August 17, 2010 01:56 AM UTC

So Who's It Gonna Be, Dan?

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• by: Colorado Pols

Tomorrow evening (we believe it’s 5:00 p.m., if you were wondering about the specific time) is the deadline for Gubernatorial candidates to choose their Lieutenant Governor running mate. As CBS4 reported over the weekend, Republican Gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes (it still feels weird to write that) was holed up in the Maes Cave over the weekend pondering the decision.

So who’s it going to be? Who would be willing to take on the role, knowing full-well that a Maes victory is about as likely as the Tea Party building a mosque? We’d be surprised to see an up-and-coming Republican agree to the role, because it wouldn’t be great for their career to sit on a ticket with a guy prone to bizarre insights like the U.N. bicycle conspiracy.

Apparently Maes told a Greeley radio station that he’s looking at a Weld County resident with “legislative experience,” which could mean someone like State Sen. Kevin Lundberg or Sen. Scott Renfroe. Lundberg would make sense, since he doesn’t believe in Global Warming or, curiously telecommuting, and Maes is scared of bicycles because of the United Nations, or something. Oh, to be a fly on the wall in a policy discussion between Lundberg and Maes…