Former Virginia Senator Jim Webb launches exploratory committee!

[Indy Texas]

DOA. At least when gadflies run in the Republican Party, they can just win favor with one eccentric millionaire and get off the ground that way (Newt Gingrich and Sheldon Adelson; Rick Santorum and Foster Friess). As long as they'll look after their pet/industry interests, the checks will keep coming.

The Democratic Party's equivalent big money donors aren't content to simply have someone who stands for "what's good for my business." They have to have a personal affinity for a candidate and the sort of hedge funders and venture capitalists and Yankee heiresses who make up Big Money on the Left are not going to fall in love with someone like Jim Webb who would probably order a mass-market beer at dinner and make them spend all night listening to him talk about Ulster Scots immigrants in 17th century Virginia.

[Indy Texas]

While I'm all for challenging Hillary from the left, it might be better to have someone a little more liberal do that.

I mean, I guess he could pull a Romney and flip flop into being "severely liberal", but would anyone really buy that?

Or Romney could pull a Romney and refashion himself as a severely liberal Democrat who deserves all the credit for signing the proto-Obamacare into law.

Or hell, maybe Scott Brown could run for president as a Democrat. He's still unemployed, isn't he?