Gilmore For Senate
Gov. Jim Gilmore is the Republican nominee for Senate and he will beat Mark Warner this November.
Do not listen to the naysayers even within the Party. If every Republican who is throwing up their hands and throwing in the towel now instead took the time to visit Gilmore’s site and sign up to be a volunteer then Mark Warner’s coranation would be anything but. If every Bob Marshall supporter could fire themselves up for the nominee and bring the same enthusiasm to November as they brought to the convention, you’d have another David on your hands.
We can not afford to sit idly by and simply allow Mark Warner to win this November. There should not be a single Bob Marshall supporter who can sit there with a straight face and say Mark Warner speaks closer to their values than Jim Gilmore.
Just as I would be asking Gilmore supporters to help Bob Marshall had yesterday’s results gone the other way, tonight I am asking Marshall supporters and all members of the Republican Party of Virginia to please stand up and be counted. Do not just stay home and let Mark Warner ensure a Democratic majority in the Senate for the foreseeable future. Don’t count on trying to beat him next time, we must beat him this time!
Now is not the time to quit, it is the time to keep fighting and ensuring there is one less pawn for a Democratic agenda that harms Virginians and Americans.
Folks, Jim Gilmore is our nominee and with our help he will be the next Senator from Virginia.
June 1st, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Well done. Focused and purposeful.
June 1st, 2008 at 11:14 pm
[...] may be some bad blood between the Gilmore and Marshall folks (although I had a hard time find it, Jason Kenney may have stumbled on some), but we all share one thing in common; we can not stand John [...]
June 9th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Do any Republicans still know what it means to stand on principle?
Bob Marshall’s people weren’t enthused because he was Bob Marshall. They were excited about his message of limited government and true liberty. Since Gilmore doesn’t believe in these things it’s hard for someone with principles to get excited about him.
While Gilmore may not be as liberal as Warner, he still isn’t a conservative, so its hard for someone like me to even go and vote for him, much less get excited about his candidacy.
And please don’t give me this “lesser of two evil” bs. Evil is like virginity — there are no varying degrees. And for a conservative to support the perceived “lesser of two evils” is still to support evil, which is unacceptable to the true conservative.
Perhaps after their spanking in November the establishment Republicans will learn a lesson….
June 9th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Brian - How is government legislating social issues in any way limiting government and spreading liberty? Bob Marshall’s supporters flocked to him on the life issue, it was the social conservative wing of the party jumping for joy there, not the fiscal.