…lame.

The George Allen campaign’s latest tactic? Ripping excerpts from Jim Webb’s many fiction novels completely out of context, then releasing them to the media in a press statement, along with the editorial comment that the passages “are very disturbing for a candidate hoping to represent the families of Virginians in the U.S. Senate.” Here’s the best part, now plastered all over Drudge:

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?

Sounds like something from the desk of the women’s studies chair at Swarthmore.

Weak, weak sauce.

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