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Published: October 14, 2008
Republican Senate candidate Jim Gilmore e-mailed a news release Sunday evening, claiming his Democratic rival, Mark Warner, had finally ’fessed up to remarks “attacking” Christians, pro-lifers, home schoolers and the NRA.
What typical Gilmore blather.
Think back to May 1994 — when Warner made the remarks in question — and what was happening politically in Virginia: Oliver North was the U.S. Senate candidate, arch-conservative and home-school advocate Mark Farris was running for lieutenant governor, the Christian Coalition was at the height of its power and the NRA was dominating the national gun debate. That’s what Warner was talking about when he said, “One of the things you are going to see is a coalition that is just about completely taken over the Republican Party in this state ... .”
Well, he was exactly right in his assessment of state politics and rather prescient that many Virginians, many conservative Virginians found that coalition threatening.
Give it a rest, Gov. Gilmore; you’re grasping at straws and it’s rather obvious.
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Currently we have (2) carpetbaggers representing the interest of Virginians and a 3rd in the wings licking his chops to replace the retiring John Warner. There’s the pompoused-arsed Jim Webb from Missouri in the Senate, The fledgling of a Governor Tim Kaine from Minnesota and the ever so “illustrious” ex-governor Mark Warner from Indiana. So what’s the lesser of (2) evils; the take over of the Republican Party by arch-conservatives, the Christian Coalition and the NRA or a coalition of “out-of-state” tax and spend liberals raping the state of political offices to further their agenda? I strongly endorse the former.
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