Broad Strokes Of Nothing

By Kleinheider Posted on January 9, 2009 at 11:21 am

Jeff Woods on Big Shelby’s Republican candidate for governor in Nashville:

“It’s easy for us to engage in a lot of vague rhetoric but I think voters deserve to know specifically what we’d do if we’re elected governor,” he declared.

Gibbons must have talked for close to 10 minutes, giving variants of the above sentence. When he finished, your correspondent tried to liven things up a little by inviting Gibbons to attack Haslam for his essentially clueless performance before Nashville’s media earlier in the week. (For instance, Haslam didn’t know what he thinks about the Republican anti-abortion amendment that’s only probably the GOP’s No. 1 priority in the legislature this year.) But Gibbons wouldn’t bite. He wouldn’t criticize Haslam for belonging to Michael Bloomberg’s gun control group, either. Guess Gibbons was afraid he’d step on his message for the day, such as it was. We’re thinking he’s not going to get too many more chances to make news.

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