Damn!, Jim Webb is a genuine Progressive: per the Larry King Interview

[JCMach1]

The more I look, the more I see it wasn't the DLC agenda at all that won the day. The one 'sure-fire' DLC guy, Ford, lost.

Living over here, and not being in VA, I didn't see much of Webb up until now. I am impressed. He is speaking in terms that haven't been heard in either party in a long time... ECONOMIC DISPARITY, CLASS...

WEBB: I -- everything I have ever done in my life, I have been able to -- to do 100 percent. I was very strongly concerned about the Iraq war. I was an early voice warning against going into Iraq. But I also have strong feelings about what has been happening to our country economically, with the breakdown along class lines, in a way that we probably haven't seen since the 1880s. And that's an issue that got an enormous amount of traction... http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/09/lkl.01.html



Tester seems to be in a similar mold. Has progressivism been reborn in the party?

[xchrom]

1. oh now you're just taking a stick and poking

moderate/conservative dems.

:woohoo:

[JCMach1]

3. Not a Ford fan, but would take him over a Pug ANY day of the week...

[xchrom]

4. perhaps though, there is a larger message for

for people trying to paint themselves -- in the minds of the public -- as something that the public very well knows they are not?

maybe -- just maybe -- the public WANTS the democratic party to BE a genuine, authentic party of the left?

offering the plans, solutions, programs that a party of the left would offer -- rather than selling themselves -- as a snake oil salesman -- as paliative to everything under the sun.

[BootinUp]

5. I don't see anything here that

would upset moderate Dems. Conservative maybe.

[anitar1]

2. I agree. Have seen a couple of

interviews today and was impressed. we'll have to wait and see.

[Crunchy Frog]

6. I caught a little bit of him on Larry King last night

and I was very, very impressed by what I saw. He looked like someone who was not afraid to stand up for what he believes; not a triangulator. We still have far too little of that in our party.

I'm hoping that this represents the wave of the future for the Dems.

[ACK]

7. Listen why can't he take a look around and go woh fuck that ain't right?

Which sounds like what he said. I hope he behaves from the center because as other posts have noted the American public especially on economic/healthcare issues have moved to the center-left.

Socially around 51% of Virginians are socially retarded from the Marriage Amendment thing that damn thing is awfull I live here so I know.

But if we get a higher minimum wage, and negotiations for the best drug prices for the Medicare plan and other things the vast majority of Americans believe in then its worth it even if Webb is not as liberal or left than I would like.

The South is ripe for populist progressive politics. Shit the only thing you have to move to the "center" on or "compromise" on is gun control and the death penalty. You are not going to get a Dem candidate voted in if they are on the wrong side of those wimp issues in the South. Other than that, you can go as left as you want on economics and other issues.

[geek tragedy]

8. Shows what the Dems have to do:

1) Solidify the perception that they are at least as capable of providing a strong national defense; and

2) Get back to an ECONOMIC emphasis instead of one on social issues.