DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(R) Somebody
80%
20%
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Jena Griswold
60%↑
40%↑
(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
(D) Jerry DiTullio
60%↑
30%
20%↓
(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Somebody
80%
40%
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) Somebody
90%
10%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Somebody
80%
20%
(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Manny Rutinel
(D) Yadira Caraveo
45%↓
40%↑
30%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(R) Somebody
80%
20%
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Jena Griswold
60%↑
40%↑
(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
(D) Jerry DiTullio
60%↑
30%
20%↓
(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Somebody
80%
40%
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) Somebody
90%
10%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Somebody
80%
20%
(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
10%
(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Manny Rutinel
(D) Yadira Caraveo
45%↓
40%↑
30%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
June 15, 2010 11:21 PM UTC
39 Comments
Immediately condemning racism is the right way to go. Good for them.
It’d be great if the House Republican Leadership would follow the NoCO Tea Party’s example…I’m not holding my breath though….
whose campaign manager wouldn’t directly comment on it to Bob Moore. The Noco TP statement was unequivocal.
be offended by King’s remarks. The signs so many carry lead me to believe the leaders may not be speaking for the rank and file. Still, it does show the tea party leadership here has more guts than the GOP who never dare to differ with the Limbaughs and Becks who say much the same and worse all the time. The Tea Party is certainly less regimented than the GOP and may not really have leaders that speak for them.
I’m just happy that an official statement came out, and swift action was taken. If that pisses off tea partiers, then maybe they should think about joining a group more along their viewpoints–like the Klan.
I like to believe though, that on the whole, the statement by the NoCo Tea Party represents the feelings of the vast majority of their membership. At least I hope so.
but the intensity of the bitterness of their opposition to Obama and the over the top characterizations of him heard from those quarters, so out of proportion to anything the man has actually said or done, leave me with almost insurmountable doubts on that score.
will be chosen to fill the heartbreaking void left by King’s cancellation?
Oh Please No. Rockclimber is Broomfield not Aurora.
As it turns out, Mitchell may be a better choice than King, but perhaps not by much. Here is a post Mitchell made last week on a rock climbing forum that was emailed to me by a source. They were having a spirited discussion about the new AZ illegal immigration law.
From http://www.mountainproject.com (a rock climbing website)
American exceptionalism ….what does that really mean? Different things to different people obviously.
Yeah, but can’t Colorado Republicans see Mitchell for free?
One of the most important inventions in the history of the world, without which America would not have been able to achieve dominance?
Even if somewhere deep down in there, there’s a valid point (our political system is largely modeled off of European political though, specifically the 18th century Enlightenment period), it just comes off like an Aryan Brotherhood pamphlet. IMO, in many ways, it’s worse than what Rep. Kind said.
This is really bad, but I can’t see Sen. Mitchell saying this.
http://www.mountainproject.com…
The website link http://www.mountainproject.com
As with many forums, you have to be logged in to view or make posts. Create an account (its free) and then go to the forum page link, his comments are at the bottom of the page under his name, Shawn Mitchell
I crated an account, logged in, and verified the post.
He also continued by dismissing the sum total of immigrant’s contributions to American civilization as “some fun meals and music and holidays.”
In other words, immigrants are good for Chinese restaurants, jazz, and Cinco de Mayo–and nothing more.
originated as a term in the Communist Party.
A lot of American commies got in hot water for evoking it to Zinoviev and the Comintern for trying to explain why the workers hadn’t arisen here.
It fell out of favor during the
Third Period, but enjoyed a revival during the Popular Front era.
Let’s just say:
Gotta admit, polsters, you just can’t make this stuff up!
Though the concept apparently originated with de Tocqueville, it did have a good ride with the Communist Party of the U.S.A.
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Do they still say that any publicity is good publicity, as long as they spell the names correctly ?
Maybe I can invite him to a town hall meeting, then chastise him during my speech ?
By the way, if elected, I admit that the default mechanism in me breaks down the issue of race – on the side that favors the Korean person, just so my ethnic bona fides are on the table.
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What’s disturbing about Steve King is that if asked about himself, he’d undoubtedly say that he, of course, is unimpeachably neutral when it comes to race.
The funny thing is, if asked directly, Obama would probably respond that ALL of us – black, white, Korean, whatever – probably have an instinctual mechanism to favor people who look like us, or sound like us, or act like us. Which makes it all the more important to be sensitive about that and try to guard against it.
But ignoramuses like Steve King fail to see the logs in their own eyes.
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I look at the Obama cabinet,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/admi…
and women, Blacks, Hispanics, whatever, are still disproportionately underrepresented.
How has electing Obama moved these groups to the front of the line ?
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that Steve King is just a “typical white person”. You know, “white greed runs a world in need”. I don’t like racism on either side.
You’re atttributing that to Obama because you suppose that’s what he’d say? Seriously?
That is a direct quote from Obama, referring to his grandmother. They play it all the time on the radio, but I guess you wouldn’t listen to that.
I listen to “the radio” all the time (it’s on now!), but, sadly, the stations I get don’t play that all the time.
They play it on all the stations except 760 AM.
I’m sure I saw you in that documentary titled “Idiocracy”. What passed for intelligent and witty repartee in that film could have come straight from you.
After several hours, Joe finally gave up on logic and reason, and simply told the cabinet that he could talk to plants and that they wanted water.
HINT: You’re not Joe
but I suppose you could say my predictions are pretty accurate.
I listen to maybe a dozen stations, and none of them are 760 AM. Are you sure you’re not talking about the stations your fillings pick up?
Which is played on 600 KCOL, 630 KHOW, and 650. I’m sure Limbaugh and Hannity have played it many times before on 850 KOA, etc. And don’t bother trying to discredit the messenger; just because Beck played it doesn’t mean Obama didn’t say it.
A couple observations regarding the update:
Cory Gardner’s campaign still has not condemned the comments King made. They denied his saying that Gardner agreed with him, but they haven’t said anything about the initial comments. From the article, it appears King is definitely pissed at Gardner–why else would he say it?
The attempt by King to say that wasn’t what he was saying was just ridiculous. The excerpt he gave Bob is either a massive run-on sentence that makes no sense whatsoever, or what was being reported by Media Matters is really what he said. Bob’s point in the article about it not being apparent where King wants each sentence to begin and end is exactly right.
Also, Buck distanced himself from King’s comments. The Tea Party and Buck come off great in this, they should repudiate Republicans who make off-hand racist remarks involving Obama more often.
And I should have mentioned we posted the audio clip that Liddy’s folks posted on their website. You can see it here and decide punctuation for yourself:
http://www.coloradoan.com/news…
I must have missed it. After listening, I’m sticking with my original comment.
King was simply saying that in order to not be a nation of cowards when it comes to race, as Holder has said we are, we must talk about issues of race. He then said that Obama tends to favor black people in disputes, as evidence by the Gates case. You may dipute that, but it is an accusation that Obama is racist, not a racist statement itself. Think about it this way: if calling somebody racist is racist in itself, then everybody who has called the Tea Party racist is racist.
since Obama favored an African American in one case (in which the African American was accosted by a white police officer for entering a house that he–the African American—owned which should have been out of his price range, in the estimation of the white police officer), this is supposed to prove that Obama favors black people?
No, that isn’t a stretch or racist at all.
Perhaps one can make the assumption that King–and you—insticntively favor white people in disputes based on the same case.
Police are supposed to respond to burglary. There was no way they could have know that was his house. Gates used his race to score political points, and that is what is shameful. I favor the police and the laws of the United States rather than a race. Favoring a race would be racist.
I favor Gates in this instance. He was racially profiled and received different treatment based solely upon his race…he was a black man living in a predominantly white neighborhood…in short, “he didn’t know his place”. There is absolutely no way a caucasian person in the same situation would have been treated in the same fashion.
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Turns out King didn’t say what the earlier Thread represented that he said.
The out-of-context quote led me to believe that King was making a blanket statement about the President, at all times and in all situations.
To be candid, I would expect a man that knows that he is half-Caucasian, but grew up every day being reminded by anti-Black bigots that they consider him less worthy than themselves due to the “one drop” rule,
I would expect him to give the benefit of the doubt to a black person in a “he said, she said” situation.
It’s called learning to deal with the world we live in. Don’t know how typical Obama’s experience is, but for the blacks I know, including the ones I’m related to, it seems like half of the young black men they know have spent time in jail or prison. Half. They tell me anecdotally that half of the young black professionals they know cannot get a professional job.
Most of the blacks I know well enough to discuss such things also tell me of discrimination within the “black” community, with lighter-skinned people being disrespected for being – I don’t know – less pure ?
So Obama got it from all sides growing up. He is wired to give more credit to someone with skin coloration like his own, as I am.
But he has demonstrably overcome, or learned how to handle that inclination as he moved through different circles.
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But back to the misquote.
King said that Obama came down on the side of one Black man in one incident. That may or may not be true in the case of Professor Gates, but it is a position that can be readily defended without any evident racism.
Attacking King for this, in my admittedly less-than-angelic opinion, shaped by growing up in a particular environment, is a stretch.
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