“Which guy from Virginia are you talking about? George Allen (my early pick for President) never got in.”
Looked it up, looks like it was Jim Gilmore I was thinking of. I liked him in the debates.
Gilmore ? He ran for the Senate the same year, was demolished in an embarrassing landslide against Mark Warner for what should’ve been a first-tier candidate. For some reason, he wasn’t well regarded by Virginians.