Sunday, July 20, 2008,7:43 AM
On Yesterday's Debate
If you want to find out who won yesterday's debate between former Governors Jim Gilmore and Mark Warner, you can turn to the Washington Post - and not learn a damn thing - or you can go to an unbiased source who always delivers the real skinny on such matters.

SWAC Girl:

[S]ometimes I feel as if I'm in a parallel universe from the mainstream media. They called it a draw.

That may be, but for Mark Warner to have the rock star status he has, he did not turn in all that great a performance. In fact, his face got red and little white splotches came out on his jaw when he didn't answer the questions and Gov. Gilmore held him to it.

I thought Gov. Gilmore stayed on message on two important themes: trust and energy. Who do the people of Virginia trust ... Mark Warner who promised not to raise taxes but then pushed through the largest tax increase in Virginia history? Or Jim Gilmore who kept his promise to remove the odious car tax? There is so much to write about this that I can hardly wait to get started.

Where else are you going to read that Mark Warner had a red, splotchy face whenever he was cornered by Jim Gilmore?

The only thing I haven't been able to determine is whether Warner was asked in the debate if he was going to lie to the people of Virginia again about not raising our taxes. But maybe it was at that point that he got those little white splotchy things to break out all over. Humiliation, I'm told, will do that to a person.

In any case, it appears that Gilmore whooped up on his opponent in their first debate. Here's to the better man for it.

And here's to you, SWAC Girl, for bringing the news to the people of Virginia.
 
posted by Jerry Fuhrman
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