Never was a big Jim Webb fan, apparently for good reason.....

[marmar]

WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Jim Webb on Sunday suggested that recent efforts to remove Confederate symbols from public places were as "divisive" as Donald Trump's disparaging comments about Mexican immigrants.

Without prompting from "Fox News Sunday" host Bret Baier, who had been asking questions about national security, Webb asked if he could please talk about Trump, the billionaire GOP candidate who has called Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. Webb criticized Trump before pivoting.

"This kind of divisive, inflammatory rhetoric by people who want to be commander-in-chief is not helpful, and we have seen from the liberal side as well this kind of rhetoric as it goes to Southern white cultures," the former Virginia senator said, apparently referring to recent debates over the Confederate flag. ..................(more)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/12/jim-webb-southern-white_n_7779298.html

[Marie Marie]

1. Ditto your title

What was he thinking??? Fortunately, he doesn't stand a chance in this race.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. Earlier thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026966880

[dflprincess]

3. If what I saw on Facebook is true,

he has also complained that the Democratic party has moved too far to the left.

[msongs]

4. good, myabe the dems will reach the center soon on their leftward march lol nt

[swilton]

7. Perhaps he'll discover he's in the wrong party

after all.

[MisterP]

5. doesn't he have some 9-year-old Yemeni girls to gun down in fiction?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. He served his purpose when he defeated George Allen.

This presidential run is pointless...

[jaysunb]

8. I disagree...

I think he'll get plenty attention and lots of traction in places like Iowa and South Carolina. After that, he will be rolling where independent voters rule. Don't count him out.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. Since I like and respect you, Jay, all I will say is I wish you and Senator Webb The best of luck.

eom

[BrotherIvan]

9. Maybe Anthony Weiner can chime in

[sabrina 1]

10. But didn't you hear? Webb doesn't think Warren and Sanders

belong in HIS Party?

I laughed when I read that. I guess he didn't get the irony of that remark. I would agree with him, he and they probably don't belong in the same party.

[MoonRiver]

12. Ugh, just ugh.

It's not HIS party.

[Bluenorthwest]

13. Webb is one of those Republican 'converts', he was a Reagan official and it shows.

Many people on DU like to pretend that supporting the vicious bigotry and aggressive ignorance of the Reagan platform was really a super lovely moderate thing to do. But it was morally depraved politics practiced by those who wanted to enrich themselves at the expense of others. And that is exactly what they all did.

Webb, like the other Regan Republicans stinking up our Party, remained loyal to Reagan/Bush in the face of horrors, tens of thousands dead and the administration saying and doing nothing about it for years and years. Think about that. 30,000 dead and totally ignored by the government. That's what the Reagan people were willing to do to get richer.

I would never vote for any of them, ever. No way, no how.

[BlueStater]

14. Fuck off, Webb.

Why are you even running?