[indemnify]

Coincidentally (or maybe not), members of the California GOP were bombarded with emails that very night pushing "Draft Gilmore": http://draftgilmore.org/

[Coldwater Creek]

This is one that I had not thought of, but he might just be a formidable candidate. he did a good job in Va.

[Dixie Yooper]

His campaign promise of abolishing the car tax while running against car dealer Don Byer was pure genius. He was able to keep his promise as far as the state legislators would allow. To this day, thanks to the new Governor and old legislators, the tax remains, but is much smaller than it used to be. He should move to NC, run for Governor and get rid of our car tax!!!

[NapkinUser]

Hard to imagine Gilmore could possibly be worse than some of the other possible candidates for the republican nomination: Rudolph Giuliani, John McCain, Condoleeza Rice and Chuck Hagel instantly come to mind.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Very cool - a good governor and a solid conservative. At the very least, I hope he runs when Jawn Wahnah finally shuffles off the Senate floor into retirement.

[Man50D]

What are his positions on the major issues?

[ConservativeDude]

I am convinced by the gushing responses of about 50% of FR (which would be, I think, well to the right of the average GOP primary voter) that Giuliani will be the nominee and that he will win.

I wish we had a viable alternative who was a true conservative, but, so far there is none. You can't beat celebrity with non-celebrity, not in the US, and not even in the GOP primary.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Male pattern baldness = zero shot. Yes, America is that shallow. ;)

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[Nightbird]

Friends, no way no how. I haven't a clue who is behind this website, but this is ridiculous.

Gilmore has way too much "baggage," of the personal sort.

[mrsmith]

Has the best anti-terrorism credentials of anyone running.

Former cold war counter-intel officer. The Gilmore Commission was well respected.

Not exactly a "fire-brand" though.

[Gone GF]

Depending on who he's running against, I have a hard time envisioning Gilmore even being re-elected governor.

[Spiff]

Gilmore supports legal abortion through the first three months of pregnancy.

This is an animated ultrasound of child at 10 weeks of development. Gilmore supports keeping the murder of this and similarly aged children legal. That's not a good thing for a Republican to support.

This child has not reached 3 months of development and Jim Gilmore believes that killing him should be legal.

While not as pro-abortion as someone like Rudy Giuliani, Gilmore is still too pro-abortion to be an acceptable Republican candidate.

In 2001, Jim Gilmore also expressed support for the principles embodied in the terrible Equal Rights Amendment. ERA was, thankfully, defeated through the efforts of the Grand Dame of conservative women, Phyllis Schlafly. That is not an acceptable position for a Republican candidate to have.

He supports socialized, government paid full college tuition funding for "needy" students. This is a very liberal position for a Republican candidate to have.

This is what I've pulled up in just a few minutes of Googling his postions on conservative Republican issues. Giuliani is MUCH worse, but Gilmore doesn't strike me as a candidate that I can get behind.