Owens needs reality check for Senate run [CO]

Denver Post ^ | 03/04/04 | Jim Spencer

[BlackRazor]

Here we go - they're already gunning for Owens.

[Coop]

I wonder if this author would have written a similar column about Bill Clinton before his Presidential run or The Shrew before her Senatorial campaign?

[JohnnyZ]

Here's hoping you don't run

Clearly the point of the columnist. I don't want an evil conservative in the senate, and I know you'd win if you ran, so you better not run, and if you do, I'll attack the hell out of you, particularly your family.

[11th Earl of Mar]

Most recently, Owens declared his support for Colorado Rep. Marilyn Musgrave as she tries to amend the United States Constitution to ban gay marriage.

And John Kerry, who is divorced, supports amending Massachusetts' Constitution to ban gay marriage.

Double standard.

[concerned about politics]

I wonder if this author would have written a similar column about Bill Clinton

LOL. I was thinking the same thing.
The party of skank -- the teen pro-aborts, pro-child sex, pro-homo, pro-NOW hags people are trying to take a higher moral ground? Po-leese!

A left wing homosexual being interviewed about homosexual marriage on FOX actually claimed heterosexual polygamy and incest are immoral and illegal!!! No joke! He thought he was more moral then them, and had a right to marry where they didn't! No kidding!

The left wingers are going totally insane. They've seriously gone over the edge. They've fallen head first in the lake of hells fire. Cuckoo! Cuckoo!

[KellyAdmirer]

Owen's situation has been well known for a long, long time, even before it became "official." It's really pretty irrelevant and hasn't hurt him politically. This is just another liberal making his case for going negative before he does it - in fact, this itself is going negative. Of course, nobody could question the Clintons' marriage, oh my no, that would be "prying" and "invading their bedroom." But when it is a Republican, liberals have no problem doing that at all.

This notion that having certain standards and not meeting them personally disqualifies you for public office, well, if we were not permitted to aim high despite our personal faults and limitations, we'd all still be living in caves.

[TheBigB]

Kerry supports a "trading up" amendment to the Constitution. If you can find a richer heiress to marry, you're allowed to discard your old one at no penalty.

[EllaMinnow]

A little off-topic, but something is bugging me...

Why are the media saying that Campbell's prostate cancer treatment is a reason for senate retirement, yet never bring up Kerry's prostate cancer?

[concerned about politics]

Kerry supports a "trading up" amendment to the Constitution. If you can find a richer heiress to marry, you're allowed to discard your old one at no penalty.

Being a skanky gigolo is more moral than a man with a disagreement - to loonie lefties, anyway.

[HostileTerritory]

Because Campbell explicitly cited his health as a reason for his retirement, but lots of politicians have had prostate cancer and continued their careers with no problem. Campbell also had other reasons for retiring and "health" is just one factor that plays particularly well.

[Cai Della]

Jim Spencer is fairly new at The Post and is a typical bleeder to the extreme. I ignore him.

[EllaMinnow]

I'm sure you're right, and you're very reasonable about it.

I'm just peeved because Kerry is being given a free pass on his health, even though he looks like a cadaver.

[coloradomom]

What about Owens' situation has been known for a long, long time?

[Owen]

GOTV in November. What are you doing to volunteer in Colorado to G O T V. Drive vans to veteran's hospitals. Man the phone banks and call homes of conservatives and if there is a housewife there with no car during the days, offer her a ride to the polls. How do you get those phone numbers? Volunteer with the campaign.

G O T V. Nothing else matters.

[jmaroneps37]

ratmedia droppings.

[zebrahead]

I couldn't have said it better Johnny. This is nothing more than a veiled threat targeted at Owens as he makes up his mind to discourage him from running. This guy shouldn't be allowed to mention the word hypocrisy.

[HostileTerritory]

Yeah, Kerry's been given a free pass on LOTS of things... but I think that's going to end soon now that the 'RATS have ended their primaries.

[EllaMinnow]

I think/hope/pray that you're right.

[BluSky]

For those not in the area . . . 'The Denver Post' is very liberal. (Shocking!)

No surprise that the day Sen Nighthorse Campbell announces his retirement, the libs are trying to shape public opinion about any Republican candidates that would dare think of running for his senate seat. That's what they do. They can't help it. It's their job.

Typical Denver Post liberalism here. No more no less.

Governer Bill Owens would be a great Senator from the State of Colorado.

[Howlin]

It's really pretty irrelevant and hasn't hurt him politically. This is just another liberal making his case for going negative before he does it

We really need to coin a term for that, since they're doing it all over the country, i.e., Kerry saying he will stand up to the "Bush attack machine" before anybody has said one word about him.

It's like false bravado -- along the lines of a preemptive strike, IMO.