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.
"Gilmore supports legal abortion through the first three months of pregnancy."
I wasn't aware of that. If that's still his position, count me out as a potential supporter for a presidential run even with our current crappy field.
Gilmore didn't support abortion in the first three months of pregnancy, he was just conceding that as Governor he couldn't single-handedly overturn Roe v. Wade. He supported the strongest possible laws he could enact.
Pat Robertson was one of the guy's biggest contributors for crying out loud.
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.8275/pub_detail.asp
"Gilmore acknowledged that the Supreme Court has held abortion to be legal under the Constitution, and, as governor, he could not change that. By accepting the status quo, he defused concerns that he might threaten abortion rights. Almost half of those who voted for Gilmore said they wanted abortion kept legal. They voted for him for other reasons, like his opposition to Virginia's highly unpopular personal property tax on automobiles, which Gilmore made the core issue in his campaign."