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February 04, 2010 04:04 AM UTC

It's Official: Dick Wadhams Fears John Hickenlooper

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Conservative blogger Don Johnson of The Business Word quotes Colorado GOP chairman Dick Wadhams, speaking at the Arapahoe County Republican Men’s Club today:

[T]he Democrats are in a slightly better position in the governor’s race since Governor Bill Ritter decided not to seek re-election, Wadhams said. “If this election has to be about whether voters like John Hickenlooper, we will lose,” he predicted, adding, “This guy is dangerous. If we allow him to run as the quirky mayor of Denver, he is dangerous.”

Republican gubernatorial candidates Scott McInnis and Dan Maes are running on the issues, Wadhams observed. “The issues are on our side,” he asserted. “We always win on the issues,” he added. “There will never be a more conducive environment than we have in 2010,” he said. But, he warned, this is not 1994 when the GOP took over Congress. “We are 10 months away from the election. A lot can happen.”

Taking umbrage with Wadhams’ assertion that “the issues” are with the GOP as you may, he’s absolutely right about likability emerging as a critical point in the gubernatorial race this year. The fact is, a lot of the GOP’s modeled lines of attack don’t stick to John Hickenlooper, who is already demonstrating the ability to outcharm Republicans in their traditional stomping grounds, and his longstanding high favorability ratings serve to disarm flighty independent voters. That being the case, it’s going to come down to who the public connects with on a personal level better.

That’s why Hickenlooper is reaching out to his most potentially hostile adversaries like the Colorado Oil and Gas Association early on, softening their opposition if not fully winning them over before they ramp up their election spending. And it’s why Democrats are jumping on Scott McInnis’ adventures in superficiality for all the personal ridicule they can extract. There’s a good reason for both: as soon as you follow them to their respective logical conclusions, this election is over.

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66 thoughts on “It’s Official: Dick Wadhams Fears John Hickenlooper

  1. HA HA HA HA HA. Great joke Dick! Glad you haven’t forgotten how to “let the crap flow.”

    What a salesman! He duped the R’s in Colorado into paying him several hundred thousand dollars a year to feed them BS like this – and yet he still hasn’t produce positive results for them.

    As the saying goes, you get what you pay for.  

    1. SO the “issues” are HickenRitter wooing oil and gas and what color McInnis’s hair is??

      I don’t care about one and liberals like you should be outraged by the other. FAIL.

        1. I support the energy industry, Democrats don’t. Except when one of your own tries to be their friend, then you are all proven hypocrites. It’s not going to work, that’s all I’m saying.

          1. Then you should support someone like Hick, who worked in it.  Or someone like me, who did too.

            Tell me again how your support of the energy industry fails to extend to people who work in it.

            Because I don’t get it.  Call me stupid if you will, but you would then be in the minority.

            1. Democrats do not support the industry. The rest is just touchy feely shit. I support your employer being free to make money so you can have a paycheck and pay your internet bill, so you can tell me I don’t support you.

              1. that doesn’t trash Colorado’s priceless environment in the relentless pursuit of shareholder value. Companies that play nice and genuinely give a damn about where they operate get along well in Colorado.

              2. “You don’t love Mom and Apple Pie like I do you heathen liberals.  I’m witty and pretty and uh well a manly guy who loves his country more than the rest of you “Liberals” combined.  I’m good and your bad because I say so”.

                And this fool probably thinks his has an aromatic but robust smell every time.  What a joker.

                Hey GOPWeenie bet you can’t drink just one glass of Frac water.  Come on I double dare you to swig down that swill and profess your undying love for all that destruction of our environment so that you can ride your ATV down to the mailbox.  Who needs purple mountains majesty when we can drill our way to a total degradation of our land.  Woohoo for conservative conservation.

                1. that GOPWeenie has to use a mirror behind the toilet to see his?  Normally people who hate the environment rarely use it because they can’t wedge their way out the front door.

              3. Are you capable of posting any actual information or supporting source, ever, or are you only barely smart enough to burp up the occasional talking point, devoid of facts and usually in response to a comment or diary that does use these stand devises of argumentation?

                That may be rhetorical, certainly I have no reason to doubt I already know the answer.  

        1. You’re just like this other one, pretending you don’t  understand what I said. Don’t you want your new energy economy? Doesn’t it make you mad that ChickenRitter is sucking up to BIG OIL??

          1. I mean, not snicker sarcastically because you approve of the joke’s message, but actually laugh? Like a human being?

            I’ve never seen anyone on the blog as bitter as you are all the time. You’re just a big ol’ cauldron of rage and hate.

              1. but I’ve never seen you be nice to them.

                Honestly, you’re really angry all the time. It’s ever so slightly a little bit off-putting from your otherwise perfectly reasonable message or set of messages.

      1. Tell me again what the hell you’re bitching about?  See, I can’t tell about any policy issue you raise–outside of calling people “Liberals,” of course.

        When you have nothing else, hurl epithets.

        The problem with that is, “Liberal” is not an epithet.  It is a way of thinking.

        Better luck next time.

        1. You’re from the Western Slope right? Do you want a Governor who sucks up to BIG OIL and lets them drill your precious dirt mounds? Don’t you want us all driving Flintstone cars and using solar power to run our one teeny commissar issued light bulb?

          1. And I don’t want it raped by people who make false equivalences to “Flintstone cars.”

            I like it here.  I am a fisherman.  I like having clean water to fish in.

            I am having a hard time understanding what point you’re making about my “precious dirt mounds.”

            The land is the land.  The water is the water.  Are you saying that I have to sacrifice my land and water to “support” the energy industry?

            Good luck with that.

            1. The energy industry is a good steward of the land and a good partner. This is not about them, it’s about people who hate America’s way of life, which is built on our energy industry!!

              1. They take good care of their mud waterfalls and the well water that puts people in the hospital.

                I love America’s way of life.

                Part of what I love doesn’t include getting sick from drinking water from my well.

                Your mileage might vary.

                1. in the Sentinel today?    The short is ‘more spills in the gas patch.’  

                  GOP ‘warrior’ is an idiot.  I am afraid there is no other explanation, not to be mean or angry or anything.  

                   

              2. “THE ENERGY INDUSTRY DOES NOT DO THAT

                The energy industry is a good steward of the land and a good partner. This is not about them, it’s about people who hate America’s way of life, which is built on our energy industry!!”

                Is the stupidest fucking bullshit I have ever heard.

          2. Many of us who both live on the western slope AND have jobs that benefit from a thriving O&G industry still know that clean water and clean air and drivable roads and abundant wildlife are more important than people in Ohio getting their natural gas for a nickel less per mcf.

            Basically, that is the cost of ALL the new rules. 5 cents per mcf. Yep. (And this total is based on the economic arguments that the O&G industry presented during the rulemaking.)

            So, for a nickel we’ve gained a few critical benefits that shouldn’t have taken so much effort to wrest from “the industry.”  

  2. Scott McInnis may not be the funniest guy in the room but he is not a goofball like ChickenRitter. I would rather have an asshole who knows what he’s doing that an incompetent goofball who is fun to have beer with.

    1. Let’s see.

      Torpedoed fellow Republicans in the waning days of the Schaffer-Udall race by claiming he could’ve beat Udall, and implying Schaffer was blowing it.

      Can’t keep his, er, our 527s straight when he knows he’s being recorded.

      Flies into a rage in the face of friendly questions from sycophantic Dan Caplis.

      Refuses to discuss Colorado budget because a lifetime of political hackwork has left him unprepared to actually govern.

      Sounds like there’s a problem with your asshole knowing what he’s doing.

        1. the pure vapidity of the ‘chickenritter’ (rather than merely the purely idiotically desperate ‘hickenritter’) would add to his growing list of embarrassing electoral failures.  

                    1. On this slanderous leftist propaganda rag website is going to defend Scott McInnis, I guess I have to.

                1. You know what? McInnis and his constantly changing hair color, and the disappearing mustache, courtesy a fancy image consultant — you’re right, by themselves those are silly things to pick on. But they’re emblematic of a chameleon politician willing to change his color to suit his audience. It goes directly to your candidate’s integrity, and that is absolutely fair game for a mature political discussion.

            1. If the whole R strategy rests on somehow making Hick less likable, no wonder GOPwarrior is oozing desparation.  I can smell the stench through my computer screen.

  3. I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.

    I voted Democrat because I think illegal aliens have and deserve free health care, education, and Social Security benefits at my expense.

    I voted Democrat because Freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.

    I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies’ profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn’t.

    I voted Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I’ve decided to marry my horse.

    I voted Democrat because when we pull out of Iraq I trust that the bad guys will stop what they are doing because they now think we are good people.

    I voted Democrat because I’m way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.

    I voted Democrat because I believe that people who can’t tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don’t start driving a Prius.

    I voted Democrat because I’m not concerned about the slaughter of millions of babies so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.

    I voted Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the democrats see fit.

    I voted Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite The Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters, let alone the freaks I support for election to public office.

    I voted Democrat because I believe more government programs can be created to serve the ever expanding rolls of people using programs created just a few years ago.

    I voted Democrat because I support borrowing money to pay the interest on previous borrowings.

    I voted Democrat because my head is so firmly planted up my ………

  4. I cut-and-pasted because I believe that pretty much anyone else knows more than I do.    

    I cut-and-pasted because I think illegal behavior is fine if convenient.

    I cut-and-pasted because Freedom of speech includes plagiarism, misappropriation, and sloppy sourcing.  

    I cut-and-pasted because I love to find “facts” or pulled-out-of-some-random-butt analysis that I can now pretend is my own.

    I cut-and-pasted because I’m way too irresponsible to own my own thoughts.

    I cut-and-pasted because I believe that people who don’t understand that if it rains on Friday it doesn’t mean global warming is a commie plot.

    I cut-and-pasted because my head is so firmly planted up my ………

  5. Truthfully, because I am sensitive to the suffering of weak I have nothing to say about Scotty Mac.

    I fear this is going to make Schaffer v. Udall or BWB v. Ritter look like tight races.

  6. have to drop out of their respective races, wanna bet on whether or not Penry’s planned political demise gets put on hold?

    “Three or four years from now, we’re not going to have a conversation about jobs and all of that kind of stuff.”  -Scott McInnis

      1. and even if the committee recommended expulsion, King would probably still run.

        “Three or four years from now, we’re not going to have a conversation about jobs and all of that kind of stuff.”  -Scott McInnis

  7. Rosen’s argument, always, to his audience is that party trumps person and that Hick may appear to be an affable Howdy Dooty, but he is a card carrying member of the Democrat party and for that reason alone, all good little Rosen cowboys have to vote against him.

  8. Dick Wadham’s should be afraid because Colorado seems a silly enough state to elect the class clown over the real candidate. Hickenlooper is a big goof ball and making him Governor would be a serious mistake. McInnis has what it takes to win this he just needs to ignore all those people out there who want a bar owner to run their state.  

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