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Allen, a co-chairman of Thompson’s presidential campaign, discusses Thompson’s performance during Wednesday’s CNN/YouTube Republican presidential debate and a Thompson ad targeting GOP rivals Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney that the Thompson campaign submitted to CNN for the YouTube debate.
Allen, whose 2006 Senate re-election bid was undone by his “macaca” video moment distributed via YouTube, tells Blitzer he thinks the Internet’s impact on politics is good for American democracy.
GeorgeAllen to particpate in tonight’s debate spin
Allen's use of the word "macaca" in referring to a Webb campaign volunteer of Indian descent in August prompted an outcry.
Allen later acknowledged publicly for the first time that his grandfather, a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp, was Jewish, and on Monday he said both his maternal grandparents were Jews.
Allen's father, the late George H. Allen, was a legendary football coach with the Los Angeles Rams and the Washington Redskins.