Gilmore on Issues, November Election

By Jane

The Washington Times has the interview with Jim Gilmore here. Gilmore offers some criticism of Bush, particularly after Bush’s trip to the Middle East last week. Gilmore offers more tough talk than happy talk: “…his party is ’splintered’ both at the national level and in Virginia, and that Mr. Bush should have taken a more ‘decisive’ stand on cutting spending as a way of capturing the votes of working Americans.” However, he is confident that McCain can carry Virginia. In a statewide election, he says, “if you do offer a good program, a good policy, it is the Republican approach that is amenable to the people of Virginia, all the way from Northern Virginia to the southwest, to Hampton Roads.”