(How do you know when your political clout has completely expired? When some guy named Dan Maes publicly tells you to go jump in a lake. – promoted by Colorado Pols)
GOP frontrunner gubernatorial candidate (did I really say that ?) Dan Maes issued a press release this morning responding to Tom Tancredo’s callout by noon this coming Monday.
Press Release
Republican Designee Dan Maes Responds to Tancredo
Evergreen, CO, July 23, 2010 – This morning Republican Designee for Governor, Dan Maes, responded to the July 22 ultimatum by ex-congressman Tom Tancredo which stated that Maes or his republican opponent, Scott McInnis, should step down from the race for Governor if they win the primary and are losing in the polls to John Hickenlooper. “This is an arrogant and absurd position for Tom to take but it is certainly his right to do so. I will not step down from this race at anytime, period.” Maes declared. “Tom thinks I am unelectable because of some bad press. If he actually has the courage enough to step into the arena I suspect he to will get some bad press.” Maes claimed. “I am proud to continue our campaign with the state assembly victory, and polls showing us competing head to head with Mayor Hickenlooper at our back.” Maes concluded.
Looks like the showdowns a comin’ folks. Clear the streets, lock up the women and children, hitch up the horses real good, and be afraid…..very afraid.
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OTOH, ACP will get loads of mileage out of this.
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He has to switch to the Constitution Party and run as their candidate for Guv, or eat crow.
The HIGH NOON ultimatum is OBE, specifically this Maes announcement.
Perhaps Ben will accept the ACP nomination to run for Senate ?
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whatever gets him the most ink.
Or airtime.
He’s an addict.
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or to keep him from being made the ACP nominee after switching,
or maybe something else.
http://www.coloradopols.com/di…
Dick is 100% correct: a TT gubernatorial candidacy with ACP dooms his tenure as GOP Chairman.
Tancredo will pull more votes than the GOP’s candidate, whoever that is. He will get the conservative vote and the “concerned about immigration” vote. Maes/ McInnis will be left with only the “party before integrity” GOP diehards like Mike Rosen, plus their families an staff.
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the first one was more correct.
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Thanks for the clear up Barron.
And thanks Tom for making be ashamed to be a Republican.
God, where’s Penry?
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some folks used to vote based on their fears. That could happen again.
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Bailouts will have him dead in the water.
How in the hell could you sue someone to keep them from switching parties? On what possible legal theory or cause of action could that be done? Incredible.
It’s laughable and shows how desperate Wadhams and the establishment GOP is. No one to blame but themselves when they put up corporate shills as candidates who are liars and thieves, just like the corporate masters they serve.
What goes around comes around.
But according to sources that shall not be named, they couldn’t find a law that would allow that.
Too bad for the GOP the Guv is not a Republican with a Republican Legislature. He could call the Legislature back into an emergency session, rubber stamp a law that forces people to remain a member of one party, sign it, and voila!! problem solved !!
popcorn bits get stuck in my molars. Pass the raisinets!
to combat the butter.
Who puts butter on their raisinets?
He put butter on everything.
One of my pet peeves. “To” being used for “too”. Who is his press person?
Apparently Maes knows better than to get sucked into a showdown with a crazy man?
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about Maes, I mean. He will go toe-to-toe, head-to-head with Tancredo rather than backing down.
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I wrote:
I meant:
Typo!
I resemble that remark!
He comes across as principled on this. And you know he’s been offered some sweet deals if he would drop out. I also think the way he worded this was good, not polished but it comes across as authentic.
I think Hick will cream him in the general. But I think this may give Maes the primary. And at that point Hick should get serious because Maes keeps going from not a chance to winning.
My respect for Megyn Kelly keeps increasing. Drop dead gorgeous and she has a razor sharp mind. Question: do you libs think she is being fair to Obama, despite being on fox news?
an amoeba has a razor sharp mind.
you don’t answer the question but resort to personal attacks. Typical. Also, doesn’t Tancredo look a bit like Yoda in that shot?
I think he looks more like Winnie the Pooh. With a belly full of hunny. To be sure, he IS being interviewed by a dazzlingly (izzat a wurd?) beautiful woman. To an egoist like the Tank…just like hunny.
I seldom watch Faux news anymore, though, so I don’t think I’ve ever heard her speak.
And I don’t think I need to.
Because the vast majority of criticism I’ve received from others has been for being foolish enough to treat you as in any way relevant or rational, as I did most recently when I tried repeatedly to explain to you why neither a particular, unique group of Republican Hispanics, nor all Coloradans of all ethnicities, is representative of all Hispanics, concepts you never could quite grasp.
that you were one perpetuating the lie that what Democrat Lations think represents what all Latinos think.
You made a claim that 60% of Latinos favored the AZ law. When called on it, first you linked to an article about the only group of Latinos in the nation, one isolated Republican group, that has supported the law. When your error was pointed out, after repeatedly denying that it failed to say what you claimed, you then linked to a poll (under the subject heading “I was right after all”) that said that 61% of Coloradans favored the AZ law. When your new error was pointed out to you, after repeatedly denying that it failed to say what you claimed, you accused everyone who had pointed out your errors of being racists for not accepting that one group of Republican Latinos does not speak for all Latinos, and that all Coloradans do not speak for all Latinos. Now you claim that all of this adds up to me “perpetuating the lie that what Democrat (sic) Lations (sic) think represents what all Latinos think”? Sure, Beej. Whatever you say.
I think you know what I meant, and yes it is “Democrat”, as in “Democrat Party”. They are most certainly not democratic. Marxist, socialist, maybe, but not democratic. Nice dodge on your racism though. Keep holding them Lations hostage to the Democrat Party.
And unlike Gretchen Carlson isn’t afraid to appear smart. As to fair, I only see her in clips on The Daily Show and I’m guessing those are not fully representative of her reporting.
Judging her on her looks.
She is very smart. And very good at what she does. If by taking facts our of context is your thing she’s your kind of anchor. If you like someone who cherry picks some facts and not others and stitches them together into a narrative, she’s your kind of anchor. She’s a fair representation of Fox “News” in general. What is so frustrating about her is that she is extremely intelligent! What is most worrisome is not being able to tell whether she actually believes half of the shit that comes out of her mouth. I’m all for giving credit where credit is due, she is just as effective as your O’Reillys or Glenn Becks with half the insanities and all the conspiracy theories.
Whether she’s good looking or not I’ll leave to others to decide. She’s not really my type. I’m more into David Shuster or Thomas Roberts.
Ultimatum countdown ticker:
http://blogs.denverpost.com/th…
Unfortunately ColoradoPols doesn’t allow scripts (understandably, I suppose), or I’d post the widget here.