Colorado Tea Partyers say Tancredo betrayed them

The Denver Post ^ | 07/26/2010

[Mojave]

Leaders of 21 state Tea Party groups, representing about 10,000 people, said Sunday they have been betrayed by Tom Tancredo and in an open letter beseeched the former congressman not to run for governor as a third-party candidate.

Tancredo has given Republican gubernatorial candidates until noon today to commit to pulling out of the governor's race after the primary if polls show the winner trailing Democrat John Hickenlooper.

If that doesn't happen, Tancredo says, he'll run for governor as the American Constitution Party candidate.

[Responsibility2nd]

If that doesn't happen, Tancredo says, he'll run for governor as the American Constitution Party candidate.

 

Speaking of.....

 

Tom Tancredo Will Run For Governor of Colorado As Third Party Candidate

[Da Coyote]

The Denver Post conveniently ignores any “news” that shows dim-bulb-crats in a bad light.

Consider things coming from that paper to be just about as believable as news coming from CNN, CNBC, or MSNBC.

[1rudeboy]

Tancredo has given Republican gubernatorial candidates until noon today to commit to pulling out of the governor's race after the primary if polls show the winner trailing Democrat John Hickenlooper.

wut?

[MissTed]

Dan Maes can’t beat Hickenlooper, Scott McInnis sure as heck can’t beat Hickenlooper, what do we have to lose at this point??

[Responsibility2nd]

I’m wondering the same thing. Is this just liberal spin to agitate Teas Partiers against Tancredo?

My question: Why would Tea Parties want to endorse the same old GOP?

[I am Richard Brandon]

Shows that the GOP is infested with self seeking would be Lords Of All They Survey who prefer personal power (and dare I say, money making opportunities) over principles. Charlie Crist in Florida is another prime example. Good ridance Arlen!!

[I am Richard Brandon]

Shows that the GOP is infested with self seeking would be Lords Of All They Survey who prefer personal power (and dare I say, money making opportunities) over principles. Charlie Crist in Florida is another prime example. Good ridance Arlen!!

[Beowulf9]

“Dan Maes can’t beat Hickenlooper, Scott McInnis sure as heck can’t beat Hickenlooper, what do we have to lose at this point??”

I kind of agree. I’m not well versed on this subject but it seems to me Tancredo is seeing the possible election of a rat and is trying to get elected to prevent it. Shouldn’t the tea party recognize the prob failure of the other candidates and vote for the one who just might get rid of the democrat liberal?

[Uri’el-2012]

If the Tea Party of Colorado have selected
Jane Norton and Scott McIness then the
Tea Party in Colorado is less than worthless.

Seems like both were anointed by Juan McAmnesty.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

If Tancredo can’t win the Republican Primary, what makes him think he can win the Governorship?

[ansel12]

How does Tancredo help improve this situation with his vanity act? No wonder he liked Romney.

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[ebersole]

“If Tancredo can’t win the Republican Primary, what makes him think he can win the Governorship?”

Bingo...he couldn’t and he can’t. It’s not like it was a surprise who the democrats were going to run. The only surprise was that McInnis wasn’t able to get top billing on the primary ballot over Maes. Well and also that McInnis plagarized and Maes has financial reporting problems.

[ebersole]

He doesn’t help anyone but himself and trying to keep himself relevant.

[Freddd]

There it is again.

‘Leaders’ ..

Democrats are desperate.

[colorado tanker]

Looks right now as if Tommy T has just handed Governor to Hickenlooper, throwing away a golden opportunity to take back Colorado to serve his own ego. The only good that might come of this is his final political grave.

[Uri’el-2012]

If Tancredo can’t win the Republican Primary, what makes him think he can win the Governorship?

He was NOT in the Republican Primary.

Where was the Colorado Tea Party ?

Where is the leadership in the Colorado Republican Party ?

[RachelFaith]

Two words.

DICK WAD!

As in the GOP Party Chairman who is as squishy RINO phag as they get.

Dick Wadhams. Affectionately known by real conservatives as “Dick Wad”.

This is why Colorado has gone leftist. There is NO “Conservative” movement in Colorado.

Lot’s of ego. Tancredo being a prime example. I once supported him, giving him my vote for President in the Iowa Straw Poll to keep the Immigration issue alive. Btu he has basely betrayed us with the endorsement of Romney in 2008 and now this.

But all of this, the whole shebang falls at the feat of the Colorado Party Establishment RINO leadership of Dick Wad.

Ebbida, Ebbida, That’s all folks!

[ebersole]

“Where was the Colorado Tea Party ?”

Fighting the regurgitated GOP supported candidates that were put forward (Norton, McInness).

[sportutegrl]

Why doesnt Tom run in the R primary against the two Republican candidates? Does he just want to be crowned the R heir apparent?

[af_vet_rr]

My question: Why would Tea Parties want to endorse the same old GOP?

Some people think that a liberal with an (R) next to their name is somehow better than a liberal with a (D) next to their name.

Me, I'm not playing that game anymore. A liberal with an (R) next to their name is still a liberal and a person who votes for a liberal with an (R) next to their name is still voting for a liberal.

Starting this year, I only support Conservative candidates. That may mean third party in a lot of cases, but I'm tired of being a Conservative every day of the year except election day when I pull the lever for way too many liberals with (R) next to their names.

[ansel12]

If you prefer Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House and Harry Reid as Senate leader, then carry on.

[ebersole]

I agree with your sentiment. Elephants may have long memories but it takes them just as long to learn

[af_vet_rr]

If you prefer Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House and Harry Reid as Senate leader, then carry on.

If you prefer to keep on sliding towards socialism and the destruction of our freedom by supporting liberals with (R) next to their names, then carry on.

[ansel12]

That made no sense, but my statement did, if you don’t defeat democrats, then you keep them in power and leadership.

If you prefer Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House and Harry Reid as Senate leader, then carry on.

[af_vet_rr]

That made no sense, but my statement did, if you don’t defeat democrats, then you keep them in power and leadership.

A liberal is a liberal regardless of whether they have an (R) or a (D) next to their name. If you vote for RINOs/CINOs, you are voting for liberals. If you don't understand that, then I don't know how to make it any clearer than that.

If you are confused about RINO/CINO:
RINO = Republican In Name Only
CINO = Conservative In Name Only

[Uri’el-2012]

U-2012>Where was the Colorado Tea Party ?

Fighting the regurgitated GOP supported candidates that were put forward (Norton, McInness).

They don't get out much.

[ebersole]

Well since Norton had to petition to get on the ballot for the primary and McInnis is in the second slot on the ballot, I’d say for their year and a half, they did pretty well fighting the pathetic CO GOP.

[ebersole]

“The only good that might come of this is his final political grave:

From your lips to God’s ear!

[Uri’el-2012]

If the TEA party expects to win they need to take
over the roots of the party and develop candidates.

[colorado tanker]

Why doesn't Tom run in the R primary against the two Republican candidates? Does he just want to be crowned the R heir apparent?

1. He chose not to run at the convention or in the primary.

2. Yes.

[ebersole]

I agree

[yongin]

I’ll take my chances with McInnis than with Tancredo.

Tom Tancredo is the Charlie Crist of Denver.

Also if Buck wins the primary, the media will make Buck comment on every crazy thing Tancredo says since Tancredo endorsed Buck for Senate. The Dems could maintain the Governor and Senate. Ugh.

[ansel12]

You don’t understand that a democrat will always vote for the democrat leadership and will be a dependable member of the democrat party.

If you don’t defeat democrats, then you keep them in power and leadership.

If you prefer Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House and Harry Reid as Senate leader, then carry on.

[cookcounty]

I’m very conservative, and I’m a Colorado voter and I am so angry at Tancredo I could spit. The ONLY thing he cares about is getting attention for himself.

I have to wonder if Hickenlooper paid this dolt under the table, since the ONLY possible effect of a Tancredo run would be that the Dems keep the governorship. YES, I wish Penry had run, but it is too late now. And Tancredo is too dumb (or selfish) to understand that.

[cookcounty]

Anybody have an emai laddress for Tancredo so we can call him out?????

[ican'tbelieveit]

Tom didn’t run, and after the two choices were on the ballot a lot of negative news was released.

[af_vet_rr]

If you don’t defeat democrats, then you keep them in power and leadership.

It shouldn't be just democrats you want to defeat, it should be all liberals regardless of the letter next to their name, because a liberal Republican will send us down the road to socialism as surely as a democrat. The only difference is the democrat will send us there a little quicker.

[ansel12]

When there is a difference (and there always is), vote the difference.

Turning offices over to democrats, not only loses that office, it also strengthens the entire structure of the democratic party and enhances their chances to win the leadership, and it makes the incumbent hard to get rid of.

Think of all the leftists like Boxer and Murray that squeak in, and then stay there for decades because of the power of incumbency.

[af_vet_rr]

When there is a difference (and there always is), vote the difference.

There is no difference between a liberal with an (R) next to their name and a (D) next to their name, other than the speed at which they will send us down the road to socialism.

It's one of the things that has interested me in the Tea Party movement, since so many people in the movement have told me that it's not about any political party, it's about supporting conservatives. That's not always the case as this Tancredo thing is proving, but the majority of members I've met or know believe that if we don't start working towards getting conservatives elected now, we dang sure won't be able to in the future.

If we don't take a stand now and support only Conservatives, our grandchildren and their grandchildren will be cursing us. I've wasted too many years blindly supporting too many liberal Republicans, and I probably have 20-30 years left on this planet, and I'm not going to piss it away voting for liberals who pretend to be conservatives.

[ansel12]

If you can’t handle sorting out elections and making choices, then by all means drop out and cling to the fantasy that you are too pure and that is why you stopped fighting the democrats.

Every election for a conservative should be an effort to move the nation to the right, but when you don’t get the primary result that you wanted and then sit it out, you are merely serving up power to the left, and the democrat party.

I pray that democrat voters adopt your ways, if enough would then we could take this nation back. Pray for more purity for liberals.

[St. Louis Conservative]

Overlooked here is that this idiotic vanity play by Tancredo has the potential to tip the SENATE race against Ken Buck - a true conservative who we NEED in the senate.

Dan Maes, while maybe not as strong as Scott McInnis, still has the ability to beat leftist Hickenlooper. Polls are basically tied between them.

[af_vet_rr]

If you can’t handle sorting out elections and making choices, then by all means drop out and cling to the fantasy that you are too pure and that is why you stopped fighting the democrats.

I'm not dropping out, and I'm not limiting myself to fighting the democrats, I'm fighting liberals, and sometimes those liberals have an (R) next to their name, and I think you understand that based on your comment:

Every election for a conservative should be an effort to move the nation to the right

You just said the magic word my friend: conservative. This has to be about moving the nation to the right and you can't do that by supporting Republicans who only pretend to be Conservative. You have to support true Conservatives and only true Conservatives. Anything less is supporting and rewarding the liberals.

[ansel12]

You keep repeating yourself but you don’t say anything.

Assuming the fantasy candidate that you hope and dream of never entered any of the primaries, or perhaps in one or two he did, but wasn’t chosen by the voters, what do you do then?

[af_vet_rr]

Assuming the fantasy candidate that you hope and dream of never entered any of the primaries

Before I answer or respond to anything else, why do you consider a conservative candidate to be a "fantasy" as you put it?

[ansel12]

Doing that childish of a rewrite of what I was asking explains why you can’t get to the point.

[colorado tanker]

I doubt Tommy T could win even if he were the Republican candidate. He has incredibly high negatives and a propensity to say darn near anything to antagonize anybody. This latest gambit is exposing him for the attention whore he is.

I agree the MSM will play him for all he's worth as a foil to try to defeat the Republican candidates.

[af_vet_rr]

I say I want to support Conservative candidates, you refer to them as:

Assuming the fantasy candidate that you hope and dream of never entered any of the primaries, or perhaps in one or two he did, but wasn’t chosen by the voters, what do you do then?

That's not a childish rewrite.

[ansel12]

Nice try at another rewrite, we all want to support conservatives, now answer the question.

“Assuming the fantasy candidate that you hope and dream of never entered any of the primaries, or perhaps in one or two he did, but wasn’t chosen by the voters, what do you do then?”

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

This idiot sees no difference at all between John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi, why bother with him.