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June 23, 2010 09:43 PM UTC
31 Comments
But has Suthers given up? It has to be a shock to go from a slam-dunk to behind in the race. It may be that Suthers doesn’t have the fire in the belly.
He almost lost in 2006 to a candidate that couldn’t raise any money and who couldn’t articulate what the AG’s office even does, to say nothing of how she would have done it differently.
He also has baggage. This is a winnable race for Garnett if he raises the dough and hits where it counts.
The race was closer than it should’ve been, but it wasn’t close by an objective measure.
2006 Race for Attorney General – General Election
Candidates Percentage
John W. Suthers (R) 52.5%
Fern O’Brien (D) 43.4%
Dwight K. Harding 4.2%
Total votes 1,502,922
It’s way too early for such thoughts, in my opinion.
Suthers was not planning on running for Attorney General, before he decided to jump back into the race for Attorney General.
Remember?
http://www.coloradopols.com/sh…
So I’d say he’s bored with the AG’s office and looking for something higher; he’s running this year because he’s got no other option if he wants to stay relevant.
Its going to be a good year for GOP down ballot races….party intensity and turnout will drive a big Suthers win. A $100,000 TV buy won’t be noticed in the midst of massive Gov and Senate buys—Garnett will go back to whatever a Boulder DA does, and Suthers will be AG for four more years.
I mean, it’s not like John Suthers did something like release someone out of prison who then went on to murder four people.
Oh, and it’s not like it was Boulder’s DA Stan Garnett who prosecuted that person who murdered four people.
I mean, if any of that were true, those would be some well-played TV ads. Not to mention what TV presences we see not paid for by the campaigns.
But luckily for Suthers, he doesn’t have to worry about anything like that.
It could be worse. I could be Jack’s least favorite curmudgeon.
Count me as a Suthers fan—-long record of public service (a prosecutor in Colorado Springs where the title actually means something); Director of the Colorado Dept of Corrections; US Attorney and now Attorney General. Now Stan—a corporate shill attorney and now Boulder “DA”. Colorado LOVES Boulder, and has so much in common with corporate attorneys. In a strong GOP year, Suthers will be fine, and Garnett a wannabe like his colleague Senator (not) Tom Strickland.
Your most gripping point is that Stan Garnett is a “corporate shill” and that the Boulder DA doesn’t really have to do anything?
I’d say the people of Boulder County disagree. Not that it’s relevant to this race, but the most famous murder of all time in the US was investigated, in part, by Boulder’s DA.
That is, unless, you’d find it appropriate to blame all the failings of Bill Clinton on Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, what with also being two terms removed.
I don’t understand your comment. But, lest there be doubt on this point, I don’t blame Garnett for failing to crack an earlier case handled by the Boulder DA. I was just pointing out that it’s quite odd to give credit to the Boulder DA’s office for its work on that particular earlier case, as the above poster appeared to do.
The claim was that being a prosecutor in the 20th Judicial District doesn’t mean anything, unlike being a prosecutor in the 4th Judicial District.
Of course they mean exactly the same thing, and the poster was pointing that out by reminding us that the Boulder DA’s office handled a very notorious case (whether or not it was handled badly by the previous officeholders).
I still don’t understand your comment to me, but I don’t need to understand everything.
I was assuming your comment was not just an off-topic shot at people who are not the DA anymore. If that’s the case, then I totally agree with you. Alex Hunter and Mary Lacey suck ass.
Those same tough “law and order hang em high” voters who gave us Alex Hunter and Mary Lacey have now given us corporate lawyer Stan Garnett as “DA”. That’s a hell of a threesome, and I believe most Colorado voters are not going to confuse Stan Garnett (straight out of the Brownstein firm)with a gentleman who has spent his entire life in public safety/public service–the Attorney General (now and in the future) John Suthers. Any bets on who gets EVERY newspaper endorsement (other than the Boulder Daily Camera)?
I do know how to use it! I was just in a hurry.
Obamacare lawsuit has made Suthers a hero outside of this illiterate pissant blog. He wins by 15 percent
I missed you.
All politics aside, thanks for using the term pissant. I’d secretly love for that to come back into regular use.
Hardly a day goes by without someone accusing someone else of being a pissant.
With the public at large, even REpublicans, it’s a foregone loser. Suthers knows that, as does the AG here in Florida.
A total waste of money and effort.
And he’s run and won 2 offices. I think he’s going to win by a very comfortable margin.
And GOPChickenHawk – the whole Boulder epithet doesn’t work anymore – ask Bob Schaffer who lost to Mark “Boulder Liberal” Udall.
…since when, exactly?
$100,000?
$250,000?
These buys are getting a lot of play, but they’re basically chump change. Bennet is going to be spending that in a week, and between the Republicans, the congressionals, the IEs, etc, these guys are going to be totally submerged. People are going to get confused, and start looking down ballot wondering why they can’t make Bennet treasurer and AG also.
Seriously, I don’t think $100,000 buys his way past the D by his name this year. He better hope Bennet runs an awesome campaign and turns out a lot of Dems, or he doesn’t have a shot.