Okay. So Virginia has a Democratic Primary race between James Webb and Harris Miller. James Webb is the former Navy secretary under Reagan, and author of several books that any Virginian looking at this race needs to take a close look at. Harris Miller was the head of a computer lobbying organization.

This is a tricky race, and I concede that James Webb is probably going to win the right to take on the noxious Bush-clone George Allen. Bluntly put, once Kaine won the governorship there, the Democratic Party recruited Webb into the race. He has the backing of the, quote-in-quote “Democratic Political Machine”.

But I kind of don’t know what I’m supposed to make of this race. Here is the tricky matter: the book he wrote in 2004 — Born Fighting… I only skimmed through it, but…

… if this was a situation where there was a Democrat being challenged by a committed Republican, liberal bloggers would be throwing up quotes from this book (published in 2004, mind you) demonstrating his “wing-nuttiness”, showing WHY HE MUST BE STOPPED. I note that Webb’s story on why is a Democrat today is that he switched parties while researching for this book (a sort of Scotch-Irish Supremacy tome) impressed with “the Democratic Party’s working class traditions.”

James Webb retorts to Harris’s charge of faux-Democratic credentials that his computer lobbying organization contributed to many a Republican (as lobbying firms frequently do), including Dennis Hastert. This is fair enough. I also note the spectacle of Wesley Clark endorsing Webb. Which strikes me as former Republicans endorsing former Republicans… Webb, mind you, speaking grandiosely still today of the greatness of Ronald Reagan, who — according to his book — is alongside that other Scotch-Irish American Andrew Jackson, his favourite president.

All I am saying to Virginian Democrats is: Let the buyer Beware.

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