Posted on 03/05/2015 7:12:24 AM PST by yetidog
I have seen several stories speculating on Hillary’s replacement if the email story is fatal to her presumed nomination. Elizabeth Warren, Martin O’Malley and even the horrible Algore have all been mentioned. Little has been said about the already announced Jim Webb, war hero, man-for-all seasons and perhaps one of the last “conventional” Democrats. But if the GOP nominates Jeb Bush and Webb somehow secures the Democratic nomination, who would you go with? I would probably go with a protest third party candidate (if viable).
I will never vote 3rd party again. (I have done it several times). I think it ruins a ‘pretty good’ choice and puts in a VERY BAD choice. The Republic is too fragile to risk that, ever.
Jim Webb? You mean the racist, marxist, piece of garbage that writes incestuous kiddie porn? I’d vote for any Republican over that excrement.
War hero my a*s. He’s a scumbag traitor of the highest order.
I'd go with Webb unless there's a viable 3rd part alternative. Why? From everything I've read (granted, not all that much) he's a decent man. Jeb and Christie and anyone who backstabbed the conservative base are not.
Which is why he will be VP on the Elizabeth Warren ticket.
I could vote for Ross Perot as I did one year. But as I have said several times here at FR, I will always vote R. I learned my lesson. Many here on FR would stay home. FR has helped us put a D in the White House.
If I HAD to choose between the two, I believe I’d vote for Jim Webb over Bush. (that’s BAD)
Since that won’t be the case, I’d most likely just stay home....(for the first time ever)
I would vote down ballot and leave the top blank.
My thinking is based on a kind of modified Hobson’s choice of taking neither bad option and defaulting to none in the form of a third party choice. The likely outcome (Bush or Webb) would be meaningless in terms of what I really wanted so the third party chocie would seem to be a logical civic action.
FR has helped us put a D in the White House.
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In this case particularly, with the “D” meaning “Devil”.
It would be a fascinating race as Jim Webb absolutely hates the annointed, wealthy, manoral-class Republican establishment so typified by the Bush Family. Interestingly, Jim Webb, whose son was fighting in Iraq at the time, really got into George Bush’s face during a welcoming reception for incoming freshman senators.
Hitlery is to the right of the current center of the Party of Satan. She will struggle to get nominated (if all the scandals don’t kill off her candidacy, first). Webb is to the right of Hitlery.
As laughable as it sounds, I think little Marty O’Malley would have a better shot at the nomination than Webb.
Decent men don’t write stories about fathers performing sex acts on their sons.
Isn't that a RINO?
I would suggest how one votes should be determined depending upon whether one votes in a deep red, deep blue or a battleground state. If I voted in a deep red or deep blue state, I would consider writing in my favorite conservative. In a battleground state in which my vote could really count, I would vote against the most liberal candidate and for the most conservative candidate that has a real chance of winning.
How does that enter the mind of any remotely normal American Male? It does, however, make him a "conventional" Democrat.
Lame Cherry has been hinting at this as well.
Absolutely no one in the Democratic Party is lining up behind JIm Webb, and that includes the money boys (and girls) who could finance his campaign.
Webb served honorably in the Marine Corps and he is a genuine war hero (recipient of the Navy Cross). But his public service career has been a study in opportunism. He rode the Reagan wave into positions as the VA Secretary and later, Secretary of the Navy, but he had to resign or face the humiliation of getting fired by Ronaldus Magnus. The reason? In barely a year on the job, Webb managed to piss off virtually everyone in the Navy’s senior leadership AND his superiors in the Pentagon.
Two decades later, he capitalized on a weak campaign by George Allen (and national dissatisfaction with the GOP) to win a Senate seat in Virginia. As a Senator, same story. Webb wouldn’t compromise with anyone, and became dismayed over the partisanship and factionalism in the Senate. Pretty amazing for a man who has spent most of his adult life in the halls of power in D.C. So, he decides not to run for re-election and the idiots in VA elect an ever bigger weasel, Tim Kaine, to replace him.
Now, he wants to be President. Unfortunately, “One Term Jim” doesn’t realize his party has moved so far to the left that few Democrats would actually vote for him. His targeted constituency: white, working class voters, was written off by the Dims decades ago. Guess Mr. Webb didn’t get the memo.
After having lived through two terms of Lil’Marty, that’s quite enough.
‘Pod.
I would probably go with a protest third party candidate (if viable).
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Viable = 270 Electoral College Votes. I don’t ever remember
any 3rd party even being close.
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