George Allen hires hatchet man.

Writes the Times-Dispatch: A Republican star who managed the campaign that unseated Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle is preparing to become Sen. George Allen’s new chief of staff. Dick Wadhams, who was campaign manager for Republican John Thune of South Dakota, will take over running the Virginia Republican’s Senate offices in January, Allen said yesterday. …

VA Republicans’ eavesdropping story doesn’t add up.

It was just four days ago that Virginia Republicans settled the eavesdropping lawsuit for a whopping $750,000, and already the Kilgore campaign is trying to define the case as old news, accusing Democrats of “dredging up something that happened in the past”. (How they’d bring up something that happened in the future, I can’t say.) …

Kilgore “a little French.”

The Hampton Roads Daily Press — which has an editorial board with which I’ve become quite enamored recently — has a great editorial today on the matter of Wednesday evening’s Kaine/Kilgore AP debate. Like so many other papers, they’re just not willing to say that Kilgore is extremely effeminate, but they do a wonderful job …