Postscript: The Democrat Response

Jim Webb just demonstrated at length why we must not allow his party to hold power for any length of time.

by Rod D. Martin
January 23, 2007

New Virginia Senator Jim Webb just demonstrated at length why we must not allow his party to hold power for any length of time.  The economic portion of his speech was just one long laundry list of class warfare tripe.  His statistics are wrong, his populism is misplaced, and his philosophy is not shared by the vast majority of Americans.

His foreign policy section was hardly better.  Using his father -- who flew planes in the Berlin Airlift -- as a prop, supposedly demonstrating his patriotism and commitment and blah blah blah, he joins a long list of Democrats who drape themselves in the flag only to burn it.  Someday, even the asbestos suit of the media won't be able to protect them from their flames.

It's hard to know where to begin on the fallacies (read: lies) in Webb's speech, other than the obvious: his script was not written in 2007 in Washington but rather in 1967 in Berkeley.  There wasn't a single assertion Webb made -- other than the increase…