Jim Webb

[MADem]

152. I completely take your point about paradigm-breakers.

And maybe, just maybe, the "I Wed Three Wives" (that's a take-off on "I Led Three Lives" but I'm sure most people here don't get it) thing could be overcome--as I mentioned upthread, Newt tried it.

But on top of One-Two-Three wives, his "problem" is that wife number three is way younger, and a FOREIGNER, from Commie Viet Nam, Gol-Durn-it!!!! (more for the readily poutraged) and way too smart for her own good yet again -- and then, when you read some of the more salacious passages from his fiction where women are, well, disregarded (best word I can come up with) ...it's a bit too much for the church crowd. I could get into more detail about what I think the "mindset" might be, but I know that someone would misinterpret my comments and start flinging accusations, so I'll simply leave it at a "too many paradigms to be broken at once" conundrum. Aside from the "unserious" and "quitter" and "on to the next" attitudes.

Whatever happens, I think the GOP are going to regard him as a threat to their base in a big way. He can lock up white males, particularly the shootin', huntin', Support-the-Troops (either actually served or Chickenhawk-style) patriots, as well as the "I don't like minorities" bunch with his nostalgia towards the Confederacy. If Wife Number Three was subservient and walked six paces behind he'd take more votes than the GOP candidate! Picture him up against Jeb Bush....you'd see Democrats voting for Bush before they'd vote for this guy (Bush does have a Mexican wife).

It's a freakydeaky world when anyone named Bush might be regarded as the "more progressive" of the two candidates on offer. But it could and would happen if Webb makes it through. Now THAT's some seriously messed up stuff!