Another RINO wins, by spending 8X the money of his opponent. Wow, such a strong platform. /s
And now Mr. Gilmore will get creamed by Mr. Mark Warner.
Bad news.
Mark Warner will probably win anyway, but Gilmore will have a better showing than Marshall in the state election. Gilmore is a former governor and chairman of the RNC. He is a more forceful speaker than Marshall and makes a better visual impression. On the morning of the election, Gilmore circulated his signed no amnesty pledge that was similar to the NumbersUSA pledge signed by Huckabee. Gilmore needs to play the immigration issue hard to distance himself from McCain and Bush and Mark Warner. This will help him in NoVA, which is turning more Democrat.
Gilmore is really pushing the energy issue. He is against cap and trade and is for drilling in ANWAR, unlike Marshall and Mark Warner and John McCain. This is another winner for Gilmore.
The best thing that happened was that VA Delegate Jeff Frederich was selected as the new chairman of the VA GOP. He is young, energetic, and conservative. He will in the long run revitalize this party.
Yes! As a delegate, I studied them both and talked to Gilmore's campaign and Del. Marshall personally. I was very concerned about Marshall's embrace of gloBULL warming. After I told him about the 31,000 scientists actually signing statements debunking the lies he agreed we should also drill ANWR and elsewhere, but claimed it would not bring down gas prices, which I also objected to.
His biggest issue with the war was that the Iraqis should be funding their own rebuilding as they had a $56 million surplus last year. I informed him they were beginning to invest in their own rebuilding. I pointed out that in a mere 2 years the Iraqis seated their government and have taken control of their country, built an economy that gave them that 56 mil and their security forces are taking the lead in securing their country. I asked how much our government had accomplished in those same 2 years and he laughed. He certainly supported the war, but was unaware of the more recent developments. As a citizen legislator with a job and campaigning I can understand that, as one needs to search for the good news on Iraq. He did ask that I send him the info I referred to, which I did.
My biggest problem with Gilmore is this --
Gilmore also plans to link himself to presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain, a senator from Arizona.
along with Gilmore shuns Bush in race for Senate.
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