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See? Politically, it's all good for Coffman. Coffman saves the day! Why you guys keep insisting that this is a problem for him is beyond me. If it all goes south it'll just be… Coffman goes down fighting to save the day! Coffman bloodied but unbowed fighting for Colorado vets! Coffman, Coffman, Coffman. Win/win no matter what happens. This is a Coffman gold mine.
Yeah, everybody loves Rep. Mike Coffman (D).
Yep, Coffman is coming across as the guy that gets stuff done. No one is going to care that Coffman had responsibility for oversight of the VA- he's solving the problem.
Senator Coffman and Gardner? It's coming.
So what are you personally going to do about it? Write a letter to the editor? Talk with your neighbors?
Coffman and Gardner get away with this crap because people like us (I could be writing LTEs and other outreach, too), let him get away with it. Our press also functions as stenographers, for the most part, just reprinting whatever press releases Coffman gives them.
If we truly don't want Senators Gardner and Coffman voting Supreme Court nominees, we'd all better grow a pair (tits, balls, or both) and start speaking and writing the truth at every opportunity. It's just too goddamn easy to laze into cynical acceptance.
A strongly worded 150-word or less letter to the editor sounds about right. Maybe challenge Coffman to a push-up contest and call him out for being a mealy-mouthed bitch while he lays gasping on the ground for air.
I think we'd be better off trying to get a viable candidate to primary Mike Bennet. He'd have to stand for something(s) and he'd be doing it in an oppositional forum that the papers would be interested in paying attention to.
Very good idea, especially if Coffman runs against him since Coffman is getting so much coverage and Bennet isn't.
Morgan Carroll. Even the name SCARES Republicans..
All perfectly good suggestions and worth doing. I get letters to the editor published quite often, as it happens, and if two or three friends notice that's a lot. But that's all small stuff with tiny if any significant influence in big elections where most voters don't read any news, much less letters to the editor, much less long articles on politics, and don't have a liberal neighbor dropping by to talk politics.
Only Dem pols and their ops attacking Coffman and putting out a positive message of their own in big noisy public ways on TV, radio etc. and, coming into the election, through ad campaigns, can hammer a message sufficiently to make a dent. If they don't have the guts or smarts to do it, it won't get done. No number of Little Engines That Could is going to get it done for them. Sorry. Get on their case, not mine. They're the ones who have to do it.
How much good did all of us agreeing on what a phony Gardner is do? Coffman v Romanoff? Not enough to combat lousy Udall and Romanoff TV ad campaigns. Pretty sure my contribution of published letters, dozens over the years, has had little effect except to make my friends and me feel good about seeing my name in the letters section. Still do it, though. It feels good to get it off my chest. But we can't make up for the decisions made by Dem pols and their campaign teams.
And I'm sure as hell not lazy having volunteered in numerous campaigns and GOTV efforts, canvassed my ass off in the hot sun, phone banked and organized get acquainted parties and fund raising events in my day. I just don't rely on wishful thinking or irrational emotion. That's not cynicism. It's recognition of objective reality.