When the Wall Street Journal shines a light on you, you’re in the running for Vice President. Now, will the national Democrats rally around someone who isn’t a sniveling anti-military wuss? Despite nominating 9 southerners and 11 veterans since 1976, they “were all men who had been on the liberal side of the Vietnam-era culture wars. Not Jim Webb.”

The WSJ asks if national Dems will rally around Webb in three areas (Vietnam, Women, and Affirmative Action) or will it start a fight with itself.

I’ve been reading about Sen. Jim Webb’s GI Bill for the last few weeks and honestly was leaning to supporting it. Ronald Reagan extended the GI Bill in ‘87 That’s what I get for relying on the liberal media, who only after the vote in the House decided to print this little tidbit:

Webb pays “the estimated 10-year, $51 billion cost for Webb’s GI Bill with a surtax to be imposed on those earning more than $500,000 annually.”

Which brings up this interesting point:

From Senator Jim Webb’s press office: