Seem a little too cynical to me.

Here’s today’s AP story that confirms it:

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081004/ap_on_el_pr/felons_voting;_ylt=AuIex4Q.IBQu1kBbiiFOrJKs0NUE

Where are the emails to supporters to rally the troops? Where’s the blog outreach to get his point out there? Where’s a column to the RTD or the WaPo or any number of other papers in Virginia? Where’s a timely press release?

I fear this is too little too late.

I am strongly opposed to asking America’s hard working families to cover the bets of the Wall Street high rollers and insiders who exploited flaws in government regulations to make personal fortunes and devastate our economy,

Sounds like Gilmore here is taking the popular position of opposing the basic principle of the bailout, potentially a smart political move.

Requiring taxpayers to cough up $700 billion without providing them any additional assurances for their own financial security is wrong.

But this to me sounds like he’s OK with the idea of the bailout, just so long as there are some kind of taxpayer obligations. Which kinda was the argument the Dems made to push through the equity stake provisions in the bill.