The GOP front-runner going into the August primary, Scott McInnis, was found on the eve of the election to have serious ethical issues, so unknown Dan Maes won by default. Maes then turned out to be a resume-padding blowhard, right on the issues, but a serious embarrassment who can't even manage the economics of his own campaign (3 finance directors in 2 months).
The road looked wide-open for Dem Denver Mayor Hickenlooper, a man of the far left, to waltz in, but he is way too left for Colorado and struggles to exceed 42% in the polls, despite strong name recognition.
So in jumped former Congressman Tom Tancredo, a seal-the-border, anti-Bush-budgeteer who once advocated bombing Mecca if another 9/11 occurred. He signed up with the American Constitution Party, and garnered endorsements from most big-name conservatives in the state.
This race is trending rapidly toward Tancredo, especially as Hickenlooper now has a shady-looking land deal to explain,and a habit of donating to extremist causes on the left.
Whatever people may criticize about Tom (and I have sometimes criticized him), he is very well known statewide, the ultimate fiscal conservative and a straight arrow. He is what he is and he is what you see, and in this political climate, despite his being what has formerly been considered pretty far right, he may just be what Coloradoans want.
Maes is plummeting, and 90% of his losses are going to Tancredo. Watch this race.
will Maes drop out?....get sick?...have to leave due to mental breakdown?....I wish him no harm but he fell into this and he could certainly fall out of it again...
Do you support Tancredo?
go Tom go!
This would make him the second Governor [ after Jesse Ventura ] to win on a third party ticket.
All republicans should just shift over to Tom Tancredo.
Imagine if Maes drops out.
Please tell us more about Hickenlooper’s shady land deal and giving to extreeme left wing causes....
Oh, I found this....
From the Denver Post:
“The only other publicly known charity that Hickenlooper has donated to is The Chinook Fund, a group that gives to groups it says are considered “too new, too risky or too radical” for more traditional foundations. Established by Hickenlooper and others in 1987, the fund has supported everything from the Gender Identity Center of Colorado to Denver Cop Watch. “
http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_16087257?source=pkg
So Hickenlooper helps establish a radical leftist foundation.......hmmmmmmm.......
Spread it around folks...
Go Tancredo!
Tancredo = “a straight arrow.” Exactly. He’s smart, he’s got cojones, and he’s honest in his dealings and in his words.
It wasn’t so much that Tancredo was originally anti-GWB. It’s that GWB and his Karl banned Tom from the White House, even as they invited liberal Democrat guests all the time. We are reaping the failures of GWB and will for years.
Email I sent to Dan Maes & posted to the Colorado Forum:
Dear Mr. Maes,
You are the only person in Colorado who can prevent far-leftist John Hickenlooper from being elected Governor of Colorado.
I’m sure you are well aware that the latest Rasmussen poll shows Tom Tancredo is within 4 points of John Hickenlooper, and that unfortunately you now have no other role in this election except as spoiler. Please be the spoiler for John Hickenlooper. Please be the biggest man of the three, and take the right and honorable action of throwing your support behind Tom Tancredo to prevent John Hickenlooper from being elected. Too many people are going to suffer from Hickenlooper’s far-left policies. Too many people are going to remain unemployed in this state and too many people are going to continue to lose their jobs.
I’m begging you to be a hero. Please do this for the people of Colorado: make sure John Hickenlooper is not elected Governor of Colorado. Please make sure none of us ever have to say the phrase “Governor Hickenlooper”.
With the Governor’s race resolving itself, the entire Republican ticket will be strengthened.
Looking at where the Democrats are relative to Mr. 50 percent, and considering the housekeeping we have had to do, it is clear to me that we will win the Senate seat and have an excellent chance to win the Governor’s seat.
With regard to ballot status, under current law the Republican Party will lose ballot status if its candidate for Governor pulls less than 10 percent. Conversely, whatever party has put Tancredo on the ballot will gain ballot status.
Current law can, should and probably will be changed. I like the rule that one of a party’s candidates for statewide office gain at least 10 percent, or maybe at least 5 percent, during the prior four year cycle.
Such a law avoids the not rare problem that the candidate of a truly major party for a particular office causes the party to fall under the threshold for ballot status.
Furthermore, by expanding the condition to any statewide office, meaningful small parties aren’t forced to run candidates for the identified office merely for the purpose of gaining or retaining ballot status. Such a party could cross-endorse a major party candidate (whether or not it could also list the major party’s candidate on the ballot) or simply be neutral with regard to that office.
Finally, it would save the taxpayer money with respect to the role of the election board in administrating the petitioning process.
If I lived in CO, I would support Tom Tancredo.
Very true! I've met/seen him 4x and always love hearing him speak!
Dan Maes is nothing but a narcissist! If Tom was down as low as Dan is I bet Dan would ask Tom to drop out. Dan needs to man up and drop out so we do not end up with Chickenpooper!
Pubs in Colo. should hold their noses and vote for Terrible Tom just to give the state a chance to redistrict for 2012. Maes is a mess and not worth one vote. And the Hick is just another Dem clone of Bama.
bump
Go Tancredo!!!
Third party wins will continue.
If anyone likes Tancredo’s platform than you might just enjoy becoming a CP member.
It’s actually a perfect fit for him. If people would just take a gander over at the CP site, they might be quite surprised that it lines up very closely with the entire movement that’s been going on during the past 2 years.