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Jim Webb: Why Reagan Dems Still Matter
RealClearPolitics ^ | November 8, 2010 | David Paul Kuhn

Posted on 11/08/2010 5:01:40 PM PST by neverdem

Jim Webb went to the White House last September. The Virginia senator was meeting with the president to discuss Guantanamo detainees. The conversation soon shifted to healthcare. "I told him this was going to be a disaster," Webb recalls...

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This independent problem returns Democrats to their white problem. Most non-aligned voters are white. White males constitute the plurality of independents. These are the Reagan Democrats. Webb does not see himself as their spokesman. But he is one of the few Democrats able to speak as one of them.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: abortion; independents; reagandemocrats
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To: neverdem

Jim Webb is a giant load of macaca.


21 posted on 11/08/2010 5:22:54 PM PST by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: Senator Goldwater
An adage of polling is that once you lose independents, they don’t come back.

From your keyboard, to God's ears, but the GOP has managed to lose them a number of times, IIRC, usually while they try to assuage moderates.

22 posted on 11/08/2010 5:26:08 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: HarleyD

There is, too, a such animal as Reagan Democrats. Don’t delude yourself just because none of the major pollsters recognize them.


23 posted on 11/08/2010 5:33:11 PM PST by txhurl (If we can shake Congress like a can of pennies, we can uproot voter fraud like a D-9.)
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To: goldstategop
Jim Webb... this is a guy in trouble in VA and I wouldn’t be surprised if he walks away over the next two years. He’s got a re-election coming up to think about.

I thought that if the GOP did better in the Senate, that they would try to flip him, crossing the rats. I think he'll walk away. If he did an Arlen Specter, he'd probably be primaried.

24 posted on 11/08/2010 5:42:54 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: neverdem

but the GOP has managed to lose them a number of times,


They came home this year, in droves.

I say it’s because the Tea Party stood up to the Establishment.

I can’t count how many intelligent people I know who say it’s all fixed, there’s no difference between the parties,
and this year they saw conservatives take down fat RINO cows.

We HAVE to keep doing what the independents like, keep them voting. Not just for our own satisfaction and conscience, but to keep the indies with us.


25 posted on 11/08/2010 5:43:39 PM PST by txhurl (If we can shake Congress like a can of pennies, we can uproot voter fraud like a D-9.)
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To: txhurl

I was going to post some of the numerous emails I have received from Webb’s office but its the same ol’ thing (e.g. “We are working to strengthen the health care legislation”). Trust me. I wrote Webb, Warner, and Connolly’s offices many times and made numerous telephone calls. It’s the same ol’ lies.

You are right in one respect, there are Reagan Democrats. But they are in the Tea Party movement, not in Congress.


26 posted on 11/08/2010 5:47:10 PM PST by HarleyD
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To: neverdem

Reagan Democrats wouldn’t have voted for the Insurance Bill.


27 posted on 11/08/2010 5:48:54 PM PST by Hoodat ( .For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.d)
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To: neverdem

Seems like a Reagan Dem from Virginny votes the same way on things as a socialist from Vermont (Sanders)does...


28 posted on 11/08/2010 5:49:24 PM PST by Sybeck1 (Conservative yes, Republican no.)
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To: HarleyD
There is no such thing as “Reagan Democrats”...

Do a search on the term. Keep the quotation marks. They were probably rats at the time. A lot of them are probably independents now that the rats are hard left.

29 posted on 11/08/2010 5:52:48 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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I’m changing his name to Jim “Obamacare” Webb.


30 posted on 11/08/2010 5:56:40 PM PST by ChuteTheMall (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: neverdem
During his campaign against George Allen, James Webb mixed anti capitalism with anti-Semitism. He is not like the proletarian socialists (Communists), but the National Socialists; i.e., Nazis.

It is no wonder the paleo Conservative rag, 'the American Conservative,' endorsed him for President.

Hopefully, we'll be rid of this evil con artists by 2012

31 posted on 11/08/2010 5:57:01 PM PST by Stepan12 (Palin & Bolton in 2012)
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To: TonyInOhio
Webb will switch parties...but VA is smart enough to defeat him with a true Republican....
32 posted on 11/08/2010 5:59:34 PM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: neverdem
This pos wrote a novel in which a Vietnamese father put his son's genitals into his mouth... now I ask you... what kind of sick **** even thinks about that demented crap?

LLS

33 posted on 11/08/2010 6:00:12 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: neverdem

Jim Webb is a communist. Done.


34 posted on 11/08/2010 6:08:04 PM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: neverdem

Well, I did write that in a fit of blinding anger and unreasonable rage at the mention of the name of Jim Webb. :O)

Webb is not what I would classify as a “Reagan Democrat” nor do I believe you will find any Reagan Democrats in Congress. As some of the articles suggest, a “Reagan Democrat” would never have allowed themselves to vote for abortion in a health care bill, or amass the deficit without finding some way to pay for it, or voted for this health care bill without reading it.

What you saw in this election were the “Reagan Democrats” moving towards the Republicans through the Tea Party movement. That is the only explanation of Republicans winning Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, etc. If the Republicans fail to bend to the will of the Tea Party, they will lose them again but it wouldn’t surprise me to see another party arise that is focus on fiscal constraint.


35 posted on 11/08/2010 6:09:39 PM PST by HarleyD
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To: neverdem
"Scum liberal" Webb's ACU rating : 14.67.
36 posted on 11/08/2010 6:24:08 PM PST by mrsmith
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To: neverdem

Jim Webb is positioning himself for the next election.


37 posted on 11/08/2010 6:24:26 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (Illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit.)
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To: shield

Webb will switch parties...but VA is smart enough to defeat him with a true Republican....


The Take Down The Right Soros Media took down George Allen over ‘macaca’ at about the same time they took down W with Kanye (may be burn in hell) ‘George Bush hates black people’.

We took down the left, now we have to take down the left media.


38 posted on 11/08/2010 6:39:00 PM PST by txhurl (If we can shake Congress like a can of pennies, we can uproot voter fraud like a D-9.)
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To: pnh102

Amen. He’s a piece of walking excrement. Nothing “moderate” about this pinko.


39 posted on 11/08/2010 6:39:05 PM PST by mike-zed
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To: neverdem

To understand Webb you have to read his book, Born Fighting” about the Scots who settled in America.

It clearly outlines his admiration for his own Scots forbears who would proudly wear the appellation of ‘redneck’.

I think his lower-class oe blue-collar populism is based on his feelings and beliefs about their problems with the American elite and being largely excluded from the fruits of a society they helped build and died for.


40 posted on 11/08/2010 6:43:14 PM PST by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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