what would it take to get a list of Kerry's contributors in Virginia and mail them Kerry's complete statement with a request to

a) help get out the vote for Jim

b) contribute to help get even

it could even include the fact that Allen has an organizer of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth effort against Kerry, and with Webb we can clean their clocks.

just a little brainstorming.  Hope the benadryl is not clouding my judgment.

In the general election, John Kerry received 1,454,742 votes in Virginia.

You think a bunch of those people could be persuaded to come out and vote for Jim Webb, who Kerry just endorsed?  Hmmm...

Sometimes what I'm full of actually turns out to be decent ideas.

I'm not entirely opposed to the HB-1 visa program; however, I agree with what Webb seems to be saying in essence with his "fair trade" argument: You have to look to your interests at home before you can reach out to those in need.  You don't reward hi tech CEOs for undertaking actions that hurt mid-level employees.

So, it doesn't kill the Visa, it fixes it.

  (from http://computerworld.com/careertopics/careers/labor/story/0,10801,72848,00.html)
Nobel economist Milton Friedman scoffs at the idea of the government stocking a farm system for the likes of Microsoft and Intel. "There is no doubt," he says, "that the [H-1B] program is a benefit to their employers, enabling them to get workers at a lower wage, and to that extent, it is a subsidy."

Liberal critics point out that Corporations control the visa process.

H-1B reform should entail ..
1) Reduce the costs.  Lawyers take a lot of money from H-1Bers
2) Limit the number: agree on annual quota which should be less than what corporations but a less than what Unions want.
3) Don't limit them to just engineering; open it up to all professions.
4) Remove the coporation as the visa holder, make the visa  portable to other jobs.
5) Protect H-1B holders rights to join and form unions.
6) Make the citizenship track option clear and easy to accomplish up front, let them work say three years and then declare whether they wish to become a citzen or go home.
7) Make monthly lotteries available to all companies seeking workers and all workers seekin work.  Make it easy so that small companies and proprietorships can compete, too.
8) Limit to 5% the amount of guest workers any company can employ.
9) Police the abuses.

A small, simple, low cost citzenship track proffesional workers immigration policy is a great idea.

The large, complex, unfair and costly programs championed by Harris Miller are a bad idea.

The problem is Miller is just too stubborn to realize that he will lose.  By staying in it, he wasted his own money and Webb's (to defend against an unrelenting attack machine).  Miller would do better to keep his cash and leave Webb with some to use against Alen. 

Good point, though, it'd be nice to have a ref.  If it's eye-witness stuff (a Webb partisan and a Miller staffer mouthing off at each other) then it should be better labeled.

Miller's campaign spokeswoman, Taylor West, said Miller respects Kerry, "but John Kerry doesn't know Virginia, and among those elected officials who do, Harris has overwhelming momentum."

If he were going to endorse candidates based on how well he knew a state, he'd be endorsing far-right republicans in Wyoming.

It's condescending.  Not what I'd personally call an attack, but certainly a slight.  If Webb said something similar I suspect that Miller would have sent out a press release and an email to his list about how Webb had attacked Kerry's intelligence or something.  You know Miller's MO.  Maybe get Sue from headquarters to do a robocall asking everyone to vote for Miller because Webb had maligned a great Democrat John Kerry who Miller was in the trenches in 2004 trying to get elected... that sort of thing.

Lowell- I think your headline is misleading, I for one think you should take it down.

Have you all seen the USA today editorial that Webb wrote.  I would say he had one or two things about Kerry that he publicly critized.

I agree with Kerry.  I disagree with Harris Miller.  Kerry's choice of words were poignant and not "unfortunate".

That's the one in which Miller and Grover Norquist are strategizing on how to build up the Republican base.

You can give that a look see while I find the link you need. 

Have we met?

At least it's relatively subdued on the surface.  Not nearly as colorful as "slime bucket" or "president of the flat earth society."

2004 was definitely a good year to hedge.

Nobody paid any attention to Virginia (including Allen) until Webb entered the race.  With Miller we get Allen again....at least that is what all of these political followers have said or implied.

  Do you really think they are all bonkers??  (I didn't need them to come to that conclusion.  I did it back in January when no one was choosing sides and i did it with the open mind of someone who knew little or nothing of either candidate.)

Webb scares the pants off of Allen and co.  The GOP's typical tools of calling Dems "whimp, whiners, whishy washy, flip flopping, weinies.." just doesn't stick on Webb.

Webb is a bell-weather.  If we turn him and his kind (those on the fence) away, then the weather will continue to blow in our faces.  The Democrats will continue to be a minority party.  Wins will more frequently be attributable to the GOP hitting themselves over the head.  We need Dem officials who do the hitting.  Webb is that man to me, so I will clearly avoid the Miller box on the June 13 ballot. I will mark with gusto in a neat black mark on the rectangle marked WEBB.  I hope you will reconsider and do the same.

Webb's competativeness, combined with his nation support will bring in huge amounts from Virginia and outside the state.  The DSCC will kick in a bunch and many national leaders will hold fund raisers for him.

None of that will happen if Miller wins the nomination.

Barnes wrote a good piece about the Kerry endorsement.  It appears that the Miller spokesman has softened his tone on this.