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February 24, 2010 02:45 AM UTC

What Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin Have in Common

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Why that would be gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis of course, “the nation’s biggest ‘Tea Party’ candidate™!” That according to the semper fidelis American Spectator:

Democrat Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper has formally announced that he’ll jump into Ritter’s boots. But to attain the governor’s office Hickenlooper will have to beat the Republican who would have been Ritter’s toughest opponent, former Congressman Scott McInnis, who was leading Ritter roughly 48%-40% in previous polls. But a February 8 Rasmussen poll has Hickenlooper over McInnis 49-45, inside the margin of error, and promising a horse race. This turnaround reflects Hickenlooper’s popularity on the urban Front Range.

McInnis is a no-nonsense conservative accustomed to abuse doled out by Colorado’s Green Left, as he’s cut from the same cloth as Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin. [Pols emphasis] Western Colorado is prime oil shale and natural gas country, and McInnis has never been shy about his pro-drill-baby-drill views. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has recently ordered stricter reviews of potential Bureau of Land Management (BLM) energy leases across the West, adding more legal and bureaucratic obstacles for energy companies to surmount. These coupled with Colorado’s already stringent new energy development laws has McInnis bristling on the stump: “What those rules and regulations did, frankly, was take Colorado from No. 1 to rock bottom of states that are friendly to do natural gas and energy business in,” he said in a speech to a Colorado Mining Association meeting in Denver last week.

We’d say the only place left to go from here is Scott “The Gipper” McInnis, which we can expect to see about any time at at the rate he’s going. Everybody do note that McInnis is front-paging this article on his own campaign website, so presumably he invites these comparisons. Which is all fine and dandy, but isn’t Dick Cheney about as popular these days as a root canal? And is “Manly Sarah Palin” really the image he wants going into the general election?

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40 thoughts on “What Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin Have in Common”

  1. Is AS talking about me?  

    Oil shale has lots of potential, the old saw goes, and it always will.

    As I noted in another diary, Shell has just withdrawn its water rights filing for oil shale development. I’m sure DickWad & Scooter are busy figuring out how to blame that on Ritter Hickenlooper, since they like to portray it as on the shelf and ready to replace all Saudi oil tomorrow but for that dastardly Interior Sect and his white cowboy hat!  (Aided and abetted, of course, by Bill Ritter John Hickenlooper).

    1. Looks like the “Green Left” could become the new “Red Scare”. (Don’t you just love those colors, they’re just so…so…so Christmasy!!)

      Next time I’m out in GJ and running low on gas, I’ll just bust up some of that good old American shale, dump it in the tank, and I should be good to go for another couple hundred miles.

  2. Why should anyone assume the voters hate the former vice president and governor of Alaska like you fringe liberals do? You assume too much about who will be voting this fall.

        1. http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo…

          Sarah Palin has upped her national profile in recent weeks, but a new poll shows that the extra attention hasn’t done her any favors. In the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, the amount of people with a favorable view of Palin has dropped to its lowest point ever recorded by the pollster. More than 70% of respondents said she’s not qualified to be president.

          Palin’s numbers don’t improve much when just Republicans are asked to give their opinion of her, the poll found.

          http://www.usnews.com/articles…

          UTICA, New York-President Barack Obama would beat Republican Dick Cheney by a sizable margin in a hypothetical presidential match-up-but 35% of likely voters said they would choose the former Vice President over the current President (49%) and another 14% said they would pick someone else, a new Zogby Interactive poll shows.

          The Zogby Interactive survey of 1,963 likely voters nationwide found also President Barack Obama’s job performance rating has increased slightly to 49% in the latest Zogby Interactive survey up slightly, from 47% at the end of December; 50% disapprove and 1% are not sure. The survey was conducted Jan. 15-18, 2010 and carries a margin of error of +/- 2.3 percentage points.

          Zogby International President and CEO John Zogby: “Obama is near 50% and has a 14-point lead over Cheney. He holds his own among Democrats, liberals and African-Americans, and even though he shows weaknesses among political independents, he’s still OK. There is some slippage in the president’s support among 18- to 29-year-olds (52%-28%). It’s still a healthy margin, but why are 20% of young voters saying they would choose someone else if the election were held today? Is there major disappointment here?”

            1. they can both go up, they can both go down, one can go up and the other down, one can up and the other remain the same, one could go down and the other remain the same.

              You really aren’t too bright are you?

              1. I’m just watching the trends. They look good for my party and bad for yours. Or have you not been paying attention to the special elections since Obama became President?

                    2. Circle circle dot dot now I have a cooties shot, but decided to go for the classic rubber v. glue retort.

                    4. But it’s true, all the real liberals think that jobs bill should have been much bigger. Is this just a corporate sellout blog then, like Romanoff supporters say?

                  2. The new darling of the Right only 48 hours ago, today has been called a RINO, a traitor and many other names by the usual suspects. It is par for the course. Unless someone passes the litmus test 100% of the time, every time the test is given, they are thrown over the side by the Right. Once again, the Republican activist base is dominated and controlled by the fanatical right (they’re not conservatives).

              2. Does having a different opinion always have to devolve into a “you’re so stupid” thing with libs?

                You can be as smart as you want in the minority in a few months.

                1. not stupid (from what I gather).  GOP’warrior’ is another matter.  (There are some ‘Dems’ on here who I also have similar thoughts about).  

                2. You have to admit, there’s no devolving any conversation with him since it starts at the bottom, and stays there despite the attempts of anyone who engages with him.

                    1. It’s not like this guy isn’t asking for a dismissive response, or that he doesn’t call his opponents “stupid” also.

                      All anonymous debaters are not equal and don’t deserve equal treatment. You know that old saying about respect being a two-way street, right? He doesn’t give any so he shouldn’t receive any.

                    2. I wasn’t being specific.  You reap what you sow.

                      I think my aversion to a dismissive response comes from the AGW stuff.

      1. It seems you don’t want those of us who can’t live on Pols day and night or disagree with you on our choice of candidate should comment on Pols?

        You do your candidates a great service!

        2. Oh come on Ellie. I have friends from all over the political spectrum, and I don’t just associate with people who I agree with. Many of those people are friends I’ve met here–Republicans and Democrats.

          Don’t confuse my unhealthy political addiction with being unwilling to talk to people who disagree with me. I could care less which candidate someone supports, or which party they belong to. All I care about is whether that person is willing to have an honest discussion.

          You are a real person, and are therefore more than welcome.

          1. My friends and family are all over the place politically and Lord knows our conversations (debates)can get heated at times. We agree to disagree and go on without rancor.  

            Looks like we’ll be having an “honest discussion”(debate) on the governors race between now and November.

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