Do you think many more of these mansion/yacht-club elitists simply aren't racists or merely hide it better?

I don't think Jim Webb is a racist. (I'm guessing he doesn't call his Vietnamese wife "Macaca".) He has a pretty solid civil rights background. I obviously can't prove what the guy thinks deep down, but he took up a number of telling causes long before he ever ran for elected office.

It's quite a stretch to call him a "mansion/yacht-club elitist" as well, if you look at the guy's background. If anything, one of the reasons I was wary of him was that his background basically reads "Marine, Marine, Marine, Marine", and sometimes people with that background can be heavy-handed in governance.

While, I can appreciate the idea of the 'lesser of two evils', I just don't see how this can really excite you. To me, a lesser douchebag still a douchebag is.

Why is Webb a douchebag? Just because he's a Senator? There are douchebag Senators, but not all Senators are douchebags.

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