This is a problem that is not going away. From former Senator Brandon Bell:
I have heard a lot of people say that Mark Warner will deliver Virginia to the Democrat Presidential nominee. As much as Warner would like to do this, I doubt he will be able to. With Gilmore’s negatives as high as they are, I feel certain that the Independent vote will flock to Warner and likely to the Democrat nominee for President. If Jim Gilmore is our nominee, he, not Mark Warner, will be able to claim the distinction of handing Virginia to Clinton or Obama and maybe even the Presidency itself. So after mismanaging our State finances and fracturing the Republican Party over the car tax, Gilmore is set to turn this red state blue. The Democrats may end up loving Gilmore after all.
I have not commented much on the Gilmore/Marshall race (though I am supporting Bob Marshall), but at some point in time the cards need to be laid out on the table. The Camp Gilmore response to the Bear Sterns piece from the AP left more questions than answers…
More to come after the Easter holiday.