Seventy percent of young college students are against abortion according to UCLA Berkeley survey. The generation rising is far more conservative than there parents or grandparents.

Prolife has become the more popular stance, not just in the Republican party. Many Democrats are joining prolife Democrats and putting them up against prolife Republicans in races nationwide. Democrats are waking up. Abortion is a lost cause for them.

Survey after survey show that women who are for abortion are far less adamant in their position than prolife women who make it a core issue. After all if you re not for that intial right to life outside the womb then no other rights have a standing, not human rights, not civil rights, women’s rights.

As for the Marshall marriage amendment, it passed overwhelmingly in Virginia by both Republicans and Democrats. Not everyone is excited about men marrying men, women marrying women and transvestites marrying whatever they want to marry. Let them cohabitate. Marriage was instituted as a religious concept and has become the bedrock of society. Don’t mess with marriage is what Virginians said. Folks may appear liberal, but in the voting box they vote for marriage to remain between a man and a woman. Most people still have some marbles.

Both Gilmore and Warner are wishy-washy. Let Marshall debate Warner, and Warner will crumble. If you do not recognize this, it is clear that you have not heard Marshall nor Warner speak. Marshall has superior oratory skills. Warner is inarticulate unless he can rely on something to read.

Having worked in the U.S. Senate, I can tell you that Gilmore and Warner would behave like freshman and get nothing done. They have no experience in a legislative branch.

Marshall’s 16 years of applying his knowledge of parliamentary procedure and getting legislation through the trenches and onto the floor for a vote will enable him to jump in ON DAY ONE and work like a seasoned U.S. Senator.

See ya Jim now beat it. VOTE BOB MARSHALL!! Go Bob!

We’ll all be holding onto our wallets if Gov. Mark Warner gets in and helps continues his already proven Democratic Party Value of raising taxes every chance he gets!

This is a guy who promised not to raise taxes. This is the same Gov. Warner who promised to phase out the car tax in his first or second year of his Administration.

Thanks, Potts, Chichester, et al. You made Gov. Mark Warner a star….

Those types of GOPers want to spend that $950M, and even more.

Before I figured Del Marshall was in this to move Gov. Gilmore to the right on Abortion, and build some name recognition. Now I am starting to be convinced of Turn PW Blue’s observation that Marshall is really so inflexible that he would rather ’slash and burn’ Gov. Gilmore on one issue, because he sees it as a way to make him look better.

What kills me is the bloggers who have gone to McCain immediately after they saw he had Super Tuesday wrapped up, and criticized any other bloggers who didn’t as trying to wreck the GOP Nominee. The Anti-McCain guys got three and even four major positions that they disagree with him on. I would imagine the owner of this blog has serious problems with McCains immigration bill.

The Marshall guys have one issue, Pro-Life, and that is really blunted by the fact that Gov. Gilmore pursued a Pro-Life Agenda the entire time he was AG and Gov. Twenty Four hour waiting period for abortions, if Gilmore were pandering to the Abortionists, why did he sign it into law?

Why would he help Shepard thru Gov. Allen’s Notification Laws (he was AG at the time) if he wanted to pander to the abortionists. Why would he push for Abstinence programs and insist that they be funded, along with increasing funding for adoptions? Outlawed embrionic research in VA. All Pro-Life accomplishments as Governor. Not positions, he signed them into legislation.

This smacks of Grandstanding, not debate. Especially with the comments Marshall had for our AG and LG.

NO one, I mean NO one is excited about Gilmore running. Even many of his supporters are going backing him as a personal favor. I think if a Congressman like Cantor and Goodlatte or even Drake entered the race at this point they would blow Gilmore out of the water. Heck, I even think Allen would crush Gilmore at this point. In the end, I think Marshall is somewhat of a protest candidate for both moderates and conservatives ticked off that Gilmore is even in the race. Other than a handful of hard core Gilmorites NO one is going to race a finger grassroots wise for this candidate if he wins the nomination. I think all the grassroots will help their congressional candidates since all have token opposition and will join the national campaign to help McCain leaving Gilmore high and dry.

Marshall would get help from the grassroots he is seen as a genuine and authentic candidate who sticks to his principles regardless of their popularity in addition he is just not Gilmore.

It’s somewhat telling that Marshall’s co-sponsor of the Marriage Amendment has even left Marshall’s camp and endorsed Gilmore.

But, hey, if the GOP wants to nominate someone who is divisive within his own party, an ineffective legislator (less then 10% of Marshall’s bills pass even when the GA was Republican-controlled), and a man so set in his principles that consensus and compromise are impossible, I say go for it. I’ll be happy to welcome Senator Mark Warner to his new job.

Marshall screams, You Guys aren’t really Pro-Life Like I am! Look at Me! I’m Holier than thou, I am Pure, and you’ll pay for your insolence!

Gov. Gilmore’s campaign is defending the LG and AG from an attack by their Fellow Republican; Delegate ‘I want your endorsements, or I’ll stomp my feet and condemn you as a heretic’ Marshall.

That is a more accurate description of reality in my opinion.

Thats why I thought it was just stupid for Gilmore to highlight his own record on the life issue. I am assuming his PR person must be an amateur. Why emphasize your weak areas???? You are EITHER Pro-life or Pro-death, to me there is NO inbetween. Whats the difference between taking a life of an unborn child at an early stage and a late stage? Both lives are created by God and equally important in His eyes. Gilmore is certainly NO champion of the unborn if he is NOT opposed to early term abortion.

If Gilmore keeps highlighting his abortion stance, he is toast in a convention setting were probably 85% of all attendees will be stanchly pro-life.

Gilmore’s people need to quit acting like schoolchildren and defend Gilmore’s positive points like his background in homeland security, law enforcement and executive leadership NOT play games like their poorly written press release.

Gilmore has no one to blame but himself. He is the one who has been parading around his circle of Republican friends i.e. Bill Bolling and Bob McDonnell, touting his line about being an “advocate for the sanctity of life,” which clearly he is not.

Gilmore’s attack is going to backfire; it’s putting the spotlight on Marshall. And Marshall is looking awfully good. Marshall not only looks like a U.S. Senator, and sounds like a Senator, he has mastered the legislative process, something neither Gilmore nor Warner has ever done, and Marshall has one heck of an impressive track record.

I think fear has precipitated Gilmore’s attack on Marshall. The support Gilmore did have among rank and file Republicans is rapidly eroding, and even more rapidly since Marshall’s recent victory on the steps of the Virginia Supreme Court. It was plastered all over the front of most Virginia newspapers several weeks ago. Marshall had challenged the 2007 law that gave authority to unelected transportation boards to tax the public. Marshall also said that citizens should be treated as bottomless ATM machines. The Supreme Court agreed with Marshall, only elected bodies can levy taxes.

All along, Gilmore thought he was a shoe-in for the Republican nomination–it looks like he now has good reason to be nervous. Many believe that Marshall has a much better chance of beating Warner in November. Marshall and his supporters have begun enumerating all of his victories against Warner, demonstrating Marshall is the more formidable candidate. The record shows that Marshall is the only legislator who has twice overrode Mark Warner–and with overwhelming support from the General Assembly.

Marshall reminds voters that Warner took $317 million from the Transportation Trust fund for non-road expenses. Marshall was so infuriated that he wrote the Transportation Lock Box Constitutional Amendment to ban such raids on the transportation fund, and received unanimous support in the House, 96-0.

Marshall helps voters recall Warner’s promise to never increase taxes, but within two years of his term, he increased taxes $1.5 Billion (and not one cent went for transportation). Marshall has made the same promise. In 16 years, Marshall has never supported a tax increase.

Something everyone knows, particularly his Republican colleagues in the House, Marshall is loyal to only one group: his constituents. That makes the Republican leaders mad. One of their pet projects was the Abusive Driver Fees of 2007. Marshall voted no three times, when almost everyone else voted in favor of it. Bob Marshall has a pulse on what Virginians want. The more Gilmore attacks him, the better because the more voters hear about Marshall the more they like him.

As an independent voter, it is clear to me why Gilmore has the jitters. Not only is Marshall has a very good chance of winning the Republican nomination, he has an excellent chance of beating Warner in November.

I’m a former Democrat turned Independent and often votes Republican because I am for life.

Kathleen “Kit” Katz

Words of “wisdom” from the political “expert.”

You’re deliberately taking his comments out of context to satisfy your gutter instincts.