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Entry: What the Hell Happened to Jim? -- James Webb Talks Like Pat Buchanan, Votes Like Harry Reid Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/what_the_hell_happened_to_jim_james_webb_talks_like_pat_buchanan_votes_like#20492 Post contents: I never had much hope for Webb as anything more than a slightly less bad Democrat. His past friendliness to the Confederacy gave me some small hope, but then he went PC during the campaign. His support of abortion makes it hard for me to believe that he has much respect for the paleoconservative ideas of “rootedness,” “forebears,” and “kin.” Kin that it is OK to kill, I guess. I don’t doubt that Webb’s natural instincts are probably more conservative than the average liberal Dem, but he is nothing but an opportunistic politician. He rode his anti-war and anti-Bush credentials to personal success and shed his values on the way. If circumstances were different and he had been elected as a Republican he would be a 90% Republican the same way he is a 90% Democrat. Sent at: 2008 05 16