Posted on 10/03/2008 7:57:23 PM PDT by Maelstorm
ROANOKE | Far behind in the polls and desperate for a break in his U.S. Senate campaign, Republican James S. Gilmore III denounced Friday's federal bailout of the financial industry during the race's final debate and relentlessly attacked Democrat Mark Warner for supporting it.
"It rewards people with $700 billion of taxpayer money and sends that money into the hands of Wall Street high rollers who in fact took risks and should not have taken those risks," Mr. Gilmore said during the debate, held at the Taubman Museum of Art.
Combative throughout the televised and hourlong confrontation, Mr. Gilmore, 58, put Mr. Warner, 53, on the defensive several times, frequently cutting into the Democrat's rebuttals. Mr. Warner explained that while he disliked the bill and the pork spending inserted into it, he would have voted for it to avert a failing credit market, millions of job losses and global economic catastrophe.
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Virginia is going blue. Too many transplants in NOVA.
I hope Gilmore wins: if what I have heard about the debate is correct: Standing up for Conservatism actually works..when tried.
Not if me and all of my dead relatives have anything to say about it!
I agree. The warning signs should have been Kaine and then Webb. Allen should have won decisively.
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