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April 16, 2007 06:39 PM UTC
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Wow, so the Dems have come together behind one candidate already and that one candidate has a boat load of money to start. Meanwhile, the R’s Senate Committee told their best candidate, McInnis, not to run because he unwisely paid his own wife from his campaign fund and has a record as a lobbyist. Of course, he was the only one who could have started out with money close to Udall’s.
So, who wants to be the GOP’s Beauprez/Coors of 2008? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
I don’t think McInnis was the best possible candidate (for a number of reasons, I think Shaffer is).
Secondly, I was under the impression that the Senate committee never told McInnis not to run, and that he decided he didn’t want to due to all the effort it would take and the paycut he would get if he won.
Don’t worry about the GOP. We’re just fine, thanks. There will be no primary in this red state. Bob Schaffer will emerge from the fog to rescue the state from the narrow liberalism of wealthy left-wing donors. He will ride a united GOP to victory in 2008.
Good luck latte Mark!
Mark is seen across the state is a liberal from Boulder. If the Repubs field a strong middle repub Mark may have a much harder fight then anyone is thinking.
Let’s face it, this is Schaffer’s race unless–and this may very well happen–the national environment for the GOP is so messy that Colorado voters won’t give a damn how liberal Udall is as long as he isn’t a Republican.
Then we’ve got a horse-race.
Schaffer is congenial enough to come across as center-right. Even if he’s viewed as an Allard-esque conservative I doubt it will hurt him. Here I’d rather be running as a conservative than a liberal. You don’t see campaign ads about someone’s conservatism–it’s always a scary add with dark colors and low voices about how liberal someone is. Liberalism–not conservatism–is the great Centennial scare tactic.
With that said I fear an anaemic GOP POTUS candidate, a major Schaffer campaign gaffe (like Beauprez’s maniacal obsession with immigration), or a deadly national environment like 2006 (not likely)–all of that could screw the Red Team.
But Shaffer is no “middle repub” and it looks like he’s the one, and it dosen’t look like he’s going to try to run to the middle either (not a chance in hell). How do you see a Shaffer Udall matchup ? ( all mouth frothing from Dobby aside)
No if a right winger comes into play… for sure it’s udall’s race.
Look a number of repubs won state wide last time. Udall does not play great outside of the denver metro and cd 2 areas. He is not loved by the western slope nor past castle rock.
Tele-skiing down a glacier? Fixing a fence in Durango? Flyfishing in Steamboat?
Nah, didn’t think so.
Udall will have a tough fight on his hands. To be honest I’m surprised Mark has been so quite. You’d think he’d be more active trying to prove his moderate strips and not let himself be painted as the boulder liberal.
He doesn’t even have an opponent yet. How can he be painted as anything?
because he’s not telling or directing people to think anything else about him all they have to go on is he’s a Boulder Democrat who’s been in congress for a while. If I were him those are the last things I’d want people to know about me and I’d be doing anything I could to portray myself as moderate. It’s not an image that will come naturally for him so he better get cracking.
wasn’t that where Tim Wirth was in 1986?
I basically agree. The only thing I can think of is they want to see who the likely GOP candidate will be before they decide on what “image” they want for him and how to pursue it. I’m not sure which way is better, waiting or risking going down the wrong path.
Udall’s crunchier than a bowl full of tree bark and Trader Joe’s granola.
Many of the folks in DC are really worried about the drain of cash from the low giving state like CO towards prez level and away from state, local and city races in 08. There is a real chance we can loose support on a state level because races wont have the money to run.
A significant base to catch the ones running away from the failed policies of the the far righties. If the Dems in the state house keep passing laws for the common guy, a lot of Indies will back Mark vs a far right R.
The R’s need a more moderate candidate, but I have no idea who that might be in CO.
Will Kiki Traylor, Norma Anderson and Ramey Johnson be riding with that united GOP?
“Today is Mark Udall’s day. I firmly support him for U.S. Senate and look forward to sharing my own plans in the next few weeks,” Polis said.
http://www.dailycame…
since it looks like Joan will get the labor support.
Not a snowball’s chance in hell.
Is he anti-business?