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May 24, 2012 05:05 AM UTC
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‘Mike Coffman is acting UnAmerican’
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He essentially suggested there may be two Mike Coffmans — one who pretends he is a moderate in public, and the other the authentic extremist. If you add the guest column from the Post today with Coffman’s other comments throughout the past week, that is a fair conclusion.
“Tainting” the GOP brand. The GOP brand is already rotten to the core. One more microbial speck of shit is going to spoil it? Puh-leeze. It’s time to recognize the Repuglicon party for what it is: the rotting, stinking, maggot infested carcass of a once-honorable contributor to the American dialog. Talk about who is really not American–it’s Coffman and his radical, regressive posse of thugs. They’re not even Republicans.
he really did misspeak. I do not forgive him for four years of voting against women, children, the poor, the elderly, the environment, and so much more. His record in Congress is abysmal. I do not forgive him, especially, for purging the voter registrations of many hard-working Americans, in an attempt of shameless voter suppression. http://www.wired.com/threatlev…
I hadn’t seen the Coffman interview with the local reporter until the Ed Show tonight. I almost felt sorry for Coffman. He just didn’t know how to get out of the mess he had stepped into, and came across as a deer in the headlights. Good. He deserves to be frightened for being so boneheaded. If I win the lotto, I’m giving my winnings to Joe. (Don’t hold your breath, Joe, I don’t actually buy lottery tickets.)
since Konola claims not to buy lottery tickets!
$3 week for the remaining 5 months. I’m sure Joe would happily take it.
Mistake? So this was just an accidental slip in front of an adoring crowd of fellow-travelers who were eating up your every bigoted word?
No! A mistake there in Elbert County would be for you to have praised Obama as an American patriot who 24-7 has the welfare of his nation and her citizens at the forefront of his thoughts and cares. Now that would have been a mistake, Mikey. A mistake you’d really be afraid to own up to.
Oh, unless by mistake you mean your words being captured, and your racist scorn for our president and your commander in chief being broadcast beyond that little circle of your slobbering Repuglicon knuckledraggers.
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It isn’t even in his new district. His old one, yes. His new one, no.
Successful image of a moderate voting record aside, the guy votes against women, children, the elderly, the poor, minorities, the environment, and everything the President has ever tried to get accomplished. He’s just as much a wingnut as Lamborn. In fact, he votes 91% of the time with Republicans. http://projects.washingtonpost…
The only credit that should be given is to his marketing team for ever making him look like a moderate. When he had one vote in the last six months to not fund the military to the extent that they had asked, it was a thrown bone to the liberals, at a time when he had to get some press as a moderate. That’s the real story here.
Obviously, before the loon Ricketts was busted pre launch in the smear offensive the repubs were preparing, Coffman was just one more birther voice that was to turn a trickle into a torrent.
When the birther/un American/radical black christian/marxist scam blew up in Reince Preibus and the RNC’s faces, they pulled back, leaving people like Coffman, King, Bennett from Arizona, and a host of other red shit bags twisting in the wind.
The Stolen Valor Act violating green zoner was left to his own devices, and he stepped in it pretty good.
The repub clones in CD6 don’t give a shit about what the coward said, as they vote red and any red, but this might resonate with anybody that wants competent, strong, principled leadership in their Rep.
And the redistricting might be a factor.
So the guy that didn’t stop to think there might be a recording device at a town hall in one of the most goobery Counties in the nation might regret a tailor made, race baiting dog whistle blurb.
Maybe.
…..could top Coffman in his disdain for diplomacy, statesmanship or hiding his attraction to playing with the party of paranoid, survivalist, WANNABES who presume a few dozen cases of beans and franks and all the bullets they can afford will see them through the madness of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)or possibly more catastrophic, a call on Chinese credit. Oh, yeah, that sawed off pissy pants Jarhead has been rattling his saber for two years at China because they have a lock on rare earth minerals. Another Republican and Democrat case for corporate mining welfare.
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He is a politician. If he did not at some point practice that line or one similar to it he is an idiot. It it really, truely is an off the cuff remark the guy is an idiot. Either way he needs to lose his rank and retirement; along with being booted out of office.
The story is picking up traction, KOS and HuffPost today. I do not remember seeing it in The Hill, but give it a little more time – and the guy back here in D.C.
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that he had delivered multiple times before.
We’ll never know but like Pols said if there hadn’t been a recording device, Coffman would have never apologized.
All the big MSNBC shows featured the now infamous video. The Last Word also featured both intrepid reporter Kyle Clark and Miklosi although there was a tendency to pronounce it more like Miklusky. Kyle Clark, by the way came across really, really well. This could be a big career break for him and if so, he deserves it. Also credit to news9 for going with it while other local channels tend to avoid anything the least bit controversial.
The story with video was also prominently featured on the Ed Show and the Rachel Maddow Show as well. I believe Hardball went into it too. I suspect knowing that the video was going to receive such wide exposure was what forced him to give up trying to sweep it under the rug and write the Post op-ed.
I don’t expect Coffman’s lame mea culpa in the Post to be the end of it either. And, by the way, did everyone notice how completely he avoided using “misspoke” in the piece? He still offered no explanation for why he would say things he claims he never believed. He still owes his constituents an explanation for that.
How much lasting damage it will do is questionable but I love that going so far overboard pandering to people to open their wallets has resulted in his having to piss off the birthers by saying he knows their crap is nonsense and to reveal himself as just another cynical, two faced pol to everyone throughout the spectrum.
All efforts to keep this a part of the story throughout the election cycle will be worthwhile. Will the big money Dems open their wallets to put up plenty of ads featuring that priceless video? Will the birthers be pissed enough to go third party? Will indies take a serious look at Miklosi or at least learn how to pronounce his name? At least this is getting to be more fun than any previous CD6 election.
On first reading I missed that Coffman did say “I misspoke” one time. So, when I saw that he did say it on second reading, I realized that I had been mistaken in saying that he avoided using”mispoke”. Sorry. I misspoke>.
Now that’s the kind of thing that really is misspeaking as opposed to saying something like… I read Coffman’s op-ed and in it he says he’s not sorry for anything he said and he really believes that Obama was born in Kenya and hates America. That would just be lying.
Now do I get to say how brave it is of me to admit my mistake? No?
a third post, today. 😉
from USMC Publication MCRP 6-11B W/CH 1, Marine Corps Values:
“Make sound and timely decisions. Once you make a decision and discover it is the wrong one, don’t hesitate to revise your decision. Marines respect the leader who corrects mistakes immediately instead of trying to bluff through a poor decision.”
It doesn’t matter what Coffman says, how many times he apologizes, Colorado Pols will never let him up. You’re like a pit bull with a chew toy.
Fortunately, non political hacks accept apologies better than you do.
…..for Coffman. His fundraising can only benefit from his “American Exceptionalism” semi-rant. I cannot speak for Colorado Pols but as far as I am concerned, Coffman has had it too easy. From his incessant bleating about his “combat” status to his embarrassing exhibition of robotic, repetitive, I stand by my statement non-statement. Question is what statement is he referring to. A man who displays such a lack of coherence would not be my choice for defense counsel and certainly not a position of leadership in a “combat” environment or in the U.S. House of Representatives. However, we are talking about a party that gave GWB a pass on desertion from the Texas Air Force National Guard, swooned at the sight of his cinched up balls in a flight suit and started a war without valid intelligence and caused the most brutal recession since 1929.