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Originally Posted by JP5";p="
Jim Webb sounds like a border-line Communist. I thought he was supposed to be a moderate. Obviously, whoever told me that was wrong.
I'm betting the people of Virginia---after reading this---will feel like they were snookered: BIG TIME!
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are hanging on to the talking point that "conservative Dems" beat the Republicans. It makes them feel better in the short-term but it's not reality. In the Senate, Webb, Tester, Brown, Whitehouse and McCaskill are all solid liberals and of course Bernie Sanders (socialist) replaces a moderate independent. Casey is the only conservative Dem and he replaces the most far right loon in the Senate (Santorum).
Webb is a Richard Clarke type. Once a Reaganite, his stances have moderated over the years and his party status switched on the Iraq issue - seen to be one of the greatest foreign policy blunders in our history.