I want another 1980. My choice to bring that about, assuming she’s interested, is Joni Ernst.
Two words in reply:
Sarah Palin.
His opinion is well thought out and analyzed. We shall see.
I think Warren does wish to run, but won’t say so now. She’s wait and let the Hillary Cake fall under it’s own top-heavy weight.
On the other hand, it is nice to see at least one presidential candidate who was man enough to serve his nation in uniform.
If the author is painting a scenario using 1968 as a basis, he forgot completely about George Wallace & the role he played.
Webb is probably the best Veep Candidate for Warren. She is real thin on foreign policy and defense. Webb would shore up her weakness in these areas and since she is a feminist, she would cover for his multiple marriages and his dirty books he likes to write...
Both sides of Mr. Webb’s family have a strong citizen-soldier military tradition that predates the Revolutionary War. Mr. Webb’s father was a career Air Force officer who flew B-17s and B-29s during World War Two, cargo planes during the Berlin Airlift, and was a pioneer in the United States missile program. Colonel Webb was the first family member to finish high school and graduated from the University of Omaha in 1962 after 26 years of night school.
While in the Senate, Mr. Webb was selected to deliver the response to the President’s State of the Union address in 2007, and served on the Foreign Relations, Armed Services, Veterans Affairs, and the Joint Economic Committees. He wrote, introduced, and guided to passage the Post-9.11 GI Bill, the most significant veterans legislation since World War II, and co-authored legislation which exposed 60 billion dollars of waste, fraud and abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan wartime-support contracts. A long-time advocate of fixing America’s broken criminal justice system, Mr. Webb was spotlighted in The Atlantic Magazine as one of the world’s “Brave Thinkers” for tackling prison reform and possessing “two things vanishingly rare in Congress: a conscience and a spine.”
Having widely traveled in Asia for decades, as Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee’s Asia – Pacific Subcommittee Mr. Webb was a leading voice in calling for the United States to re-engage in East Asia, meeting frequently with key national leaders throughout the region. In 2009, he led an historic visit to Burma, becoming the first American leader to visit that country in ten years, and opening up the dialogue that resulted in the re-establishment of relations between our two countries.
Mr. Webb graduated from the Naval Academy in 1968, receiving a special commendation for his leadership contributions. First in his class of 243 at the Marine Corps Officer’s Basic School, he served as a rifle platoon and company commander in Vietnam and was awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star Medal, two Bronze Star Medals, and two Purple Hearts. He graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1975.
How can Jim Web be such a socialist?
No democrats will vote for a Vietnam war veteran after the failure of John F’n Kerry - Did you know he too server in Vietnam
They got the ‘68 race riot angle down pat. I wonder who is going to get to play the role of Bobby Kennedy?
Sickening just sickening, the hacks
From both parties that think they are qualified to be president.
If Hillary Clinton is the best the Democrats have, they are pitiful.
I was in the Navy with a guy from Scotland. I once referred to him as being “Scotch” and he said “Scotch is effing drink.”
Very interesting piece.
I was a McCarthy supporter in those days. LOL!
Humphrey, a veteran party wheelhorse, almost won the election by rallying elements of the old FDR coalition such as unions, bringing in much of the black electorate and, in the closing days, winning over a big chunk of the anti-war Left. I can't see Sir Gaffe-Alot doing the same.
For me, other than Sarah and Cruz there are NO OTHER candidates.
I am pretty sure that in 1968 “Republican” was not a second name for “Democrat”.
No it’ll be 1968 for GOP
A lightweight gets elected
Warren looks like Baraq 2.0 to me.
Webb likely won’t even be John Edwards 2.0
The white southern democrat is extinct or has moved off the reservation. Landrieu's loss in Louisiana made it official.