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August 10, 2007
July 16, 2007
Jim Gilmore, We Hardly Knew Ye
Better late than never to report this, for those who didn’t already know. Jim Gilmore has given up his quest for the GOP nomination for President. It’s a shame, in a way, that we didn’t really write anything about him. Although I did quote him in one of my blog posts, so it has been properly tagged. We’ll let The Right’s Field sum things up. From the cleverly titled “Gilmore is No More” comes this:
Gilmore’s campaign had hoped to leap into contention by positioning their candidate as a true conservative amongst a herd of RINOs, but while they could pull off the trick in experimental push-polls, they never had the money or the name recognition to do it on a large scale. Conservative pundits — those few who took note of the Gilmore candidacy — differed over how strong his claim to the conservative mantle might be, but he never even managed to generate the modicum of interest that Mike Huckabee and Sam Brownback have achieved.
Gilmore, in his own way, did however make his mark on the 2008 campaign. To the best of my recollection he coined the term “Rudy McRomney” for The Three RINOs. That, in itself, is something. And if he did not, I’d like to believe that he did.
It takes a lot of guts and self-assurance to dare to run for President of the United States. But more than that, it takes money and media coverage. Gilmore just didn’t get enough of either to go on. So the campaign ends for Jim Gilmore and this will be our farewell post.
Goodbye, Jim. We hardly knew ye.
– Psycheout
March 24, 2007
The Running of the RINOs
Framed has an interesting post up today, 303 days, which includes candidate Jim Gilmore’s take on The Three RINOs excerpted from a Human Events interview.
Jim Gilmore on John McCain: “We knew that McCain was in the race, everyone knows John McCain but John McCain is not a conservative.”
Jim Gilmore on Rudy Giuliani: “We knew Rudy Giuliani would be in this race but…Rudy Giuliani supported Mario Cuomo for governor. and did TV ads for him instead of (Republican) George Pataki. In addition to that, he’s pro-choice, pro-gay marriage and pro-gun control….”
Jim Gilmore on Mitt Romney: “We knew Mitt Romney was in the race, and he’s very wealthy, we understand all that but Mitt Romney’s been a liberal politician in the northeast and it’s all on videotape. He supported Paul Tsongas for the President of the United States and when he was asked why he did that, he said he was an Independent. And then when [he] was asked again in 1994, he said he was no Reagan Republican.”
James Trumm of Framed sums up thus:
The GOP is being taken in a very different direction than it has been traveling for the last eight years, and unless a candidate like Gilmore (or Huckabee or Brownback) can break through, there are going to be a lot of disenfranchised Christian conservatives out there with nowhere to go.
I couldn’t agree more.
I’ve addressed this subject before in War of the RINOs. See also B4B‘s other RINO alerts.
– Psycheout
