What do you folks think about Jim Webb for President

What do you folks think about Jim Webb for President

Check him out at http://webb2016.com/

 

Never happen.

The Democratic Party has moved so far left from where Webb is that there is no way he could be taken seriously by Democratic Primary Voters. They'll want an Elizabeth Warren type.

 

The Democratic Party has moved to the right. Webb became a Democrat because the GOP went into the far lunatic fringe.

That said, Webb doesn't have much of a shot, as his politics and economics are golf course 1980s Republican, which is long on pronouncements, but short on supporting evidence (though, that means he has 100 times more meat to his politics and economics than today's TeaBagged Republicans). And while I hate to even bring this up, he has the charisma of a moss covered rock.
Andto top it off, he walked away from a Senate seat that was hard fought, and that Democratic donors spent a lot of money for him to win. When he retired from the Senate, and left an open seat, it set up the possibility of the GOP retaking it in 2012. Luckily, Tim Kaine won it. But donors won't forget it.

 

Who??

That is the absolute worst response for any politician, for any office and at any point in his career. It was mine though, and I think it would be the same for most people, so no.

Maybe if Hillary decides not to run, but, given his record, probably not even then. In, then out, now in again. I think he'd be easily defeated by pubs so I don't want him as a Dem candidate.

 

Sorry, Shanty, but going with a dictator is moving to the left. To say that the Democrat Party has moved to the right is either a foolish lie or a descent into madness.

 

He is a dark horse candidate with a lot of potential for the Democrats. Then again, so was Fred Thompson for the Republicans back in 2008 -- until he began to campaign. I doubt that Webb will run if Hillary actually commits to being a candidate in 2016.

 

Most Democrats are centrists, despite the extreme right propaganda machine's relentless jihad to indoctrinate its ideologically-hidebound dupes into actually believing the Party is extreme left. (If I had a dime for every time a media entertainer slurred the nebulous, catchall "Liberal!" fuzzword, I'd self-deport them to off-shore tax shelters.)

[A] clear majority of Americans are ideologically at the center or right of center. How do Democrats continue to win elections if so few Americans identify themselves as liberal? The answer may lie with moderates, which, as a voting bloc, are solidly Democratic. ​

Hillary Clinton fills the centrist niche already, but a Webb challenge would draw attention to some important issues she might not be eager to address.

An insightful article about Webb can be accessed here.

 

How does his claim of Christianity get him any lefty votes ?

His skin color can't buy his way out of that.... like it did the last guy who claimed to be Christian.


Third marriage?... seems successfully stable.

 

Former Sen. Jim Webb, a Democrat who recently launched an exploratory committee for a presidential run, announced last Friday that he’s hired liberal journalist Craig Crawford to serve as his communications director.




Seems like Webb is serious if he has hired a Communications Director.
Prediction: Craig Crawford will be giving the daily press briefings for the next President.

BTW: you might want to check out debatetracker.us...seems pretty up to date.

 

Why would he need "lefty votes" to win the presidency? There aren't very many lefty votes out there, truth be told -- and most of them will go to the Green Party or some other left-wing third party anyway. I think that Webb could be a strong candidate for the Democrats, and Reagan already taught us that (just like deficits) divorce doesn't matter.

 

To even have a chance in the primary.

 

He won't be running as a Republican, and the Democratic Party is not controlled by left-wing extremists. At any rate, Christianity is every bit as prevalent among left wing extremists as it is among right-wing extremists, so that's really a non-issue.

 

The way I see it, the profile of the Elizabeth Warren-type is female and progressive. I don't know how many of the females who were pushing Warren would get behind Hillary.

And as far as progressvism goes, is there anyone less progressive than Hillary? She would be Obama plus-sized. Nothing would change...for the better.

So the Warren-types would either have to find another female candidate to get behind and/or find someone more progressive than Jim Webb. They are in a tight spot.

 

Can people not better focus on a system without a (political) president figure? No need to have a president, but to a lot of people a president feels natural, because since birth their mind only knows the current system (people have forgotten to think outside the box), and accept it as ok and safe.
It is not complicated to change the currrent political system into independent systems or states?, or something better. 'Simply' stop copycatting the info coming from politics/president and mass media and stop spreading it through society via internet, and it will happen without doing anything (ofcourse it is not simple, a lot of people are 'addicted' (programmed) to politics, attached minds, like the matrix)
Than the current US people will become independent American people again one day. Which means no longer political struggles and making difficult political decisions, and all damage it causes to society and to the world.
If you take away all information that entered society via politics and the media, you are independent and free.

 

Not till he tells us what happened to his driver.

 

I have no idea why are you bringing "extremists" into this. It has nothing to do with anything I said.

 

What happened to his driver?
Do you have a link to this?
Thanks.

 

It does, regardless of whether or not you understand why it does. Republican candidates have to kowtow to the right-wing extremist that make up a significant segment of the Republican base when they run for their party's nomination. The Democratic base, on the other hand, hasn't been dominated by left-wing extremists since back in 1968. That's why the Democrats have won the popular vote in five of the past six presidential elections. The exception was in 2004, when George W. Bush ran for his second term one year after starting two major ground wars in the Middle East.

 

Not really. I'm a Democratic primary voter and I'd be interested in seeing Webb run. I might even be interested in seeing him get elected.

 

Jim Webb shares one thing in common with any Senate Democrat pretending to be a centrist, they all voted for ObamaCare.

I've voted for a couple so-called "centrist Democrats" myself, and they all share the same trait in common, they side with the liberals on every major piece of legislation. In fact, we would have a balanced budget amendment today were it not for the two "centrist Democrats" who I voted for voting against it, even when they had campaigned on voting for it.

If Jim Webb were a viable "centrist" candidate, he never would have joined the Democratic Party to begin with.

 

You must have slept through the past couple of elections if you think the Democrats have moved right. The Democratic Leadership Council shut down years ago and it won't be coming back.

But even if the party did match Webb, he is an ass, and doesn't have a lot of political allies. He could appeal to the working class vote better than Hillary but I doubt he'll even get as far as Iowa to find out.

 

He could be strong in the general election but how could he ever win the primary?

 

Although I've no doubt you are a Democratic Primary voter, that just makes my point. Webb isn't left enough for them. Remember, you are the guy who said:

That's not even remotely centrist. I guy waiting on the Socialist States of America will be voting Warren or Sanders in the primaries, not Webb, and probably not Hillary.

 

This seems to be another of those very STRANGE threads where the same Rightwingers who say "Hillary will never be President...she doesn't stand a chance.....any Republican can beat her"....


are scrambling around DESPERATELY looking for some other Democrat to challenge her. Webb, Warren, Bernie Sanders, etc.

Funny, huh???

 

Is that like you and the other libruls wailing and whining about Mitt running again?