Browsing around the website of GOP CD-7 candidate Joe Coors, Jr., we found something quite amusing. Under the “Issues” section, here’s the Coors plan on “Budget and Spending.”
And here’s the position of the Joe Coors campaign on “Jobs.”
As you can see, Joe Coors’ solution on the issue of budgets and spending is very similar to the Coors plan for jobs. And by “similar,” we mean identical! It’s perhaps a bit confusing since Republicans answer just about everything with a pledge to “cut government spending.”
But we’re thinking that they didn’t intend to use the exact same copy for both–for one thing, an insult to laid off public sector workers. Coors’ big draw is his run against incumbent Rep. Ed Perlmutter is that as a businessman, he “knows how to create jobs.” But even the most conservative Republican should admit that creating jobs requires something more than rhetoric on spending–especially coming from the “businessman’s candidate.”
Is this how you represent your signature issue, folks?
Most likely this is just an error, the same content erroneously copied into two issue pages. Unfortunately, the website has now been up for months, so a number of prospective voters have likely already seen it. If they haven’t, if it’s been like this since launch with no notice, we’d be concerned that except for broadcasters happy to take Coors’ money, maybe nobody cares.
one size DOES fit all.
which is what the rest of the GOP’s “Jobs” agenda has consisted of so far (and of course, more tax cuts for the wealthy — just because).
which is what the rest of the GOP’s “Jobs” agenda has consisted of so far (and of course, more tax cuts for the wealthy — just because).
Looking…looking…Looking for the Veterans issue page.
Nope. Just like the rest of the Republican’t Party.
In all seriousness, he might just be willingly ceding the issue to Ed. He’s a rock star at UVC, and he’s been leading the charge on getting the new VA hospital built.
The whole problem with the businessperson as job-creator argument is that business do not hire people because people need jobs; businesses hire because they can’t get work done without the extra help. If businesses can do the same amount of work with less people, as been happening post-recession, “job creation” becomes a moot point.
If I can make an identical profit with 50 or 60 employees – I will go with 49. Why? Because a larger number leads to a slower bureaucratic system.
maybe Mr. Coor’s heart really isn’t in this race. He, so far, seems to be just phoning it in. Is he too rich to be bothered with any of the details, or his he just doing his duty to the Party this year because they couldn’t find anyone decent to run against Perlmutter?
You’re right and i agree with what you said.
more likely, this.
is that he was persuaded to do this by the GOP kingmakers in order to make the Dems spend more holding the seat. They don’t really expect to win it; why would Coors really behave like he wants it?
Make the Democrats spend a lot of money, like you say, but also having a serious and high-spending Republican congressional campaign in the district definitely drives up turnout for Romney, whether Coors wins or not.
…a scandal of biblical proportions, and will undoubtedly signal the end of the GOP as a party of note in American Political history.
Thank you for doing the hard-hitting, dangerous reporting ala Woodward and Bernstein, Pols.
Rather than poking fun at candidates’ goofy foibles, it’s got to be a scandal of Biblical proportions to merit a blog post? Okay then …
frogs fell from the sky, blood red rain fell, and a plague of locust followed. Just sayin’
Cookie cutter ads with his pants too long, an expensive website put together by people too lazy to proof read it and an overall lousy campaign. Joe is paying lots of money and has nothing to show for it. He’s headed to a 20 point loss if he doesn’t get it together soon