Newsweek: “For the first time ever, the response to the State of the Union Message overshadowed the president’s big speech. Virginia Sen. James Webb, in office only three weeks, managed to convey a muscular liberalism–with personal touches–that left President Bush’s ordinary address in the dust.” Sen. Webb made Virginia proud last night.
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He did. Yes, he did.
Isn’t that “Rock the Cashbar?”
I thought Webb did OK, but what I’m more interested in is the love the DNC is showing Virginia. Kaine and Webb? Back-to-back?
Good for us, er, you guys.
I wonder what they’re thinkin’. VA hasn’t gone Dem in a Pres Elec since 1964. Do they know sumthin’ I don’t?
I doubt it.
I think we all (should) have learned something…that Virginia is changing, that the RPV is in shambles…and it’s rock the “catbox.”
“Dems Launch Shock and Awe Campaign, Repubs Respond With Handfuls of Monkey Dung”
http://www.gop.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=6765
I dunno. I didn’t Webb would beat Allen, but I still don’t buy that VA has morphed from red to purple, let alone blue. It’s still 8-3 in congressional districts (I think), and, as I noted above, hasn’t gone for the liberal party in over 40 years.
It’s clear, however, that Rahm Emmanuel and Co. think differently than I do. I guess we’ll see.
Virginia hasn’t gone for the liberal party ever. The party that qualifies as conservative has simply been swapped out.
Also, we don’t have a liberal party. We have conservatives and centrists.
Judge Smails,
Maybe Virginia didn’t change from red to purple. Rather, it was the Virginia Democratic party that changed to suit Virginia. Not the other way around.
The national party leadership is concerned that the far left will begin putting serious pressure on Congress and the Senate to use the new majority to do all manner of ultra-liberal stuff. They know that this would be a bad idea. Americans want unity, moderation, compromise and action. Showing off Democratic party successes in Virginia is a subtle way of pointing out to the party base that moderation, compromise and the integration of the finest aspects of conservatism wins elections.
In other news: Webb for VP!
But let’s be clear here. Webb was drafted by the people of Virginia, not the party who backed Miller.
One other thing: To attribute the quote at the top to Newsweek is a little misleading. It’s an opinion piece by well-known liberal Jonathan Alter.
That’d be like me attributing some fawning quote about Bush (of which there have been few lately) to the Washington Post just b/c it appearred in that paper under George Will’s byline.
Well, yeah, everything in every publication is written by somebody. I’m not sure it’s necessary to explain that.
lol…right, just like God wrote the bible….oh wait.
I always thought a publication spoke through its editorial board, or, perhaps, through its straight-news pieces.
If you think it speaks through its individual op-ed writers one story at a time, then we’re simply not going to agree here.
Newsweek has no editorials — just opinion pieces and straight news. Since the quote is opinion-based, clearly this would be from an opinion piece. Also, what with teh intarwebs, anybody can just click on the link, lest it be unclear. :)