"Born Fighting" Jim Webb, D, for US Senate - Check him out, he's for real

[autorank]

Webb on McCain's endorsement of Allen...pretty sophisticated analysis, no ass kissing here.
http://www.webbforsenate.org/blog/

Fact #83: Allen and McCain: The (Really) Odd Couple
Submitted by lowell on 17 August, 2006 - 3:50am.

(Arlington, VA) – George Felix Allen routinely tells Virginia audiences one reason they should vote for him is that they “know” him.

Really?

Do Virginians know that although today George Allen plans to stand on stage with Senator John McCain and feign Republican Party, in actuality, he has spent the last six years driving a wedge between himself and the Senator from Arizona? It all started six-years ago, when Allen endorsed George W. Bush for President over John McCain.

Let's show Virginians what Republicans really mean when they say "party unity."

* George Allen opposed the McCain-Kennedy Immigration Bill, claiming that it provided “amnesty” to illegal immigrants. Allen preferred the Kyl-Cornyn proposal over McCain’s version, which McCain stated “undermines (in his view) the principles of what this nation should be, and is, all about.”<1>

* George Allen recently opposed potentially life-saving, Stem Cell Research legislation, supported by the vast majority of Americans, and Senator McCain.<2>

* George Allen voted against the bipartisan McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform, in 2002. This Act drastically changed campaign finance rules by banning soft-money contributions, placing greater limits on issue-ads, and stricter disclosure policies. <3>

Why are George Allen and John McCain coming together after six years of bickering in the U.S. Senate? Isn’t this all a little too convenient? Let’s ask them!

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Paid for by James Webb for U.S. Senate

AND he makes total sense on the terrorism.....

Webb: Statement on the Global War on Terror
Submitted by lowell on 10 August, 2006 - 12:50pm.

“The news of a terror plot uncovered and foiled in England today highlights the continuing need to stay committed and strong in our fight against global terrorism. This fight cannot be won by simple intimidation. America must continue to make funding and executing the war on terror a priority. British authorities should be commended for their excellent work in foiling this terrorist plot.

“The war on terror is global and we must confront it wherever necessary, with the full array of military options available. Winning this war will make America more secure. A victory requires a mobile fighting force, one that is capable of responding to threats wherever they emerge. The occupation of Iraq keeps our military locked down in a civil war in the Middle East, and consumes resources that can better be used in the larger fight against global terrorism.

“As recently as yesterday, George Allen conflated my long-held warnings against invading and occupying Iraq with being ‘against … the war on terror.’ Mr. Allen knows full well that he is misrepresenting my views in order to protect himself politically from his blind support of the Bush Administration's failed strategy in Iraq.

“Beginning more than a year before the invasion of Iraq, I consistently stated that the Administration's misguided effort to drag our country into an ill-advised occupation of Iraq would hurt, not help, in the war against international terror. I am deeply disappointed that Mr. Allen is now so clearly and deliberately misrepresenting my views. He knows exactly how I felt about this because I personally explained my views to him in September 2002, five months before the Iraq invasion.

“As the events of this morning demonstrate, the stakes in the war on terror are too high for people such as Mr. Allen to be using them as cheap political props.”

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[saltpoint]

1. It'd be just fine with me if Jim Webb whipped that dipshit George Allen

in Virginia this November.

Hi ya, autorank.

Nice to see you tonight.

[autorank]

4. It will be a hot night in November...

How are you?

We'll be happy here in the Old Dominion, those of us who believe that Democrats should think and
talk like this. No bull shit, just the facts...Straight on.

I think that Warner is a fighter, at times, and I know that Wilder lives to fight and feud (unfortunately
with Democrats sometimes, Doug chill...).

But Webb has well conceived positions and he knows who he is...no false self there like Felix.

And what a fool Allen is! He makes a racial slur at a 20 year old kid who is volunteering for Webb.
Of course the kid is Indian-American. Guess Allen forgot that there are about 200 Indian-American
CEO's in Northern Virginia (they even had a council at one point) who will probably be opening their
check books about now and writing large to Webb. Oh, the irony...

November will be a great night. Webb will win Tidewater I'll bet, Norfolk, and he'll just wipe the floor
with Allen in Northern Virginia (especially my precinct, almost hit 70% for Kaine;)).

Cheers

[saltpoint]

5. autorank, you rock and you rock righteously.

Keep up the good fight for our Democrats and let's whup Cement-Head Allen in 82 days!

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. I have observed allen since 1969, starting in high school.

It's about time and probably just in the nick of time that the bastard is finally being held to account for his bullshit. Webb is a hero.

[autorank]

3. What an ordeal...I see why you have the gas mask!

He's just awful. Shouldn't have pissed off his sister. Payback's a you know what!

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. allen is an authentic true-to-life asshole, the kind that usually

ends up with a hard time life sentence early on in their career. I had always assumed that he would never make it to national politics, his past would catch up with him & that he would foul it up with one or perhaps a series of gaffs and he would be finished. I hope I'm right.