Democrats agree that Black Lives Matter and others don’t

Illustrating the Lurch-to-the-Left by the Democrats, Bud Norman Webb Withdraws and the Democrats Lurch Leftward:

...the putative front-runner Hillary Clinton is running against her husband’s record of tough-on-crime measures and defense of traditional marriage and insouciance about sexual assault while the self-described socialist and surging insurgent and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is arguing that even after seven years of Obama the economy is horrible because we just haven’t lurch far enough left yet, the party seems to agree that Black Lives Matter and others don’t, and from our fixed position seem awfully far left at the moment.

The Shrinking Jim Webb

What do you call a person who complains about a situation he helped perpetuate? I’m trying to come up with a label to apply to Jim Webb, former Senator, and occasional jerk. I recall the time he made a big show about lecturing George Bush about the Iraq war. Another time when he let one of his aides take the fall for carrying a gun in Washington DC. Unlike Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, Jim Webb was never reluctant to show his wounds and rode his military decorations to public prominence and public office. There is rarely a time when he does not take the opportunity to refer to his military past. However, once home, he appears to have left his political courage on the battlefield, preferring to attack people who were in no position to fight back.

 

Now safely retired he has decided to blame an amorphous “Congress” for giving up its constitutional power to the President. Here’s his essay from the National Interest and a column by George Will.

 

However, unlike Rand Paul, Jim Webb never faced down the Senate or even members of his own party while he was there. Instead, he engaged in navel gazing and dealt with minutia while he held the position that he could have used to make a difference. Webb, the “military hero” was a faithful member of the Democrat troop that surrendered its constitutional powers to the President without as much as a whimper. Say what you will about Rand Paul, an ophthalmologist with no military medals, he has demonstrated that he is willing to stand on principle and is not interested in being a cog in a political machine. Less than a year after leaving office, it’s hard to recall what impact Webb had while in office; what legislation he sponsored or what causes he espoused. Meanwhile Paul, a freshman senator like Webb, has already made a name for himself and forced the Executive branch to acknowledge that there is, somewhere, a limit to its power.
  
Jim Webb was once decorated for a military action in which he played a major role. After that he appears to have found it much, much safer to snipe from the sidelines. It’s much safer to write an article for the National Interest than to do actual battle in the Senate.

Open letter to Senator James Webb (D, VA)

Jim Webb appears to one of the true believers in global warming or its newer manifestation, “climate change” and wants his constituents to know that he’s going to be frugal about ending it. He and Lamar Alexander are going to be spending a mere $20 billion of our dollars to end this scourge. In today’s reckoning of government expenditures, anything under a trillion dollars is considered to be petty cash. So when he says:

The Clean Energy Act of 2009 would dramatically increase our nation’s energy output and measurably decrease carbon dioxide emissions, and do so at an overall 10-year cost of no more than $20 billion.

...we are to stand up and applaud.

This is the day after Christmas, and I have just finished reading Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography on my new Kindle. So I would like to take some of Franklin’s admonitions to heart. I will not be rude, argumentative and dogmatic. So I will put the best possible face on Senator Webb’s announcement. I will assume that he believes that the world is warming and that the current cold and snow sweeping not just the US and Europe is a mere blip on the march of the globe’s temperature rise. But I would ask him to wonder why this was not predicted by the computer models which tell us that the earth is warming due to increased levels of carbon dioxide. Is it not a tenet of science that theory and reality should coincide; and if they do not, the theory is wrong?

Is Senator Webb unaware that the e-mails and computer data that has been revealed from the world’s foremost research body shows not only that the scientists have created s spurious “consensus” but that the data entered into the computer models was manipulated to create the desired conclusions?

Yet the Senator is proposing to provide a solution to a problem which may not exist. His entire proposal is based on a premise that may be faulty. Read the proposed purpose again:

As our country works its way through the ongoing economic crisis, there has been strong debate over the most appropriate ways for the Congress to address both our energy needs and the specter of climate change. We have introduced legislation that we believe would address all three of these challenges. The Clean Energy Act of 2009 would dramatically increase our nation’s energy output and measurably decrease carbon dioxide emissions, and do so at an overall 10-year cost of no more than $20 billion.

I ask Senator Webb to consider that man may not have any measurable impact on climate change; that the computer models that associate climate change and carbon dioxide may either be mistaken, or criminally manipulated for financial gain. I ask Senator Webb to answer a simple question: if carbon dioxide is not the cause of climate change, what would be the effect on his proposal to spend $20 billion dollars that the people of this country desperately need in their own pockets?

Would he still propose to spend the money? The answer will be very instructive.

P.J. O'Rourke writing about the Washington Post, but it could as easily have been the Virginian Pilot

Ever since the threat of health care reform energized the American people to talk up, the MSM has been telling us to sit down and shut up. Of course to sit down and talk in dulcet and respectful tones means that the MSM can ignore you, but that's the idea, isn't it?

According to the graduates of Close-Cover-Before-Striking School of Journalism and Basic English, the role of the public is to vote Democrat, repeat MSM talking points and pay more taxes. When that same public dares express ideas of its own it is labeled an “unruly mob” unless it happens to be a Left Wing unruly mob in which case it morphs into a group of concerned citizens speaking truth to power.

In Still 'Crazy' -- And Proud of It, P.J. takes on not just the Washington Post but the entire lemming-like herd of "independent thinkers" who all think alike – with fierce independence - about nationalizing health care.

Us right-wing nuts sure is scary! That's the message from the Washington Post. To put this in language a conservative would understand, the fourth estate has been alarmed once again by the Burkean proclivities of our nation's citizens. The Post is in a panic about (to use its own descriptive terms) "birthers," "anti-tax tea-partiers," and "town hall hecklers."

Accompanying the Perlstein screed was a sidebar by Alec MacGillis explaining how "health care reform is not that hard to understand, and those who tell you otherwise most likely have an ulterior motive."

Health care reform is so simple it takes bills in excess of 1000 pages of legalese which its principal backers in Congress proudly tell us they have not read and can’t understand – but “trust us” it’s for the good.

All you town hall hecklers, calm down and go home. Never mind that Alec MacGillis is a rat, something that's evident by the sixth sentence of his piece: "Fixing [health care] could be very simple: a single-payer system." And never mind that his writing is more than uninformative, it is informationally subtractive. Read him and you'll know less than you know now about what the government is going to do to you and your doctor. Read him carefully and you'll know nothing.

And ideas like this never have any negative consequences like the exodus of Canadians needing health care who cross the border to get it rather than waiting months or years - or forever - for treatment.
P.J is known for his sense of humor and recounts another story of rationing and shortages:

But calm down and go home, because the Washington Post said so. This is exactly the joke that used to be told in the Soviet Union. An old guy's wife tells him to go to the butcher shop and get some meat. He goes to the butcher shop and stands in line for hours. Finally the butcher says, "We're out of meat." The old guy blows his top. He yells, "I am a worker! I am a proletarian! I am a veteran of the Great Patriotic War! I have fought for socialism all my life, and now you tell me you're out of meat! What kind of a system is this?! You are fools! You are thieves! . . . " A big man in a trench coat comes up to the old guy and says, "Comrade, Comrade, not so loud. In the old days you know what they would do if you said such things." The big man in the trench coat makes a pistol motion with his hand. He says to the old guy, "Calm down and go home." The old guy shrugs and leaves. He comes back empty-handed, and his wife says, "What's the matter, are they out of meat?" "Worse than that," says the old guy, "they're out of bullets."

What's interesting and informative is that here in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson is a God to the Left. A quote by Jefferson is supposed to end all discussion, until ...

Perlstein, for all the highness of his dudgeon, doesn't catch the nuts saying anything very nutty. The closest he gets to a lunatic quote is from a "libertarian" wearing a holstered pistol who declares that the "tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of tyrants and patriots." And those are the words of lefty icon Thomas Jefferson.

Now all of a sudden a quote by Jefferson is the mark of a deranged madman! How I wish the MSM would make up what passes for their minds.
He ends:

Why is the paper intimidated by dissent that's tame even by Adlai Stevenson standards? ... No doubt it's always alarming to the know-it-alls when ordinary people decide they'd like some say in ordinary life, when regular folk tell the know-it-alls to take their fishwrap and go blog themselves.

I'll tell you why. People who work for the paper don't do it for the money - or the job security - they do it for the power and, like the money and the job security, the power is slipping away.

Which is a nice segue into a story in the Virginian Pilot about Senator Webb. It appears that Webb’s support for the health care plans currently being rammed through congress may be waning. It could be the letters and e-mails he has been receiving. He is not willing to meet with his constituents in “town-hall” style meetings but will meet with the friendly editors at the Virginian Pilot and in closed meetings with members of the Chamber of Commerce.

But outside of a friendly audience of supportive editors and business leaders who are too polite to raise their voices, here is Jim Webb’s view of the rest of his constituents:

“ I don't need to go to a town hall meeting and have a thousand people screaming
to say that we've been able to listen to them."

Jim Webb, a man of the people …. Not! It reminds me of the threat that Obama made to bankers when he told them that he was the only thing between them and the pitchforks. He had in mind the head-breakers from the unions and ACORN. Webb and Democrats are afraid of grandmothers and grandfathers in sneakers and promotional polo shirts, and that’s what democracy’s all about.

Jim Webb picked up some medals in Viet Nam but he's afraid to meet the voters face to face.

Virginian Pilot Celebrates "Gotcha" Moments and Negative Campaigning

Pravda was a beacon of journalistic truth and technical prowess compared to the Virginian Pilot.

Isn’t it the Drive-by-media that is always opining that we should “stick to the issues?”

That “negative campaigning” (defined as telling the truth about Democrats) is taking the low road?

Why, yes it is!

So what’s the headline news in today’s Virginian Pilot?

Senate candidates' staffers look for that 'macaca' moment.

And why is that, boys and girls? The writer, Austin Wright, explains:

Two years ago, former U.S. Sen. George Allen looked into a video camera and doomed his re-election bid. This year, the campaigns for Jim Gilmore and Mark Warner are tracking each other, ready for any slip-ups.

Actually, Austin Wright is being – as they say – disingenuous. That’s the term polite use when they don’t want to say that someone is lying. You see, it wasn’t Allen’s use of a term that no one had ever heard of and that no one with any sense believed was a racial slur that doomed Allen’s campaign. It was the fact that the Virginian Pilot, the Washington Post and the rest of the Drive-by-media used the term to brand Allen as a racist. Dozens of stories followed to cement that image in the public’s mind.

The Drive-by-media was in the tank for James Webb and decided that “negative campaigning” was perfectly fine as a way of torpedoing George Allen and they led the charge with gusto. All of the things that we are not allowed to talk about with Messiah Obama were trotted out with the good offices of the Drive-by-media to destroy the reputation of George Allen.

So what is the Virginian Pilot celebrating? Why, the use of video cameras to as a way of creating cutting edge negative campaign fodder. And why is the Pilot doing it? Because thanks to the Pilot and the Drive-by-media, we have proof that it works.

Except when it’s applied to Messiah Obama because the Drive-by-media tells us what we are allowed to criticize and what we are not … otherwise we’re racist running dogs of capitalism.

Rush Limbaugh has a list, and it keeps growing.

RUSH: With Obama we started out, we couldn't talk about his big ears 'cause that made him nervous. We've gone from that to this: Not only can we not mention his ears...

We can't talk about his mother.

We can't talk about his father.

We can't talk about his grandmother unless he does, brings her up as a "typical white person."

We can't talk about his wife, can't talk about his preacher, can't talk about his terrorist friends, can't talk about his voting record, can't talk about his religion.

We can't talk about appeasement.

We can't talk about color; we can't talk about lack of color.

We can't talk about race. We can't talk about bombers and mobsters who are his friends. We can't talk about schooling. We can't talk about his name, "Hussein."

We can't talk about his lack of experience. Can't talk about his income. Can't talk about his flag pin.

This started out we can't call him a liberal.

It started out we just couldn't talk about his ears.

Now we can't say anything about him.

So negative campaigning is a bad thing, dragging up the past, what your handlers do and who financed your rise in the political world is not to be discussed, except when it’s aided and abetted by the Drive-by-media. Then it’s a free press at work.

James Webb, Poseur.

I don't really blame James Webb. He is what he is; a silly little man thrust by polical forces and the media into a job that's too big for him. But he is where he is, and like Frankenstein's monster he is the creature of those who made him. In my case, the scrubs who run the Virginian Pilot.

So part of today's Investor's Business Daily is worth quoting:

We can't imagine the uproar if he had been an aide to a GOP senator. No doubt we'd have been bombarded with file footage of Columbine and every other mass shooting in memory. Instead we have stony silence from those who were happy to exploit Webb's position on the Second Amendment to get him elected.

Either they support his position or they don't. If not, where's the condemnation?

So far in the Pilot this incident has gotten a passing mention on the inside pages next to the auto ads. Of course we have to remember the Pilot motto: : "True to the Democratic Party in victory or defeat.")

Webb: Executing a Cut and Run

Dana Milbank at the Wash Post:

Webb even hinted that he ignores the District law requiring handguns to be registered. Asked if he considered himself above D.C. law, he said: "I'm not going to comment in any level in terms of how I provide for my own security," he said.

The senator was less forthcoming in his defense of Thompson. "He is going to be arraigned today," Webb said. "I do not in any way want to prejudice his case and the situation that he's involved in."

Prejudice the case? But wasn't it Webb's gun that his aide was carrying for him?

Webb wouldn't even acknowledge it was his gun. "I have never carried a gun in the Capitol complex, and I did not give the weapon to Phillip Thompson," he stipulated.

Webb had kind words for his aide -- "a longtime friend" and "a fine individual" -- but he seemed to be trying to cut Thompson loose as he spoke of the incident. "I find that what has happened with Phillip Thompson is enormously unfortunate," Webb reported. "I was in New Orleans from last Friday until yesterday evening. I was not in town. I learned about this when I was in New Orleans."

That's the Jim Webb that we elected to the Senate from Virginia thanks to the unrelenting hard work of the editors and reporters of the Virginian Pilot.

To read more about "Born Fighting, Real Man" Jim Webb, click here. and here.

Jim Webb is a "Real Man"

Yep, that Jim Webb is "all man." Coming out swinging in defense of his guy caught with his gun, for which he had a permit ... in Virginia.

Or not.

Sen. Jim Webb on Tuesday called the arrest of a top aide on weapons charges "extremely unfortunate" after the aide was stopped as he brought the senator's loaded pistol into a Senate office building.

[…]

Webb declined to comment on details of Thompson's case but called him "a longtime friend" and "a fine individual."

"He has worked for me since the beginning of the campaign last year," he said. "I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think this is one of those very unfortunate situations where, completely inadvertently, he took the weapon into the Senate yesterday."

Webb, who has a concealed handgun permit in Virginia, said he handed his gun off to aides before getting on a plane Friday to New Orleans, Louisiana. He said he did not give Thompson the weapon directly and was unsure how it ended up with him.

That is one ringing defense from "born fighting" (his campaign slogan as he wore his son's combat boots) Jim Webb.

I never expected much from this blowhard, but this fits right in with Jim Webb's use of George Allen's Macaca comment. Jim Webb is a sissy and he left his nads in Viet Nam.

JIM WEBB ON guns in D.C.

Via Instapundit:

Jim Webb defends his carrying a gun where none are permitted - by law - (Washington DC) by stating that:

"I believe that it's important — it's important for me, personally, and for a lot of people in the situation that I'm in, to be able to defend myself and my family," Webb said. "Since 9/11 for people who are in government I think in general there has been an agreement that it's a more dangerous time. Again, I'm not going to comment, again, with great specificity about how I defend myself, but I do feel that I have that right."


Reader Christopher Fox emails: "Well, Senator, that might be your perception, but as far as I can tell, domestically speaking, we've lost around 3,000 civilians and 0 Senators to the post-9/11 dangers of which you speak. It's a more dangerous time for all of us, and civilians seem to be shouldering the majority of that risk. So maybe we can, I don't know, all get to carry unregistered firearms around wherever we like? No? Why not?"

WE HAVE LOST ABOUT 3000 CIVILIANS AND ZERO SENATORS ON 9/11. WHY SHOULD YOUR LIFE BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THAT OF THE OTHER CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY.

EITHER OBEY THE LAW ... OR CHANGE IT. YOU ARE NOT ABOVE IT!

Webb Aide Arrested for Gun Possession

The Virginian Pilot and Washington Post's favorite Senator may want to explain why he was carrying a loaded gun in DC when doing so is a crime. Are Senators immune from gun laws?

Here's NR's take.

From Michelle Malkin:

There seems to be a lot of inconsistencies with the news reports coming out about whether or not Senators & Congressmen are exempt from our federal "disarmed victim" zones, in particular the Capitol and the associated offices of our elected representatives. What is the law? Even if all of the other DC possession laws aren't the issue, would Jim Webb be legally able to bring a firearm into the Capitol?

and..

In reading the text of the recent federal court ruling that overturned a portion of the D.C. gun ban (which ban still remains in effect pending appeal), I learned some details about D.C. gun laws.
Sen. Webb's pistol is illegal anywhere inside the city limits of Washington, D.C. unless Mr. Webb registered the gun with the D.C. police department prior to the 1976 registration deadline. The only people who have been allowed to register privately-owned handguns in D.C. since 1976 are retired D.C. police officers. Active-duty D.C. cops cannot legally own a handgun unless they registered it prior to the 1976 deadline, though they can carry a department-issued sidearm
while on duty. Thus, if Sen. Webb's pistol is less than 30 years old, it would not have existed in 1976 and he would not have been able to register it.

As for the separate issue of a concealed-firearm permit, a private citizen in D.C. can still obtain such a permit if the D.C.P.D. happens to feel like issuing it to him, but he can only carry a registered handgun, which makes it a moot point for people who moved to D.C. after 1976.

Senator Jim “Copperhead” Webb

Letter from a military officer and Naval Academy Grad to Jim Webb:

Why did the new Democratic majority select Senator James Webb (D-VA) to give the Democratic response to the president’s State of the Union Address? Since when does this privilege fall to a freshman, even a freshman senator? It’s seems that despite the bad experience with nominating John Kerry to be their standard bearer in 2004, the Democrats have learned nothing. At least they recognize that they have a serious national security credibility problem but the leadership and the base simply cannot get beyond Vietnam. Hence, they asked a US Marine officer turned novelist, turned Navy Secretary, turned Democrat to present their--well, their opposition to all things Bush, because one certainly did not hear ANY tangible plans. Senator Webb is a graduate of my alma mater, the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He is a highly decorated Marine from Vietnam who unlike Senator Kerry actually and definitively earned his commendations for bravery and valor in combat. His novels have sold very well because he is a very talented writer. But on close inspection, something about Senator Webb is very disturbing. Perhaps it harkens all the way back to his midshipman days in Annapolis and a simple boxing match lost. You see, James Webb lost a boxing match to a man he clearly despises, Oliver North. Webb, as chronicled by Robert Timberg in his best-selling book, The Nightingale’s Song, was heavily favored to beat North in the Brigade boxing championships but lost. Timberg claims that Webb believed he was intentionally denied the title by poor preparation from his coach, or more accurately the boxing coach made sure Ollie was better prepared to beat him! Regardless, Webb believes he was wronged and today we can see this streak of vengeance in him. More on this later.

Read the whole thing.

The Body Democratic

From Jonah Goldberg:

While Webb favors a "formula that will in short order allow our combat forces to leave Iraq," our forces in South Korea have been there for nearly six decades. Something tells me the antiwar base of the Democratic party doesn't have that sort of timetable in mind for Iraq.
So, except for the fact that the Korean War didn't end, our troops are still there, and the outcome has been the source of humanitarian and national-security nightmares, Webb's salute to Eisenhower's statesmanship really strikes home.

James Webb "Born Jerk"

Jim Webb (D-Media) had a slogan during his campaign for Senate: “Born Fighting.” It now appears that an equally valid descriptor is “Born Jerk.”

He seems to have surprised everybody. He surprised his supporters, led by the Washington Post, the Virginian Pilot and most of the press barons of Virginia, by demonstrating that he is not house trained.

I predicted that Jim Webb would surprise his friends. I little realized what a surprise he would be.

UPDATE:

A fan of James Webb insists that Jim is a "very private" person and doesn't want to talk about his son. It's a good story but it's a lie. Unfortunately, Webb is anything but reluctant to talk about his marine son. His offical web site has this picture of Webb holding up his son's boots.



And in case you wonder where I got the info that those boots Webb is holding are his son's, click HERE. He wore those boots on the campaign trail, using his son as a campaign prop.

James Webb is a classless jerk and his supporters are dupes.

Countercolumn has it right:

By the way, I'm sure the words "Webb" and "Decorated former Marine officer" will go together quite a bit in the media in the months to come. A lot more often than, say, "Webb" and "Ineffective former Secretary of the Navy."

Funny. Bob Dole was very highly decorated. But the press sure didn't refer to him as a "highly decorated WWII veteran" very much during the 96 campaign coverage.

The Nature of the Abaya

I wonder why feminists don't care.

Donna put on an Abaya and then walked down a New York street talking and walking normally. She was criticized by Muslim men.

"Among those who observed Donna, however, were some Muslims, Arabs, and even some Saudis. The Saudis were upset by what they saw and told Donna so. When she asked why, they explained that she was using the abaya in an invalid way. She then became curious to find out what they considered a valid way to use it. They explained to her that she must walk slowly, must look down when walking and keep her eyes more or less in front of her - no glancing from side to side, in other words. She must not talk to anyone or laugh loudly and certainly must not address any remarks to anyone lest they misunderstand her purpose in doing so.

To say the least, Donna was astounded by their remarks and realized that they were not simply talking about a garment to be worn but about their perceptions of what an abaya symbolized. They seemed determined to deny that a normal human being was under the black material. The truth is that those Saudi men articulated something that the Saudi lifestyle and customs have created. The abaya indeed covers a typically weak and frightened character (a woman of course), who views herself as a sexual entity confined in a well-defined space she can never escape from. This is why the whole culture of the abaya imposes so many restraints upon women. One of the restraints is that she must walk as if her feet were hobbled and she was unable to move easily and normally. Nor is she allowed to look around and observe the surrounding world comfortably, as slowly or quickly as she might like. The abaya has also contributed directly to preventing certain basic movements; for example, she can no longer move her hands normally. Aside from that, ordinary free conversation is forbidden and is replaced with low and often unclear speech that makes little sense."


"The Abaya Makes Women Appear Humiliated, Submissive, and Blindly Obedient to Men"

Webb Supporters: What did we just do?

From NRO via Jonah Goldberg:

Good stuff, from a reader:

They had to run that clip because the much of the rest of his speech was an absolute riot.

He started off by mentioning that "tomorrow is an extremely important day for America," and the crowd went wild, thinking he was talking about taking power. But of course, he launched into his praise of the Marine Corps, and the crowd cheered a little less loudly. Then he thanked all the brave veterans and brave men still fighting, and the crowd cheered a little less loudly again.

Then he mentioned that he received a call from Sen. Allen, and the crowd went nuts again. Then he mentioned how pleasant and dignified Allen was, and the crowd grew quiet. Then he said he was having lunch next week with Allen — and the crowd was dead silent. Finally he told the audience that they should all thank Sen./Gov. Allen for his many years of dedicated service to the people of Virginia — and you could almost hear the people gathered looking at each other asking, "What the $#@! did we just do?"

It was priceless.

No Negativity, No News Coverage

Bill Hobbs notes that the news media don't focus on positive campaigning, only on negative campaigning. Like a pervert, the media lifts a girl's dress and shouts outrage by pointing out her underwear.

In Virginia, the "macaca" campaign which defined the race between Senator Allen and challenger Webb, was entirely the production of the Washington Post and then amplified by the rest of the MSM. That fact, and that alone has led to one of the most mean-spirited campaigns in memory and it can be laid at the door of the "prestige" mainstream media.

From Bill's article:

What portion of campaign ads in presidential campaigns did you find were negative?
Over the last 44 years there has been an increase in negativity. But it's basically a 50-50 divide. But if you were to listen to coverage of campaigns you'd think you only get negative ads.
...reflects directly on The Tennessean and the rest of the Nashville news media, which seem to be covering only those races this election year in which one or both sides are launching negative ads.

There's the Corker-Ford race for the U.S. Senate, of course. Also, the media has covered the 17th District state Senate race, where the attack ads are flying between incumbent Sen. Mae Beavers and former Sen. Bob Rochelle. The media also has covered the 23rd district state Senate race, where well-funded Democratic nominee Mary Parker has launched a vicious and false attack ad against Republican nominee Jack Johnson.

But the media ignores the 21st district state Senate race between 36-year-incumbent state Sen. Doug Henry, the Democrat, and Republican challenger Bob Krumm, in which there have been no attack ads and nothing but civility between the two sides.

Why? Is it because the media believes Henry unlikely to lose? Then why do they care about the 23rd district race between Johnson and Parker? The 23rd district, after all, is heavily Republican and Johnson, the GOP nominee, is the heavy favorite. The 21st district, where political newcomer Krumm, 40, is taking on 80-year-old Sen. Henry, who was elected in 1970 before thousands of district's residents were even born, is much more evenly split between Democrats and Republicans.

And this morning, the Virginian Pilot's front page morphed into their editorial page with the headline article. It's a puff piece about Jim Webb, the candidate they endoresed on their editorial page a few days ago. We are invited to go to their on-line issue to find out about Senator Allen.

New Scandal Rocks Allen Campaign

From John Semmens at the azconservative.com

Republican Senator George Allen’s campaign for reelection was dealt what many in the media are calling a “death blow” when a former classmate came forward to reveal sordid details from Allen’s past.

In a new television ad paid for by the “Webb for Senate” campaign, Albie Wyner, a pre-school classmate of Allen’s at the Mary Moppet Day School of Fairfax Virginia revealed that during a particularly tense playground confrontation in 1955, Allen called him an inappropriate name. “I remember we were playing tag,” Wyner said. “Georgie tagged me and said I was it. I didn’t want to be it. So, I slapped him. He called me a ‘pooh-pooh head.’ I started to cry. I was so humiliated. I told the teacher, but she was a Republican and wouldn’t do anything. George Allen ruined my life. Don’t let him ruin yours. Vote for James Webb for U.S. Senate.”

Reached for comment, Allen said he did not recall the incident. “I was in pre-school 50 years ago,” said Allen. “I don’t remember who was in my class, much less what may have happened on any given day.”

Webb characterized Allen’s memory lapse as “awfully convenient.” “A man who forgets so easily isn’t someone the voters should trust to be their senator,” Webb said. “The indifference to suffering demonstrated by this incident is indicative of the heartless nature of the Republicans when it comes to human rights. I only hope that the message gets through to enough Virginia voters in time.”