Hey, look on the bright side of these revelations that Jim Webb (D-Nowhere) wrote some pretty weird sex scenes into his novels, including some homosexual pederastic behavior and some locker room talk that is really, really misogynistic… Oh, who am I kidding. There’s no bright side to it. I don’t care if it helps Allen, it’s kind of gross to even be made aware of this stuff; some of it has nearly the same recoil value as the Foley IM’s.

The inevitable, straight up partisan defenses (‘it’s just sex’ and ‘this invasion of Mr. Webb’s privacy is indecent…’) will necessarily ignore the fact that Webb put this stuff out there in novels, which were apparently published if not always widely read. (Fields of Fire was in fact widely read, and I have a copy of it on a bookshelf about three feet from where I am sitting). Not all the stuff Drudge gets excited about is really filthy, some of it is just good ol’ fashioned fictionalized sex, and I think it’s prudish and stupid to get worked up about a lot of the stuff that Drudge has printed. Yeah, some of it reads a little misogynistic, but you know, so do a lot of 20 year old military guys, and that’s who Webb frequently writes about.

Some of Webb’s fictionalization is pretty grotesque, however, and I think it’s fair to ask, (1) How the hell did you ever come up with that stuff, Jimbo?, and, (2) What ever possessed you to put it down on paper, sell it to the public, then after that to go into politics again and expect you wouldn’t get it thrown in your face? It’s true, Allen is lame for attacking Webb based on fictional works that Webb wrote… but then Webb is pretty lame for publishing some of that stuff and then apparently expecting a free pass when he ran for office. Now don’t go below the fold unless you want some grossout material.

The lowlight? This passage cited by Drudge:

– Lost Soldiers: “A shirtless man walked toward them along a mud pathway. His muscles were young and hard, but his face was devastated with wrinkles. His eyes were so red that they appeared to be burned by fire. A naked boy ran happily toward him from a little plot of dirt. The man grabbed his young son in his arms, turned him upside down, and put the boy’s penis in his mouth.”

Bantam Books, NY, 1st Edition, 2001, (hard cover), page 333.
Quote is from para. 10,.Chap. 34.

Whoa. Ick.

(Please forgive my breathlessly hysterical commentary, which is the kind of hateful, vicious, ranting gay bashing you’d expect from one of us socially conservative Republican Party kool-aid drinkers).

The horse race metaphor fails in the Virginia senate race. It is more like a demolition derby between a couple jackasses that ride the short horse trailer, rather than a horse race.

I don’t often say I’m grateful to live in Maryland but I will tonight. I despise Ben Cardin’s politics, but I’m not ashamed of his behavior and think at heart he is a reasonably decent and honorable man. I like Michael Steele’s politics, and likewise, am not ashamed of his behavior and believe he is similarly decent. Neither one seems likely to embarass Maryland voters. Virginia voters can’t say the same about Allen and Webb, whose campaigns have bounced from embarassment to embarassment the way a basketball bounces from hand to floor and back again, and with about the same frequency. Were there an encyclopedia section on “having to hold your nose to vote,” a photo of these two would suffice in place of actual words.

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Update

: A front page Kossack says that Webb must respond by saying he witnessed this stuff in the "hellhole of Vietnam." Hey, that's a pretty good idea. You think it's true? I mean, were I writing the post, I'd say "if he saw this stuff in VietNam, then he should say..." and so on. I'm not sure I'd come out and just say, "It's true and he needs to tell us that." Ahh, nevermind. Doesn't matter. He just needs to say it's true. That'll work just fine for the Kossacks. If he says it's true often enough, that will make it true. Hey, maybe later we can Googlebomb George Allen so searches on his name turn up a gay porn site...]