Reply #9: I thought that was the case [View All]

[JeffR]

but of course in this silly season of an election year, a sort of pitiful attempt is being mustered to disqualify McCain on just this sort of basis.

Webb's appeal, as opposed to the general's, is actual experience for both parties (the smart one and the stupid one), including a tough Senate electoral battle and cabinet positions for the bad guys. Plus apparently being a pretty remarkable warrior. I wish he were a little more progressive in some of his stances, but he's a man of principle and he has a go-for-the-throat appeal even pacifists like me have to acknowledge. He could be a good counterbalance for Obama, who could maintain a more rhetorically even-tempered stance, while Webb makes the media rounds and kicks the crap out of the stale but inevitable GOP smear machine.