The evidence that Sen. George Allen commonly used the word “nigger” in the 1970s and early 1980s certainly seems to be stacking up.

It seems to me at this point that the question is shifting from whether this will be a political liability to whether he should simply resign his seat. If the story about the deer head stuffed into a black family’s mail box can be corroborated, I don’t see how he’d have much choice.