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By Bob Gibson
Daily Progress political blogger

Bob Marshall said fellow GOP U.S. Senate candidate Jim Gilmore is trying to tally ignore him and pretend he’s won the nomination

“I am the space alien in this race to him,” Marshall said. “I will walk in a room and he will not even look at me.”

“He doesn’t want to admit he’s got an opponent,” said the veteran delegate campaigning as a populist.

“Gilmore and Warner are both part of the establishment,” Marshall said between bites of the bony shad served Wednesday afternoon by the Wakefield Ruritan Club. “I am the anti-establishment guy.”

Marshall said he is being supported for the GOP nomination by “Right-to-lifers, home schoolers, anti-tax people, libertarians and people who are mad at Gilmore.”

Asked which of those five groups of Republicans is the largest, Marshall laughed and declined to respond “on the record,” indicating that each is sizeable but the last group might be biggest.

Dick Leggitt, a longtime Gilmore aide, insisted that the Marshall-Gilmore nomination contest “is over,” saying Gilmore employs consultants who can count the already elected and committed delegates to the May 30-31 Richmond convention.

“We call them and talk to them. We count them,” Leggitt said. “Bob Marshall is a good candidate and we hope he’ll be supporting us in the fall.”

Posted by Bob Gibson @ 08:36 PM ·
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This contest isn’t over.

Bob Marshall has huge appeal in the largest segments of the population who can be counted on to vote in the general election.

If the good ol’ boy network pushes Gilmore as our candidate, we will surely lose in November.

If Republicans get smart and look at the broad appeal that Bob Marshall has among voters who don’t buy into that vacuous happy talk peddled by Mark Warner, there is a good possibility that Bob Marshall will be our next U.S. Senator.

Gilmore=Bush
Bush is hated by the People.
The People will not support Gilmore, or any Neocon clone.
Warner=Obama and Billary empty promises.
Bob Marshall is the ONLY candidate who has pledged to return us to Constitution and who has a positive, upbeat plan to get our nation back on the path to prosperity.

The more the citizens learn about Bob Marshall, the more he becomes the most desired candidate.

Gilmore doesn’t even like people and it shows.

Warner can buy a lot of signs and pay tons of workers to put them in the ground, but like so many before him, Warner is going to learn that yard signs don’t vote.

By the way, which of you “reporters” is going to blow open the story about how much of Mark Warner’s big money is invested offshore? During the last campaign, nearly all of his investments, save a few county bonds, were in offshore assets. For someone who has so much supposed interest in the welfare of Virginians, Mark Warner sure hasn’t invested much in Virginia businesses.

on 04/17 at 10:24 PM

Bob Marshall isn\\\’t the conservative he claims to be.  He sponsored HB 350 ( http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?001+ful+HB350 )
and HB 351 ( http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?001+ful+HB351 ), which clearly infringed on the right to bear arms.

He was a gun grabber in 2000 and now he suddenly is pro-gun because he wants to be a US Senator.

on 04/18 at 03:51 PM
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