The Virginia Republican Party's personal monument to failure, former Governor Jim Gilmore, has not abandoned his unique talent for spewing idiocy. From the Daily Press' Kimball Payne:
Former Gov. Jim Gilmore is smacking around President Barack Obama and Democrats Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in a new fundraising letter that says "our greatest danger comes from what's happening in Washington, D.C."
Forget threats from terrorists, international oil cartels drug lords and rogue nations armed with nuclear weapons.
I know, right? Terrorists? Pshaw! Cancer? Hah! And don't get me started on this silly little swine flu!
From the letter:
Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and their liberal Democrat minions are determined to remake America into their vision of a European Socialist state. They have done more harm to our free enterprise system in four months than Franklin Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton combined.
Let's see...one guy who brought us out of the worst economic depression in U.S. history (and built up the national infrastructure to boot, and won a world war in his spare time). And one guy who created 23 million jobs in eight years as president.
Seems to me that anyone who does more for the U.S. economy in four months than those three cats did in 24 years ought to be submitting an application for Mount Rushmore.
But maybe we ought to take the word of a guy who was such a wildly successful governor that he lost a Senate bid last year by 31 points (and that was a model of perfect execution next to his risible presidential bid). Because let's face it, Jim Gilmore knows all about failure.