(4 pm. – promoted by ek hornbeck)
Jim Gilmore is running for President. Maybe
If you’re thinking of the father in the TV series “The Gilmore Girls,” you’re way off, that was “Richard Gilmore” played so well by the late Edward Herman.
This Gilmore is James Stuart “Jim” Gilmore III, the governor of Virginia from January 17, 1998 to January 12, 2002. Gov. Gilmore is a Republican and threw his hat onto the GOP clown car back in 2006 for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination for president. That didn’t work out so well, mostly because of name recognition and funding, so he withdrew his name and shortly after announced he would run for the Senate.
The seat was, and still is held, by Sen. Mark Warner (D), who was up for re-election and had initially decided not to seek reelection, then changes his mind. Sen. Warner, a right leaning Democrat, roundly defeated Gov. Gilmore by a wide margin. The governor only garnered 34% of the vote and even lost in normally strong Republican districts. But then, it was the presidential election that brought Barack Husein Obama to the White House.
He sat out the 2012 fray but has decided that he’s the guy with the experience to be the president in 2017. Thus he has become one of the nineteen Republicans vying to face off with who ever the Democrats nominate (like we all don’t know who that very well maybe).
Welcome to the circus, Jim.
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