Tea Party breakup: Buck dumps Maes [deadline in one hour]

The Gazette (Colorado Springs) ^ | September 03, 2010 12:45 PM | Tom Roeder

[snarkpup]

GOP Senate hopeful Ken Buck tossed gubernatorial hopeful Dan Maes overboard as calls got louder for Maes to make way for another Republican.

[snarkpup]

In one hour, the window closes for Maes to pull out and the Republican Party elders to start the process of picking an electable replacement.

Maes can, of course, resign at some point in the future; but then the Party does not have the option of picking a replacement and we would effectively have a two-way race between Tancredo and Hickenlooper.

[LdSentinal]

Maes says he's staying put.

Looks like most of the GOP establishment will go for Tancredo now.

[DallasSun]

Operative word is electable. None of the three are electable. Was no one paying attention???

[DemforBush]

I’ve not followed this race, so forgive the noob question(s). Is it a matter of Mayes being too left on the issues, or is he just a lousy candidate in general?

Also, if a better GOP candidate can be fielded, is there a reasonable chance of convincing Tancredo to give up his third-party bid?

[parisa]

Just wonderful! The house is burning and we’re fighting over the coffee pot!

obamanation must be loving it!

[muawiyah]

Naw, Obama is curious about this United Nations deal with the share a bike thing ~ and where he can divert some of the revenues his way.

You gotta' think like a Chicago neighborhood fixer on this one.

[CedarDave]

The Stupid Party strikes again!

[loreldan]

Leave it to the Colorado Republicans to pick one of the most corrupt Republicans in the state. There’s 1,073,864 other Republicans in the state and the electorate had to choose Maes. We could have run the stock boy at Home Depot this year and won - as long as he was honest.

[loreldan]

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_15985328

[Grunthor]

Go Tom Go.

[snarkpup]

I’ve not followed this race, so forgive the noob question(s). Is it a matter of Mayes being too left on the issues, or is he just a lousy candidate in general?

The latter.

[RCFlyer]

I voted for Mayes in the primary as a protest because the other Republican (McInnis) had plagiarism problems. Now it turns out Mayes made up stories about his past, and has lost credibility.

Looks like Independent (Tancredo, Repub running as 3rd party) has the best shot to win Governor and I’ll be voting for him. Unfortunately Mayes’ (R) will drain away needed votes. The Democrat (Hickenlooper) should have lost but got lucky. We’ll see...

[bergmeid]

I voted for Maes too in the primary but I am so done with him now.

Go Tom, GO!!!!!!

[beaversmom]

have a two-way race between Tancredo and Hickenlooper

That would be a great scenario, but I doubt Dan Maes will ever do the decent thing--he doesn't seem to have it in him. I'm voting for Tancredo. The Republicans are essentially the third party for this particular race.

[colorado tanker]

A whole series of things have come out about Maes. The latest was he had on his website that he was an undercover policeman in Liberal, Kansas (some name, huh?) helping the Kansas Bureau of Investigation track illegal activity. Turns out not only was it not true, he had actually been fired from his job as a town cop.

[beaversmom]

It’s too late now for the Repubs. It was pushing it, but Maes had until 5 tonight to drop out so another candidate could jump in. Maes is in it for himself. Tancredo is the man.

[keepitreal]

I voted for McInnis only because I thought he would probably do the right thing and drop out after the primary. I knew Maes wouldn’t since he owed the party nothing. Tancredo was my congressman and I really don’t like his grandstanding, but I guess I’m forced to vote for him.

I do hope that next time folks realize that a candidate needs to have more qualification than being an outsider. By the time the Founders were in positions of power they had proven themselves as statesmen.

What a sorry day in Colorado politics.

[Libertynotfree]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/01/dan-maess-undercover-poli_n_701733.html

I won’t give up to support him. If you read the story line by line, it seems no one wants to back up their story. Clearly, that tells you some one tries to push him out.
That’s just my opinion.

[Parley Baer]

“Looks like most of the GOP establishment will go for Tancredo now”

Maybe. Hugh Hewitt is wringing his hands over this as he will not support Tancredo. Hugh represents the Republican Party ruling class so you can get and idea of their thinking. Hugh was really distraught over Arizona bill SB1070 when it first came out just to show his mindset. Now he is on board when everything is going OK.

[brothers4thID]

I actually joked about running for governor of Colorado. Now I wish I had.