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<p>Open-borders adversaries sued to kill the initiative, but Colorado's Supreme Court approved it in early May of 2004. Herron, ex-Gov. Dick Lamm, CAIR's co-Chair Fred Elbel and other insiders chose not to seek the required 68,000 voter signatures to place it on the November 2004 ballot, claiming it was too late to guarantee success. By law, this tabled the initiative for two years, during which time a growing cabal of open-borders legislators, mainly Democrats, aligned with globalist Gov. Bill Owens (RINO) to kill similar legislation.</p>

If I were to tell you that I know someone who thinks that George Bush is assuming imperial powers in the same manner as Augustus Caesar in ancient Rome, you would figure the person to be a kook left member of the Democratic Underground aka DUmmies. In addition, if I were to add that this same person also believes that our social and foreign policy must first be submitted to religious fundamentalists then you could also conclude that if not a DUmmie, then this same person could also be a Koo-Koo Daily Kos type. Well, what if I told...

Gary Hart said he thinks troops are at serious risk. The Democratic ex-senator and onetime presidential candidate, a specialist on defense issues, talked about Iraq. "Our army is in danger," he said. "If all-out civil war breaks out, we could lose our army. If Sunnis and Shiites take to the streets by the thousands, it could literally be impossible to get [the soldiers] out. ... I know that sounds apocalyptic, but it's not out of the question. We need an exit strategy. We have no choice. We're making things worse.

Former Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart is hinting that he won't support Hillary Clinton when she runs for president in 2008, saying he's in "total disagreement" with her support for the Iraq war. "The Democrats have failed to come up with a party position on Iraq," Hart complained to the New York Times on Sunday, in quotes excerpted by the web site JustHillary.com. "Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have to get these people into line," he continued, before adding: "You can't do that with Senator Clinton saying increase troop levels," Asked point-blank if he thought Mrs. Clinton was the Democratic...

It's a sign of just how low John Kerry's fortunes have sunk that he has to dredge up poor old Gary Hart to flack for him in the email below that was sent out today by the Kerry folks. Hart pathetically boasts of getting a piece into the Washington Post, and of his time on something called the Bipartisan Commission on National Security. But the highlight is Hart praising Kerry for his "unwavering voice." You got to figure that even Kerry's hacks had to laugh when they ghost-wrote that for Hart! Read it and laugh! ------------------------- Dear , "The public...

Listening to Losers By Alan Caruba October 04, 2005 In mid-summer, the Washington Post published an opinion editorial by former Colorado Senator and presidential candidate Gary Hart. It embodied all the usual arguments against having invaded Iraq and for staying on until the Iraqis can begin to fashion a free nation with a constitution agreed to by its people. I recall thinking to myself, why would anyone pay any attention to the advice of such a loser? You may think me harsh, but let's very briefly look at his record. In 1972, Hart was the campaign manager for Sen. George...

...Richard Nixon, amid a similar low ebb of popularity with Vietnam, gave a famous speech in 1969. This was the year after the Tet offensive, which caused Walter Cronkite's famous Hagel-like throwing in of the towel. In that speech Nixon described a "great silent majority" in America. The idea, of course, was that the daily media attention commanded by the antiwar movement was missing a class of Americans who sat home seething at the behavior of the protesters. Today, because of the Internet, no one has to seethe in silence, as wired activists in both parties proved in 2004's high-tech...

RUSH: Let me go back. I want to just putting something here in chronological order because the president was in Nampa, Idaho, yesterday, and he took a... What would you say? He took a direct shot at the squatters down in Crawford by singling out a war mom who is very supportive of what's going on. Yesterday, actually a couple days on this program, this is a point that a made over and over again on this program. RUSH ARCHIVE: Over 1,800 brave men and women have lost their lives in Iraq. The nation knows the name of only one...

Do not let it be said - as you often hear - that the Democrats have no comprehensive strategy on Iraq. It goes this way: Watch, with silent glee, as someone like Cindy Sheehan calls out the president. Watch, with barely restrained glee, as George W. Bush's poll numbers plummet. Watch, with quiet dismay, as the Iraqis work to draft a constitution that - according to many secular Iraqis - could put Shiite clerics in control and limit women's rights. Watch, in dumbfounded amazement, as Bush insists the draft proposals "honor" women's rights. And when it comes time to finally...

The disgraced former Senator of Colorado writes an op-ed in the Washington Post that is a real piece of work. Keep in mind, this is the guy who masterminded the disastrous McGovern campaign, and has long been an anti-war guy. Here's a sample of his column in the Post: To stay silent during such a crisis, and particularly to harbor the thought that the administration's misfortune is the Democrats' fortune, is cowardly. In 2008 I want a leader who is willing now to say: "I made a mistake, and for my mistake I am going to Iraq and accompanying the...

"Waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool said to push on," warned an anti-Vietnam war song those many years ago. The McGovern presidential campaign, in those days, which I know something about, is widely viewed as a cause for the decline of the Democratic Party, a gateway through which a new conservative era entered. Like the cat that jumped on a hot stove and thereafter wouldn't jump on any stove, hot or cold, today's Democratic leaders didn't want to make that mistake again. Many supported the Iraq war resolution and -- as the Big Muddy is rising...

...Duncan Hunter, ...the House Armed Services Chairman, is refusing to join the Beltway stampede to pass, in a few short weeks, the most extensive changes in U.S. intelligence in 50 years. ...The Senate and House each passed bills in the heat (and panic) of the election campaign.... Mr. Hunter specifically objects to a provision that would take budget authority away from the Secretary of Defense over the intelligence agencies under his control. This is a narrow but important issue. It would potentially undercut the military's ability to obtain and act on intelligence in real time.... There are other problems with...

John Kerry's Fellow TravellersA 5--part series exposing John Kerry's Communist connections.Part 5: John Kerry vs. the War on Terror: Candidate Kerry's Subversive CampaignBy Fedora *NOTE: The term “fellow traveller" as used in this article series refers to someone who is not a member of the Communist Party (CP) but regularly engages in actions which advance the Party's program. Some apparent fellow travellers may actually be “concealed party members": members of the CP who conceal their membership. Which of these classifications is applicable to the Kerrys is a question this series leaves unresolved. This series does not argue for any direct...

BERKELEY -- If former Colorado Senator Gary Hart had his way, this year's presidential campaign would look a lot different. The noted author of 13 books was on the UC Berkeley campus this week to promote his latest book, The Fourth Power: A Grand Strategy for the United States, and to issue a foreign policy challenge to all candidates vying for president in the upcoming November elections: "sit down for half a day and come up with a grand strategy for the U.S," he declared. In a presentation at International House, Hart, an advisor to the campaign of Senator John...

...A new National Intelligence Director with a staff of several hundred will ride herd over the CIA, the DIA, the NSA, the FBI and the Pentagon.... ...[I]f this "reform" passes, a President might no longer get the competing views from the Pentagon because its intelligence arms will have been wrested away from the Defense Secretary to report to the same new national director. Such a move... runs the risk of separating intelligence from the war fighters who need it. One genuine success of recent years has been the integration of real-time intelligence with commanders on the battlefield.... The intelligence changes......

Hall Center lecturer criticizes polls, Bush - Humanities series to open with former U.S. senator It's true the polls show President Bush leading Democratic challenger John Kerry. But the polls are off, said Gary Hart, a former U.S. senator from Colorado who sought the Democratic Party's nomination for president in 1984 and 1988. "At this point in time, they're not very accurate," he said, noting that many of his moderate Republican friends have assured him privately they'll not be voting for Bush. "They're not going to show up in the polls," said Hart, who has advised the Kerry campaign in...

It was a bittersweet pleasure to go on-air Friday for two hours with my friend Jerry Agar, WPTF afternoon drivetime, from Raleigh to most of North Carolina and parts of states north and south of there. This was our last sit-down, since Jerry is moving to KMBZ in Kansas City, a larger market that wants a quick, intelligent voice from the conservative side of the spectrum. We spent 45 minutes of our time talking about the Swift Boat controversy involving John Kerry. The phones lit up, and so did the computer screen with e-mails. Both the calls and the e-mails...

Only on a panel sponsored by the Campaign for America's Future.Boston"ARE YOU ALL READY TO TAKE BACK AMERICA?" Robert Borosage, the co-director of Campaign for America's Future, asked on Wednesday, standing in front of an enthusiastic crowd at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge. And the crowd sure was ready. They hooted and hollared. They roared and screamed. They nodded their heads vigorously. The day before, Michael Moore had stopped by. On Wednesday, Reps. Dennis Kucinich and Barbara Lee, former senator Gary Hart, and Ambassador Joe Wilson took the stage.The occasion was a debate on the Iraq war, which may...

There's no delicate way to say this, so out it comes: They served Coors at John Kerry's fund-raiser Monday night. Or tried to. The night was surreal like that. Gary Hart drew an "Amen" introducing the guest of honor at the Westin Tabor Center - a real, live "Amen!" - and the guest of honor actually suggested running with Hunter S. Thompson on his ticket. It was a night when the state's Democratic stars came out - Heath, Hart, Hickenlooper, Schoettler, Pena, Webb - but neither of the party's nominees for an open U.S. Senate seat. Ken Salazar was somewhere...

Julian Borger in Washington Thursday April 8, 2004 The Guardian A senior terrorism expert said yesterday that he had delivered a final desperate warning of an inevitable terrorist attack to Condoleezza Rice five days before al-Qaida struck New York's World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in Washington. On the eve of the national security adviser's public appearance today to defend the Bush administration's record before the commission studying the September 11 attacks, Gary Hart, a former Democratic presidential candidate who co-chaired an earlier three-year public study of the threats to US security in the 21st century, told the Guardian his...