Posted on 08/29/2006 11:21:35 AM PDT by AntiGuv
ping!
He's already said he won't run as a write-in.
Can you supply us with a date?
Oh, oops! You're right. I did not find the news when I searched before.
A very short-lived news arc! :)
Doug Lamborn was my State Senator and I liked him. He voted against intrusive laws pushed by the Federal Gov't such as primary seatbelt enforcement and when I talked to him, was very down to earth. I thnk he would be a breath of fresh air especailly against the Neo-Cons that have taken overCOngress especially the House.
Just out of curiousity, just what has Lamborn done to generate such opposition among the GOP? Or is this simply another case of the RINOs trying to undercut the conservatives?
"Hefley, 71, "thinks it's better for the party not to run," Walberg said. She said he was adamant when she spoke to him Tuesday.
"He said, 'No, no,"' she said. "He is of course flattered by the support."
Hefley was at a funeral and could not be reached immediately."
A couple of weeks before the primary, the Christian Coalition of Colorado sent out a direct mail piece claiming that Lamborn's main opponent, Jeff Crank, was a mouthpiece for the homosexual lobby. Several of Lamborn's staff resigned over these mailings and the national brank of the CC apologized and decried the ads. Coincidentally, the head of the Colorado branch of the Christian Coalition is the brother of Lamborn's campaign manager. Odd coincidence that.
The ads drew a lot of backlash against Lamborn and since these mailings came out after the absentee ballots were sent in, many feel that Lamborn would have lost if the voters had seen the ads earlier.
As for the "RINO" tag, Crank had the endorsement of outgoing representative Joel Hefley and Tom Tancredo, so that as you will.
(BTW: In interest of full disclosure, I live outside this district, so I don't have a dog in this fight.)
Sigh. So *take* that as you will.
I agree. It was just wishful thinking. The voters made their choice in the primary. They chose the most conservative and socially conservative candidate.
Time to make the sour grapes into wine.
Much ado about nothing. But Lamborn did tick off a lot of people with his negative ads.
Oh Rothenberg said 15-20, not 25. My bad That is a pretty good match to his list, if maybe slightly high.
There are some big, big differences (in order of most reliable to least) between Cook and Rothenburg, Chuck Todd, CQ, Novak, and the mydd list. I am not surprised by Drake where she is, since Cook has her in same place. And Cook pulled trigger to put her in tossup column fairly early, before NY-24 as I recall (and for that matter he still has OH-15 and PA-07 as leaning R which may be right, but gives you a sense of why I take it serious when he pulled trigger on Dtake that there was a real race).
My other thoughts. Why is OH-18 in the tossup column instead of Leaning R? I don't know what to think about IN-02, but I don't think it is one of our top 7 threats to lose a seat. Same with IN-08. By same token I was somewhat surprised that PA-06 was not in his top 7 in terms of GOP vulnerability (on other hand evidently the last poll there released some time ago has us down 1 and it was a D poll). I am surprised CT-04 is not in his list of 17 most vulnerable GOP seats. And I am surprised NY-24 is not on list of 24 most vulnerable GOP seats.
Lamborn's done some good things. His problem is that he's got a big mouth, and has trouble knowing when not to use it. As a result he often makes himself the issue, and that has caused problems in the past.
El Paso county is literally the most Republican county in the nation. One of the ways it stays that way is by having a happy record of elected (and able) Republicans who don't make the party look bad. The fear is that Lamborn will do just that -- and his rather ugly primary campaign simply reinforces the point.
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