The patrician senator said he disagreed with Gilmore’s opposition to the economic rescue package signed by President Bush on Friday. Gilmore said in a debate Friday night that the measure rewards “Wall Street high rollers.”

John Warner said: “So much of our production is related to defense and high tech, and that’s got to have a market place. And this bill is out there to restore the actual credit flow — the credit flow, I repeat that. And that’s like a tourniquet on this economy right now — the absence of credit. And this bill — I’m not [saying] it’s a perfect bill; I think John McCain is dead on on that. But it’s the best we could do under the circumstances to zero in first, right on the credit.”