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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI thought Jim Webb was a democrat. Guess I was wrong.
He sure doesn't sound like one...
Jim Webb Equates Trump's Racist Remarks With Liberal Rhetoric On 'Southern White Culture'
Jim Webb ran to Fox "news" this Sunday to trash liberals and conflate the push to remove the Confederate flag from government property with Trump's racist remarks about Mexicans.
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/07/jim-webb-equates-trumps-racist-remarks
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)resolved. He didn't say he supported leaving it up on state capital buildings. Maybe he, like me, thinks it's silly to ban it everywhere, even on TV shows and stained-glass windows.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)better than a republican but just barely.. It's still helpful to have them around to gain a majority, but their votes can never really be counted on, and they say the oddest things sometimes
Little Star
(17,055 posts)they elect actual Democrats there. Do they?
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Unless they're not real Democrats because...they're from Virginia.
Your post smells like more region-bashing.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)Most of them are DINOs.
And you don't have any idea where 90% of my family comes from and still resides.
Your post smells presumptuous because it is.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)No, I don't have any idea where you live, but your post still comes off as region-bashing.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Virginia, especially northern Virginia, is not as conservative as u might think.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Webb was a Republican in the past. Like one of his competitors.
But he was a Democratic senator from Virginia.
He's got pretty good positions on foreign policy, Wall Street, and criminal justice. To the left of Hillary, I'd say.
They're all a mixed bag, aren't they?
Journeyman
(15,044 posts)and that life and reality rarely fit into neat niches or restrictive pigeonholes. It all tends to be troublesome, nuanced, and quite messy, and is all the richer, and ultimately better resolved, for its diversity and conflict.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)Which puts him to the left of Hilary in my book.
peacebird
(14,195 posts)In his Capital office.
Not hard to see why we elected Webb, tho he is far right of most Dems.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)Neither did Republic0ns, because for them, they must be as conservative as they can get and that's why Mitt Romney claimed to be severely conservative when he ran for president.
summerschild
(725 posts)Wikipedia: "During the Reagan Administration, Webb served as the nation's first Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs from 1984 to 1987.
In 1987, he served as Secretary of the Navy, becoming the first Naval Academy graduate to serve as the civilian head of the Navy. As Navy Secretary, Webb pushed the appointment of Alfred M. Gray, Jr. as Commandant of the Marine Corps, hoping that Gray could reshape the Corps into the elite unit it once was.[27] Webb resigned in 1988 after refusing to agree to reduce the size of the Navy. Webb had wished to increase the Navy to 600 ships. As revealed in The Reagan Diaries, President Ronald Reagan wrote on February 22, 1988: "I don't think Navy was sorry to see him go."[28]"
I heard one interview with him. All he did was praise Reagan.
LostOne4Ever
(9,302 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Don't know who I'm voting for yet, but I know who I'm not.
Cha
(298,077 posts)be to be running for President in the Dem primary.. and come up with this kind of shite?
"Both sides do it".. uh huh
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)I don't know jack about Webb* but I'm not seeing anything in the article where he's defending flying the confederate flag. Some of our southern DUers might appreciate not getting the broad brush treatment and attacks on the general culture of the south while they too support the flag coming down.
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TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)and trying to erase it from popular culture and historic settings, digging up graves, replacing monuments and statues (overkill).
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)Democrat who I'd consider NOT voting for if s/he becomes the nominee, but Webb is definitely it.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)You run the campaign that you think you can win