If you need a really good laugh the day after Thanksgiving, check out Jim Gilmore's "exluxive interview" in Human Events, the "Bible of the Right." Before you read the interview, you might want to consider the fact that Gilmore chose the publisher of "Jihad Watch," "Hillary Watch," and the self-proclaimed "voice of great conservative thinkers" like Pat Buchanan, Oliver North and -- I'm not making this up -- Michelle Malkin and "the peerless Ann Coulter!" The fact that Gilmore chose this magazine for his first post-announcement interview tells us a lot -- none of it good -- about Mr. "No Car Tax."Anyway, on to the interview itself. Essentially, Gilmore's argument why he "will win the Senate seat" can be boiled down to the following:
1. Polls that show Mark Warner way ahead are flawed in some way.
2. The right-wing demon, Hillary Clinton, might be the Democratic nominee for President, and that will "hurt [Mark Warner] here in Virginia."
3. Gilmore's an army veteran while Warner has no military experience.
4. Gilmore has "studied terrorism" while Warner...I dunno, has ignored it?
5. Gilmore used to be Attorney General, which by definition means he's tough in all things "law and order."
6. He cut taxes while Warner raised them.
That's about it right there, Gilmore's case why he "will win" the U.S. Senate seat next year. Oh yeah, and the Webb-Allen race last year was "not about issues but rather the incumbent's use of the term 'macaca' in public," according to sources "close to Gilmore." In other words, if Gilmore just runs on all those great issues (bad polls, Hillary, the fact that he's "studied" terrorism), he wins, easy as pie! Just as easy, come to think of it, as the way Gilmore drove Virginia into the fiscal ditch. And just as easy, come to think of it, as the way Gilmore surged to the Republican nomination for President this year. Er....
By the way, Gilmore's great military experience is not actually fighting, winning a Bronze Star or whatever, it's a 3-year tour as a counterintelligence agent in West Germany back in the 1970s. I don't know why, but somehow the word COUNTERintelligence seems appropriate when discussing Gilmore and his "analysis" of how he will defeat Mark Warner next year.
Next, Jim Gilmore on how to make millions in real estate these days...
He intimates that he warned of a 9/11-like attack. But he has to be careful as he does it, because the man he would have warned was Bush.
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Will Gilmore repudiate Coulter's "Jews need to be perfected" statement?
CENTERTON, Ark. -- The mayor of an Arkansas town resigned on Wednesday, claiming he was abducted and brainwashed by Satan worshippers nearly three decades ago.Centerton Mayor Ken Williams said he has been living under an assumed name for nearly 30 years. He had been mayor since 2001.
Williams told authorities he was born Don LaRose and that in the mid-1970s, he was a preacher in Indiana. He said he was abducted and brainwashed into forgetting all about his life as Don LaRose.
It was a double-life he had never acknowledged, Williams said, because he didn't even realize it existed until he had recently taken a truth-serum injection.
I'd go for the guy from Arkansas