It says a great deal for Barack Obama that he is supported by Senator Jim Webb of Virginia.
Now that, right there on the Potomac, Obama has proved his ability to bring on board the women, Latinos and white working-class people who had previously rallied to Billary, he should crown that achievement by announcing now that his Vice-Presidential nominee would be, if not John Edwards, then Jim Webb.
Indeed, since the supporters of Edwards will vote for Obama anyway, he might well find even more useful the man who staunchly opposes the Iraq War from the perspective of Reagan's old Navy Secretary (and a continuing advocate of re-building the US Navy), the economic populist who wrote How We Scotch-Irish Built America.
If McCain picked Huckabee, then this might not matter. But if he picked Giuliani or Lieberman, then it certainly would.
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Mark McKinnon and Colin Powell have come out for Obama. So has the former Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chaffee. Dick Lugar is expected to do so very soon.
ReplyDeleteMcCain is losing the Independents, and thus those Republicans closest to Independent thinking, because he is trying to shore up the people who backed Romney, might now back Huckabee (despite disagreeing with him about everything except maybe abortion, gay rights and gun control), and might very well stay home on the day of the general election.
And Michael Gerson is for Obama, it seems. Even though Hillary is Bush's undisguised continuity candidate.
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