Jim Webb considers running as an independent

[bigdarryl]

This guy doesn't know what party he belongs to http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/jim-webb-democrats-independent-214929

[PM Martin]

1. Isn't this the redneck that was Democrat, then a Republican with the Reagan administration,

and now a Democrat again?

[cwydro]

2. Redneck?

[HereSince1628]

3. Well, he is long on his support of Scots-Irish

The BBC today carries an article by Joe Bageant about the influence of (what he calls) Rednecks on the US election this year. Rednecks are the descendants of the so-called "Scots-Irish", people who left Scotland for Ireland partly because of disagreement with the Church of England, which is "high church" and closer to Catholicism than their own "low church" Presbyterianism. Indeed the word "Redneck" comes from this background:

"Many Covenanters signed in their own blood and wore red pieces of cloth around their necks as distinctive insignia; hence the term "Red neck", (rednecks) which became slang for a Scottish dissenter"
http://www.scotshistoryonline.co.uk/rednecks/rednecks.html

[cwydro]

6. Oh I see.

Mm.

[bigdarryl]

4. Just proves the fucker doesn't have the democratic party best interest

[stevenleser]

5. There is no constituency for him anywhere in terms of for President.

He shouldn't get so upset, there are only 7-8 out of 350 plus million people who have anything resembling such a constituency.

It's clear that he knows a lot, but someone who is to the right of Hillary on foreign policy and defense (but to the left of all Republicans except Rand), and a moderate on social issues and pro gun rights doesn't line up with a lot of folks out there. He made things even worse with his constant whining about time.