Former Senator Jim Webb Takes On Democratic Hawks
And the former Virginia senator is looking at 2016.
Click here for reuse options!“I’m seriously looking at the possibility of running for president,” he said in a speech last week. “But we want to see if there’s a support base from people who would support the programs that we’re interested in pursuing.”
Such a base in the Democratic Party could be hard to find in light of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s popularity and dominant standing among Democrats. Any potential challenger to Clinton’s expected bid for the party’s nomination would have to be regarded as a long shot, and maybe none more so than Webb, a one-term senator who once served as secretary of the Navy in Reagan’s administration.
A Washington Post-ABC News poll in June showed Webb with only 2 percent support among Democrats nationally, which put him 64 percentage points behind Clinton in that survey. Add to that his political baggage, especially on women’s issues, and his chances seem even slimmer…
In a race against Clinton, the party’s ultimate insider, Webb, 68, would be an acerbic iconoclast who would avoid the ways of modern presidential politics. As a lawmaker, he refused to raise money in the traditional fashion, and he declined the social invitations and cable-news bookings that have come to define the daily routine for many of his former colleagues.
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tiredoftea September 30th, 2014 at 12:26
He also served in Viet Nam and has a son who served in Iraq. But, on most Dem concerns, he’s a Repub in all but name. If he runs, and can force a debate or two, he may pull the party back from its path on an aggressive ME foreign policy.
tiredoftea September 30th, 2014 at 12:26
He also served in Viet Nam and has a son who served in Iraq. But, on most Dem concerns, he’s a Repub in all but name. If he runs, and can force a debate or two, he may pull the party back from its path on an aggressive ME foreign policy.
mea_mark September 30th, 2014 at 12:36
He is too old. The Democrats need someone younger.
mea_mark September 30th, 2014 at 12:36
He is too old. The Democrats need someone younger.
fahvel September 30th, 2014 at 12:44
from far away, I do not see Mrs. Clinton as an advantage other than she being able to wipe most of the right wing off the board. Has she proposed anything remotely enlightening or exciting that might turn the misfortunes of the usa in a better direction?
fahvel September 30th, 2014 at 12:44
from far away, I do not see Mrs. Clinton as an advantage other than she being able to wipe most of the right wing off the board. Has she proposed anything remotely enlightening or exciting that might turn the misfortunes of the usa in a better direction?