The Gilmore blogs flail desperately

One can tell the nature of a campaign by how it’s supporters are behaving, and the race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate is no different.

While Marshall bloggers (such as Shaun Kenney) are seeing the continued strength of our candidate, the Gilmore side is full of denial and innuendo.  Truth be told, it saddens me to see this, since the bloggers in question (Mason Conservative, Spank That Donkey, and Spark It Up!) and I agree on the other major race in the GOP (we all support Frederick for Chairman).

First up, Chris Beer over at MC, who insists that Gilmore’s position on illegal immigration is not de facto amnesty.  He cites a Gilmore for President press release in opposition to the President’s deservedly-dead-and-buried “immigration reform” plan.  That’s hardly an indication of Gilmore’s view (John Podhoretz, who is far more open about his support for amnesty, also opposed the Bush plan).  In fact, Chris completely ignores Gilmore’s support for temporary work visas for illegals – if that’s not amnesty, I don’t know what is.

Chris Green (better known as Spank That Donkey) goes so far as to politicize Memorial Day in a desperate attempt to go after Marshall’s plan to move American troops from Germany to the border with Mexico.  Yet Chris refuses to acknowledge that Germany hasn’t been a front-line state in nearly a decade.

Finally, there’s Carl Kilo (Spark It Up!) who resorts to bring back the old “Love Canal” reference (with complete ignorance about the source of that metaphor), and when he’s not imitating the left in such a way, he’s spreading around rumors by Vince (TC) of Marshall-Warner collusion.  Greg L (Black Velvet Bruce Li) put it best in the comments to TC’s nonsense:

Ridiculous. Marshall despises Warner’s policies. Besides that, the Marshall folks believe they’re going to win the convention (with good reason), so there’s no point to trying to defeat a Gilmore candidacy that isn’t going to exist come Saturday evening.

Here we get to the crux of the problem.  Based on this barrage, I can only conclude that Gilmore is not just losing – he and his supporters know he’s losing.  Thus, it’s everything-but-the-kitchen-sink time.

Still, none of this upsets me (or any other Marshall backer).  After all, the general election campaign will be a rough-and-tumble affair, and it’s best we thicken the skin as soon as possible.  In fact, that’s the entire purpose of a vigorous nomination campaign; nice to see the Gilmore people are finally understanding that (well, sort of).

Cross-posted to the right-wing liberal