Former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb on Wednesday tipped his toes into the presidential race, announcing he was forming an exploratory committee. But he has no chance of taking the nomination from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and this paragraph he wrote in 1979 shows why:
That was from a Washingtonian article he authored called, “Women Can’t Fight.”
There were some protests about this when Webb was running for the Senate in 2006, but it didn’t matter as much then because he was running as an anti-Iraq War politician with a military background against George Allen in a year when Democrats were eager to retake the Senate and there was no other viable candidate. So he was able to forge a marriage of convenience with the Left.
In the 2016 context, given the Democratic Party’s recent emphasis on pushing the “war on women” narrative and the fact that Clinton has a good chance to become the first female president, Webb will be skewered as a fossil for having held these sorts of views.
