President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Kamala Harris
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
98%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
95%
5%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
50%
50%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
80%
20%
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
70%↑
30%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
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State House Majority
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REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
January 14, 2011 10:32 PM UTC
52 Comments
was a swipe at McNulty. As in they were in DC sucking at the establishment teet rather than listening to their grassroots supporters in Colorado.
But they were in DC for Cory Gardner’s swearing-in, weren’t they? A dis on Gardner too?
I dunno. It looks to me like cover, but I do see your point.
Perhaps not. Can’t imagine Andrews was unaware of the reason for the trip, but why not mention that fact? Ignorant schlubs like myself (not to mention the tea partiers) probably aren’t that tuned in and could interpret it like BC and I did.
Certainly not at the expense of a fellow party member. Never. Ever. You’re right to not think it.
Wait. JOHN Andrews? Are we on Htrae?
I say good for him. Leadership means doing what’s right for the state, not pandering to the nuts (either left or right).
which could be problematic !
Politicians who ignore their base do so at their own peril. This is especially true of Republicans.
for 2nd amendment remedies for dealing with their problems so yeah it makes sense that politicians who want to govern from the center and take into account what’s best for the broad majority should fear and avoid their mentally ill base.
The only Black GOP official in Arizona is outa here:
http://www.bvblackspin.com/201…
the Frank McNulty I know and love is a corporate guy through and through. Small governments can’t afford to give, oh say…ad valorem tax credits to a giant O&G industry…now can they?
You’re saying a REPUBLICAN may be dealing out of both sides of the deck? Be still my heart.
/sarcasm
How about it, Mr. Speaker? What’s your view of this “strategic partnership?”
Lots of us view tea partiers as inexperienced or naive– and I suspect it’s a view held most virulently among frustrated mainstream Republicans.
In that light, this dispatch from Andrews fascinates. Did the state lawmakers at this meeting tell the Glenn Becksters that the Colorado governor’s office and state senate are controlled by Democrats and that the state already has slashed the government to its skimpy frame? Who do the tea partiers think is going to be trying to “grow government” in the next two years?
Regulations will not be lifted by the one-seat-majority House alone.
No SB 1070 has a chance of passing.
This meeting just smacks of pro forma theater to make these poor tea party people feel like their energies haven’t been wasted.
Sad.
Weird to say but it must suck more than it usually does to be a Republican.
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“… met for 90 minutes with 25 leaders of Tea Party and 912 groups from across the state.”
I followed the link, but could not find a list of those T-Party leaders.
I seriously doubt that they represent the footsoldiers of the movement. More likely that they represent the Armey’s and the Koch’s who have worked to subvert the T-Party to their own purposes.
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Armey, Koch etc were in on the birth of the movement and the foot soldiers’ only agenda is hating various people, ethnic groups and vague talking point ideas.
It certainly isn’t at all a populist movement as they are completely unconcerned with the little guy, the vet, the unemployed, the unemployed who are also uninsured, the 9/11 responders. They are unconcerned about regulation to prevent Wall Street from screwing us again, with standing up for the little guy against the big corporate interests, legislation to encourage companies to keep jobs here. They never existed before the threat of a (what’s the world coming to?) black President.
Army, Koch and your sweet little foot soldiers are perfect for each other. It’s a movement nurtured by the cynical and for the scared, grumpy, hateful and ignorant. How you fit in is a mystery. You may be an annoyingly pious, self righteous prig but I believe you to be well meaning and harmless unless you’re writing checks to these people.
But then again, that’s redundant. The footsoldiers ARE the leaders in the Tea Party movement. It’s something that hero-worshipping lefties have a hard time understanding.
legitimate, longstanding conservatives like Barron have a hard time understanding. Could it be he doesn’t swallow the hype as easily as you do?
What, you’re only a legitimate conservative if you’re ACP? I’ve been a conservative since 1983, so would think that I am a legitimate, longstanding conservative.
What happened in 1983?
Did a lightning bolt strike you? Did Ronald Reagan – wait, he wasn’t really much of a conservative, what with signing a bill allowing abortion and some other heresies – or, maybe, William F. Buckley speak to you in your dreams?
I just find it a little bit funny how people seem to mark a particular point in time as the occasion for “seeing the [political] light.”
He’s told us here before that that was the year . . . get this . . . that he was born.
(Which just says to me, you can’t hold being a Republican against someone, because they were born that way.)
On a personal note, that’s why no one should ever respond directly to anything that guy writes. It’s like arguing with a lamp post.
that arguing with him is more like playing with a yappy little dog and a laser pointer. You can have hours of fun if you know how.
as a sig line!
The only problem with the yappy dog/laser pointer analogy is how quickly boring it becomes for others in the room.
that puppies are cute and lovable. That when you swat them on the nose, they’re capable of learning the lesson. And, sometimes puppies grow up to become something useful.
http://www.coloradopols.com/sh…
On two counts. One, yappy little dog playing with laser pointer =/= adorable puppy who caught a rabbit. The resemblance is passing at best, while you swipe the actual metaphors others use. Two, your remark was forgettable and absurd in the context of that conversation, while mine was witty and on point, and got instant recognition as such.
The ways in which the metaphors were used was identical, and you had obviously read mine first since it was a direct reply to you. On the second point, your hubris speaks for itself.
“Identical” does NOT mean “very markedly different.”
Nice try.
If not, that statement is absurd.
Conservatism is a philosophy, not a political party.
… because no one is born with any philosophy. Also, virtually no one under the voting age would have one well formed enough to mean much of anything. (There’s no shortage of adults who fit that description, but at least they’ve had a chance to get the life experiences and time necessary to do that.)
He believes that philosophy begins at conception.
I should have written “Ignorance begins at conception.”
I suspect that there may be a defective gene which causes liberalism. Thus, conservative values may be a result of healthy DNA. 😉
Occam’s Razor.
And I assume that if they wanted you to know their names you would.
And it says something about their motives if they’re afraid to publicly stand up for them.
Which we have just witnessed with regard to the blood libel and death threats.
http://www.coloradopols.com/di…
Gee, think that might have anything to do with it? Liberals are painting a big huge target on conservatives’ backs.
You mean comments like this?
Face it, Beej, the exact same policies the Tea Party claims are destroying the nation were just fine when they were Republican policies — from massive deficit spending to an individual mandate for health care to “deem and pass.” The only difference is that Democrats might get credit for whatever benefits come from those policies this time, and that’s just unacceptable.
I mean stuff like this:
http://michellemalkin.com/2011…
or this:
http://michellemalkin.com/2011…
As far as Republican policies, sure I agree. From the beginning The Tea Party made it clear that the GOP was just as much to blame for overspending. The Tea Party is not the exclusive domain of the GOP – it was simply the only available outlet to oppose Obama’s destructive liberal policies this time around.
Malkin has no credibility.
The real reminder is that BJ is one of the “it’s fine when I do it” crowd.
Who knew? The “blood libel” comment should’ve been a dead giveaway. While Palin wasn’t the first to mis-use the term, she was arguably the most (in)famous. With all the coverage, why use it again? Either because you’re a troll, or because you’re so wrapped up in how right you are that you don’t even listen to why people on your own side are upset.
To recap: Whenever a person does it, they’re right and fuck everyone else. See? BJ thinks I’m right. After all, I’m me and I thought it.(Now who’s god-like? Bwahahahaha!)
He’s the poster boy of that crowd…
Pull the other one, beej.
it just keeps proving itself to be true.
Hasn’t John Andrews done enough damage to the Republican Party and the State of Colorado dating from when he ran for Governor?
A classic example of a true pseudo-intellectual – the kind that Spiro Agnew used to ridicule.
His only claim to having an audience is the ridiculously inane column he writes for the Denver Post. It has been clear for some time that the only reason that the Post carries his column is so it doesn’t have to make room for an actual intellectual conservative.
still hasn’t stopped spinning from the other day when Pols used the word “wittily” in the same sentence with “John Andrews” referring to one of his columns??
(It’s gotta either be that, or tonight’s mojitos.)
When they referred to Andrews as “wittily”, they were half right.