Posted on 10/19/2010 6:19:35 PM PDT by TheConservativeCitizen
For any who have been following the Colorado gubernatorial race it as been an ugly, disastrous, GOP bungle in the middle of what should only be a Republican year. The hand-picked GOP establishment candidate was former congressman Scott McInnis. I actually like the guy, but he tended to be a flip-flopper and the TEA party types didn’t trust him. He was opposed by no-name businessman Dan Maes who came out of nowhere riding the anti-establishment mood to emerge from the state convention with strong backing and a place on the primary ballot.
Within just a few days the press launched a well-placed and apparently true story about a plagiarism charge against Scott McInnis which had occurred for his work on water issues for an obscure foundation. What isn’t really known is that the $300,000 “fellowship” was little more than ”pay-for-play” influence money for wealthy Muslim Pakistani Seeme Hasan to get her son Ali into Colorado Republican politics with the help of a fairly popular former congressman.
The plagiarism ”scandal” was just enough for the strongest of the two GOP gubernatorial candidates to be effectively knocked out of the race. At this point a number of backroom ideas and attempted deals started bubbling to the surface. Basically, the GOP establishment wanted Scott McInnis to win the primary. He would then be promised whatever and step down, and the party bosses would select a new candidate for governor to face Denver mayor John “Loopy” Hickenlooper in the fall.
But instead Dan Maes won the primary and immediately refused to play along and drop out for any new candidate. He figured he’d won fair and square and was the legitimate and legal GOP candidate for governor. And technically he was.
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Democrats created almost all government agencies and mandatory programs like social security and medicare which alone these 2 have 99 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities.
Name a single democrat elected politician that is for anything good like abolishing a government agency,deporting illegals? There are none.
Name all the government agencies that Republicans created during their 12 years. you and your ilk can't name any. I can't think of any non national defense agencies.
Republicans stopped Amnesty, and government healthcare. I suppose you would rather they had passed that. why did they stop that, cut taxes, 2 conservative justices, balance the budget, cut discretionary spending as a % of GDP, etc.? why if they are socialist villains like the democrats are?
to the pro democrats not WOSG:
All of you keep being puppets of the media and helping democrats/socialism
you all are brainwashed by the liberal media.
you all say the same things liberals say against the Republican party. Liberals, and you all are allies against Republicans.
Yeah sure keep battling for socialism.
The American people will vote in Republicans in 2 weeks! and there is not a thing you all can do about it. not even the liberal media which is what has ruled this country can do anything about it.
Republicans never had a super majority to repeal social security but now we will!
When Republicans take away your government job or benefits you will be homeless on the street babbling your liberal media lies against Republicans.
You are having no effect. Your posts, your preaching for democrats is insignificant.
Your part d is not a government agency. IN 12 years one little anomaly that you say is “big government” that doesn't make all Republicans socialists like democrats are. Every time I look into one of these little things it shows the true picture like Bush and the media forcing this which many liberals were against because it would allow private competition to destroy medicare. Bush who is a single Republican not ALL Republican.sill in 12 years that is nothing.
No one cares what you all say , least of all me.
And you call Republicans a socialist beast.
Democrats created almost all government agencies. You battle for socialism/democrats.
So, since this is a Tom Tancredo thread, I should ask, are you supporting Dan Maes, the Republican who is almost certainly polling in the single digits now?
If you are voting for him, turn in your Eagle, Globe, and Anchor. Do it now.
You are posting to a long time Tancredo supporter.
I know that illegals have to be deported. that is the number 1 problem. For 1 thing illegals ALL work to get DEMOCRATs/Marxists elected as this article shows http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2612348/posts
If illegals aren't deported or stopped , the country is doomed. This is the main reason the USA and especially California keep going to the left.
I support Tancred in Colorado. I support Republicans in the Congressional elections. I bet you support democrats or say you won't vote: that's a defacto vote for democrats and the illegals. Who do you support? The media/illegals/democrats are one and the same.
Actually, read EV's FR Profile page. That might shed some light on his positions.
You really need to work on the presumption thing. It makes you look silly.
Thanks. Great post WOSG.
EPA was NIXON.
Your rant conveniently glosses over the huge expansion of agencies under both Bush I and Bush II.
And Republicans have held power for more than twenty years of the last thirty - controlling the House, and the purse strings, for a very long time. Yet in that time, Federal government increased exponentially. Social interference by the government at the federal level increased.
It is hilarious to claim that Republicans stopped Amnesty. Don't EVEN start that crap. Had McCain (the veritable poster-child for Amnesty) been elected, you can bet money that Amnesty would have been jammed down our throats YET AGAIN- Even as it was TWICE by Gorge the panderer, and McCain't himself.
Had it not been for the enormous outcry by the American people, REPUBLICANS would have eagerly passed Amnesty. And where the hell is Hunter's BORDER FENCE? That was cratered by REPUBLICANS - Kay Bailey Hutchison gleefully in the lead.
As for Government Healthcare, McCain's agenda in healthcare is not far removed from Obama, and Bush's part D is the biggest single increase in medicare ever. Need we even bring up Romney?
On economics, The REPUBLICAN Administration had the duty to prevent illegalities on Wall Street, and were complicit by way of their non-action wrt Freddy/Fanny... And Bush's economy was every bit as Keynesian as what is practiced now.
This election is not about Republicans suddenly being palatable - It is about "Throw the Bastards Out" - with the Republicans being largely advantaged simply because they are not in power.
Your screed is not only mis-informed, but naive. Until Conservatives (of any political stripe) hold control, nothing will change. As a Republican of thirty years who left the fold in 2007, you can be assured, me and mine will not be back, nor give any support, until Reagan's own hold the levers of power.
Though I would tweak this line:
This election is not about Republicans suddenly being palatable - It is about "Throw the Bastards Out" - with the Republicans being largely advantaged simply because they are not in power there is still a leadership vacuum because true conservatives have not yet done their duty to offer up a sufficient number of candidates who understand and will faithfully adhere to the Constitution.
Hiya EV,
Sure, and I agree - But I don't know that it is possible until the infernal pragmatists and pom-pom girls (noticed up-thread) grow up enough to understand that principle must always trump expediency (and popularity).
The TEA Parties have been a wonderful expression of Conservatism, but unless and until the old guard is forced out, it is much ado about nothing. Neo-conservatism must die a cruel death.
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a democrat congress created EPA.
Liberals say the same thing as you and all you who hate Republicans. Liberals and the media hate Republicans and so do you .
Go keep working for your democrats. no one cares what liberal media lies you say nor anything you say.
a democrat congress created the EPA.
Liberals say the same thing as you and all you who hate Republicans. Liberals and the media hate Republicans and so do you .
Go keep working for your democrats. no one cares what liberal media lies you say nor anything you say.
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