[Miss Marple]

I happened to have bought and read Born Fighting, and have recommended it to others. Reading it gives me a little insight into Webb.

The book is a very eloquent history of the Scots-Irish, and goes into detail about the customs and attitudes of this group, of which Webb is one.

He is very sensitive to the attacks on his people," and I believe is carrying this attitude into the campaign.

Webb feels like the Scots-Irish are misunderstood and undervalued, denigrated as "rednecks" and "trailer trash." Webb makes the case that above all, the Scots-Irish are a warrior people, and fighting is what they value more than anything else.

Now, an interesting thing will be how many of this group are Virginia voters and identify with Webb (a demographic which normally has gone to Republicans in the last few years).

Webb is apparently trying to atract this demographic, and his contempt for Allen is probably real.

I do not understand why he became a democrat. It's puzzling.

[defconw]

Excellent, I will read the book. I have recently matured to the point that I can read the oppositions books. LOL. I am reading Boy Genius right now it's supposed to be a hit piece on Rove, but frankly my admiration for him has grown. It's really not that bad.


Having been raised in a working class family and recently given up on trying to break into the white collar world, and gone to work at a factory. I can probably relate to Webb to a point far more then I can to George Allen. But economics only goes so far. Have you ever read "What's the Matter with Kansas?". Great book and really shows how Americans have sacrificed economically to restore morality to this country.

As to why Webb when to the Democrats, well my guess is he knew he could not win in the GOP primary and he must either not be bright, or someone made him an offer he couldn't refuse. He probably has a big ego and the Democrats only want to win, they don't care about views, they will slip him the kool aide. He's a novice and should he win, the Rats will eat him alive. He's signed a pact with the devil. He just does not know that yet.

[Corin Stormhands]

Now, an interesting thing will be how many of this group are Virginia voters and identify with Webb...

FWIW, it's my heritage on my mother's side. But there's no way Webb will get my vote.

Just MHO, but I don't think it will have that big of an impact. We're Virginians, not Scots-Irish-Americans.

We were Virginians before we were Americans. We were Virginians more than we were Confederates.