Steven Latimer

In last night's US Senate debate, I was very impressed by Jim Gilmore's clarity of thought, and his conservative credentials.

On the unconservative Wall Street bailout (which Mark Warner supports), Gilmore said this:

I am strongly opposed to asking America’s hard working families to cover the bets of the Wall Street high rollers and insiders who exploited flaws in government regulations to make personal fortunes and devastate our economy. [...] Requiring taxpayers to cough up $700 billion without providing them any additional assurances for their own financial security is wrong. [...] Maybe Mark Warner finds it easy to take more and more of the taxpayers’ money, but I do not.

On other issues, Gilmore expressed his opposition to amnesty for illegal aliens, as well as the unconservative court case Roe v. Wade. His opponent, Mark Warner, came out in full support of both.

This intercourse between the two was--and will be--the campaign's only live, televised debate. Virginia may very well no longer be considered a "red" state for the time being, but Virginia's denizens are still fundamentally conservative at heart. They have a conservative mindset; conservativism is still "in" here.

This being said, let's see if anything happens now that the debate is over.