Posted on 09/25/2006 5:31:15 AM PDT by ItMatters2Me
CHARLOTTESVILLE -- About 1,000 supporters of Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Jim Webb filled the Paramount Theater last night to hear readings by Webb and best-selling authors John Grisham and Stephen King. Webb is challenging Republican U.S. Sen. George Allen in the Nov. 7 election. Grisham, King and Webb each said he had been a Republican before switching parties. All three wore combat boots to honor Webb's son, Jimmy, a Marine lance corporal serving in Iraq. "How fitting that boots have become a symbol of this campaign," said Grisham, an Albemarle County resident. "On one side you have cowboy boots. A lot of these guys come from privileged backgrounds and to convince the public they are tough guys, they wear boots." "They are not real cowboys," Grisham said. "Willie Nelson said of our president, 'He ain't no cowboy, and he ain't from Texas.' The boots are part of a costume, part of an image. The trouble with political cowboys is they think they're tough, and to prove it they swagger around and they use macho language and they utter such wisdoms as 'Bring it on,' 'Mission accomplished' and here lately, 'Welcome to the real Virginia.'" His last reference was a paraphrase of Allen's remarks to S.R. Sidarth, a Webb volunteer with a camera, on Aug. 11. Sidarth, a University of Virginia student of Asian-Indian descent, joined musician Dave Matthews and other celebrities in the crowd. "Because they never saw the horror of combat, these cowboys are quick to decide that war is good and should be fought by the sons and daughters of others," Grisham said.
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"The Pelican Brief" and "The Client" could have been written by Karl Marx (if he had been a moronic, illiterate hack). Stephen King is a typical New England ivory tower liberal. If either of these two literary giants (sarc) were ever Republicans, Hillary was prom queen.
LOL
If that. One good read of The Stand, where all the Good Guys are Liberal Arts majors and "artists", and all the Bad Guys are scientists, engineers and military, should reveal Steve-a-rino's political beliefs.
What a coupla yawners. So they're supporting Webb. Whoopee doo.
If he was a Republican, why did he hold state office as a Democrat in MS?
Yeah, quote a dope smokin' has been and then wonder why nobody takes the dim party seriously.
Grisham was a state rep, but I don't recall him being a Democrat at the time. I could be wrong though!
OKAY I was wrong about the Republican part.
I've read both of them and fropm what I read neither of them have ever been Republicans unless they were of the Chaffee stripe. No loss in my opinion.
He's a flaming liberal
http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/John_Grisham.php
There's a Democrat role model for ya'.
I have a hard time believing this. Perhaps King was a Republican like Chaffee, but I seriously doubt that the liberal Grisham was a Republican.
Ha....they have to claim to be Republicans to get votes for their candidate. That tells you something.
"Willie Nelson said of our president, 'He ain't no cowboy, and he ain't from Texas.'"
This coming from Willie who writes a song about cowboys wanting to kiss other cowboys! Yeah, I guess Bush isn't a cowboy by those standards. But then Willie probably thinks the cowboy in the Village People is the real thing.
He should forget the crack and pot and get back on his meds.
And we are proud the RINO writers left BUMP!
Wait, I have to charge Democrats less, they are poor, historically underprivileged, and it would be discrimination to charge them more, since 90% of blacks vote Democrat that would also be a hate crime... Upon further review, too many Democrats can't or won't read, so it's a moot point anyway.
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