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Jim Webb has figured out why Democrats are losing so badly. ...Here’s why they won’t listen to him
Canada Free Press ^ | 02/13/17 | Robert Laurie

Posted on 02/13/2017 10:11:53 AM PST by Sean_Anthony

Fingers in ears

Back in 2015, when Jim Webb ended his campaign to become the Democrat’s presidential nominee, I referred to him as “the Dems’ only adult.” It had been clear, for months, that Webb stood no chance of gaining any sort of traction among the rabid lefties that control today’s Democrat party. It was just never going to happen.

The reason? He’s sane.


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: democrats; jimwebb; losing; media; virginia; webb

1 posted on 02/13/2017 10:11:53 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
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To: Sean_Anthony

I always thought that if he and Pat Caddell ever got together, Pubbies could have trouble.


2 posted on 02/13/2017 10:21:16 AM PST by numberonepal (First they came for Sarah, then they came for Herman, and now they've come for Trump.)
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To: Sean_Anthony
Early in the last decade the Dems faced the same issue and decided they needed to make the party image more moderate. So, they recruited a bunch of moderates to run in competitive House seats and took the House in 2006.

Then, after Hussein was elected in 2008, he and San Fran Nan forced these moderates to vote party line in all his far left schemes, including Obamacare with the mandate he lied about during the primaries with Hillary and said he opposed.

They are all gone now.

3 posted on 02/13/2017 10:21:39 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: numberonepal

Thank Lord God HRC listened to all her millennials and not Caddell or Carville.


4 posted on 02/13/2017 10:23:57 AM PST by txhurl (The LEFT are screaming at the Tsunami, and the Sky, trying to set fire to the Ocean- S.Tom)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Sane? Seriously? Give me a break! He is a rabid democrat politician. He only sounds sane when campaigning.

He voted for Obamacare as a Senator from VA before he left office. He had a 10% conservative voting record per Heritage Action - https://www.heritageactionscorecard.com//state/state/va

He only sounds sane because he sounds less effeminate than most ‘rats.


5 posted on 02/13/2017 10:24:29 AM PST by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis & other Totalitarians: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: Sean_Anthony
There is an aristocracy now that pervades American politics. It’s got to be broken somehow in both parties . . .

I agree. Name recognition from relatives is a huge advantage in the primaries, and it should not be. While it would be nice to judge the next Kennedy/Clinton/Bush/Trump on their own merits, that is not what actually happens. I'd rather blacklist all those hanging onto the family name, rather that see another Hillary/Jeb/Teddy run for office and win because of their better known relative. As for the Trump name, I'm satisfied with him so far, but that's not enough. I don't want President Eric or even President Ivanka eight years from now. Let's start choosing based on merit.

6 posted on 02/13/2017 10:28:43 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Sean_Anthony

The Democrat Party is done with Jim Webb. They’ve thrown him out with the trash just like they threw Bob Casey Sr., the Dem pro-Life Pennsylvania governor, out with the trash 25 years ago. They’ve moved beyond working class, culturally conservative whites. I just hope that any culturally conservative working class white who still votes Dem is going to wake up and see it.


7 posted on 02/13/2017 10:29:44 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: numberonepal

This ‘PLAY ACTING’ is all part of The Plan...

Democrats will run vets, sheriffs, and other traditional Americans IN STATES THAT WENT FOR TRUMP. They’ll never be given power, but they will be useful.

Have you noticed the MSM is pushing this story? That’s because this story - basically a manipulative LIE - works FOR DEMOCRATS.

Democrats DON’T DO THIS because they give a damn about traditional Americans BUT BECAUSE THEY WANT TO TAKE BACK CONTROL OF CONGRESS SO THEIR LIBERAL ELITES HAVE POWER AGAIN.


8 posted on 02/13/2017 10:35:15 AM PST by GOPJ (Democrats appoint activist 'judges' to legislate from the bench. WE NEED TO DO THE SAME.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Demonicrats are lying, murdering traitors to the United States of America.

If people start to doubt that, the Demonicrats nominate for President the most lying murdering traitor they can find to demonstrate it, and the fifth-column leftist media support that person to further demonstrate that they, along with Demonicrats, are lying murdering traitors.

And if the lying, murdering traitor loses, the Demonicrats riot, burn cars, block streets and threaten Americans with violence and death to show their lying murdering traitorous candidate should have won.


9 posted on 02/13/2017 10:35:19 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

The Democats better change or they will go the way of the Whigs. They are becoming the party of the Blacks and radical browns —Unfortunately for them, whites still outnumber “People of Color” (and Asians and some Latinos side with Whites). Race politics that served the Democrats so well in the past is now taking them down.


10 posted on 02/13/2017 10:51:34 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Pollster1
I'd rather blacklist all those hanging onto the family name, rather that see another Hillary/Jeb/Teddy run for office and win because of their better known relative.

Well, Evan Bayh lost his race. That's a start. Second Generations of Cuomo, Casey Jr. and Udall ought to be retired. But do we do with Duncan Hunter Jr. or Rand Paul?
11 posted on 02/13/2017 10:56:59 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Sean_Anthony
I think liberals know that they and their policies have been rejected by America but they can't change now. They have no choice but to stick with those policies. They can't even entertain the notion of changing because they can't admit that they suck and, the fact is, they want to ram their fu***d up policies down America's throat.

So, they have to fabricate some BS about how Vladimir Putin cost them the election and how it has nothing to do with them all the while conveniently ignoring the fact that they lost the house in 2010, the Senate in 2014 and countless state legislature seats and governorships over the past 8 years.

and now, they will continue to lie, manipulate, cheat, deceive, and protest because it has become all too clear to them that that is the only viable path back to regaining the power to implement the policies that America has resoundingly rejected over the past 8 years.

They do what they do because that's all that they can do.

12 posted on 02/13/2017 10:59:03 AM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: Perseverando

Sane? Seriously? Give me a break! He is a rabid democrat politician. He only sounds sane when campaigning.


If he was sane, why would he be a democrat?


13 posted on 02/13/2017 11:02:52 AM PST by samtheman (Trump won bigly. Trump governs bigly. His critics don't get bigly.)
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To: Dr. Sivana
Well, Evan Bayh lost his race. That's a start. Second Generations of Cuomo, Casey Jr. and Udall ought to be retired. But do we do with Duncan Hunter Jr. or Rand Paul?

They are pretty much grandfathered in now, in part because their reelections depend on their own merits. However, I'm expecting to see (eventual) Senator Chelsea run for president while Grandma is drooling in her old folks home and refusing to die until she sees her progeny become the "First Woman".

14 posted on 02/13/2017 11:04:39 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Sean_Anthony
I liked Jim Webb as SecNav. He was nice enough to sign my copy of his book, A Sense of Honor.

I never understood why he became a Democrat.

"Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

15 posted on 02/13/2017 11:06:12 AM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: LonePalm
I never understood why he became a Democrat.

Maybe for the same reason McCain became a Republican?

16 posted on 02/13/2017 11:09:45 AM PST by bankwalker (groupthink is dangerous ...)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Jim Webb is not really sane, he just looks that way when compared to Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Gerald Nadler, etc.


17 posted on 02/13/2017 11:22:27 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

The Democrats in R jerseys have spent years telling us we had to amnesty the illegals because without 1/3 of that 12% of the vote the GOP would never win.

They kept telling us that Hispanics would inevitably outnumber white people without saying that would only happen if we listened to them.


18 posted on 02/13/2017 11:27:30 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: numberonepal

I agree, Webb and Caddell are good people who use actual logic.

Which means they have had it in today’s Democrat Party.

Caddell’s speech at Hinsdale College which is on YouTube is fantastic.


19 posted on 02/13/2017 11:35:44 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns)
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To: SaxxonWoods
This One?
20 posted on 02/13/2017 3:12:59 PM PST by blam
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