Thank You, Mark Warner…

As D.J. McGuire has pointed out, former Gov. Marky Mark has managed to unify Republicans against him just one day after a contentious convention where former Gov. Jim Gilmore emerged as the party’s nominee.  How?  By trotting out the RINO most despised by Republican activists of all stripes, former state Sen. John Chi-ching-e$ter, the top so-called “Republican” member of his Flunky Bunch, to appear in a TV commercial on his behalf.

D.J. explains it all pretty succinctly:

On every tax issue going back to 2001, John Chichester has been on the wrong side.  He tried to put the brakes on the fourth year of the car tax reduction; Jim Gilmore refused to buckle (more on that in the next post).  He demanded a tax increase in 2004 that was twice as big as Mark Warner’s.  He called for higher taxes in 2006; the House of Delegates blocked him.  He refused to back HB3202 last year because it didn’t raise taxes high enough or broadly enough for his tastes.

Of all the Republicans Mark Warner could have chosen for this ad, he picks this guy?

Outside of accidentally uniting his opposition, Warner’s ad tells us something else very important: this guy is not as smart as we all thought.

I’ve never thought Marky Mark was very smart. Lucky? Yes. Smart? No. Ever since I met the man in person before the George Washington birthday parade in Alexandria back in 2001, I could tell that this guy wasn’t the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree. You can just tell by looking into someone’s eyes whether there is a spark of intelligence there, that something is going on inside their brain. Marky Mark? Nope. No one home there at all. (By the way, there is still time to vote in our poll on whether you think that Marky Mark is a liar or a moron.)