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(D) Phil Weiser
(D) Jena Griswold
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(D) Jerry DiTullio
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
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August 16, 2016 01:50 PM UTC
31 Comments
Still no one agrees with me that Trump will be history before 11/8/16? I'll hate having to write that "told you so" blog post again….
Yeah, you'd really hate that, Zap…
I disagree that Trump will drop out before the election – he may be MIA for debates, have almost no ground game, and will certainly not run a rigorous campaign. But he's committed now – he has to try to win the election. The GOP had the chance to pick another candidate, and chose to go with the Trump persona.
I, for one, would love to see Hills debating an empty lectern.
Drumpf™ would take at least a 2 point hit.
I'll bet you a C-note Trump stays in. Deal?
Ain't breaking no rule, BC So-clled Godwins law just states the longer an online discussion lasts, the more likely someone is going to refer to Hitler.
let me see when my BMW payment clears.
If You has a beamer, the bet just went up to $500
I can dream………
I have young friend with an old zillion mile beamer. He delivers pizza in it.
I would love to bet you a C-note,V….but all I got is a Bflat….
Nice to know that Gardner has a bright line between the good Republicans and others. I guess it is typical that he sees "good Republicans" defined by opposition to a Democratic politician. We already have a number of Republican leaders endorsing Clinton and many more saying they can't vote for Trump, and it isn't even Labor Day yet. I expect a number of women, Hispanics and other minorities will be voting for Clinton over Trump – which means they can't be "good Republicans," according to the junior Senator.
Love the effort to put the 2012 lessons learned (or "autopsy") into effect, Senator Gardner.
I know I'm breaking a rule here but it's beginning to sound like "good Nazis"…. Yeah Hitler talks a lotta hate trash but he can't really mean all of it, it's mostly for effect, you know how he loves to get the crowds going, and he's gonna make Germany great again!
Gardner has nothing but Gardner in mind . . .
. . . he can say he's supporting Drumpf now without repercussion because he's got nothing on the line this election.
Two years from now he'll claim he hated Drumpf and was, and is, personally against everything he stood for — but he's a solid party loyalist, a team player, the Boy Scout you wished your son would grow up to be, the duty-bound soldier you'd be proud to have your daughter marry . . .
That's how the Sqworm turns, and he knows it. No one's ever gonna' pin him down with pesky details, like credibility.
Gardner is afraid of a teabag rebellion in 4 years if he doesn't endorse Trump. House and Teabaggers could make life pretty tough with his base, uneducated whites
Wonder how the Gold Star moms of Colorado feel about this.
Now, what's missing from this diary is Gardner with Trump Hair. Coffman in Trump Hair is getting a bit frayed around the edges. C'mon Pols, give it a try, I wanna see it!
…and while you are at it, Alva, how about Trump with a Gardner smile?
Isn't his oily enough, Duke? Put Conman Cory's on him and the photo would slide right off this page.
"Clinton would change the direction of the Supreme Court for generations to come…"
He says that like it's a bad thing.
SO WONDERFUL that Cory Gardner put himself on record supporting Trump just before the Trump campaign reshuffle. Backing someone as they go for a third campaign structure. Going public with the statement just before Trump takes off the constraints of Paul Manafort to go all in with those who want to "let Trump be Trump."
It is truly a gift.
Hillary the most corrupt and dishonest politician ever. Who was that Watergate guy? Somebody Nixon, I forget. Also, Abraham Lincoln pushed statehood through for Nevada just in time for the election so he could get their electoral votes. Sorry folks, Honest Abe could play politics with the best of them!
Seriously, they never say why HRC is supposed to be the worst of the worst. While I have not been the biggest fan of either of the Clintons, they seem pretty average to me as far as politicians go in the less than Mother Teresa level ethics dept.
I often wonder if the grass roots Republican base voters even know why they're supposed to hate HRC, or Nancy Pelosi for that matter, so much, so bitterly. Why they imagine there has never been anyone more corrupt than HRC running for President. Why they believe whatever crazy thing they hear about her, especially all the alleged murders that law enforcement has completely missed every damn time. By their count she's gotten way with more murders than the characters in the first two seasons of "How to get away with Murder".
Pretty sure they're perfectly clear on why they're supposed to hate Obama so bitterly, though. GOP ops have been quite clear on that ever since the southern strategy.
It's "that 'ole time" GOPer only-one-true religion thing, coupled with those other inbred GOPer traits (regularly displayed on these pages you read here by our very own Moderatus) of — impeccable and unimpeachable logic and insight . . .
Follow along, please. I'll elucidate for those of you not as fast on the uptake as Sarah Palin —
One. Because Obama has actually turned out to be a mighty poor antichrist after all — more akin to a door-to-door salesman of inconvenient doom, than the promised one, true Prince of Darkness.
and, C. since these gotta' gotta' gotta' be "the end times" they all hope and want to believe they're living in,
well then, ergo Four. that means HRC absolutely has to be the (next, newest) Worst-Ever-Of-All-Times!!! The "Whore of Babylon" foretold in their hopey-wishey book of One (or, maybe, Two) Revelation.
(Confession: I haven't yet actually heard anyone apply that term to Clinton. Yet. But, believe me, Beeelieeeeve me, we will, BEEELIEEEEVE me!)
( Klingenschmitt still on hiatus? Shopping for another at manse in Aspen?) . . .
. . . either that, or B. they've just been getting mightily scammed and fleeced by their pious religious leaders and stalwart political idols all these years??? . . .
. . . Nah, Just messin' with you righty-whities.
. . . Six. Six. Six. Hillary's Beelzebub (and we liberals all know it)!!!!
I honestly don't think they do, BC. There seems to be a point with that type of person where they get to an "OK, that suits me, so don't tell me any more" mindset. They don't want to think hard enough to overcome their prejudices.
Yesterday, I overheard a young worker for a sub-trade on a project of mine say to his journeyman, " …yeah, when those damned environmentalists shut down the coal mines"..
I engaged the young man while we worked there and informed him of the truth, but he didn't want to hear it. He is from Hotchkiss, CO and has family members who work in the mines in Gunnison and Delta counties. He has been so inundated with the notion that environmentalists did this to his family, he cannot hear through his rage. Environmentalists would love to have that much power, but, of course, they don't.
For our readers who may yet not know this, I want to tell you why the coal mines are shutting down….it is the price of natural gas and the continuing competition from renewables….There are a number of contributors here who have much more info at their fingertips,… Michael, PK, mama, ardy, etc…but I recall the city of Washington DC now getting electricity from wind in Pennsylvania instead of coal-fired power because it is cheaper.
Natural gas power generation increased 19% in 2015 alone. Go here for the truth…
http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=26312
It's a clean secret that Pawnee power plant in Brush is going to be using some wind power from planned large scale wind plants in eastern Colorado near Pawnee Buttes.
Yesterday, I saw a train carrying dozens of wind turbine blades north to the Pawnee grasslands, which now have as many fracking tanks as prairie dog burrows.
Why is it a "clean" secret? Because coal has become inextricably wedded to conservative ideology. It's almost a religious maxim that the Clean Power Plan "hurts jobs". But economic forces are inexorably driving change. Vestas CEO said that demand for wind technicians is up 20% since last year – 88,000 jobs in the country. And these jobs start at $25 an hour.
So, to recap: my 100% coal-fired ancient power plant that created a generation of asthmatic adolescents in the area, is soon going to be getting a portion of its energy from wind turbines. Those same adolescents can get jobs in clean energy without leaving their beloved communities or slaving away in the Cargill or JBS meat plants. Just don't tell the Fossilonians. They don't want to be confused by facts.
Just as economics and geology are the real driving force behind the demise of dinosaur poop as a 21st-century energy supply, demographics will be the death knell of the Fossilonian agenda. What's going on today is the equivalent of a fire sale (pardon the pun) of their inventory while cheaper, clean, job-creating, (infinite) power supplies enter the marketplace.
Who wants an Etch-A-Sketch when you can have an iPad?
This is my recent letter in the Sentinel, on that point…a bit further west than the Pawnee.
These GOP-pols like Ray Scott need to quite trading on misery and fear and get the hell out of the way. There is a clean power revolution coming to this nation and at this point those nay-sayers are nothing but impediments (well compensated for their dirty deeds I am sure).
Great letter, Pete.
Lincoln WAS the best of them.