Posted on 02/04/2016 11:33:49 PM PST by Crucial
Jim Gilmore is a natural born citizen however you define it. He was born in America to an American mother and father. So here, Hillary has no chance of disqualifying him. He's quite conservative, pro second amendment, pro national security, anti-abortion, pro free market and anti-crony capitalism, anti-ObamaCare and pro nuclear family. He's a veteran and was the governor of Virginia. I think he's worth a second look.
“That would be a poor choice. Gilmore couldn’t carry his own state. He ran for Senator against Mark Warner in 2008”
He had all the headwinds against him that year. Mark Warner was wildly popular and was running on the coattails of Obama in 2008, the Year of Obamalove. Christ himself wouldn’t have won that year.
33.7%. That was an absolutely ghastly performance that should’ve ended his electoral career. That he didn’t get in the mid to high 40s in that race is one thing (with McQueeg at the top of the ticket, who wasn’t even attempting to win, he got 46%), but that was scarcely more then that hapless Black Minister, Maurice Dawkins, the Republicans put up against Chuck Robb in 1988 received when Sen. Paul Trible ran away like a coward (he got under 30%).
I’ll say again, that was the worst % of the vote a first tier candidate for the U.S. Senate received in the Commonwealth since they instituted the popular vote. Why would someone with that distinction get it in their head that they’re deserving to be President ? That’s mental illness.
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Sounds like a good VP candidate. He doesn’t have many negatives.
Post #19.
Supporting Gilmore would simply siphon votes from viable candidates, mainly Cruz. The result would be Hillary, by a win over Rubio.
Pretty much. I’ve met Jim Gilmore. Hell, I voted for him for both Attorney General and Governor in Virginia.
Nice guy, solid conservative. . . .but very little charisma. . .
My guess . . . he’s REALLY running for a Cabinet Post, just like Carly. . .
He was not well regarded as Governor of Virginia.
While all you’re saying is true, the situation was greatly exacerbated by his facing a highly popular former governor in Mark Warner, and the Obama wave that swept the entire country. At the time, Warner presented himself as a centrist, so moderates decided to take a chance on him.
Anyone would’ve been similarly blown off the field that year.
“Jim...failed at a run for Senate at the same time David Brat was knocking off Eric Cantor.”
Nope. Gilmore ran for Senate in 2008, the year of Obamalove, and Brat defeated Cantor in 2014.
Then who was running for Senate in 2014?
Ed Gillespie, who lost by about 1%
Thanks! I knew the name started with a G.
Credibility? He got 12 votes in Iowa... TWELVE... out of 170,000+. Most candidates had more Iowans assigned to getting donuts for their local staffs than Gilmore had total votes, and you see him as credible? Wow.
Virginia turned blue. Did that have something to do with it?
Yes. Plus many government types live with n NOVA
Sad to say, I/m part of the 75%.
That wave of evil did not sweep the entire country. Here in neighboring Tennessee, we were quite immune and went the right direction (and West Virginia, for that matter). Still, no one loses a race like Gilmore did in 2008 without a demonstrable level of incompetence. First-tier candidates simply don’t perform that badly. I submit that had a candidate willing to run a balls-to-the-walls race tearing apart a giant phony leftist like Mark Warner, that race should’ve ended up more appropriately closer (52-47%), in keeping with Zero’s performance in the state.
The fact that Ed Gillespie, not exactly a Conservative paragon, practically knocked off Warner (in an environment where state Republicans were still hurting after McDonnell), showed how incompetent Gilmore’s run was.
Anyway, my singular point is annoyance that these guys who have mediocre to disastrous records (usually RINOs) think they’re deserving to be President, when they’ve made a mess of where they live. These guys and gals should be laughed off the stage. I think candidates for President should be drafted by the grassroots, not the other way around. Those that have actual accomplishments to their name, electoral or otherwise, should be called upon.
What’s really sad is that it was George Allen that should’ve been the shining star from the Commonwealth. It’s amazing how fast he crashed. The Senate turned out to be the last place he should’ve ended up. His strength was serving as Governor. Had Jim Miller, Reagan’s Budget Director, been the 1994 Senate nominee instead of the too controversial Lt. Col. North, he’d have beaten Robb that year and Allen would’ve been free to have made a return to the Governorship in 2001 instead of Mark Warner, or perhaps have even run for President instead of Dubya in 2000.
Not to mention Brat defeated Cantor in the GOP primary (that’s right, Cantor wasn’t a democrat) several months before the 2014 GE when Gilespie was losing a superclose stolen race to Warner (ie not the same time) so even if Gilmore had been the 2014 Senate nominee, I’ve not sure what the heck that would have to do with Brat’s primary victory.
Sorry, Gilmore / Gilespie whatever, they all look alike.
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