I’m sorry, but my jaw dropped when I read this. We all know Allen has a fondness for Thomas Jefferson as a political mentor. So whom does Jim Webb look to for guidance?
Republicans might have joked about it before, but I kid you not: Jim Webb looks to Karl Marx:
Webb, a former Navy Secretary under Ronald Reagan and an academic who has written fiction and nonfiction books, laced his speech with paraphrases of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, who wrote in the 19th century about society’s disconnect from its agricultural roots.
This is outrageous, and possibly the first time I have ever seen a candidate for U.S. Senate quote Marx and Engels as a source for ideas.
Absolutely dumbfounded. What’s next? Is Webb going to start quoting Heidigger and Nietzsche???