A vote against Maes is more than just a vote against the candidate. It's also a vote against his supporters—a faction that, in my opinion, is turning the Colorado Republican Party to crap. Having Maes as Governor would energize them and put them in the driver's seat.
This also includes some <airquotes>Tea Parties and 9/12 Groups</airquotes> who started off as protests against statism, but then ran off the rails when they degenerated into herds of sheeple who vote for random, unvetted underdogs that their leaders tell them to vote for.
Colorado is definitely a poster child for sheeple. They voted for Obama like mad, thinking it would be “better.” I have so many peers regretting that decision now. My only real response is “Really, you didn’t know better, didn’t bother to research, didn’t bother to think?”
Although it has been quite exciting to see people wake up to the problems with our federal government, we all need to be aware that these are the same people who voted for Obama in droves before.
And I have never been convinced of this “Tea Party” movement that so suddenly grew up after Obama was elected, upset with his policies, within months? I am sorry, but where were you two months before he was elected? What changed in the two months after he he took office to make you so greatly change your mind about him?