Jim Gilmore: Truly Fallacious May 1, 2008
Posted by justingerman in Virginia Politics.Tags: 2008 US Senate Elections, Jim Gilmore, Mark Warner, Virginia Politics
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Without getting into a discussion of the car tax and Jim Gilmore’s term as governor lets, just examine the logic of his statement about Warner and taxes. Gilmore essentially says that Warner successfully runs for office by saying he is going to do one thing, but then doing another once he is finally elected. This argument is a hypothetical syllogism represented as if p->q and consequently if ~q -> ~P. So in the second part Gilmore argues if Warner says he’s going to raise taxes, then he is probably going to raise taxes a lot. I guess this would be represented as p->~q or p-> even more p as pertaining to his first argument. Either way I say Jim Gilmore, you sir are an arguer of fallacious things and not fit to be in the United States Senate!
Also, it’s probably arguements like this that have caused Gilmore to be running just about 2000 percent behind Warner in cash on hand.
I think the funniest part of this video was Jim Gilmore saying, with a straight face, “When I’m elected to the United States Senate…” Of the many Virginia Republicans with an ice cube’s chance in hell of winning against Mark Warner, Jim Gilmore has got to have maybe the worst chance.
I also enjoy the part where he claims that undoing the Bush tax cuts will mean “dramatic tax increases” for the people of Virginia. No, what it will mean is that the top 1% of tax-payers will have to pay more, whereas most everyone else’s taxes will not change because the Bush tax-cuts only significantly cut into the taxes of people making over $1 million. Middle income tax rates actually have gone up since the cuts! Oh, how I hate the Republican mythology-machine they call campaigning.