The Republican nomination for US Senate in Virginia

From the Washington Times:

A sharply split Virginia Republican Convention nominated former Gov. Jim Gilmore to run for the seat of retiring Republican Senator John Warner.

Mr. Gilmore won 50.3 percent of the delegate votes today over conservative Bob Marshall, the Virginia General Assembly's most ardent foe of abortion and gay marriage.

The slim margin - about 65 votes, less than a percentage point - leaves Mr. Gilmore to face popular, well-funded Democrat Mark Warner in the fall election in a state where the GOP lost the past two gubernatorial races and the 2006 Senate election.

Mr. Gilmore assailed Mr. Warner in his speech as a tax-prone "limousine liberal" who will say anything to get elected. He ignored Mr. Marshall in his remarks to the approximately 3,500 delegates.

"He will go to the Senate and vote with the liberal Democrats who are out of touch with the nation," Mr. Gilmore said. "Mark Warner doesn't care what you have to pay for a tank of gas."