I thought Jim Webb was a democrat. Guess I was wrong.

[Archae]

He sure doesn't sound like one...

Jim Webb Equates Trump's Racist Remarks With Liberal Rhetoric On 'Southern White Culture'

Jim Webb ran to Fox "news" this Sunday to trash liberals and conflate the push to remove the Confederate flag from government property with Trump's racist remarks about Mexicans.

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/07/jim-webb-equates-trumps-racist-remarks

[bigdarryl]

1. WTF!!!!! ?

[TwilightGardener]

2. He said the issue of the flag being removed from gov. buildings was

resolved. He didn't say he supported leaving it up on state capital buildings. Maybe he, like me, thinks it's silly to ban it everywhere, even on TV shows and stained-glass windows.

[SoCalDem]

3. Jim Webb is a typical southern DINO

better than a republican but just barely.. It's still helpful to have them around to gain a majority, but their votes can never really be counted on, and they say the oddest things sometimes

[Little Star]

4. He's from Virginia & I don't think....

they elect actual Democrats there. Do they?

[Comrade Grumpy]

6. You might want to have a word with Virginia Democrats. They elected him.

Unless they're not real Democrats because...they're from Virginia.

Your post smells like more region-bashing.

[Little Star]

8. I agree with poster #3......

Most of them are DINOs.

And you don't have any idea where 90% of my family comes from and still resides.

Your post smells presumptuous because it is.

[Comrade Grumpy]

10. Those DINOS as you call them voted twice to send Obama to the White House.

No, I don't have any idea where you live, but your post still comes off as region-bashing.

[Cali_Democrat]

13. They do.

Virginia, especially northern Virginia, is not as conservative as u might think.

[Comrade Grumpy]

5. The Democratic Party is larger and wider than you imagine.

Webb was a Republican in the past. Like one of his competitors.

But he was a Democratic senator from Virginia.

He's got pretty good positions on foreign policy, Wall Street, and criminal justice. To the left of Hillary, I'd say.

They're all a mixed bag, aren't they?

[Journeyman]

7. Something sorely missing from DU: an appreciation that the world is a large & complicated place . . .

and that life and reality rarely fit into neat niches or restrictive pigeonholes. It all tends to be troublesome, nuanced, and quite messy, and is all the richer, and ultimately better resolved, for its diversity and conflict.

[OKNancy]

11. not to the left of Hillary

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/09/23/really-jim-webb-for-president/

[NobodyHere]

16. Webb was against the Iraq War

Which puts him to the left of Hilary in my book.

[peacebird]

9. Jim Webb ran against George "macacca boy" Allen, a racist with confederate flad and NOOSE hanging

In his Capital office.

Not hard to see why we elected Webb, tho he is far right of most Dems.

[Stellar]

12. Never trusted any of those damned Blue Dog Democrats.

Neither did Republic0ns, because for them, they must be as conservative as they can get and that's why Mitt Romney claimed to be ‘severely conservative’ when he ran for president.

[summerschild]

14. He's no Democrat.

Wikipedia: "During the Reagan Administration, Webb served as the nation's first Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs from 1984 to 1987.

In 1987, he served as Secretary of the Navy, becoming the first Naval Academy graduate to serve as the civilian head of the Navy. As Navy Secretary, Webb pushed the appointment of Alfred M. Gray, Jr. as Commandant of the Marine Corps, hoping that Gray could reshape the Corps into the elite unit it once was.[27] Webb resigned in 1988 after refusing to agree to reduce the size of the Navy. Webb had wished to increase the Navy to 600 ships. As revealed in The Reagan Diaries, President Ronald Reagan wrote on February 22, 1988: "I don't think Navy was sorry to see him go."[28]"

I heard one interview with him. All he did was praise Reagan.

[LostOne4Ever]

15. DINO nt

[Warren DeMontague]

17. Yeah. I think I can safely cross that dude off the primary list, now.

Don't know who I'm voting for yet, but I know who I'm not.

[Cha]

18. I knew of this kind of crap from Webb.. I'm not surprised.. still how dumb does one have to

be to be running for President in the Dem primary.. and come up with this kind of shite?

"Both sides do it".. uh huh

[Gidney N Cloyd]

19. Is it possible he's trying to draw a line between taking down the flag and bashing the south?

I don't know jack about Webb* but I'm not seeing anything in the article where he's defending flying the confederate flag. Some of our southern DUers might appreciate not getting the broad brush treatment and attacks on the general culture of the south while they too support the flag coming down.
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(*Jack. Webb. That's a joke, son.)

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[TwilightGardener]

20. I think so--also drawing a line between government buildings removing the flag (way overdue)

and trying to erase it from popular culture and historic settings, digging up graves, replacing monuments and statues (overkill).

[Jamaal510]

21. I never thought I'd see a

Democrat who I'd consider NOT voting for if s/he becomes the nominee, but Webb is definitely it.

[bravenak]

22. The only one I'd just stay home for instead.

[Recursion]

23. He's dog-whistling for white votes on Super Tuesday

You run the campaign that you think you can win