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pnwmom

(108,997 posts)
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 11:11 PM Apr 2015

"The American Conservative: James Webb, war novelist"

Are some progressives really thinking about voting for a guy who would position himself like this?

On his main web page, top left hand corner: "The American Conservative: James Webb, war novelist."

Just who is he trying to appeal to? Not the "leftists," for whom he has nothing but contempt.

http://www.jameswebb.com

http://oldvirginiablog.blogspot.com/2013/04/what-happened-to-former-virginia.html

"The culture so dramatically symbolized by the Southern redneck [is] the greatest inhibitor of the plans of the activist Left and the cultural Marxists for a new kind of society altogether." So wrote former Virginia Senator James Webb in Born Fighting.

And

"And for the last fifty years the Left has been doing everything in its power to sue them, legislate against their interests, mock them in the media, isolate them as idiosyncratic, and publicly humiliate their traditions in order to make them, at best, irrelevant to America’s future growth."

Webb's definition of "rednecks": ". . . "obstacle to the collectivist taming of America, symbolized by the edicts of political correctness."

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Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
3. Poor choice for the Democratic party.
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 11:22 PM
Apr 2015

Webb has an identity crisis. He cannot come to terms with what the standard redneck really is.

hedda_foil

(16,375 posts)
4. I wonder if he's running to make Hilary look more liberal by comparison.
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 11:52 PM
Apr 2015

It's only thing that makes sense to me because he has no shot whatsoever to win the Democratic nomination.

pnwmom

(108,997 posts)
6. His running because his ego is telling him to. Most politicians have to have big ones
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 12:01 AM
Apr 2015

or they'd never survive.

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
7. I imagine he feels getting his name out there might
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 12:04 AM
Apr 2015

Might secure a spot in the administration. Or he could think that because he is over 35 he can run. Only he knows for sure.

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