Jim Gilmore will run for president; formal announcement to come 1st week of Aug.

[Mr. Morden]

http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/article_30b836ff-1768-5bcb-9681-f942acfb711f.html

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[Mr. Morden]

will the polling outfits start including him? I dont see why not, he is no less viable than Pataki and they are all including him now, even PPP.

Maybe once he makes his "formal announcement".  So far, this isn't getting much media play.

At some point you have to draw a line in the sand against including exceedingly irrelevant candidates in polls, no?  I mean, Buddy Roemer wasn't included in that many polls, IIRC.

[Mr. Morden]

Larry Sabato tweets:

https://twitter.com/LarrySabato/status/618568209776672769

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[Mr. Morden]

Gilmore must know he won't get anywhere.  What's in this for him?

You could ask him the same thing in 2007.  Just like you could have asked Duncan Hunter the same question.  Or Tommy Thompson.  Or Chris Dodd.

Many of the "third tier" candidates in presidential races are "message" candidates who know they can't win, but want to promote their pet issues.  But then you have people like Gilmore and Pataki, who are just offering the usual party orthodoxy already being advocated by a dozen other candidates.  I've never understodd why such people run.

[Mr. Morden]

Anyone heard from Bob Ehrlich lately? 

A few days ago, he posted this on Facebook about Obama being "the most anti-Israel president in my lifetime":

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10153463300499044&id=12251529043

I think we should start spamming his Facebook page with the question "When are you going to announce your candidacy?"  Maybe that'll prompt him to answer.

[Mr. Morden]

Who the hell is that? *Checks Wikipedia*

The man who popularized the phrase "Rudy McRomney":

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/18/AR2007051801800.html