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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"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 Americas future growth."
Webb's definition of "rednecks": ". . . "obstacle to the collectivist taming of America, symbolized by the edicts of political correctness."
shenmue
(38,506 posts)gwheezie
(3,580 posts)Based on his misogynistic views of women.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Webb has an identity crisis. He cannot come to terms with what the standard redneck really is.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)It's only thing that makes sense to me because he has no shot whatsoever to win the Democratic nomination.
pnwmom
(109,001 posts)or they'd never survive.
msongs
(67,459 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)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.