I’ll say this for Chris Green (Spank That Donkey), he has quite the imagination!
Apparently, because Bob Marshall prefers nuclear power to fossil fuels, and because he his record against “sprawl” won him the endorsement of the Sierra Club in his House of Delegate races, STD sees the entire Marshall for Senate campaign as a sinister Eco-Nazi conspiracy.
Never mind that Marshall has proven he is the far better candidate on protecting unborn children.
Never mind that Marshall has proven he is the better candidate on tackling illegal immigration, as shown by the endorsement he won from Tom Tancredo.
Never mind that Marshall has won the overwhelming support of Northern Virginia delegates grateful for his heroic stance against the unconstitutional regional governments on HB3202.
Never mind that the Gun Owners of America have endorsed Marshall.
Never mind that he is the only candidate in the race from either party with any legislative experience (now going on seventeen years).
No, it’s all a clever scheme hatched up by the Sierra Club.
Like I said, some imagination!
Seriously, this is about as bad as the Spurs fans screaming for a foul call at the end of Game 5 - and here I thought the Gilmore bloggers were desperate last night!
May 28, 2008 at 4:11 pm |
The Sierra Club is loving on Marshall-Warner because they both oppose drilling off the coast of Virginia and in ANWR.
He’s riding the Pro-Life horse, and whipping those delegates up, but that doesn’t make sense. Governor Gilmore has advanced the Pro-Life Football in every public office. He doesn’t have the exact position you would like, but his Pro-Life achievements are beyond reproach.
But on the issue of Energy, Marshall is no better than Warner on expanding domestic oil and natural gas supplies. Heck DJ, you should be asking Marshall why he doesn’t want extra transportation dollars from the drilling royalties, so Kaine and the rest of the Dems will quit trying to raise every other tax under the sun!
It’s not too late to come over to Gilmore, I know the more you learn about Marshall actually voting for unelected governing bodies with taxing authority (voted for it twice) until Governor (ahem) Gilmore vetoed the bill, then Marshall FOLLOWED Gilmore and voted to not override. Almost the exact same bill at HB 3202… Gilmore led Marshall, shall we say to ‘jesus’ on the issue?
Finding out that Marshall introduced two bills to create gun/taser/knife free VA Parks so only the criminals could be armed to pray upon our citizens…
I bet you didn’t know any of that stuff before Bob or Shaun talked you into supporting him.
I on the other hand have not been embarrassed by any of Gilmore’s Leadership on the issues. In Fact I am impressed more by the day.
oh, and BTW GOA and NRA are big time competitors… It makes me think that GOA is just a political game player…. I won’t be joining them anytime soon…
May 28, 2008 at 4:31 pm |
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May 28, 2008 at 4:32 pm |
“his pro-life achievements are beyond repraoch”
Two words: Barr Pharmaceuticals
“actually voting for unelected governinig bodies with taxing authority”
Try again, STD, those bills had no taxing authority
As for the gun bills, you do know those were rolled into a larger bill that Gilmore himself signed into law, didn’t you?
I see, however, that you still have not addressed Gilmore support for de facto amnesty. Pity.
Either way, except for this weird moment of yours (which I’ll assign to the stress of trying to keep the sinking Gilmore ship afloat), you’ve been a good adversary on this one. When Marshall is nominated I’ll be sure to offer you an invite to B4B – that is, after we get Jeff Frederick elected Chair.
May 28, 2008 at 5:15 pm |
We all like Jeff better for chair, so I expect that Saturday afternoon we’ll all be toasting Marshall’s victory and planning our destruction of Mark Warner’s attempt to further destroy Virginia in the wake of Tim Kaine’s tsunami of failures.
May 28, 2008 at 7:47 pm |
Well, DJ… Just from my past experience, STD has a positive genius for hyperbole couched in obnoxiousness. My previous experience with his support of Gilmore and his rancor towards Marshall and Marshall’s supporters have done more to bias me favorably towards Marshall than anything else…
Just my $0.02…
May 28, 2008 at 9:03 pm |
Kat, but you still love me too…and I support Gilmore. i like Marshall a lot and support him in the GA, but not for the Senate over Gilmore.
Marshall knows nothing about foreign affairs and homeland defense. This is the wrong time for OJT in the Senate.
Gilmore is a great Conservative champion. I trust him.
May 28, 2008 at 9:17 pm |
Actually, Jim, it’s Gilmore who would need OJT; Marshall has nearly a decade and a half of legislative experience, whereas Gilmore and Warner have none.
Now that I’ve said my piece, back to the important stuff, like the Celtics-Pistons game!
May 28, 2008 at 11:34 pm |
DJ:
Let’s go to the video
http://www.spankthatdonkey.com/spankthatdonkey2/2008/5/29/governor-gilmore-is-for-amnesty-lets-go-to-the-video.html
Look, I apologize for bringing up Marshall’s record on such things as unelected bodies with taxing powers… Thank God Gov. Gilmore was there to veto it.
Thank God his Gun/Taser/Knife free VA Park zones was straightened out so only the criminals can have the upper hand there.
I also apologize for revealing that Marshall voted with Governor Warner to stop drilling for oil/natural gas off VA’s coast (that $ could go to transportation), and keep Kaine from trying to constantly raise our taxes,
and yes, the common denominator between Warner and Marshall is the Sierra Club…. Marshall is going to carry SWVA being anti-coal? That’s another show stopper…. no wonder the two camps are exchanging emissaries..
JAB is nailing it, this coming election will center on Energy, National Security and Immigration (please watch video..)
Kat:
Why are you so bitter?
May 29, 2008 at 3:53 am |
GOP Primary Debate, May 3, 2007:
Far cry from “wrongly decided” (but the net effect is okay?) and it “would be the greatest day in this country’s history” when Roe v. Wade is overturned.
Who’s Tancredo supporting, again?
GOP Debate again:
Apparently, not so much of a conviction that he lowered the amount of time by four more weeks:
Q&A with Wolf Blitzer and Jim Gilmore, May 6, 2007:
Interesting, Shaun managed to get D.J. to support Bob Marshall but couldn’t get him to support John Hager? Makes sense to me…
By, the way didn’t Gilmore support the Equal Rights Amendment?:
I’m sure the National Organization of Women will love Gilmore!
And Gilmore does his best John Edwards impersonation:
Women, children hardest hit.
Gotta love the stuff you can find on the etherwebs:
http://www.ontheissues.org/jim_gilmore.htm
May 29, 2008 at 9:33 am |
Tim you are picking and choosing. My point was that Shaun didn’t tell DJ and others, or was unaware himself of Marshall’s Energy policies, and voting for unelected bodies with the ability to tax… only to be vetoed by Gilmore himself. Then the atrocious 2nd Amendment gun free VA Park measures…
What you have pulled out above may not play well with the hard corps Republicans, but remember this is an election that involves ALL of Virginia’s citizens…. Governor Gilmore will do well with the electorate.. statewide, something Bob Marshall has never even really thought about, or even cared about, until…. what got him into this race?
May 29, 2008 at 10:42 am |
You mean like the “Equal Rights Amendment”, that Bob Marshall votes against consistently in the house, that Jim Gilmore supports? The same amendment that can’t manage to get out of a House committee? Yeah, that has a lot of support behind it!
Is Jim Gilmore going to win Virginia voters by doing his best John Edwards impersonation? If he does, do we really want John Edwards Lite as Senator?
If Gilmore is going to do so well with the statewide electorate, why are his negatives so bad? Would it have anything to do with the fact that he promised to get rid of the car tax and failed? His brilliant plan to get rid of the car tax was to have the state subsidize counties even more. And now, until the end of time, counties as a whole will be receiving $950 million with the money being distributed using a formula and figures that were calculated in 2005. I’m sure people in Spotsylvania and Caroline County (some of the fastest growing counties in the state) appreciate that a lot.
Some legacy…
May 29, 2008 at 11:49 am |
STD, you’re still misrepresenting that authorities bill (it had no taxing power), and you’re ignoring the fact that the “park measure” were rolled up into a bill Gilmore signed himself (BTW, the NRA endorsed Marshall every time he ran for Delegate).
What got Marshall into this race was, well, us. We were very disturbed about Gilmore’s waffling on Iraq, his eight-week window on abortion, and what we now know is support for amnesty. We asked him to run, and after he gave it some thought, he agreed to do it.
What’s really bothering you, STD, is that Marshall’s entry fouled up the paradigm you had in mind when you chose Gilmore to block Tom Davis. Those of us who kept our powder dry and waited for a better candidate got one (Marshall).
May 29, 2008 at 1:25 pm |
Just an FYI for STD, the “let’s go to the video” comment ended up in my spam filter.
May 29, 2008 at 4:50 pm |
Tim:
So come right out and tell me Marshall is for repealing the car tax… Don’t wanna do that? I’d choose my arguments a little more closely..
DJ:
Again Thank God Gov. Gilmore led Marshall to Jesus on unelected govt. authorities with taxing power… if it weren’t so, why did Marshall turn around and vote to sustain the veto… read the legislation… they had taxing authority, and worse it opened the door for even worse than HB3202….
Glad you liked the video… and now we know Governor Gilmore is not for Amnesty… nope, nada, not today not manana…
May 29, 2008 at 7:26 pm |
Fact: Jim Gilmore-Edwards supports the “Equal Rights” Amendment. Bob Marshall has consistently opposed attempts to ratify the amendment in the House of Delegates. The National Organization of Women supports the amendment, while the National Right to Live Committee and Concerned Women for America oppose the amendment. Gilmore-Edwards is aligned with a pro-abortion group here.
Fact: Jim Gilmore-Edwards can’t make his mind up on when abortion should be prohibited. First it was twelve weeks. Then it was eight weeks. He reduced the time it was permissible by four weeks within three days. What happens when he gets to the Senate? Might the time abortion is permissible go up?