Report: Jim Webb leaves door open to White House run

[DonViejo]

Source: Washington Post

BY SEAN SULLIVAN
May 19 at 1:04 pm

Former senator Jim Webb (D-Va.) signaled in a radio interview Monday that he was open to running for president in 2016.

Webb made his comments in an interview on NPR's The Diane Rehm Show, tweeted USA Today reporter Susan Page, who guest hosted the program.

Susan Page ✔ @SusanPage

Hello Hillary? James Webb signals on @DRShow he's considering a run for president in 2016; I was guest-host. Audio posted online about 2.

12:05 PM - 19 May 2014

James Fallows ✔ @JamesFallows

Worth listening v carefully to Jim Webb on @DrShow just now, espec time 11:45-11:50, on '16 Pres race. ”Ruling out nothing" etc

11:50 AM - 19 May 2014

Webb, who retired from the Senate after a single term in 2013, also called for new leadership at the Department of Veterans Sffairs, Page said. The VA has come under national scrutiny over a series of scandals that have received growing national attention and have brought Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki criticism.

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[KamaAina]

1. Good Lord. He'd be running at Hillary from the right.

[Va Lefty]

2. Can't see that happening

He retired from The Senate because he didn't want to do all the fund raising necessary for a US Senate campaign

[SheilaT]

4. Wait till he figures out how much fundraising he'll need to do for a Presidential campaign.

I'm not a big fan of Webb, but people really do need to be thinking beyond Hillary Hillary Hillary, oh Hillary the inevitable.

One of these days I'm going to start a thread here on DU claiming to have just woken up from a coma I fell into at the beginning of 2008, and I'll ask everyone how Hillary's presidency is working out so far, and whatever became of that nice young senator from Illinois?

[geek tragedy]

3. Jim Webb is the Presidential candidate I was hoping to see

said no one.

[n2doc]

6. Maybe he can ask Harold Ford to be his running mate n/t

[LoisB]

5. Will he be running as a Republican?

[montanacowboy]

7. OFFS

NOT him

Jezus, right of center and then right

Are there no left turns on our road?

Go away Webb, forget it. Maybe you can run as a Republicon with some Teabagger as your running mate

[Johnyawl]

8. I have long admired Jim Webb...

...as an author and a Senator and a fellow Marine. He's pretty much a moderate to conservative populist, and I think he'd have more support in many of the border and purple states then say Clinton, Sanders or Warren.


And I do like this:
On November 15, 2006, an op ed authored by Webb appeared in the pages of the Wall Street Journal. Titled "Class Struggle," the piece addressed what Webb feels is a growing economic inequality in the United States, touching on what he feels are overly permissive immigration policies, extravagant executive compensation, the detrimental effects of free trade and globalization, iniquitous tax cuts, and speedily rising health care costs, and attacking the "elites" who he says perpetuate the aforementioned woes for their personal economic gain.

[EC]

9. Huh?

He didn't seem to like being a part of government when he was there. He didn't like the Senate, what makes him think the President position would be any better?

[Kelvin Mace]

10. Is there something in the water that makes these people delusional?

Just asking....

[GeorgeGist]

11. Token bluedog to make Hillary appear more progressive?

[cyclezealot]

12. Until I know otherwise, I keep an open mind..

Take a look.. His philosophical ratings by advocacy groups..are.. Council for a Liveable World, 100%, Americans for Propserity , 0%, American Conservative Union, lifetime score- 17%, ADA - 95%, ACLU- 75%, US Chamber of Commerce, lifetime score- 52%, SEIU-64%, The Club for Growth- 3%, AFL CIO - 95%..

http://votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/60043/jim-webb-jr#.U3pgD_ldV8E

[mac56]

13. He wrote an excellent book, "Born Fighting: How The Scots-Irish Shaped America."

Highly recommended.



https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223428.Born_Fighting?from_search=true

[BeyondGeography]

14. Webb for Prez? A Beltway birdie told him so

Plus, Maureen Dowd would write columns galore about how manly he is.

Tempting.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

15. Meh..... nt

[WhiteTara]

16. Meh. Second rate novelist at best.

No way he gets traction from the left.

[nikto]

17. Jim Webb might make a good Sec of Defense

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But Prez?


Nope.