I’m being invoked in support of George Allen!

I find this at the National Review Online this morning, from Kathryn Jean Lopez (who last we saw defending Rush Limbaugh):

This comes from the Allen camp (which I've received secondhand from a few people because someone has been taken off the press list lest she see something she doesn't like):

If you recall, a lot of lefty bloggers found a disturbing sexual scene in a book written by White House aid Scooter Libby, and raised a fuss about it. For instance, Shakespeare's Sister wrote: "What kind of mind comes up with this shit, dreams up scenarios where children are raped by animals to train them in prostitution? Oh, right. A conservative one. ... What I do see is a collection of perverts whose own sickness pours out of them given the slightest opportunity..."

That’s it. No context or anything—so I’m wondering, “What the hell is this all about?”

Then I find via at Crooks and Liars that Drudge is running something about some novel George Allen’s opponent Jim Webb wrote (and McCain endorsed, ha) which, according to Drudge, “includes graphic underage sex scenes.” And evidently someone, somewhere, vaguely attached to the Allen camp, has invoked my criticism of Scooter Libby’s novel—as part of a larger post on how the sexual repression endorsed (and legislated, when possible) by conservatives breeds hypocrisy at best and true perversion at worst—to suggest Webb’s book would be objectionable even to liberals.

Of course, in Libby’s novel, “underage sex” was hardly the most objectionable material. It was more the part about children being raped by animals to train them in prostitution. Ahem.

Meanwhile, the funniest part about this is that Webb was still a Republican when he wrote the stinking book.