Posted on 05/23/2013 10:06:03 AM PDT by Red Steel
Edited on 05/23/2013 10:15:02 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo has become the latest Republican to announce plans to challenge Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper.
Tancredo said Thursday on radio station KHOW the last straw was a decision by Hickenlooper to delay the execution of convicted murderer of Nathan Dunlap, who killed four people in 1993. Tancredo said he is also upset with Hickenlooper's approval of sweeping gun legislation this year, including a law limiting the size of ammunition magazines.
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Wrong, his mouth will take him out. The last time he said something stupid he took down a Tea Party candidate with him, a Senate seat the teaparty GOP could have picked up.
I can only go by their votes, and aside from the Governor, it’s pretty leftist. Michaud got a 92% leftist rating from the ACU for 2012. Lifetime is almost 89%. There’s one member from TN that scores slightly further to the left, and that’s the anti-Christian bigot Steve Cohen.
I find it humorous that what passes for “Conservative” Democrat (or “moderate” Republican) is someone who votes 95% leftist.
I just hope they don’t nominate Kevin “Don’t Call Me Martha” Raye again. A leftist RINO win is less than useless (and Michaud would probably try to come back in 2 years, if he loses to LePage, one of our best Governors).
I would take that poll showing Hickenlooper losing to Tancredo and some other candidate with a grain of salt, since the same sample was polled on the 2016 presidential race and they had both Rubio and Christie tied with Hillary and slaughtering Biden. I’d like some confirmation before declaring CO being back to where it was in 2004.
As for the ME gubernatorial election and ME-02, I agree that Michaud is a tough Democrat for LePage to beat (from the North Country, nominally pro-life, not a moonbat), so we need the leftist independent Cutler to get 25%+ (he exceeded that in 2010). And I hope that the GOP doesn’t nominate yet another pro-abortion candidate in ME-02—we need to win big with blue-collar Dems to win that district.
The ME-02 was one of only four House seats that the RATs picked up in 1994; the other two were the RI-01, the PA-14 and the MN-06. All four seats had the GOP incumbent vacate it to run for higher office: Snowe (ME), Santorum (PA) and Grams (MN) were elected to the U.S. Senate, while Machtley (RI) lost the gubernatorial primary to Lincoln Almond). In addition, the MN-06 was greatly altered in mid-decade redistricting by the RAT legislature (the 1992 lines had been drawn by a judge after RINO Governor Arne Carlsson vetoed the RAT maps; Carlsson tried to pocket-veto the 1994 maps or something, but the RATs claimed that he hadn’t vetoed thd bill properly, and it became law); the ME-02 was redrawn for 1994 as well (ME used to redistrict two years after everyone else ), but the changes were minor.
I believe that a few towns went from the ME-01 to the ME-02 in 1994, and have stayed in the ME-02 since. That means that those few towns haven’t had a Republican U.S. Representative since RINO John McKernan (Olympia Snowe’s husband) was elected governor in 1986 and replaced by a Democrat in the House, which is the longest streak in all of Northern New England. (In New England as a whole, the only areas that have gone longer without a GOP U.S. Representative are the towns that were in the CT-01 or the CT-03 after each of the 1980, 1990 and 2000 Censuses, and the towns in MA that were not in Conte’s MA-01 in the late 1980s or in Blute’s MA-04 or Torkildsen’s MA-06 in the early 1990s.)
Is there a reason why Rubs and Fat boy shouldn’t be tied with Crypt Keeper and slaughtering the drunk POS Biden in CO?
Of the 4 I wonder about Gram’s seat, was something wrong with Tad Jude?
Never mind, redistricted.
The reason I’m suspicious of those polls until I see confirmation is that CO has veered hard left starting in 2006, and it would be strange for Hillary to be doing worse in CO than in several more Republican states.
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