The lies, the hypocrisy, the deceit, the endless banality. All wrapped up in one incident. Florida State Rep. Bob Allen (R), a co-chairman of John McCain’s presidential campaign here in Florida, got in a little legal trouble about a month ago.
Get your jollies after the flip...
Turns out he was arrested in a public park after offering to pay to perform oral sex on an undercover police officer. Nothing against oral sex or the police, but a man in Allen's position (no, not on his knees, tee-hee) should probably consider the headlines prior to taking any course of action. However, as Josh Marshall notes, Rep. Allen can explain everything:
[I]t turns out that Allen revealed the true reason for the alleged park-john-offer in a tape recorded statement he made just after his arrest.
"This was a pretty stocky black guy, and there was nothing but other black guys around in the park," said Allen, according to this article in the Orlando Sentinel. Allen went on to say he was afraid of becoming a "statistic."
It is brilliant, really. All in one instant, you have racism, hypocrisy, bigotry, lawlessness, homophobia, kow-towing to power, lies, you name it. The perfect metaphor. Good luck, Mr. McCain. How many more Floridian Republicans have to get arrested or otherwise have their predilections put on display for America before Florida and the rest of the nation see them for the lying, lawless hypocrites they are?
More Josh: "I guess this raises the question of whether if you thought you were about to get mugged by a group of stocky black guys, your first plan of escape would be to try to give one of them a blowjob."
If I had access to the data, I'd spoof the MasterCard ad about here:
Co-chairman of putative Republican front-runner's presidential campaign: $XXX,XXX
Elected Republican Representative for the people of Florida, $XX,XXX
An anonymous hummer in a public park: $20
Getting caught and being the perfect metaphor: Priceless!