[SlowBoat407]

Right now I'm ashamed to be from Virginia.

[Brilliant]

Sen.-elect Jim Webb contends the Bush administration wants to paint him as a "hothead."



Seems like Webb's doing a pretty good job of that himself.

[padre35]

Webb's washer is stuck in spin cycle....

[iceskater]

Ping for Jim I-am-not-a-hothead Webb's latest excuse for his bad behavior.

[Salvey]

One thing is true about Webb, for sure: he is a graceless boor.

[pnh102]

Bush has too much class. If it was up to me, I would openly state that I was doing everything I could to make a pervert like Jim Webb look bad.

[jdm]

Thanks for posting this. WMAL had a story on this, too, but pulled it.

[Dane]

Oh but didn't you know that Webb supposedly salutes the Confederate flag and the Scotch-Irish as he votes for harry reid's radical leftist agenda.

[sinanju]

"Webb, who notes that he wouldn't talk during the campaign about his son stationed in Iraq, answered with a response something like, "I would like to see them come home."

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Web made a point of waving his son's combat boots as a prop! Incredible! Oh, and by the way, has it ever occurred to him that might make his son a target over there?

[Michael.SF.]

the White House leaked a report of the episode

Typical Democratic deflection by painting the WH as the bad guys with selective use of misuse of words. "Leak" and "report" both imply some type of top secret meeting was written up for internal distribution and that this report was then made available w/o proper authorization.

What BS. Any intelligent person can see through this. But that is not who the Democrats are trying to sway to their side, is it?

[Paradox]

"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."

Whats next, FreeRepublic complaining that it is being called a Conservative website?

[denydenydeny]

For a supposedly shoot-from-the-hip, straightforward, stand-up guy, Webb is sure quick to start spinning.

[Bahbah]

Of Bush's question, Webb said yesterday, "I think even he would probably understand that's a little bit over the line." He said the question was not an easy one to answer "when your son's in combat."

How ridiculous. If I encounter anyone with a family member in a combat zone, I would be sure to inquire about them. How hard is it to say he's fine, or he's not so fine...Webb didn't behave rudely because it's a hard question, he behaved rudely because he is a boor.

[SquirrelKing]

Webb is a giant in his own mind.

George Will gives Webb a spanking for this [and his ham-fisted use of the King's English] in his column. For cross-reference:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1746344/posts

[NeoCaveman]

Webb is not a hot head
Bill Clinton is faithful
Ted Kennedy is sober
Jimmy Carter is not a loser

What else do they want me to believe?

[Williams]

Let me think, new senator, won't be photographed with the president, won't answer a polite question about his son, wants to PUNCH the president over it -

Yeah, I'd have to say that's a hothead with a problem operating in the political process.

[PeteB570]

Webb should follow the advice of...

"Never do anything you would be ashamed of if it got out into the MSM."

[AmericanMade1776]

[Malesherbes]

Screw you! I'm not a hot head! Repeat that again, and you'll get a fat lip.

[ProudCopperhead]

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.