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If you missed the Greenbrier Debate this weekend, it sounded a lot like this:

Warner had his silver bullet.  Gillespie shrugged it off like Superman.  PLINK!

That little clip, courtesy of Justin Higgins over at JHPolitics, was perhaps the 3rd most memorable moment of the debate, where Mark Warner’s myth of invincibility was crumpled into a tiny little ball of hurt feelings this weekend.

Warner was asked point blank what memorable pieces of legislation he had passed.  The answer?  Two.  Two pieces so un-memorable that 30 seconds after Warner enfeebled himself with a response, I had a hard time recalling precisely what the bills were resolving.

…and in what had to be the most painful closing statement in the history of Virginia politics, Warner concluded:

“I don’t pass bills, but I make phone calls on other things.”

Pause.

Quick poll: if your employer asked you what you did today, would you respond “Well, I didn’t exactly do any work… but I made phone calls on other things!” — how long do you think you’d be gainfully employed?

Of course, the best line of the debate goes to Ed Gillespie himself, who remained positive and poised throughout 90 minute debate as Warner meandered between Enron, being a political wonk (and wasn’t Warner a former DPVA chairman?), cutting the U.S. Navy to the bone, and of course the “war on women” line of attack:

“Governor Warner would not recognize Senator Warner today.” 

Ouch.

…and worse for Warner, it stuck.

Prognosticators will reflect that perhaps 500 die hard politicos watched this debate and might influence another 50,000 folks with their opinions thereof.  Fair enough… but if politics is a game of “influencing the influencers” and the reaction of the Twitterverse and blogosphere is any indication, Warner’s carefully crafted mirage of invincibility was undeniably shattered in what had to be the worst hour and a half of his political career.

Warner’s re-elects hover at 50%, polls showing Gillespie back by 20pts early on are now dramatically (and more realistically) narrowing to just 10pts before the campaign has kicked off.  Gillespie has raised over $4.1 million in just five short months while Warner struggles to hold on with less than $9 mil in the bank after six years of preparation.

Better still for Republicans, Gillespie proved this weekend that Warner isn’t just beatable, but that Warner 97% voting record with Barack Obama is every bit the radical and none of the centrist — and completely out of touch with Virginia’s values.

Game on, Virginia.

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