Views on Confederacy may cost Webb VP nod

The Politico ^

[Sub-Driver]

Typical Dem hypocrisy............

[jesseam]

People are just wound up too tight

[The_Republican]

OK. LOL!

If he was a Republican choice, every dem would be out with those quotes, running around, calling him a racist.

So I guess Strickland and Webb, two of the best choices they had, are out.

I smell a Klinton on ticket!

Bring it on!

[redstateconfidential]

Webb can write a hole paragraph and be called an author, he was a short timer for Reagen and his mental condition has gone down hill since he left that admin.Plus he denied us a great chance of an real candidate, all so he can go to Washington and flail about on the senate floor.

[The_Republican]

Why are you calling paragraph ahole?

[SF Republican]

Heard Mel Brooks a couple of weeks ago on the radio - he said being from New York, when he went to school at VMI - the south was the first place he learned about honor!

[vigilence]

While I’m no Webb supporter I do agree with what is quoted here. The South had men fighting for it for many reasons, not just to perpetuate slavery as is so often portrayed.

[PurpleMan]

Hell, if he was on McCain’s ticket there’d be freepers coming out of the woodwork to praise his great heritage and lauding his family who were great Americans fighting for their freedom against the evil Lincoln during the War of Northern Aggression, blah, blah, blah.

ACK.

[rockrr]

It will be interesting to see if webb distances himself from his earlier comments or if the dhimmis preemptively kick him to the curb.

[Slick91]

A-men! While I don't care two cents for 99% Mr. Webb's political positions, he is 100% right on this issue. He is not advocating a return to slavery, but a return to more sovereignty at the state level. Of course, the liberals have all but succeeded in tanting anything and everything about the South with slavery.

[redstateconfidential]

Muhahahah, oh you Misspelling Patrol Cadets, ya’ll get me everytime!

[Argus]

First Black President Obama will give preemptive absolution to any white person as his running mate, be they Webb or anybody else, on racial subjects. Webb’s pro-Confederacy, pro-redneck credentials are what make him attractive to the Obamaniacs - they’re a plus in this context, to bring the God-and-gun clingers home. This analysis is all wet.

[flowerplough]

And if Webb's views on the Confederacy don't get him, his fiction will, eh?

“I don’t know why you’re reading that on WTOP,” Webb told host Mark Plotkin. “I think it’s a little bit inappropriate.” Plotkin was reading an excerpt from Webb’s novel “Something to Die For,” in which Webb describes a female stripper performing sexual acts with a banana. “I don’t think that’s appropriate for you to read on WTOP,” Webb said again as Plotkin finished the excerpt.

I just did an Amazon search on the passage in Webb’s book. It isn’t the least bit titillating. It’s in the context of an American in an exotic, backward, remote part of a foreign land. The penis-kissing scene baffles and bewilders the Americans. It is clearly not a “fellating.” It is not a depiction of pedophelia. It’s very obviously scene painting, and the shock and oddity of the act adds to the lead characters’ sense that they’re out-of-place.

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/10/jim_webbs_dirty_books/

[okie01]

Hell, if he was on McCain’s ticket there’d be freepers coming out of the woodwork to praise his great heritage and lauding his family who were great Americans fighting for their freedom against the evil Lincoln during the War of Northern Aggression, blah, blah, blah.

Leaving aside, for the moment, that Webb isn't a Republican and that he's a jerk: If he were a Republican, you would not consider him qualified for the Vice-Presidency simply because of his ancestry?

Is that what you're saying?

[RinaseaofDs]

So, Jim Webb being an idiot doesn’t disqualify him?

[pabianice]

Why should this be a problem when the “dean” of senate Democrats is a retired KKK member?

[PurpleMan]

He was a republican and now he’s a democrat. I dunno. Maybe he’s a republican manchurian candidate in the democrat party awaiting someone dressed up like Stonewall Jacksonn to wave a battle flag. Who knows.

He is qualified for VP because he meets the criteria as set forth in the 12th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The other crap is about people fighting a war that ended 150 years ago (and which BTW, they lost)

One wonders if they suffer from PTCS (Post Traumatic Confederacy Syndrome)

[allmendream]

when did he retire? ;)

I certainly never heard him denounce or repudiate. Must be nice playing by a different set of rules.

[kalee]

Dixie ping

[kalee]

If Obama is ekected can I secede?