I met Gilmore at CPAC years ago.
We had a very pleasant conversation.
That being said, if he keeps this up he will end up being he Martin O’Malley character on the Republican Debate Stage.
Maybe he is hoping for the V.P. slot. You never know.
He is close to that. I do think he got more votes in Iowa then O’mally. :-)
I saw him at the horse races once. Said “Hello Governor” quite loudly from across the lawn. He looked and waved at me and we went our separate ways.
That would be a poor choice. Gilmore couldn’t carry his own state. He ran for Senator against Mark Warner in 2008 and had the single worst performance as a first-tier candidate in the modern era, getting 1/3rd of the vote (33.7% to Warner’s 65%), and this was an open seat (note that he won both the Governorship and Attorney General offices with 56%, so that performance for Senator was inexcusably horrid). He hasn’t won office in 19 years.
Saying that, I’m sure he’d make a credible Ambassador or lesser Cabinet or government official.
>> Maybe he is hoping for the V.P. slot <<
Attorney General or Homeland Security Secretary or Veterans Affairs Chief would be good spots for him. Seriously.
Or maybe somewhere in the intelligence community, since Gilmore served honorably as an Army intelligence officer.
But I guess he’d be lucky if Trump named him Ambassador to Andorra or San Marino.