But wait!! Gilmore might not be that bad of idea if you think about it...

[underpants]

From our hometown Richmond Times-Dispatch. If you go to the link you can find the ramblings of the mad H.Ross Mackenzie and a full treatment of praise for the REPUBLICAN WIN in the Louisiana Gubernatorial race


http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/opinion/editorials.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2007-10-28-0104.html

The Hot Stuff

Sunday, Oct 28, 2007

The early polls give Warner a formidable lead. If the election occurred next month, he would win. Next year could tell a different story. This year's numbers reflect the devastation George Bush, Karl Rove, and others (especially a GOP Congress whose arrogance, corruption, and incompetence betrayed its mandate) have inflicted on the party nationally. Although Democrats, with good reason, will try to make the presidential contest a referendum on his presidency and on his person, Bush will not head the 2008 ticket. Rudolph Giuliani, John McCain, and even Mitt Romney likely would carry Virginia. Moreover, Gilmore's truncated tenure as chairman of the Republican National Committee suggested he was not Rove's lap-dog.

Warner left office a more popular governor than Gilmore (Republican budget fiascos eased Warner's 2001 election) :rofl:, but a campaign stressing national issues, particularly security, would play to Gilmore's potential strength.Oh this should be good Gilmore earned high marks for leading a panel on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction; Warner has yet to be tested on the issues that define the federal government's principal responsibility. He would be advised to bone up on defense and foreign policy -- while shunning his party's more laughable elements that I believe would be US:hi: -- to avoid the amateurism and extremism that have plagued Barack Obama. Warner stands in his party's center, and should strive to stay there.

And Gilmore would be prudent to heed the warning Davis issued when declining the Senate race. The congressman said the GOP cannot prosper if its position in Northern Virginia continues to erode. He is right. His advice about social issues and similar distractions applies to other regions as well. Republican percentages have slipped in Henrico and Chesterfield, for instance.(HUGE Republican numbers there usually) Ideology has played a corrosive role. If they do not necessarily repudiate specific Republican planks, then mainstream voters invest greater interest in performance. While not fond of big government, Virginians want government to work. They also understand that the divisive cultural questions will not be resolved in the political sector -- or at least not resolved there soon. Conservatism used to define a temperament, a quality of the imagination, a sense of humor (?), and, perhaps above all, an appreciation of the tragic sense of life. Religion was felt in the heart and nurtured in the intellect, not worn on the sleeve.

Virginia Democrats once bore national baggage in statewide races. The burden may be shifting to Republicans. Yet Virginia resembles neither Massachusetts nor Idaho. Its politics are competitive (clearly not aware of the last 30 years of Mass Governors)-- which means the center ultimately will hold.

[Bitwit1234]

1. Are they forgetting

people in Virginia considered Gilmore as bad as bush.

[underpants]

2. Posting lame analysis by really lame reporter

read it for yourself if you want
http://www.timesdispatch.com/cva/ric/news/politics.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2007-10-28-0195.html

This douchebag is hoping that an actual race for the Senate seat will pump up his cartoonish self in some way. He also completely misses the point.

As you stated Gilmore is the punchline to a bad joke, a joke that Virginians don't want to tell on themselves...again. But he is a bone to throw to the conservatives the hard-core supplyside taxcutting-as-governance conservatives who rose up recently to frighten the hell out of moderates who mismanage things in a oh so Republican way around here. They seem to be willing to give up a "for life" Senate seat in order to keep the squeaky wheels quiet.