He is also a terrific comedian.
The messiah could pick a white southern woman ... like little Johnny Edwards.
Webb said some ridiculous things during his Senate run that could be turned around on him. His race wasn’t big enough to garner national scrutiny, but would be if he was in the VP seat.
Jim Webb...didn’t he write the song “MacArthur Park”?
Webb is a darn good choice.One real good thingabout him is that he’s been there and one that as far as the military goes...Say what you want about him, I’d trust and follow him if the shid ever hits the fan!!!
Oh God.
Jim “Born Idiot” Webb isn’t fit to serve as a United States Senator, much less VP. The only reason he’s there now is because of a solid drumbeat of “macaca” from the Washington Post and their clones in the MSM.
He likes to play up the whole Scots-Irish “Born Fighting” thing, and come across as some sort of badass down-home populist gun-totin’ ass-kickin’ good ol’ boy. But in reality, just like the rest of the “conservative” Rats that entered Congress in ‘06, he obediently does what Mama Nancy and Daddy Harry tell him to do.
It might be entertaining for only one reason—Webb has a temper that makes McQueeg look prim and stable by comparison. If Born Idiot got out there on the VP stump, sooner or later, somebody would push the wrong button, and the result might be a very interesting YouTube moment (because the MSM won’t report it).
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Isn’t Jim Webb the guy who writes books about young naked boys?
Oh great, VP Mellonhead Webb.
“The Nightingale’s Song” redux?
Many swooners around here.
Man, I just don't trust Republican and Conservative voters anymore.
"and I'll never have that recipe again, oh nooooooooooo..."
They can trade poor gun handling stories.
Yes, please. Take Webb and remove him from Virginia.
Seems the author, a professor emeritus, needs to do a little more research. Webb was a marine officer, not a naval officer.
Great choice. Obama would think he’s running with his wife Michelle since Webb is an angry person of color—his color usually being red...sort of like Slick Willie, the albino on spring break as Dennis Miller called him.
The burden of this piece is that Obama should nominate a Democratic version of McCain. That might be wise.Because I think McCain should nominate a black. Webb would nominally be similar in competence as well as skin color and sex, but a Democrat. The point to McCain of nominating a black would be to similar in skin color and sex, but equal to or better than Obama in experience. That is, no executive experience necessary. Obama might profit from nominating a white with similar "moderate" politics to McCain; McCain OTOH would profit from nominating a black with conservative politics to balance his ticket and unite his party.
Webb. He’s a freshman senator, less than 2 years experience. He had no other elected office before that.
He was a military man. He’s been a military man. He taught in a military college, where he harrassed women and maybe slept with one of his students.
He was Secretary of the Navy for a couple of years, did nothing of note in that office, and then was “resigned” out because nobody would listen to his opinion.
That was in the 80s. Since then he wrote books and I presume did something else other than live off his pensions.
He’s probably the only VP they could think of that makes Obama look experienced.
Webb won because Allen was successfully labeled as a racist who used the N-word throughout his career but was unwilling to admit it. The Democrats would vote for anything with a “D” after it, and in the end, attacks against Webb, especially for his books which were loved by the military, turned off the military vote for Allen. I don’t know if they voted for Webb, but they didn’t vote for Allen.
There’s no way the military vote in Virginia abandons McCain to vote for Webb. And that’s how Webb won, holding the democrats while getting enough of the military vote to swing. And as I said, that only worked because Allen’s campaign attacked salty language used in books as if Webb was some sort of pervert (books that McCain had recommended — one had a forward by McCain).
Allen only lost by 10,000 votes. He probably lost 5,000 when he denounced the confederate flag. He probably lost the other 5000 at least when he said military people should be ashamed that they read and enjoyed Webb’s books.
McCain won’t make those mistakes. Virginia could have been competitive for Democrats this year, with just about ANY republican candidate — except McCain. I just saw a poll that says McCain is up 10 to Obama here. Webb can’t make that big a difference.
Webb vs. McCain in a Presidential race would be like Bligh vs. Queeg. Would be fun to watch, and it would be a good move for Obama, though probably not for Webb.