Mitchell, Littwin to Debate (Wearing Pants)

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by: Colorado Pols

Two of Colorado’s more colorful civic personalities, state Sen. Shawn Mitchell and columnist Mike Littwin, formerly of the Rocky Mountain News and now writing for the Denver newspaper, will debate the federal debt-ceiling extension impasse tomorrow night. Moderated by our friend Eli Stokols of FOX 31:

The debate, which I’m scheduled to moderate — perhaps “referee” is a better word — is set for 7 p.m. at Northglenn High School, and it’s the culmination of a couple weeks of sparring on — yep, you guessed it — Facebook.

On July 8, Mitchell wrote a note challenging Littwin a debate over the debt ceiling after a Littwin column in the Denver Post that defaulting would be the result of conservative “crazies”, the Tea Party revolution that’s now out of control and leading the country toward a financial cliff…

After weeks of ensuing Facebook comments, each one more emphatic than the one before, an actual face-to-face debate has been arranged.

And from all the chatter on Facebook and Twitter, many of the area’s political partisans are eagerly anticipating what Mitchell, a former wrestler, in an invitation posted Monday, is calling “The Debt Ceiling Slam-down”.

Local Republicans are heavily promoting this debate among their members, which seems a little odd since Littwin isn’t, you know, in office or running for office. Evidently it’s a debate that Sen. Mitchell thinks he can win, though, and with Republicans poised to lose this debate in Washington, DC where it matters…well, it’s a shot at a much-needed consolation prize. Not to mention that Littwin, as a representative of the hated liberal media saying all those things this crowd won’t want to hear, might just be cathartic to yell at on general conservative principles.

A poll follows–who will win the “The Debt Ceiling Slam-down?”

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11 thoughts on “Mitchell, Littwin to Debate (Wearing Pants)”

ProgressiveCowgirl says:

July 19, 2011 at 9:56 pm

And I’ll give him credit for that. But I’m still betting on Littwin. He may be an insufferable egotist in his own way, but I have found it’s rarely wise to bet against a ginormous mustache.

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1. JeffcoBlue says:
  
  July 19, 2011 at 10:10 pm
  
  When the pants come off or jokes about Morgan Carroll’s underwear begin. He is a mobile billboard for lesbianism.
  
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2. BlueCat says:
  
  July 19, 2011 at 10:20 pm
  
  but strongly suggesting he keep pants and shirt on.
  
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  1. ProgressiveCowgirl says:
    
    July 19, 2011 at 10:35 pm
    
    This will effectively empty the audience of Mitchell’s planted supporters, denying him his predetermined applause lines.
    
    It may also empty the audience entirely, and make Eli very uncomfortable, but, well, that’s a risk he just has to take.
    
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    1. BlueCat says:
      
      July 19, 2011 at 10:51 pm
      
      No offense to Mike, of course.
      
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3. Diogenesdemar says:
  
  July 19, 2011 at 11:31 pm
  
  in a thong, Mitchell won’t have a prayer.
  
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  1. ProgressiveCowgirl says:
    
    July 20, 2011 at 12:44 am
    
    The one that goes “deliver us from evil…”
    
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4. Libertad says:
  
  July 20, 2011 at 2:47 am
  
  Reading his material results in one knowing with “certitude” that this book and it’s cover are much the same.
  
  your right about Mitchell, he’ll destroy Littwin in a debate.
  
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5. gaf says:
  
  July 20, 2011 at 5:55 am
  
  I have heard him speak in a Q&A format. Standard conservative talking points. When I gave him some facts that totally countered a talking point, he did concede that maybe I had a point. That would have been honorable, except that I know he had been confronted with the same facts earlier, in a debate. So either he didn’t learn anything, or he denies the truth…or he sticks to his talking points even when he knows they are not accurate.
  
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Gilpin Guy says:

July 20, 2011 at 1:14 am

He gets attention and publicity ala Rush Limbaugh and can say whatever he wants.

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reubenesp says:

July 20, 2011 at 7:02 am

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