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In the beginning of the English Civil War the Earl of Manchester was Oliver Cromwell's superior. Cromwell considered him slow, indecisive and lacking enthusiasm in opposing the tyranny and incompetence of the king. Manchester, for his part, was more concerned with Oliver Cromwell recruiting men of 'low birth' for his army....uh, that would be men like me. Cromwell's philosophy was different as shown here in a quote from a letter to others in the Parliamentary forces, "I beseech you be careful what Captains of Horse you choose....a few honest men are better than numbers....If you choose godly honest men to be Captains of Horse, honest men will follow them."
The 1970 film Cromwell starred Richard Harris as Oliver Cromwell and it depicted a confrontation between these two men. The Earl of Manchester was delaying in his charge against the king's Cavaliers. Incensed, Cromwell rode up to him and promised something like this "Manchester, I am going defeat this king's army, even if I have to go through you first!"
The previous paragraph is from a post last published on June 25th that is titled The Republican Party And Its Discontents. The Earl of Manchester represents the Republican Party as it functions today. Men like Jim DeMint, Ted Cruz and Mark Levin are the Oliver Cromwells of today.
Who Is Jim Webb
Who is Jim Webb? Well, he appears to be a good ole' Southern boy who traveled extensively as his father had a distinguished career in the United States Air Force. He was an accomplished amateur boxer, a lefty, who, unless I dreamed this, I saw him box on television many, many years ago. If I ever meet him, I'll ask him if my memory could be correct. He was a genuine decorated hero in Vietnam. He served as an Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs and United States Secretary of the Navy... both under Ronald Reagan. He's an author of many best selling books, a number of which I read, including his latest I Heard My Country Calling, a memoir centering on his father which I highly recommend.
Quite some time ago I had hoped that he would seek political office on a national stage and he did....and I was then disappointed...for he ran as a Democrat against George Allen for the Senate seat from Virginia. I stayed up into the wee hours of the morning that election night and watched Allen's lead disappear. Jim Webb was to be Virginia's new Senator and I got two hours of sleep before going to work.
How he managed to serve as a Senator in the same party of Barack Obama as president...I'll probably never know. He served only one term of six years in the Senate before announcing that he would not seek a second term and I had hoped that it was because he could not take it anymore. Maybe someone will ask him that question for he recently announced that he was throwing his hat into the ring for President of the United States.
Under normal circumstances I could never support him because of a couple of his political stances. But these are not normal times. Does he even have a chance to get that nomination? Well, I think that there's more of a chance of him getting the nomination than there is of America surviving as a nation to even get to a convention and election.
Here is my assessment of his possibilities....should God give us more time. This is not the Democrat Party that either he or I grew up in. Rather it is now nothing but a consortium of special interest groups... each passionate and each caring only of their own issues. Jim Webb is one of the very very few Democrats from the past......so it would be unlikely that he could win the nomination......unless......conservatives determined that the fix is in once again on the Republican side and supported him, and that enough Democrats suddenly realized that this is no longer a Democrat Party but a Marxist cabal. Does that mean that they would also have to like the Republican Party? I don't even like the Republican Party as it now is!
One doesn't hear Jim Webb's candidacy mentioned much in the news and there is good reason for this....the media knows that he is not really one of them. Yes they needed an additional Senator from the Party at the time but they know very well that an administration led by him could very well take the Party back to the days of John, Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Scoop Jackson and Zell Miller. It might prove to be retrogressive, unprogressive and possibly even American! Perish the thought!
I am a Christian and a Conservative and a member of a political party, the Republican Party, that once relied on both but now has need of neither....or more accurately 'thinks' it has no need of either. This Republican Party will increasingly lie to us, condescend to us, threaten us and then attempt to scare us with Hillary. They admit that we would not be passionate for the Dauphin prince Jeb Bush, or any of the other stand-ins but are confident that we will at least show up. This is a big.....big.....mistake! They have lied to us so often and delivered so rarely that we would not 'show up,' or at least show up in such low numbers that they would be hard pressed to beat even Joe Biden. And it gets worse, and that is where Jim Webb comes in.
So just who is Jim Webb and what would we want from him? The courage that he had in Vietnam, translated to the political sphere, would be one thing, for then he surely would rather lose and even be humiliated than cave in to who are essentially America's enemies. An originalist on the Supreme Court would be another. That would be someone who actually would interpret according to what the authors of the Constitution wrote, and not according to their own biases.
If Jim Webb is anything like what I once knew him to be, the Republican Party should start shaking in their boots; and as for the Democrats, if Jim Webb challenges the 'special interest' make-up of his party and does not compromise, and conservatives indicate that they would rather have him than an 'establishment' Republican, then the Babylonian Captivity of the Democratic Party may be over.
Oliver North is another genuine hero from Vietnam who has a lot of experience in the higher echelons of government. He and Jim Webb know each other very well. The heavily favored midshipman Jim Webb lost the 147 pound boxing championship in 1967 to Oliver North. North was asked a year ago what he thought of Jim Webb running for president. Now he hem-hawed a bit to make it known that he wanted a Republican president but did then say...."Jim Webb would make a great president..."
Ted Cruz is extraordinary in both intellect and courage. I wouldn't be voting for Jim Webb in such a match-up but in either outcome we would have a president once again!
In the beginning of the English Civil War the Earl of Manchester was Oliver Cromwell's superior. Cromwell considered him slow, indecisive and lacking enthusiasm in opposing the tyranny and incompetence of the king. Manchester, for his part, was more concerned with Oliver Cromwell recruiting men of 'low birth' for his army....uh, that would be men like me. Cromwell's philosophy was different as shown here in a quote from a letter to others in the Parliamentary forces, "I beseech you be careful what Captains of Horse you choose....a few honest men are better than numbers....If you choose godly honest men to be Captains of Horse, honest men will follow them."
The 1970 film Cromwell starred Richard Harris as Oliver Cromwell and it depicted a confrontation between these two men. The Earl of Manchester was delaying in his charge against the king's Cavaliers. Incensed, Cromwell rode up to him and promised something like this "Manchester, I am going defeat this king's army, even if I have to go through you first!"
The previous paragraph is from a post last published on June 25th that is titled The Republican Party And Its Discontents. The Earl of Manchester represents the Republican Party as it functions today. Men like Jim DeMint, Ted Cruz and Mark Levin are the Oliver Cromwells of today.
Who Is Jim Webb
Who is Jim Webb? Well, he appears to be a good ole' Southern boy who traveled extensively as his father had a distinguished career in the United States Air Force. He was an accomplished amateur boxer, a lefty, who, unless I dreamed this, I saw him box on television many, many years ago. If I ever meet him, I'll ask him if my memory could be correct. He was a genuine decorated hero in Vietnam. He served as an Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs and United States Secretary of the Navy... both under Ronald Reagan. He's an author of many best selling books, a number of which I read, including his latest I Heard My Country Calling, a memoir centering on his father which I highly recommend.
Quite some time ago I had hoped that he would seek political office on a national stage and he did....and I was then disappointed...for he ran as a Democrat against George Allen for the Senate seat from Virginia. I stayed up into the wee hours of the morning that election night and watched Allen's lead disappear. Jim Webb was to be Virginia's new Senator and I got two hours of sleep before going to work.
How he managed to serve as a Senator in the same party of Barack Obama as president...I'll probably never know. He served only one term of six years in the Senate before announcing that he would not seek a second term and I had hoped that it was because he could not take it anymore. Maybe someone will ask him that question for he recently announced that he was throwing his hat into the ring for President of the United States.
Under normal circumstances I could never support him because of a couple of his political stances. But these are not normal times. Does he even have a chance to get that nomination? Well, I think that there's more of a chance of him getting the nomination than there is of America surviving as a nation to even get to a convention and election.
Here is my assessment of his possibilities....should God give us more time. This is not the Democrat Party that either he or I grew up in. Rather it is now nothing but a consortium of special interest groups... each passionate and each caring only of their own issues. Jim Webb is one of the very very few Democrats from the past......so it would be unlikely that he could win the nomination......unless......conservatives determined that the fix is in once again on the Republican side and supported him, and that enough Democrats suddenly realized that this is no longer a Democrat Party but a Marxist cabal. Does that mean that they would also have to like the Republican Party? I don't even like the Republican Party as it now is!
One doesn't hear Jim Webb's candidacy mentioned much in the news and there is good reason for this....the media knows that he is not really one of them. Yes they needed an additional Senator from the Party at the time but they know very well that an administration led by him could very well take the Party back to the days of John, Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Scoop Jackson and Zell Miller. It might prove to be retrogressive, unprogressive and possibly even American! Perish the thought!
I am a Christian and a Conservative and a member of a political party, the Republican Party, that once relied on both but now has need of neither....or more accurately 'thinks' it has no need of either. This Republican Party will increasingly lie to us, condescend to us, threaten us and then attempt to scare us with Hillary. They admit that we would not be passionate for the Dauphin prince Jeb Bush, or any of the other stand-ins but are confident that we will at least show up. This is a big.....big.....mistake! They have lied to us so often and delivered so rarely that we would not 'show up,' or at least show up in such low numbers that they would be hard pressed to beat even Joe Biden. And it gets worse, and that is where Jim Webb comes in.
So just who is Jim Webb and what would we want from him? The courage that he had in Vietnam, translated to the political sphere, would be one thing, for then he surely would rather lose and even be humiliated than cave in to who are essentially America's enemies. An originalist on the Supreme Court would be another. That would be someone who actually would interpret according to what the authors of the Constitution wrote, and not according to their own biases.
If Jim Webb is anything like what I once knew him to be, the Republican Party should start shaking in their boots; and as for the Democrats, if Jim Webb challenges the 'special interest' make-up of his party and does not compromise, and conservatives indicate that they would rather have him than an 'establishment' Republican, then the Babylonian Captivity of the Democratic Party may be over.
Oliver North is another genuine hero from Vietnam who has a lot of experience in the higher echelons of government. He and Jim Webb know each other very well. The heavily favored midshipman Jim Webb lost the 147 pound boxing championship in 1967 to Oliver North. North was asked a year ago what he thought of Jim Webb running for president. Now he hem-hawed a bit to make it known that he wanted a Republican president but did then say...."Jim Webb would make a great president..."
Ted Cruz is extraordinary in both intellect and courage. I wouldn't be voting for Jim Webb in such a match-up but in either outcome we would have a president once again!
