It’s Jim Gilmore!

Jim Gilmore

Posted January 2, 2024, 5:49 p.m.

Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore (R) ran for President of the United States in 2016. I thought that was funny.

Gilmore won his 1997 gubernatorial race by promising to get rid of Virginia’s car tax. That’s the one thing we asked him to do. He didn’t do it. I’m still paying that idiotic, useless tax every year, and I curse the name “Gilmore” each time I do. Other than that he was an okay governor, I guess.

His presidential campaign did not make any sense, and he generally polled well below 1%, but he lasted longer than most of the other bottom-tier candidates. Later in the campaign season, I amused myself by imagining absurd scenarios that would put Gilmore in the White House.

What if the Gilmore campaign never ended?

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Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

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The Church can, when necessary, change the laws it has itself made, but it cannot change the laws that Christ has made.

[The] minimum wage [is] one of the most, if not the most, antiblack laws on the statute books.

The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.

The law helps him who watches.

A free Press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that freemen prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny.

As a rule, we can’t always tell the difference between the people who are far smarter than us and the people who are dumber. Both groups make choices we can’t understand.

It has been observed by an honorable gentleman, that a pure democracy, if it were practicable, would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position in politics is more false than this.

No type of cruelty can tear down the religion established by the mystery of Christ’s cross. The Church is not diminished by persecutions, but rather increased.

You could compile . . . the worst book in the world entirely out of . . . passages from the best writers in the world.

Although you perform many works, if you do not deny your will and submit yourself, losing all solicitude about yourself and your affairs, you will not make progress.

The more you read and observe about this politics thing, you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Be not intimidated . . . nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

Likewise, our churches should not be afraid to challenge the moral decay that surrounds them today—even if the righteous stance is unpopular or ‘offensive’ in some (or even all) circles.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting that we have just had one.

Every man of power by the very fact of that power, is capable of doing damage to his neighbors; but we cannot afford to discourage the development of such men merely because it is possible they may use their power for wrong ends.

Artists must be contending with something they do not understand, or they are not artists.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

Congress shall make no law respecting . . . the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

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