Yes, even those of us on the other side should care about what happens to the Democratic Party, and should wish that better people have a voice within it.

With that in mind, I urge everybody to root for long-shot presidential candidate Jim Webb to catch fire — and provide advice as to how he should do so. This isn’t so much about Webb as it about what’s good for America.

Here’s an excerpt:

The country needs a vibrant coalition of centrist Democrats to serve as a counterweight to the hard, anti-constitutionalist Left. It needs leading Democrats who still accept (even if a bit uneasily) the basic tenets and restrictions of our Madisonian system — and who openly embrace the truth that the United States is and always has been the biggest force for good of any nation on Earth.

Please read it, here.  — Quin

 

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