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Republican Ed Gillespie: A Reagan conservative tries to appeal and prevail in the age of Trump
Richmond Times-Dispatch ^ | 11/4/2017 | Patrick Wilson

Posted on 11/06/2017 9:03:06 AM PST by leaymane

When he was attending Catholic University of America, Ed Gillespie worked three jobs, one in a campus dining hall, one as a short-order cook and one parking cars at the U.S. Senate.

Through the job as a parking lot attendant, Gillespie learned of an internship opportunity that led to a job on Capitol Hill, and he has not stopped working in politics and public affairs since.

Gillespie, communications ace, former lobbyist and senior aide to President George W. Bush, will find out Tuesday if Virginia voters will send a Reagan conservative to the Virginia governor’s mansion in the era of Donald Trump.

Should Gillespie succeed, he would become the first Republican elected statewide in Virginia since Bob McDonnell led his party’s sweep of statewide offices in 2009. He would likely have a GOP-controlled legislature to pass a broad agenda of bills he could sign into law.

“Job creation, getting Virginia growing again, is central to my campaign,” Gillespie said in an interview Thursday. “I truly think we should be first in the country. ... I’ve been talking about this from day one.”

The race between Gillespie and Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam is considered close. Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by 5.3 percentage points in Virginia in November, but with lower turnout expected in this year’s governor’s race, Gillespie has given hope to Republicans.

This is Gillespie’s second run for statewide office in Virginia, after narrowly losing to U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., in a low turnout 2014 election.

(Excerpt) Read more at richmond.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: edgillespie; election; ronaldreagan; virginia
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Personally, I'm more enthusiastic about voting for him than Trump in 2016. Probably not the case with others!
1 posted on 11/06/2017 9:03:06 AM PST by leaymane
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Not a “Reagan Conservative”! This is a personal Karl Rove friend and fellow Never Trumper.


2 posted on 11/06/2017 9:05:00 AM PST by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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” Gillespie learned of an internship opportunity that led to a job on Capitol Hill, and he has not stopped working in politics and public affairs since. “

Wherein lies Gillespie and the Republicans’ problem.

Like Paul Ryan, and most of the people in the Swamp, they have never had real jobs working with real people. They have been in politics - only politics - since they left high school.


3 posted on 11/06/2017 9:06:15 AM PST by oldbill
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To: leaymane

Yea, depress the GOP voters by saying he isn’t a Trump Republican!


4 posted on 11/06/2017 9:06:27 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: leaymane

Gillespie is a Cheap Labor Express Bush Republican, nothing like a Reagan Republican.


5 posted on 11/06/2017 9:06:39 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Reno89519

A Bush kinder/gentler one.


6 posted on 11/06/2017 9:06:46 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I would imagine that people in Northern Virginia will again make the final decision for governor.


7 posted on 11/06/2017 9:08:34 AM PST by Theodore R. (Let's not squander the golden opportunity of 2017.)
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To: fortheDeclaration

Great...get him elected. However , those whose only job has been as a pol or involved with pols tend to be jerks.


8 posted on 11/06/2017 9:09:27 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: leaymane

I will reluctantly hold my nose and vote for the cheap labor importing, amnesty loving, anti-rule of law SOB, but I won’t be enthusiastic about it.


9 posted on 11/06/2017 9:09:39 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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Ed is no Reagan. Ed is from the Bush mold.
His is a long time Bushite.


10 posted on 11/06/2017 9:11:01 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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>>former lobbyist and senior aide to President George W. Bush,

Hmm. Anybody seen which way the Shrubbery cart headed?

Doesn't look like it'll be coming back anytime soon.

Maybe Ed would be better off calling Uber... or something.

MORE MAGA! TRUMP2020.

11 posted on 11/06/2017 9:11:18 AM PST by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: leaymane

I heard Gillespie on Laura Ingrams show. A never Trumper two faced double talking weasel.


12 posted on 11/06/2017 9:11:23 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: leaymane

Yet in 1980, the Media Party thought Reagan was a yahoo movie star who had no business being President. Really makes the Media Party’s remarks today about Reagan look very disingenuous, doesn’t it?


13 posted on 11/06/2017 9:13:27 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Lol. The only president to pass amnesty in 60 years. We’re you being sarcastic. Reagan was excellent. On immigration he was awful.


14 posted on 11/06/2017 9:14:49 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: leaymane

He’s NOT a Reagan Conservative. He’s a Bush New World Order minion.


15 posted on 11/06/2017 9:15:07 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Beer! Because you can't drink bacon!)
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Gillespie, communications ace, former lobbyist and senior aide to President George W. Bush, will find out Tuesday if Virginia voters will send a Reagan conservative to the Virginia governor’s mansion in the era of Donald Trump.

How does someone who worked for that @sshole George W. Bush qualify as a "Reagan conservative?" LOL.

I would vote for Gillespie in a heartbeat tomorrow if I lived in Virginia, but he'd never be my first choice in a GOP primary for any office above the county level.

16 posted on 11/06/2017 9:15:40 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: leaymane

Virginia voters......all!!! Turnout, massively, Tomorrow, Election Day, Tuesday, November 7, 2017, and cast your vote for Republican Ed Gillespie to become the next Governor of the great Commonwealth and State of Virginia,

Here is three solid, good reasons to do so. First Ed Gillespie becomes your Governor, tomorrow evening, Second, Corey Stewart is aligned to become the next Virginia, U.S. Senator next year as he totally wipes out, useless, Clintonite, Democrat, Tim Kaine in the Mid-term election of 2018, and, finally, third, the victory by Gillespie, delivers an almost fatal political blow to the entire “National” Democrat Party!!! D0 it!!!

TURNOUT, TURNOUT, TURNOUT!!! MAGA......Elect, Ed Gillespie, Governor of Virginia. Go, Gillespie, go POTUS, Donald J. Trump.


17 posted on 11/06/2017 9:17:03 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Seruzawa

But does it matter when the only other real choice is a Democrat?


18 posted on 11/06/2017 9:17:13 AM PST by leaymane
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To: leaymane
I'm more enthusiastic about voting for him than Trump in 2016.

Oh?

BTW, welcome to FR.

19 posted on 11/06/2017 9:18:28 AM PST by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: oldbill
Like Paul Ryan, and most of the people in the Swamp, they have never had real jobs working with real people. They have been in politics - only politics - since they left high school.

Exactly. Gillespie's a Cheap Labor Express Swamp Creature from the top of his hair to the tip of his $400 shoes.

20 posted on 11/06/2017 9:19:42 AM PST by COBOL2Java (John McCain treats GOP voters like he treated his first wife)
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