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An observation. We crucify Lisa Murkowski [rightly] for her write in campaign against Joe Miller. We castigate the idiot in Delaware for refusing to support O’Donnell after she whupped him in the primary. Yet Tancredo gets a pass when those supporting him likely would have gone to the GOP nominee. Anything wrong with this picture?

The governor’s race on the GOP side is a case study in ineptitude. Of the two front runners one was found to have engaged in plagarism on a report he did years ago for a private foundation and for which he was paid a great deal of money. And the other squeezed thru to the nomination without anyone bothering to vet his record until it was too late. There were efforts to get Maes to drop out but he refused so Tancredo came in on the 3rd party ticket to try and give us a viable choice against the rat, Hickenlooper. At first it looked like this would just split the vote and ensure the rat a win but now it looks like the voters are breaking heavily to Tancredo and he has a shot.

The situation here is not at all like that in other contests. I hope the Tea Parties take note and come to understand that they MUST vet the people who are running.

I noticed that, too, the first time I heard about Tancredo's running as a third party candidate. I wondered why he was getting so much more of the vote than the GOP nominee, when that almost never happens with a third party run. Normally, I would say that it is the duty of the party and conservatives to support the nominee. It is also bad form to seek the nomination, lose, and then run as a third party. I don't think Tancredo was running for the GOP nomination and lost, though. From what I understand, he decided to run because the nominee was so bad. If so, that is different than what Murkowski is doing.

Perhaps someone from Colorado can explain why it the GOP nominee deserves to be defeated after winning the primary. There have been times in the past where I did not support the primary winner--for example, Arlen Specter's last run. Perhaps this was one of those occasions. I don't know, but I do know Tancredo is conservative and that amnesty is one of our biggest issues in the next few years.