Posted on 11/30/2006 7:57:18 AM PST by iceskater
WASHINGTON -- Sen.-elect Jim Webb contends the Bush administration wants to paint him as a "hothead."
The former Navy secretary, whose election in Virginia put Democrats over the top in capturing the U.S. Senate, voiced that view yesterday.
A White House spokeswoman flatly denied Webb's charge.
"That is not true. At all," said spokeswoman Dana Perino in an e-mail.
Webb confirmed published reports of an exchange at a private White House reception when he declined an invitation to be photographed with President Bush, and next declined to answer Bush's question about his son stationed in Iraq.
He was told, Webb volunteered in an interview, that someone at the White House leaked a report of the episode, although he didn't know if that was true.
"I think one of the strategies of the administration, it seems to be to try to say early on that I'm a hothead, you know, or that I can't work in the political process, or whatever."
When informed of Webb's remarks about a possible White House leak and a strategy to depict him negatively, White House spokeswoman Perino said, "None of it is true."
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Hillary Rodham Clinton can be commander and chief?
Communist Brown won by a much larger margin than the webb pos.
Even so, Ohio and Virginia are my two home states and the both disgusted me.
Note however than only one Congressional seat was lost in the two states, that being Ney's.
Crazy and very rich uncle
The guy's nuts! Grab 'em!
Screw you! I'm not a hot head! Repeat that again, and you'll get a fat lip.
Okay. That's enough. You've crossed the line with that one. ;)
Well, in fairness, my observation on that thread was not quite right. I was reading the wrong set of results on the State Board of Election website when I posted that. I was thinking I was looking at the City of Richmond results but in my bleary-eyed state, when I went to check on the marriage amendment results, I clicked on Richmond County instead (for those not from Virginia, the two are about a hundred miles apart).
The marriage amendment did get more support than Allen did among the black community, but not to the levels I originally thought. I crossed my numbers up big-time.
Webb actually outflanked Allen on his right on a couple of things. Take women in the service academies. Yes, it's a fait accompli now, it has been for quite a while, and there's thousands serving honorably in the officer corps of all the services. But in a state that had to get forced at court order to admit women to the Virginia Military Insitute, Webb's old anti-women-at-the-academies stance might've resonated with a few people.
In the end, though, it was the Washington Compost and Larry Sabato carrying Webb's water for him, hammering on Macacagate again and again and again and again, dragging out those ridiculous racism accusations (remember the BS deer head in the mailbox story?) without checking the sources, and so on. Allen's campaign got caught flat-footed and looked like they sort of started to panic the last two months of the campaign--the Webb-as-perv-author and Webb-as-plagarist themes just never caught on.
Yeah, we sent Born Idiot to the Senate. But I prefer to look at it this way--Allen's people ran a weak campaign, I don't think there's much doubt of that. Even Corin, who worked his tail off for Allen, is clear-eyed about the mistakes. And yes, despite that, he STILL only lost by 9500 votes out of 2.3 million. A stronger campaign, a better and more focused response to the Macaca caca, and the Senate is 50-48-2 instead of 49-49-2. To me, that bodes less ill for the future than people think.
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No.
Introduce your next song with this quote.
Unlike the dixiechicks, your bookings will skyrocket.
Anyone know if Virginia has a recall provision?
I'd like to get this a-hole embroiled in a recall fight about a year from now, when the political climate improves and he has made a total ass of himself.
that Jimmy Carter DOES NOT have chicklet teeth
The dough-faced Senator-elect with the arrogant mouth has two ex-wives for a reason, I would think. And I'm thinking it's not because he's a pussycat.
It would be interesting to watch him at "cocktail hour" and see how many drinks he can slam down. He'd probably give Teddy Kennedy a run for his Chivas.
I still think your observation is true to some extent but thanks for clarifying.
And you're right, 9500 votes out of 2.3 million is NOT a mandate. And, of course, is no excuse for poor behavior.
I think Mr. Hothead needs to be reminded regularly that he did not win a majority of the votes and there is no mandate for him.
George Will gives a little insight to this typical Reagan DemocRat, who is certifiably insane due to his Bush Hatred.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1746344/posts
Of course that Bush Disrangement Syndrome and the dead skunk serving as his hair piece got Webb elected.
Now there's an image.....
"....looking morose".... and preferably unemployed.
Is it just me or is Webb starting to resemble Larry Flynt?
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