Posted by
stevo on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 5:11:53 PM
Recently, Senator George Allen's office has released excerpts from Candidate Webb's military fiction novels. The excerpts are shocking--there are lewd and perverse descriptions of pedophilia, incest, and explicit sexual acts.
One might think that in the conservative-leaning Virginia, this revelation would sink the political ship of Webb. Yet, in the past week, Webb has had his strongest showing in a variety of polls.
Either the public is largely ignorant of his past writings, or the writing is on the wall: Even Virginia has lost its social concience. If this latter option is true, then those who worry about the moral culture of America should be developing ulcers.
Virginia, with its variety of demographics--from the diverse DC/metropolitan suburbs to its rural West and South--could be considered a fairly good litmus test of our nation's social conscience.
Perhaps we could develop this rule: If Virginia, then America writ large.
Let us hope that Webb doesn't get elected.