Posted on 01/15/2007 11:04:43 AM PST by Rawlings
WASHINGTON — Sen. Wayne Allard said today he will honor his term-limits pledge and leave at the end of 2008, creating a replacement fight that should turn Colorado into one of the country’s biggest electoral battlegrounds. "I just didn't think I could back away from the (term limits) commitment."
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I pray that Schaffer runs. I'm told that the national party is pulling for him and the Colorado grassroots is working behind the scenes for Schaffer.
He is certainly the most conservative of the bunch. He'll be facing Latte Mark Udall of Boulder--one of the more liberal Colorado democrats. It should be an interesting test of Colorado's conservative character.
Go Bob Go!!!
And if Udall wins, it will pretty much cement Colorado as hopeless. This is the biggest puzzlement to me -- historically conservative western states creeping inexorably toward liberalism.
Its official. Allard is not running again.
Schaffer and McInnis are the best of the potential Republicans.
The libs are moving out of the Left Coast cities in search of affordable housing.
Dang. He's one of the best conservatives in the Senate.
Either Tom Tancredo or Bob Schaffer will work. Scott McInnis is pro-choice and that will hurt his chances with the states large contingent of social conservatives. Wayne Allard is a good man. Met him several times and he was always a gentleman. Solid conservative voting record. The US Senate will be losing one of its most conservative voices.
Yeah. After they ruined California, they figure that the state is no longer livable, and move on to destroy some other state. They're like locust.
colorado seems to be trending blue. any co freepers out there confident to say the seat will stay in republican hands?
Tancredo would lose the general election in a landslide - his "miami is a 3rd world country" remark has finished him.
Didn't Allard just squeak by in his last election? Or was it the polls that said he was going to squeak by, and yet he won comfortably?
Bob Schaffer would win this seat. Latte Mark is a true liberal from the most liberal part of our state. I just can't see how a liberal wins this state in any way.
Colorado may be trending blue but it's not moving leftward. We have had some very conservative votes lately and we've voted for Bush twice. Anything else is alarmist. This remains a fundamentally conservative state and if Schaffer wants this seat he gets it. There's been soem talk about John Elway running for it but he needs to wait for the governor's seat or our other Senate seat. It's too soon for himl
Colorado holds this seat for the GOP and we still vote GOP in the presidential race. Take it to the bank.
What an insult to locusts! First they move in, then they whine about how things were done back there and then they try to change how the locals live.
They are worse than locusts, flies, frogs, and boils all at once.
Tancredo is a one trick pony who couldnt win statewide if his momma's life depended on it...We better beg Owens to run otherwise we in deeeeeeeeeep trouble
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Allard#Electoral_history
2002 Race for U.S. Senate
Wayne Allard (R) (inc.), 51%
Tom Strickland (D), 46%
1996 Race for U.S. Senate
Wayne Allard (R), 51%
Tom Strickland (D), 46%
1996 Race for U.S. Senate (Republican Primary)
Wayne Allard (R), 57%
Gale Norton (R), 43%
Ugh. Demanding term limits of Republicans but not Democrats (where are the purist GOP-bashers now?) is nothing more than unilateral disarmament.
You're right about Tancredo. He could not win and I don't think we want him to. He'll push Colorado leftward over the abyss. Owens is a dead-duck in Colorado politics.
Bob Schaffer will win. Don't worry about it. Just be prepared to give money and knock on doors. Dick Wadhams will be the new state chair. He's brilliant and he won't let Colorado's conservative ship sink.
Might the state party establishment be craven enough to run Pete Coors again?
The polls, IIRC, had Allard losing last time and he won by 5.
Hes' a good man. He'll be missed. I'm not suprised he honored his term limit pledge.
Terri Schiavo.
Not a chance. Schaffer is the kind of guy who can unite the libertarians and social conservatives. Anyone else--Coors or McInnis would widen the gap. Dick Wadhams, who looks to be the new state party chairman, was at the press conference. I'm almost sure he's looking at Bob Schaffer.
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