Posted on 04/10/2015 1:42:41 PM PDT by Maelstorm
I thank our founders every four years that we have a one term and you’re out rule here. Especially after Clinton’s Bag Man got elected.
Gilmore was quite soft on abortion, if I recall.
He was pushing hard to dump the car tax, and was halfway there when termination of the final portion got hung up in the State Assembly in 2001. The dems simply ran out the clock on him.
I like Gilmore too, but he should just back Cruz and enjoy heading up one of the departments in a Cruz administration. Everybody has forgotten who he is.
Getting rid of the car tax was a great thing. The best way to deal with tax revenue decreases is to reduce the size of government. Some of these localities are as bad as the federal government and see no limits to their intrusive policies all for the sake of “public good” which some how always leads back around to their personal wealth and advancement. Taxing cars as well as property outside of the point of sale is the most unjust idiotic thing in the world that anyone who cares about the citizen would want to do.
I agree. He’d best serve as a member of a conservative administration. He knows homeland security very well.
I agree that the car tax is onerous. My point was that it wasn’t his (as Gov of the state) tax revenue to give away. That money was collected by the counties. If he wanted to get rid of the car tax, which we still have, though reduced, he should have had a plan to replace that tax revenue that wasn’t his (the state) that he wanted to eliminate.
Good man, bad politician.
“HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV)— On Thursday night, former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore said he is “considering” a run for president.”
Oh.
His utterly disastrous run for the Senate should disavow him of any future electoral adventures. President Cruz can award him with an Ambassadorship.
Your excitement is contagious, Bob.
Ambassador to Greenland, it’s about time they get their own.
“Your excitement is contagious, Bob.”
There was a political cartoon 35 years ago, during the Iran Hostage Crisis. It showed a picture of an old guy milking a cow on a farm the middle of nowhere, with an excited reporter in his face, and it read something like:
“We just found Harry Stromblini, who is the 5th uncle’s, 7th removed, 3rd generation step grandfather to the John Williamson, one of the Iran Hostages.” The reporter puts the microphone in the man’s face and says: “Tell me sir, how do you cope?”
For some reason Gilmore reminds me of that cartoon.
May be a good man, but I had no idea who the hell he was and he would serve more as a meddler than a viable candidate.
Who knows? He could be a seventh cousin, three times removed.
I don’t think that our Danish allies would appreciate it if we treated Greenland as if it were independent.
Gilmore can be our Ambassador to Taiwan. Screw the ChiComs.
At the beginning of the cold war we were willing to buy Greenland for 100 mil, 1.2 billion in today’s dollars. Imagine the weird names of the congressional delegates.
It’s odd than in the ROC, the conservatives are friendlier to the PRC than the liberals.
I don’t recall hearing about such an offer. With only about 56,000 people in Greenland, that’s half the amount residing in our other Danish-acquired Virgin Islands. It would make more sense for Greenland to either join with nearby Iceland or Canada. I noticed its main parties are all leftist (though one is moving rightward on free market policies).
Starkly beautiful place, though I can’t imagine living there year round (and alcoholism is rampant). “Global warming” would likely serve Greenland well, making it more desirable to live in (ditto Alaska). ;-D
http://mentalfloss.com/article/58212/time-united-states-tried-buy-greenland
Made sense during the cold war I guess.
I read that Greenland might actually be 3 separate islands under all that ice.
The article implies that Gov. Gilmore decided, this month, that he might run for president. I read that news, last Nov.
Gov. Gilmore is strongly pro-life. While he was governor, he signed a bill that requires a minor, who wants an abortion, to get parental consent. He signed a bill that requires each woman, who wants an abortion, to get information about fetal development and wait at least 24 hours before she can get the procedure. He would have banned almost all VA abortions, if he thought that bill would pass.
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