Last week, Harry Reid’s office released a document that attacked a number of Republican senators. Although Reid later apologized, it’s noteworthy that the document included early criticism of Senator George Allen’s ugly racial history, which is likely to become an issue in Allen’s 2008 presidential run:

[T]he document reached back into GOP Sen. George Allen’s days as Virginia governor to note that he once “kept a noose and a confederate flag in his office and home” (a controversy dating from the 1993 campaign) and in 1994 called the federal government a “beast of tyranny and oppression.”