As the Gilmore campaign launched yesterday, conservative bloggers such as Conservita noted that Gilmore's campaign was offering issue statements and forward-looking statements while Mark Warner's campaign seems to be more of a cult of personality around their candidate. Warner's campaign reinforced this theme in their petty statement regarding Gilmore's entry into the race for U.S. Senate, instead of offering any platforms or a forward-looking plan for the future they chose to regurgitate six-year old talking points that have been largely refuted.

Gov. Gilmore hit the nail on the head in a UPI article with his reaction to the Warner campaign:

Gilmore called that statement "a bit shrill."
Jim Gilmore was being more generous than some of Mark Warner's supporters when he called that statement "shrill." As of this writing there are only two comments on Mark Warner's campaign site in response to the statement, one of which reads:
On November 19th, 2007 at 06:42 PM, jereme wrote:

I believe both governors did a good job during their period of time as governor. I also thing to gloves should stay on to prevent the voters from being disgusted with the candidates. So please keep the snide comment to yourself Mr. Hall.
Snide comment, indeed.