I think this whole election cycle has been ridiculous. The real problem is the Colorado State GOP, which has been shafting us with terrible candidates for almost ten years now. Remember Pete Coors, the guy who said in his concession speech, “I never really wanted to win, anyway.” Or how about Bill Owens hitting us with the largest tax increase in Colorado’s history (referendum C) and then being surprised when the Republicans can’t win back the Governorship. I’m sure Jane Norton was counting on all of us to have a short memory about that when she ran against Buck. Sorry Jane, but no candidate who ever supported Ref C will get my vote.
I can’t tell you how many central committee meetings I’ve been to where the party elite kept telling us not to vote for the conservatives in the caucus because “they just can’t win.” I’m sick of it.
Maes released documents yesterday that confirm everything he’s said about his time in the Liberal, KS Police Department, including working with the KBI on a gambling ring. If that were his only problem at this point, then he’d be clear and have a shot at the governor’s mansion. But it’s now hopeless because his own party abandoned him, just like they told us to do to every conservative that’s come down the pike in the last ten years.
Where have they gone instead? The party leadership have left the party, jumping ship to Tancredo. Tancredo came in to this thing late, when he easily could have gotten in to the primary early if he really felt that Maes and McGinnis were not viable. On top of that, the primary was made up of nothing but political insiders (party favorites) with barely a conservative bone in the bunch. Yeah, I voted for Maes, but it was as the most conservative individual out of a bunch of RINO’s.
Tancredo could, and should have run in the primary. He didn’t. The GOP could and should have supported its candidate, but it didn’t. They wanted McGinnis, who was a blue-blood country-club republican at best, and a RINO at worst. When they got Maes, they basically pulled all support on the night of the primary. Christine O’Donell was treated better by the party leadership than Maes was.
Tancredo may be more conservative, and had he run in the Primary, he probably would have gotten my vote, but the whole situation since the primary has been a joke.
Tancredo wanted the GOP to ignore the results of the primary, push Maes out, and ANOINT him as their candidate. Must be nice. Don’t run for office, don’t work through the primary, but show up on the day after and then demand to overturn the votes of 380,000 Colorado republicans, not one of whom voted for Tancredo.
So, he went out to run third party. Fine, he has that right. But look at the ads he’s running. He has yet to run one ad against Chicken-Scooper, every one of his ads have been vicious (and now we find out, untruthful) attacks against Dan Maes.
You’d think that Maes had a 70% lead in the polls. But not to worry, Tancredo has now so poisoned the well, there’s no one in the state who’d continue to vote for Maes. Even here on Free Republic, where people are supposed to be informed, Maes is called a con man and a shyster.
Now we’ve got Bob “I used the courts to knock my opponent, the real conservative, off the ballot” Beauprez backing Tancredo, and I’m supposed to be happy? Let’s recap: He LOST to Ritter! Big Time. We’re talking nearly 20%... This is the guy Tancredo wants to endorse him?
Old Both Ways Beauprez, the RINO who couldn’t beat Bill Ritter is supposed to make me feel good about Tancredo? Tancredo’s the guy who dragged an 83 year old woman onto TV to rip into Dan Maes for a contribution he’s already returned and been fined by the election committee for? A crappy move by Maes to take the money? Yeah, but that was 18 months ago, and the guy who talked her into the contribution was fired about 10 months ago. At least Maes didn’t put this woman on television sounding like a bitter old hag. And it’s not like he took her life savings. It was $300. I gave almost that much to Pete Coors — the guy who didn’t really want to win. Talk about swindled...
Frankly, while I used to love Tancredo, his current actions are making me absolutely sick to my stomach.
Is he better than Hicken-choo-choo? Sure, but, then again, so is a rotting monkey corpse. When do I get a chance NOT to vote for the lesser of two evils? Oh yeah, I get to vote for Buck.
Here in Colorado, the GOP is about to lose its major party status, and frankly, with the clowns we’ve been putting up and the clowns running the party...
...it’s about time.
Coulda, woulda shoulda.Are you planing to support the weasel ?
Or vote for a true Conservative ?
Anyone who lies to and cons Freda is a weasel.
That's not true. Tancredo stated many times (I listened to him on Caplis and Silverman several times) that he wanted someone else, not himself, to be the GOP nominee. Once the primary was settled and Maes showed he had no intention of dropping out, Tancredo had to keep true to his word and stick with the Constitution Party. Maes is the spoiler here and you are being silly if you keep going on about poor old mistreated Dan Maes. The future of our state is at stake. If you are conservative, you will support the only viable conservative candidate in the race.