Jim Webb went overboard in his opposition to Bush, but he was right about the Gulf Wars. If we’d listened to Webb instead of the Bushes and the war profiteers, we would not be bankrupt with a military running out of Schlitz like we are today. I don’t know if anybody can turn us around now, but we don’t stand a chance with ordinary politicians.
I agree with you there, no doubt about it and he was right about the Gulf Wars. But Obamacare? Porkulus? Dodd/Frank?
Every leftist thing that came along in the senate, Webb was on board. To me, that’s the perfect example of politics as usual. He could have brought attention to it and stood up to it, but he didn’t.
Besides, Trump is very good at threading the needle himself and really doesn’t need a Dem VP pick. He should go with a more mainstream ‘conservative’ Republican IMHO to shore up the less bright on our side. You know, the types who go nuts because he ‘would be open to looking at’ raising the minimum wage (means nothing) or says nice things about Planned Parenthood while pledging to defund them if they continue to do abortions.