The truth doesn't bother me. If you review my posts on this thread, I consistently said that the GOP was asleep at the wheel in 2004, 2005 and 2006!
My bone of contention with you is over your ongoing rhetoric, in calling Bill Owens a RINO. That is absurdity of the highest order. But typical for a malcontent and disciple of kooky Rick Stanley.
Ed Jones campaign sucked and he was another bad candidate. Period. John Morse had a huge cash cow in the numerous out of state Democratic Party backed, 527 groups that sponsored his campaign and the endless attack ads. I'm sure the El Paso County GOP will work at taking Morse down and if history is any indicator, Morse won't be around long.
And who was Captain of the ship from 1998 to 2006 ? RINO Bill Owens. A Governor lives or dies by the performance of his party, and he failed on an epic scale.
"My bone of contention with you is over your ongoing rhetoric, in calling Bill Owens a RINO. That is absurdity of the highest order."
No, the truth is not an absurdity, except to those that can't handle it. There are different kinds of RINOs. RINOs in policy (i.e. Giuliani) and RINOs in sandbagging their party (i.e. Janklow of SD, Sundquist in TN, et al). Owens has the badge of the latter, and he also turned into the former while in office.
"But typical for a malcontent and disciple of kooky Rick Stanley."
I never heard of Stanley until you brought him up in the previous round. I have little use for Libertarians, and as a standard-bearer for that party, he has no vested interest in the Republican party. Most Libertarians have the nasty habit of depriving the GOP of wins in close contests, so as far as I'm concerned, they're merely helping the rodents. Just like Owens did. Like I said, you name-call other FReepers because they point that Owens was a disaster. You only make yourself look foolish for doing so.
"Ed Jones campaign sucked and he was another bad candidate. Period. John Morse had a huge cash cow in the numerous out of state Democratic Party backed, 527 groups that sponsored his campaign and the endless attack ads. I'm sure the El Paso County GOP will work at taking Morse down and if history is any indicator, Morse won't be around long."
Yeah, that's the same thing that was said when the rodents took the GOP by surprise in winning the legislature... a few cycles ago. Lo and behold, they're still there, and the state party keeps shrinking like testicles in icewater. That's another thing I disliked about Owens, he showed zilch respect to what Black GOP officeholders we had in the state. He left Vikki Buckley to twist in the wind in '98, screwed Joe Rogers, and did he lift a finger to help Jones ? Jones may have ran a sucky campaign, but in a historically GOP district for him to lose by 20% shows that Owens's leadership didn't help for crap. That's just one more seat we'll have to win back against an incumbent, an often damn hard task.
Should've run Bill Armstrong for Governor back in '98, then today we'd have had both the Senate seats, the legislature, 4 or 5 of the House seats, and a brand-spanking-new GOP Governor (probably Schaffer himself) to succeed him. Too late now.