John Warner's retirement from the US Senate is effectively buried this weekend by the Tap-Three-Times saga, but it is kind of a big deal for the national GOP.His seat was pretty reliable (he is in his fifth term), but the Commonwealth of Virginia is anything but a guaranteed red state and the GOP is going to have to fight for it.
The knee jerk assumption is that either Tom Davis or Jim Gilmore should be the GOP nominee.
While they've both demonstrated varying degrees of competence on the national stage, this would be penny-wise, pound foolish.
I find myself in the company of Mark Levin over at National Review in believing that they should find someone a touch more dynamic...someone to make not just a dixie cup of lemonade out of this lemon, but a damned 60-ounce, Super Size Slurpee!
The beltway state has to be ripe with people who know the game and it might be time for the GOP to really think big and find someone to make a nationall rallying cry out of.
I'm not sure who that is yet, but I'll let you know....perhaps we can resurrect Alan Keyes? ;-)
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