Virginia Democrat Senator Jim Webb has had an amazing change of heart since defeating Republican George Allen in 2006. Webb—a former Republican—ran as a “moderate” (snicker) Democrat and defeated once Presidential hopeful Allen by less than 9000 votes out of 2.4 million cast.
In Webb’s excellent history of the Scots-Irish in America, Born Fighting, Webb—himself a proud Scots-Irish—writes the following:
“. . . a feeling that the culture so dramatically symbolized by the Southern redneck was the greatest inhibitor of the plans of the activist Left and the cultural Marxists for a new kind of society altogether.” (Page 295.)
“In the age of political correctness and ultraethnic sensitivities, it has become delicate, to say the least, to celebrate many of this culture’s hard-won accomplishments when teaching American history in today’s public schools.” (Page 17.)
“The Scottish people did not care much for the larger crowd and they especially did not care much for elites.” (Page 42.)
“America’s elites have had very little contact with this culture.” (Page 18.)
“. . . they ignore them at their peril.” (Page 19.)
Despite these condemnations of “elites” and “political correctness”, Webb apparently has no problem enthusiastically supporting the elitist and politically correct agenda of the Obama administration. He has also apparently surrendered his manhood to the will of Queen Pelosi in the House and Grandma Reid in the Senate. Case in point: Despite Webb’s strong lip-service support for the 2nd amendment, he voted with the rest of the Democrat elites to confirm Judge Sotomayor to the Supreme Court; ignoring the wise Latino woman’s hostility toward gun rights. I have to assume that the price for Webb obtaining more political power within the Democrat Party was his willingness to sing soprano in a voice similar to that of Harry Reid’s. (Doesn’t Reid’s voice remind you of a grandmother battling menopause?)
Sotomayor’s speeches, along with many of her decisions, would certainly lead an objective observer to conclude that she is what Webb would describe as someone with “ultraethnic sensitivities” and a member of “the activist Left and the cultural Marxists”—a group which he clearly targets for derision and contempt in his book. What’s happened to Senator Webb?
Now comes Webb’s tucking tail and running off to East-Asia (at taxpayer’s expense) during the August recess. Is this courageous, highly-decorated Vietnam War veteran afraid to face his constituents because of the boiling anger over Obama’s health care “reform” or, has he become an elitist who just doesn’t want to have much “contact with this culture?” Hey Senator, as you’ve pointed out, many of your constituents don’t care much for elites. You ignore us at your (political) peril.
Senator Webb, call your office. There are some great inhibitors that would like to talk to you.