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Gilmania Is Dead
So is this election to me.
Published in GeneralFormer Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore has decided to suspend his campaign.
Gilmore’s decision, reported by the Washington Examiner on Friday, ends a campaign that failed to gain any traction at all, even among some of the lowest-polling candidates among the GOP primary when it was at its largest.
Gilmore, who also served in the past as Republican National Committee chairman, failed to consistently make the under-card Republican presidential primary debates and virtually never got any national visibility at all.
Gilmore was the only Republican who did not qualify for Saturday’s GOP presidential debate in South Carolina.
My condolences. So goes the only actual veteran running for President.
Noooooooooooooooooo!
Don’t worry, his chances of winning are still just as high as they were a week ago.
You know, I was just starting to get on the bandwagon.
Isn’t that always the way?
Was his credit card declined?
Dang, all the good ones are gone.
Why can’t we still have nice things, and candidates?
Incidentally, if no one drops out between now and midnight Sunday, I win the office pool. Right now, I got them all.
Maybe he’s considering running as a third party candidate. We can only hope.
Gilnomomentum.
Jim Gilmore doesn’t sleep. He suspends.
On the Democrat side, Vermin Supreme got 260 votes in the New Hampshire primary, nearly doubling what Gilmore tallied on the (R) side, and besting the combined totals of Lindsay Graham, George Pataki, and Bobby Jindal.
Maybe they should have adopted Supreme’s platform: mandatory toothbrushing laws (Gingivitis has been eroding the gumline of this great nation of ours for long enough and must be stopped); zombie preparedness; time travel research (the kill baby Hitler meme!); and free ponies.
Say it ain’t so, Joe!
This is Gandalf …
This is Gandalf on drugs.
I saw that guy in New Hampshire!
He and some of his (equally interesting-looking) cohorts tried to follow Ben Carson’s group into the VIP holding area at the Radisson.
Surprisingly, they failed to blend in and were quickly spotted and politely escorted out by some stern-looking guys with ear-pieces.
I may not know much about politics, but I guess if a guy with a boot on his head gets more votes than you do, it might be time to pack it in.
Good call.
Vermin Supreme! we hardly knew ye!
(BTW he looks a lot like my 1968 philosophy prof)
Long live Gilmania.
Best thing I read on Ricochet in a while.
We finally get the answer to the question, is a candidate no one knows is running really running?
I understand the Nixonian dignity of quitting a race if you’re a politician. You won’t have Senator Paul or Governors this, that, & the others to kick around anymore! But what makes nobodies not run? One feels like there may be a violation of the laws of nature there…
Gilmore campaign song:
Jim Webb may run again…
The South will rise again! Oh, sorry, wrong door…
Still mad. I am getting some Ben and Jerrys to eat my feelings.
Jim Gilmore was an effective center-right Governor of Virginia, where Governors are limited to a single term. Jim Gilmore was an effective chairman of the Republican National Committee during 2001, his last year as Governor. As Governor, he advocated effectively for tax cuts, and signed into law effective school reform legislation.
I met Jim Gilmore in 2012, and commented to him that I don’t understand why government needs more money. Without hesitation, Gilmore agreed that government doesn’t need more money.
Why didn’t you run for President in 2008, Governor Gilmore? Why not in 2012? You’d have been a much better candidate for the Republican party than either of its nominees in those years.
Don’t say it’s over!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NjbGr2nk2c
Gilmania sounds like the name of a country.
It’s what he thought, at least, but it turns out, it’s not America. Whatever. He can shop around…
The computer just asked me to prove I’m human. If this here just above is what the computer thinks is the most inhuman comment I’ve committed to Ricochet, it’s got a lot to learn…