clear the mailbox off its post. . . . Lately, the Packers fan had resorted to stapling a Kleenex box to the mailbox post to receive his mail. George's red Mustang screeched up beside us, the Packers fan's Kleenex mailbox speared on the antenna." [Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, page 16]

Allen is another sick kid who became a Republican leader, like George Bush who tortured frogs and Bill Frist who tortured cats.

Update 4: Digby found another spitting story going back to Allen's college days:

"One thing that always disgusted me about George was that he chewed tobacco in college and often carried no cup to spit into and he would walk down the halls at Newcomb Hall," Shelton said. "He would spit tobacco juice on the floors and on the wall with total disrespect, in my opinion, for the University, the students and the janitors, and at that time most of them were black."

Update 5: Blogger/law student Mike Stark tried to ask Allen whether he "spit on his first wife" and ended up getting assaulted by Allen's goons. The video is all over the news and Stark is suing. You go Mike!