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September 30, 2021 11:32 AM UTC
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Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and days of auld Lang Sias?
We’ll drink a cup of kindness yet, to Auld Lang Sias.
Dave Young has been working hard and effectively as Treasurer. The office has sometimes been a launching pad for higher office: Romer, Owens, Schoettler, shorter Coffman.
"Term-limited Larimer County Clerk and Recorder Angela Meyers is now rumored to be
looking atbeing forced into challenging incumbent Democrat Jena Griswold, assuming Peters doesn’t run herself."Fixed it for you.
“the candidates that Republicans DO have are a disaster…….”
The key word here is “candidate.” Republican have good potential candidates in the Legislature. I’ve identified several of them them before now.
The difference for the legislators is that they are pragmatic, common sense, conservatives. Any of them would be stupid to run on a ticket with TrumpWorld candidates.
How many “good candidates” can the GOPchuck chuck if the GOPchuck could chuck good candidates?
I’ve heard of a wish-sandwiches, I guess now you’ve added wish-candidates?
By that “good”-but-unelectable analysis and rationale CHB, it seems you might now consider George McGovern a “good candidate” (although utterly unelectable)?
. . . Yeah, I didn’t think you would . . .
McGovern was the wrong candidate at the wrong time. He got 17 electoral votes. Nixon won the popular vote by a 60.7% to 37.5% margin.
Have a nice day, Diogenes. Keep walking the street, with your lantern, looking for that honest man.
Thanks! And, you also!
(BTW, I haven't completely given up hope of finding some of that honesty in you
. . . )
This reads like an echo chamber piece.
Look, there is no way I’d vote for Heidi over Jared. Jared is a family friend who I trust on stuff well beyond politics and who has done a good job leading the state through a historic crisis. But that doesn’t make Heidi a disaster; she is just going up against the 1985 Chicago Bears and nobody wants to be associated with the blowout that is coming her way.
As for Eli, your “disaster” argument rests on a single ad that you didn’t like that wasn’t aimed at you. That doesn’t mean Eli is going to beat Bennet, but on the basis you grade him any GOP candidate in any race would be a “disaster”.
When you have a standard like that the problem isn’t the examinee, it is the exam drafter
I, as with many others here, am anxious for the day the Colorado GOP ever begins nominating candidates who aren’t a disaster . . .
(. . . can’t be certain that I’m in the intended audience for your post, however . . .)
I guess it would help if maybe we distinguished among the many various categories of current GOP disasters? Say, for example, between EDs (electoral disasters), PDs (philosophical disasters), and those common, everday IDs (intellectual disasters)?
Sydney Powell and Eastman are in a unique category of Colorado GOP disasters by themselves. They are whackos sliming honorable Republicans in ways that Boebert would be envious of. So much crazy. So little substance. Where's Cory when you are looking for steady, realistic leadership?
Did you mean Jenna Ellis rather than Sidney Powell? According to her Wikipedia write-up, Sidney has no historic connection to our state.
No, Elliot, it isn’t the governors’ brightly shining star that makes Ms. Ganahl a disaster. It is her apparent lack of…confidence.. ?
I recall other Republican women who, while of questionable competence and experience, were convinced to run for office by their party. I see another Laura Bradford Syndrome victim about to happen…except Ms Ganahl will almost certainly lose..
ps…I am only slightly offended by the echo chamber remark. Echo chambers don’t make their own noise. 😉
If by "confidence," you mean "qualifications," then, yeah! . . .
. . . Heidi operates on the far left-hand side of the Dunning-Kruger curve.
If Lang Sias runs, I'll be writing about his past as an Air Force officer present at the Tailhook scandal, and covering up fellow officer's misdeeds.
Tailhook was a Navy scandal, KW. A tailhook catches the arresting wire and brings the plane to a stop. If Sias really was an Air Force officer, as you wrote, his presence at Tailhook would have been peripheral.
Btw, the Pat Schroeder article identified him as a lieutenant in the Navy.
kwtree: Colorado Sun covered Navy Lieutenant Lang Sias at Tailhook 1991. Article is here. Essence of Sias' explanation:
I’ve seen Sias’ denials. They aren’t credible, considering who he was with and how he spent his time that night at Tailhook. And yes, he was a Navy officer, V. I’ll write more later when I have time.
Lang – great man. I hope he runs. Really don't care that he's lost in the past – he's carried the GOP flag in difficult races, and that actually counts more for me, than just going for an easy-win. He's the kind of Republican (moderate, nuanced) that can help turn the tide in place like Colorado, that's increasingly blue. I hope he does it – he's got my support.
I agree that Dave Young has done a fine job. However – I am always going to favor someone who is fiscally conservative. Hope you're all well!
I'm curious … what did Lang Sias study to earn a MSc from London School of Economics? Management? Economic Development? International Affairs?
a background as a Navy aviator / Air National Guard / FedEx pilot, some sort of law practice, and a term and a half in the legislature don't immediately translate to experience with government finance. And I'm not certain what "fiscally conservative" means in the context of a state treasurer, so perhaps you could explain that, too.
How is Dave Young not a fiscal conservative? Not every Democrat is a spendthrift progressive.
By "fiscally conservative" GOP treasurer candidate, do you mean like conserving business money into his own pocket, like Brian Watson, past treasurer candidate? Or having conflicts of interest that could benefit his own business outcomes while treasurer? Or not paying taxes or liens? I suppose that those are all good "Republican fiscally conservative" practices, modeled by the Former Guy.
Perhaps in your book, "fiscally conservative" means showing contempt for public servants, as Watson also did.
Dave Young is doing fine as treasurer, and seems a fit custodian of the state's money.
Damn, I was looking forward to the rematch between Lang and Ryan in the 8th with Faye coming in late in the game having only lost one election her 57.5 years in elected office.