[Hemingway's Ghost]

Agreed. Attacking fictional passages seems like a non-starter to me. If this is the RPV's bigh push for this final weekend, VA Republicans should be damn worried about Tuesday and make sure they drag every Republican they know out to the polls.

A much more important question about Webb and his character is how a man who used to defend the Vietnam grunt can now accept endorsement and support from somebody like John Kerry. The Webb campaign happily trumpeted Kerry's endorsement, at which point a fair question would have been, "How can Webb accept support from Kerry, who - while still on active duty - organized North Vietnamese-sponsored show trials to condemn US servicemen?"

An excellent post.

[manapua]

Thanks. In your knowledge, has anyone asked this on a statewide level? Maybe I'm really out of touch with this post-modern world of ours, but this is the most glaringly weird and disturbing thing about the Webb campaign.

For those of you outside of South Massachsetts / Northern VA, what's Webb's message? Up here, he drones on passionlessly about hiking minimum wage, hiking taxes, and embryonic stem cell research - and nothing I've seen from him indicates that he actually believes in what he's saying.

Aside from the same huge ego, the late 1980s/early 90s Webb isn't the 2006 version. I think that the Webb I saw talking about "A Sense of Honor" in 1988. In fact, I'd wager that the 1988 Webb would want to kick 2006 Webb's smarmy ass.