Don't Get "George Allen-ed".

George Allen has been transformed from a Virginia senator...into a verb (from Politico):

The fear gnaws at senators, embodied in a catchphrase that conveys their dread: Don't be the next George Allen.

In Republican campaign strategy sessions and conference calls, candidates and consultants are invoking Allen's name as a verb -- to be "George Allen-ed" -- and devising tactics to avoid a fate similar to that of the former Virginia senator, taken down by a shaky, 51-second video that volleyed around the country via YouTube.

"You have to assume there is a recording device of some kind on you at all times -- that is what I am telling all of my people," said Sen. John Ensign, Nev., chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which will work with 21 incumbents up for re-election next year.

With the proliferation of recording devices, both audio and video, every gaffe, or anything that can be made to look like a gaffe, will find an immediate use in every future campaign (take, for instance, the video of Hillary "singing" the national anthem). It will be a challenge for candidates to stay out of situations that can be sliced and diced and used against them.