Discussion: Jim Webb Suspends Democratic Run For President

system1 · October 20, 2015, 5:14pm

Discussion for article #241955

berkshire_boy · October 20, 2015, 5:23pm

Buh bye, DINO.

nowarino · October 20, 2015, 5:26pm

Dude, you discovered years ago the moderates were now Democrats and you pull ‘both sides are extreme’ now?

oregonian · October 20, 2015, 5:27pm

Jim Webb suspends his presidential campaign and the nation responds… Jim who???

dcobranchi · October 20, 2015, 5:30pm

Please, please, please Brer Webb. Don’t run as an Independent! ANYTHING but that!

etguild2 · October 20, 2015, 5:31pm

Any thoughts on what this means for the debate structure? I see no possible way to exclude Lessig without excluding Chafee at this point. The optics of a 3 person debate if Biden doesn’t get in don’t look great…but the DNC obviously doesn’t want to deal with Lessig either.

mjv135 · October 20, 2015, 5:32pm

I can see a Trump/Webb ticket …

irasdad · October 20, 2015, 5:33pm

“Jim Webb Suspends Democratic Run For President.”

How could anyone tell?

dswx · October 20, 2015, 5:38pm

This. It speaks volumes that he considers the Democratic side as an “extreme”. Never liked him when he was a Senator for Virginia, like him less now.

dswx · October 20, 2015, 5:40pm

Indeed there are quite a number of similarities in their stands on various issues. Although Webb means quite little by himself, the media would fawn all over him if Trump ran with him.

mjv135 · October 20, 2015, 5:46pm

If the GOP establishment really does try to take Trump down, I think his ego is a lot bigger than any ‘loyalty pledge’, he would definitely make an independent run just out of spite.

rationalleft · October 20, 2015, 5:46pm

Ironically, the only way I can see him making any mark with an independent run is if Trump wins the GOP nomination… in which case Webb might draw a few percentage points of pissed off establishment GOPers. Hard to see why he thinks he could pull any meaningful number of Democratic votes, given that Dem voters’ total lack of interest is what’s causing him to drop out (though he keeps claiming the DNC is plotting to prevent him getting traction).

In practical terms, though, where’s he going to get the money for an independent campaign? Who’d fund him?

douglashh · October 20, 2015, 5:51pm

Webb would have to be delusional to think he had a snowball’s chance in hell of winning an independent run for president. I sincerely hope he is not that crazy.

dwward · October 20, 2015, 5:53pm

Sounds like he has a big beef with Hillary? Anyone know what it is? Just anti-Clinton bs or something substantive?

pbj_diddy · October 20, 2015, 5:57pm

This 219 year old party has CHANGED since I joined it 5 years ago…

careysub · October 20, 2015, 6:06pm

On the ThinkProgress site they have an article headlined: “Jim Webb Drops Out of The Democratic Primary, Says He Could Beat Both Trump And Clinton”.

Seeing that, and recollecting Webb’s closing debate remark (which he said with a smile) my first thought was: I’m sure he means that literally.

Sadly on further reading it does not appear that he actually said that.

khaaannn · October 20, 2015, 6:08pm

Both of his supporters are ecstatic (his wife is one of them.)

jw1 · October 20, 2015, 6:10pm

HeadlineFix:

Jim Webb Suspends His Disbelief.

And PayDayLoansLtd called. They want their $400 bucks back.

jw1

darrtown · October 20, 2015, 6:12pm

“Americans don’t like the extremes in which both parties have moved in
recent years and, quite frankly, neither do I,” Webb said.
…
Seems to me that the GOP has gone way farther into the far extreme than the left has. Daily we read or hear of the most derpish and laughably stupid comments by the GOP politicians and non-politicians. I don’t see or hear of anywhere near the same level of crazy from the left. And I don’t think I’m eing biased in that regard. The level of uninformed stupidity is on full display within the GOP. For example just yesterday a GOPer threatened to impeach HRC on her 1st day in office before she’d had a chance to even commit a “high crime and misdemeanor”… I am assuming he means an impeachment for her private server she had when Secretary of State. But HRC can’t be impeached as President for some thing she did that wasn’t illegal while Secretary of State. Yes it was a poor choice but it wasn’t illegal. And she’s turned over the server contents.

lestatdelc · October 20, 2015, 6:13pm

If Webb thinks the current positions of the Democratic Party are “extreme” he has lost all touch with reality.

The Overton window has moved way to the right. So far to the right in fact that to Ronald Reagan would be drummed out of the Republican Party of today and where the current Democratic Party base lives would fit comfortably within where most old-school moderate Republicans would have been 30-40 years ago.

The man has lost his mind and all sense of perspective, scope and history.