Botched Campaigns in Colorado (The GOP may end up losing two winnable races in Colorado)

National Review ^ | 08/02/2010 | David Harsanyi

[Alex Murphy]

I have a sneaking suspicion that the Colorado God-squad is involved in this fiasco.

Who is this "Colorado God-squad"?

[LomanBill]

[which Tea Partiers are apparently aggressively proud to eschew]

 

Tsk tsk Ralph. 

 

That's because Tea Partiers are more interested in being AMERICANs, than in being lemmings and singing in the party choir.

 

It's about mutual recognition that we're not alone when we see how far governance of this country has been systemically corrupted from its original, specified purpose: "TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS".

 

It's about INDIVIDUALS whose moral compass is calibrated by self-evident Truth... and who can see which way the water flows in the river (which, in the case of the Arkansas is West to East {snicker}) they've been sold up by "the Party".

 

It's about reformation and building Temples in the Minds of Men - not about building party halls where parasitic ladder-climbers can perch upon the pecuniary steps.

 

Oh and, Ralph, we in Colorado Springs seem to have done just fine putting the TABOR sand in the shorts of elitists twits, like you, without the benefit of organizational "skills"... like yours.

 

Maybe, instead of running your mouth about the TEA party - you'd be more comfortable doing lunch with CS Vice-Mayor Larry Small and commiserating about how to save his commie Feudal "Enterprise", sans the usual redistribution of the people's wealth?

 

 

NO SALE.

[r9etb]

You’re an idiot.

[taxcontrol]

I would venture to say that many in the Colorado GOP feel that they are entitled to their positions and entitled to hand out favors. I have experienced this personally. The party players expect the rest of the GOP voters to toe the line and pull the party lever no questions asked.

[listenhillary]

DeMint email today.

I have some very good news. A new Denver Post/9News poll shows Ken Buck leading Jane Norton 50 percent to 41 percent in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Colorado.

http://campaign.constantcontact.com/render?v=001wqUa7FwuvM7MC6Lyn61DYOOQnaUvfcf5KfnakuJVIuisHU3zM-DxRcpVxrtvie0obtagvJMWVvtvud_CtQ7eLcU5vm9Wl-Z6j-JMkvvpS8LPx_QbtfwLCw%3D%3D

[LomanBill]

You're a cowardly RINO.

 

Why don't you tell folks here how you feel about TABOR - the Taxpayer Bill of Rights?

 

(And when you're done with that, explain how, in the r9etb suuper genius universe, the Arkansas River flows to the West) LOL.

[fightinJAG]

Mr. Buck did not look good on the FNC special on Sat.

Ms. Norton was very wooden and unappealing.

What is wrong with these people?

[WOBBLY BOB]

GOP= Lucy

Charlie=Conservatives

[Fu-fu2]

“The GOP started this election year with the clear upper hand in Colorado. But because of gratuitous infighting, dreadful party management, and incompetent candidates, it may end up losing two winnable races.”

Same thing happened in Illinois. Multiple conservative candidates running in the primaries, canceling each other out. Conservatives need to organize and get behind one candidate in the primary, where the ideological battles should be fought. Throwing third party candidates on the November ballot will only bring Dem victories.

[starlifter]

Those associated with various religious and quasi-religious organizations who like to be petty power brokers.

[MissTed]

LOL - perfect!

[LomanBill]

[Those associated with various religious and quasi-religious organizations who like to be petty power brokers.]

 

Where are the Tin Woodsmen when you really need them?

 

Twinkle Twinkle Morning Star

 

God wants insurance, god needs to cover himself.   

...Don't be afraid, it's only bidness.

--Roger Waters; "What god wants" - Amused to Death

 

Religionists are as religionists do... and that's nothing new - thus:

"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"
--Thomas Jefferson, The Virginia Act for Religious Freedom

Meet the New Boss, same as the Old Ba'al
--The Who?

 

Ba'al being a Hebrew word meaning Owner, Lord, Master, Possessor.   It seems ancient religionists - like the Pharaohs, Caesars, and other "god" emperors - were very supportive of commerce and private property - especially when the property involved had two legs.

"COMMERCE BETWEEN MASTER AND SLAVE IS DESPOTISM"
--(also) Thomas Jefferson

Same ol' same ol'.   The herding game of dialectic sheeple-pong continues.

 

 

 

[mountainbunny]

So whatcha gonna do? Vote third party?

Dunno.

Seriously. I do not know.

McInnis stole 300,000 dollars by turning in someone else's written work as his own when the rules apparently clearly stated that the work was supposed to be that of the author.

When McInnis' lies were discovered, he chose to blame his 80+ year old research assistant (who had written the piece with the understanding that McInnis needed it for background research, not to get 300K) by sending the man an unsigned confession. The man was supposed to sign the confession and take the fall for McInnis.

Then it turns out that McInnis has plagiarized in the past, and has an excuse for everything, apologizing for nothing.

Maes portrays himself as a successful businessman when he may not be, and took 42K from his campaign as "reimbursement". He had to pay the largest campaign fine in state history.

Tom Tancredo is... Tom Tancredo. I doubt he could get himself elected, even if the other two dropped out today and John Hickenlooper started to self-destruct.

Speaking of John Hickenlooper... he's going to be a disaster if he's elected. He's a partisan hack who seems to think that there is no issue too big that better PR can't fix.

Hickenlooper is virulently anti-2A; he's a member of that idiot Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

Hickenlooper presided over the city when the police department put politics above the welfare of citizens and decided against informing the public that the Gangster Disciples were specifically targeting white & Latino men downtown for violent attacks.

He used his pull as mayor to give the DNC host committee members tax-free gas at the 2008 Democratic Convention (held in Denver).

So, I can vote for McInnis, a thief and plagiarist who sees no problem whatsoever in stealing 300K and can't even be bothered to pretend to be embarrassed when he's caught. He doesn't even have an issue with blaming an elderly friend for his own bad deeds.

I can vote for Maes, who seems to see his campaign fund as an excuse not to get a job.

I've always been taught and taught my own children that stealing, mistreating the elderly and refusing to accept blame for your own misdeeds are sins. In Colorado, the GOP seems to see no problem with any of it.

I can vote for Tom Tancredo who has not a chance of winning and can't even be bothered to say why he'd like to be elected except that he's not either one of the first two. No sense in asking, either, because Tancredo can't hear your questions over the sound of how awesome he is.

Or I can sit back and do nothing and watch Hickenlooper get himself elected.

Suggestions are welcome.

[mountainbunny]

I have a sneaking suspicion that the Colorado God-squad is involved in this fiasco.

Possibly.

I don't know if it helps or hurts that many of those folks are involved in their own little mini-dramas at the moment. Focus on the Family laid off a bunch of people last week. Since Dobson left, FotF is either supposed to be much more socially conservative or much less, depending on the day of the week or something.

Ted Haggard has organized a new church, which will surely make a lot of people uncomfortable...

Hard to say how all this will play out.

[Alex Murphy]

Those associated with various religious and quasi-religious organizations who like to be petty power brokers.

Should they, and their supporters, be prevented from voting?

[keepitreal]

Unfortunately, we have to make a decision as Hickenlooper is the worst-case scenerio. Tancredo’s stunt has presented quite a problem. Who would replace either Maes or McInnis with a 3rd party run staring them in the face? I heard Tancredo say to Dan Caplis on the radio that he would not pull out no matter who replaced Maes or McInnis, if it happens (so we know what Tancredo is all about).

Maes can't even run a minuscule business. Put him up against “businessman extrodinaire” and there is no comparison on the competence issue. McInnis.. ugh. But this is the vote we have to make....

As for Buck v. Norton. I'm afraid that Buck makes too many statements that he feels the need to back off of once the press gets a hold of it. I don't admire that. If you think Social Security is unconstitutional and you say so, don't back down when someone calls you on it. I predict he will end up being a Lindsey Graham type, always trying to please the libs to look like a nice guy.

Terrible choices, but choices we must make to the best of our ability.

[rhombus]

Don’t know what to tell you. I won’t always vote for the Republican but I can’t think of a single race in the last 15 years or so where I would have been more happy with the Democrat. Voting third party would have been more about just making myself feel good rather than moving the country in a general “direction” and for me voting has to be a little more than just making me feel good about me.

[rhombus]

We are now in the minority to Leftists who make up only 20% of the US population. No Big Tent over there! Nope! Just dictatorial control my a lunatic minority. Big Tent... blahhhhh.

Wow. Listen to yourself. We are now in the minority to the Leftists who make up only 20% of the US population BECAUSE THEY did the big tent thing and duped the independents into thinking they were mainstream. So you're pure in your little tent, so what - that's all about YOUR feelings. But nobody cares about your feelings because you are now controlled by Leftists who make up only 20% of the US population. I'd suggest going back in history a little further than just the last 20 years or so and think about a longer march rather than waiting for the Great Pumpkin conservative to rise from the pumpkin patch and lead you to the promised land.

[rhombus]

If the winner is going to be a corrupt liberal, his party affiliation doesn’t matter that much.

That may be true. It only matters with respect to numbers and controlling an agenda. In a way I wonder if it would be better if the GOP did NOT control the House after 2010. Then the Dems won't have anybody to blame (the way Clinton did)... of course things will get plenty worse than ObamaCare and Government motors before it gets better if the GOP doesn't take control in 2010.

[April Lexington]

The Lib Dems have a very small tent. Its just that they convince the masses that money is free. If you look past the voters, you'll find that only the orthodox are in power in the Democratic Party. Radical Liberals, all. Never will you find a centrist or moderate in the power structure. Independents and moderates are useful idiots who are duped by the Democratic Party which is EXCLUSIVELY controlled by the Radical Left. Remember Screamin’ Dean? He was the tip of the iceberg. My point is simply, the GOP had better purge its structure and repopulate with radical constitutionalists or its over. We, then, can manipulate the same useful idiots and get them to keep us in power for decades. The idiots are up for grabs and we had better start grabbing...