How Can You Tell?

It strikes me as somewhat misleading to say that Jim Webb’s primary campaign has ended, since it never really began.  Hopefully he won’t mount a vanity campaign, but if he does I hope he does it with the same level of vigor and commitment.  Webb’s whining about how people were obligated to pay attention to him when he was not doing any serious campaigning while going out of his way to alienate key constituencies reminds me of nothing so much as Helicopter Harold Ford.

But he kept George Allen out of the Senate when Virginia was a redder shape of purple, and as legacies go that’s not nothing.

[PC]: This just showed up in my email:

That “Democrat” presidential primary thing is so cute. There are days when the whole GOP is nothing more than an internet trolling operation.

RNC Statement on Jim Webb

WASHINGTON – Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus released the following statement in response to former Senator Jim Webb’s withdrawal from the Democrat presidential primary:
“Former Senator Jim Webb’s decision to drop out of the race is a reflection of how far left the Democrat
Party has moved away from the American people,” said Chairman Priebus. “Rather than move to the center following last November’s historic losses, Democrats are racing to the fringe and proposing policies that make President Obama look like a moderate. After all, a self-avowed socialist is the leading candidate of the Democrat Party in key early states and Hillary Clinton is flip flopping on issue after issue just to keep up. With Senator Webb’s departure, it’s clear the Democrat Party is moving further to the extreme left and far away from mainstream Americans.”