Mark Warner - Believe it or not

Jim Hoeft at Bearing Drift points to a news story at NV Daily.com which quotes U.S. Senate candidate Mark Warner regretting comments made 14 years ago:

"Next weekend, you're going to see a coalition that has just about completely taken over the Republican Party in this state," Warner says in the recording.

"And if they have their way, will take over state government, made up of the Christian Coalition, made up of right-to-lifers," he said. "But it's not just the right-to-lifers, it's made up of the NRA ... it's made up of the home-schoolers."

"It's made up of a whole coalition of people that have all sorts of different views, that I think most of us in this room would find threatening to them and what it means to be an American,

Warner now says that once in office he acted differently than his comments would have suggested. Put differently, he makes the argument that his positions running for office were not the positions he would hold in office. This may or may not be true, but it does suggest that voters should not believe the positions he stakes out in his current campaign for the U.S. Senate seat he is contesting against former Governor Jim Gilmore.

Don't want to vote for a candidate that admits his campaign positions are not predictors of his positions once in office? There is a better choice. I urge my fellow Virginians to consider, and vote for Jim Gilmore for U.S. Senate.