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Ezra Klein thinks Webb is too good for the vice presidency:

The vice presidency is quite a prize, of course, and it is possible that compromises could be made. Assume Webb would be able to subsume his beliefs, his opinions, and his personality. Assume he would hold his tongue and sand off his edges. What a waste. In management, there's a dictum known as The Peter Principle, which states, "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." Webb, an idiosyncratic, free-thinking, independent-minded politician, is being pushed for a position that steamrolls those qualities. Worse, he's being pushed for the position because people love what an idiosyncratic, free-thinking, independent-minded politician he is.

Meanwhile, Kathy G. thinks Webb isn't good enough:

In 1979, in an infamous article in The Washingtonian magazine called "Women Can't Fight," Webb argued that women were biologically unsuited to combat and didn't belong in the military academies. He said that the mere presence of women was "poisoning" the environment for male cadets. [...]

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