Don't be surprised if Jim Webb enters the race as an indie, particularly if Donald Trump is the gop nominee.
If Trump is not the Republican candidate, the Democrats don’t need a 3rd party; they will win again in a war of attrition because so many people will stay home and not vote.
Webb has no base of support. He’ll get less votes than John Anderson.
Not just VA, but NC! Talk about giving Trump a lock on the South from VA into MO & OK down to TX. All 'use gotta doose at that point is win OH, baby.
I think Webb is the very last of the old fashioned Democrats. He is more conservative than most Republicans currently in Congress. As a Democrat, he has a lot of flaws, but he is nowhere near as rabid as Obama, Clinton, Sanders, etc.
He has no name recognition so a third party bid would go nowhere and take nothing from any other candidates.
I have thought for a while that Trump would choose Webb as his VP if Trump wins the nomination. It would be a 50 state sweep. The Democrats hate Hillary and Sanders has only the far left base. This ticket gives Democrats and GOPe something to support.
Cruz folks, such as myself, would just stay home. The only true advantage to this ticket is the current two party system would be destroyed as they merged into the uniparty they currently are.
El Jebito will be the Independent candidate, splitting the pubbie vote.
ZERO chance of there being any effective run from the left.
The Dem Machine will take care of that.
For them, it’s coronation time.
“And let’s say Donald Trump’s support doesn’t just melt away, but that instead his candidacy is defeated by a vicious and massively financed negative ad campaign from a pan-GOP coalition.”
So there’s no possible third alternative to the above, right Ed? Which means Ed Kilgore is certain Donald Trump can’t possibly be the GOP nominee. Looks like Ed is afflicted with a case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, a form of delusional reality denial.
I just don’t get why freepers spend so much energy attacking the Demorat opposition. Why not spend time attacking the Muslim pigs and the RAT party. Attack the enemy, not your own squad members. I grant you that demorats masquerading as republicans should be attacked like other demonrats.
If Jim Webb wants to challenge Hillary and Bernie, he has a better stage to do so at the debates.
If he wants to siphon off moderate Democrat votes from Trump or a Republican challenger, he’s in it to aid Hillary Clinton.
Never happen.
Unlike the GOP-e, the RATS learn from the past.
It will either be Hillary or Bernie.
It all depends on where VJ goes.
If she and Obama go to the UN, it will be Hillary.
If she is Chief of Staff for Bernie, it will be Bernie.
To my way of thinking, Trump is not the problem. Hillary is. Hillary winning the nomination of her party is Hillary too close to the White House for comfort.
She should have been knocked out by now. Benghazi, emails, whatever. Instead, she’s still running and it looks almost unopposed, unless you take Sanders seriously.
Webb would attract Trump votes.
To clarify, Webb would attract many Trump voters.
If Jim Webb is going to run as a populist he'd be unlikely to go up against Trump and do very well, since Trump has much populist appeal.
If Trump is the nominee, he smothers Webb and you'd be more likely to see a moderate Republican type try to make an independent or third-party run.
If, on the other hand, the GOP goes with a mainstream GOPe candidate there would be plenty of disaffected populist Trump voters for Webb to appeal to (assuming Trump doesn't run as an independent himself).
Webb is a lib scumbag. Unlike Savris he’s a scumbag people have heard of. He won’t run as a Libertarian and have stupid conservatives voting for that letter next to his name. He’s a threat (to take 1-4 points) from Hillary, not the GOP.
I read someplace else that a Webb third-party run might be a problem for the GOP moreso than the DNC because it would draw off more conservative democrats (yes, I know, contradiction in terms) who would otherwise have voted for the GOP candidate.
Is there anything of substance to that, or would Webb just be a thorn in the side of the DNC?