I repeat, BWAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

record as governor, wherein he drove the state into the ditch?

I just assume that this is a twisted joke.

Only in Gilmore's dreams is his record anything to be proud of.  But given the GOP penchant for revisionism and kicking life into even the most useless of pols, perhaps we should stop laughing.  But I can't. :-)

one year stint as head of the RNC? 

Yet another Jim Gilmore punchline. 

AS I read the headline I got the biggest laugh I've had in months...  This is too priceless.

GW BUSH Junior had no more experience, and more failures on record than this guy does. Nor does Gilmore have the truly offensive background that George Allen did. Couple with that the fact that he has not been in office enough to create a number of political enemies in the way one can presume the Bush family or John McCain have.

So stop laughing. My bet is he WILL be in serious contention for the final ticket, possibly getting there as VP.

In fairness, I am not entirely sure that Gilmore could be so easily pushed around by a Cheney.  He's an ideologue yes, but he is probably more honest in his approach to it. Nor will he have trouble taking second seat to someone like Guilliani.

That being said, the Democrats CAN have superior candidates if they choose progressive balanced leadership, not a heavily liberal agenda. No, liberal isn't a bad word, but right now, the super liberals have allied them self in a strange way with the fascists that really bodes badly for this country, because it is killing the middle class.

Does anyone anywhere see Gilmore as a serious candidate? GWB has set the bar so low that every Republican in and out of office thinks they can do the job. Hopefully they're all going to find themselves on the wrong side of history. 

If Gilmore does not present a national sales tax I am going to be very unhappy.

At $50 a head his fund raising is off to an amazing start.  Counting on my fingers, at $50 a head, 80 people... mumble, mumble...ta da, I make it $4,000 for his Presidential War Chest.  Hey, let him run.  Whatever money he can drain from Republican donors and waste on a national Presidential campaign is just that much money we don't have to counter.

...who presumably gave a lot more than $50 each. :)  Reportedly, Fitzsimmonds says that the event raised $25,000.

Is this the GOP "darkhorse" we've been fearing?  Even better than Huckabee? <----seriously, watch this guy!

I really do.

Whoever the Dems would nominate would walk all over him. It wouldn't be pretty.

Maybe we could help the Gilmore campaign out here and give it some RK tested bumper sticker ideas.

"He Ruined Virginia, Think What He Could Do For America!"

"No Income Tax!"*

*Please ignore my failed "No Car Tax" promise.

is a low hangin fruit, easy to pickoff. He is just clearing the field to make  Bush look good.

Vote Mediocrity!

To quote what was said about Rutherford Hayes upon his nomination in 1876: "He is a third-rate non-entity whose only asset is that he's obnoxious to no one."

He's obnoxious to everyone!

Looks like Gilmore can compete with Huckabee, Brownback and Hunter to see who gets the wingnut vote while McCain and Guiliani compete for the neocon vote.  Romney will swing whichever way the wind blows in his party.  Get ready for a very divided Republican primary season. 

This should be fun to watch.

I think he should run on a national unity ticket with Dennis Kucinich, since they each left their respective jurisdictions (Virginia and Cleveland) in financial ruin.

You could call them The Bankruptcy Brothers..

"I'll f@ck up the US economy like I did to Virginia's."

No, it will be "No_____tax!" (Just choose a substitute to fill in the blank where the word "car" used to be.)