[oblomov]

Webb would be an interesting candidate. He would lose enthusiasm from the urban progressive gentry (Obama’s base), but pick up a big slice of white middle class voters.

[mrsmith]

No. He was a %100 Dem vote in the Senate, his cover is blown.

Besides he’s nuts.

[11th Commandment]

I agree progressives would not be excited to support him in the primaries. Clinton pulled off the "moderate" Democrat because he convinced the uber left that winning was more important than ideology. Democrats just lost 3 presidential elections and majorities in Congress were being chipped away.

The left sucked it up and we had sister souljah, Jesse Jackson and Carter not at the convention and the NEW Democrat movement. Although Clinton gave the uber left a seat at the table, they felt they had a back seat. They began to slowly purge moderates in congress. By 2004, Howard Dean so effectively rallied the urber left via anti-war movement, the Moderate Democrat either real or imaginary was dead.

IMHO, there is not enough moderates in the Democratic Party or people willing to pretend to be moderate to muster up a presidential run.

[ex-snook]

I’d like to hear more from him. The county needs a strong independent voice.

[FreeReign]

He would lose enthusiasm from the urban progressive gentry (Obama’s base), but pick up a big slice of white middle class voters.

White middle class voters would have to be "stupid" as Gruber describes to vote for Webb.

Webb votes like Obama, Hillary and the rest of that ilk.