[srmorton]

Webb is doing exactly what a father should do, but the cynic in me wonders why he had to do it so publicly.

[leadpenny]

Publicly?

[Hong Kong Expat]

Huh? Was there press? I didn't see any quotes from Webb?

It's a great campaign coup for Webb. I think more Republican leaders should get their kids to sign up for the Military. Could you imagine the surge of patriotism if the Bush Twins signed up. I think those two good looking girls in the Army would get a few hundred thousand extra boys to sign up.

[Marius3188]

Come on guys, this is what Webb did : "Webb, who skipped the annual political event to spend time with his son, a Marine who is shipping out for Iraq this week."

Not much of publicity stunt at all. The (title) kinda implies Webb is at the Battleship waiving, as his son 'sails' away.

[TaxRelief]

"Staying home with his son who is about to deploy" is a lame publicity stunt. Discretion never matters to Dems.

If Webb was the great man he claims to be, he would not ally himself with the party that is funded by ambulance chasers and international communists. He would not take the name of the party that wants to control free markets, confiscate personal property through eminent domain, and raise taxes to support pork-barrel spending for their chosen elite.

If it does not walk like a duck, but talks like a duck and claims to be a duck, is it still a duck?

Webb is a duck by his own admission.

No man of true honor would call himself a Democrat in this day and time.