TPM Reader TC has a darker read on the Allen tape ...

Josh:

As that blogger you linked yesterday demonstrated, "macaca" and its derivatives are well-known among white supremacists and neo-nazis. What about the thought that Allen used the epithet, knowing it would be reported, as a subliminal way of telling these people (and they're out there in greater numbers in the south, unfortunately) that "I'm one of you"???

Let's review that this guy used to have the Stars and Bars on his car in southern California 40 years ago, and was noted in his high school yearbook as being "pro-Confederate" with the things he wore. You weren't around then, but I was, and I can tell you that any white person doing that was a racist and a white supremacist, identifying with the "southern resistance" to the civil rights movement.

This guy is not just dangerous like Bush is, he's dangerous as "the next progression" of the Republican far right.

TC

Could be. Could be.

So he's either a closet racist who let the truth slip. Or a very calculating crypto-racist.

Nice range of choices. And this guy's a major GOP prez aspirant.