I’m glad as anyone else that the primary season is over, and that Obama won. There’s a lot of talk now about Clinton getting the VP, but it’s hard for me really get behind that. I think she’s been entirely too divisive and partisan and I think the fact that she’s still refusing to concede is as cynical and self-righteous as you can get. As for who would be a strong candidate for the VP position, I’ve begun to hear a lot about freshman Democratic Senator Jim Webb from Virginia.

From Talking Points Memo:

The case for Webb, a Vietnam vet who has a son in Iraq, is that he might put Virginia in play and could credibly make an anti-war, and populist, case to the blue collar whites that voted for Hillary over Obama.

Webb could also help defuse the inevitable GOP efforts to cast the antiwar Obama as ungrateful for the troops’ service, making it tougher for the GOP to turn the election into a re-litigation of the sixties, as Republicans have done in pretty much every election since then.