While this sounds like a bad joke on Republicans, it really does appear that former Gov. Gilmore is contemplating another run for Governor in 2009. No, really:
For weeks, the biggest rumor in Virginia conservative circles was that former Gov. James S. Gilmore III, R-Henrico County, hungers for another statewide bid for public office...Gilmore acknowledged his hunger last week and said that recent Republican gubernatorial nominee Jerry W. Kilgore wasn?t willing enough to blast Gov. Mark R. Warner?s record $1.4 billion tax increase last year.
Gilmore has his eye on the mansion again in a 2009 bid to return to public life if U.S. Sen. John W. Warner, R-Alexandria, doesn?t decide to retire and create an open-seat Senate race first in 2008.
I guess a legacy of destroying the Commonwealth's budget and becoming an albatross around the neck of Virginia's GOP is not enough for him.