Posted on 02/10/2011 1:48:51 PM PST by La Lydia
The end of Jim Webb’s senatorial career, with his announcement that he would not seek re-election in 2012, was far less surprising than the fact that Webb even had a senatorial career to end. He’d arrived in the Senate seeming ready to leave...
That 2006 Webb campaign had the feel of a forced march, a mood that very much reflected the candidate himself. His public appearances had all the spontaneous joy of a line inspection at Camp Lejeune. Webb spoke with a flat, matter-of-fact voice, always in earnest tones. He possessed none of the innate muscle memory of a natural pol... His campaign smile usually seemed the product of considerable exertion.
Webb politicked like someone with a chip on his shoulder, which, in fact, was very much the case. He saw himself as heir of an aggrieved people, an identity he awakened to after returning from Vietnam, where he served as a twice-wounded, much-decorated Marine combat officer. While attending classes on the G.I. Bill at Georgetown Law in the 1970s, Webb realized that most of his classmates had not only not served, but harbored a self-congratulatory disdain for those who had...
The heart of his Senate term, the middle two years, came at a time when Democrats, heady with electoral triumph (owing at least partly to the recruitment of such centrist figures as Webb), were governing insistently from the left. Webb personally warned President Obama that the all-out push for health-care reform would be “a disaster” for the party. Webb’s sort of Democrat fell from favor within the party during the course of one senatorial cycle...
When Webb declared himself out of a re-election run, it was widely supposed that he had little chance of winning anyway...
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You can throw in that he’s a strange duck!
I don't see that mentioned anywhere.
I live in Virginia...and would say that Webb’s chances of carrying a victory are fairly marginal. There’s about three counties in the state which are fairly democratic in nature...but the vast amount of Virginia is Republican. I don’t think Webb sees much of a chance to win and it’s better to go ahead and find another profession.
I will add this...George Allen isn’t exactly a clear winner with most Republicans in the state...so I’m betting on a strong primary episode for the Republicans.
And how did he vote anyway?
I think the better term is lame duck, or just plain lame...
Fall from the Senate is that the myth of the Blue Dog Democrat was finally exposed.
He voted yes, and his was, by some accounts, the deciding vote. Just one of the reasons that there is no love lost on him in Virginia. After the bill passed, he went on radio and TV here and complained about it.
Who?
The Webb Senate seat was one of a string of Democrat “thefts” that allowed them to get to the magic number of 60. Some of the others being Ted Stevens seat in Alaska (one of the most heinous thefts ever), the Coleman seat in Minnesota (stolen by Al Franken), and the Spector switch in Pennsylvania. We are still suffering from the effects of this ugly drive to 60 - wrecked economy, Obamacare, huge deficits.
Maybe the guy who may kill ObamaCare should run - Ken Cucinelli. I would love for him to run for POTUS. He is the real deal.
A strange duck indeed. The way he drools over a father’s pederastic relationship with his little boy in one of his novels is beyond disgusting. I don’t know how the voters could have given that a pass, once it came out.
I thought of moving to way west Virginia BUT,
Decided the big cities in the east would get nearly everything and the west would help pay for it
Thank you for your service to our country in Viet Nam Senator, now don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.
I would love for Ken to run. I suspect he wants to be governor first.
Good question. Another one — why did he run for the Senate in the first place?
He won because the other guy screwed up at the last minute.
He was sort of encouraged into it through a grass roots campaign looking for someone to challenge Allen.
Actually the other campaign started falling apart in August and never recovered when the polls started going the other way. Webb was assisted greatly by daily articles trashing Allen in the Washington Post.
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