Jim Webb - The New Enduring Majority

By: Josh
Published On: 5/8/2006 9:11:18 PM

We're likely to see a Karl Rove indicted fairly soon, and that won't be the end of the Valerie Plame scandal, it only goes up from there.  On top of that this crazy hooker gate seems to be killing the careers of multiple CIA administrators from Goss down.  Then there's unconstitutional wiretapping, Katrina, mounting proof that Bush and Abramoff conspired to protect sweatshops, and the general failure of the Administration to get its act together post 9/11 to actually protect the country.

There really is no limit to the depths to which Republicans can sink in the eyes of the American public.

What hasn't happened, but what seems to be coalescing now is a unified voice of Democrats.  Pelosi came out with a very strong agenda for Democrats to pursue after the November election if the House turns over.  Meanwhile, strong crossover candidates like Jim Webb are making possible something almost inconceiveable just a few months ago:  there are the makings of a New Enduring Majority in  Washington and across the country, based on what makes America great. 

Activists have had this very strong anti-Bush feeling for a long time, but that won't be enough to get mainstream middle-of-the-road voters to support Democrats in election after election, it didn't work in 2004. 

Now that even the core right-wing is breaking away from the Bush coalition, what can happen, is a powerful representation of the Values, Issues, and Policies that Americans truly care about. 

Jim Webb's platform has the potential of uniting the vast majority of Americans for the good of all.  There are other leaders in the Democratic party capable of pulling this all together, but Webb is on the leading edge.  He's not on the edge of the early action, the early frustration, the early  anger.  No, Jim Webb is the leading edge of a new majority that can truly represent the needs of regular American families, protect the living Constitution, and effectively govern in the interest of the have nots as well as the haves.

Of course the Bush legacy will be remembered as the equivalent of a bedtime story we all tell our kids:  you share that ball or else you might turn out like George Bush.  But the Republican implosion isn't enough.  A new American Progressivism from within the Democratic party will have to fulfill the deeper promise of the American Dream. 

Webb vs. Allen will be the life or death struggle for the heart of the nation: will we continue to look back in nostalgia on a perfect past that never existed while a new aristocracy shortens the lifespan of the American republic by centuries, or will we look to a future with our eyes wide open, to pragmatic solution based on the best principles America has to offer.

Jim Webb is the future of progressivism, the future of the Democratic party, the future of Virginia, the future of the US Senate, and the Future of America.  Why?  Because he embodies the true greatness upon which America has alway rested:  strength, unity, fairness, honor.

Together, and in the light of Jim Webb's leadership, Democrats can build a stronger America and an enduring majority.

Comments



Webb's Endorsements (Josh - 5/9/2006 11:08:30 PM)
Everyone who is sick and tired of watching America go down the toilet under the Bush Administration, Republican, Democrat, Progressive, Liberal, Libertarian, or Conservative needs to understand that this election is a repudiation of the failed Bush agenda and of George Allen who was too bored to question a thing this incompetent president has done.

Jim Webb has never taken a dollar for lobbying congress. Jim Webb worked 7 years to clear the name of a falsely convicted black soldier. Jim Webb used his own body to protect another soldier from a grenade. Jim Webb published possibly the best reporting from war-torn Beiruit in the history of that conflict.

Integrity, Fearlessness, Fairness, Charisma, Intelligence...

These endorsements don't need any explaination, Jim Webb is the pivotal character in this year's election. 2006 is the year of Jim Webb, the way that 1994 was the year of Newt Gingrich.



I agree Josh (Mark - 5/9/2006 11:39:17 PM)
Hopefully, the Year of Jim Webb also translates into serious coattails and attention on all of Virginia's Democrats.

Locally will be where we start to turn the more conservative areas of Virginia towards the Democratic Party again.

Good work.