They think they can (repeat mantra-style), as the AP reports:
Republicans will nominate former congressman Bob Schaffer on Saturday to run against Democrat Mark Udall for Colorado’s open U.S. Senate seat, hoping he can help them avoid another embarrassing loss in this swing state.
Republicans insist they can hold onto the seat after losses that included a U.S. Senate seat, a congressional seat, control of the state House, the state Senate and the governor’s office over the past four years. Schaffer and Udall are vying to replace Republican Sen. Wayne Allard, who is retiring.
“Colorado Republicans are motivated and excited to carry our state for Senator John McCain for president, to elect Bob Schaffer as our next United States senator, and to elect majorities in the Colorado state Legislature,” Republican Party state chairman Dick Wadhams said.
About 3,500 Republican delegates are expected to attend Saturday’s state convention and assembly in the Denver suburb of Broomfield on Saturday.
John Straayer, a political science professor at Colorado State University, said Schaffer’s problems are mounting with a focus on perceived ties to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, his conservative voting record and links to big oil at a time when many Coloradoans are angry over soaring gas prices…
While in Congress, Schaffer voted to give the industry $13 billion in tax breaks.
Schaffer is now trying to portray himself as a self-described “moderate reformer” to appeal to unaffiliated voters, but his voting record in Congress is one of the most conservative of the past few decades.
Schaffer also has been dogged by reports that a trip he took to the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory, as a congressman was partly arranged by Abramoff’s firm…
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…they can lose one more race?
Is anyone “live blogging” this convention? I want to hear about this:
As Lynn Bartels reports,
Did this involve an ermine cape and a scepter? Did they ask the children to leave the hall first?
Or did the DICK accept the nomination for him?
according to Lynn’s article (cited above).
Slapstick Politics is live-blogging the convention. Includes some videos. I’m looking to see if Schaffer’s lips actually moved, or if it was the man behind the curtain reading his speech.
Calls on the national press to tell the truth about “Barack Hussein Obama,” that he’s “nothing more than a younger, slicker version of that whacked-out mentor of his, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.”
nothing more than a younger, slicker version of that wacked-out mentor of his, David Duke?
Animated butterflies and Alaskan Mountains?
So far that’s about all I’ve heard from schaffer; and I’m paying attention.
Who said he has no substance?
Did the other multi-county assemblies go as planned or were there any surprises?
Does Musty have a primary opponent?
over at the Daily Paul, where Ron Paul Republicans stood up and spoke out against McCain and Musgrave, only to be told to sit down and shut up!
That was the home page. Here is what I was referencing.
of what the Ron Paul Republicans are upset about
Anyone know if D.D.H.G.L.Q. was camped out all night at the Broomfield Events Center to get a good seat to hear Romney’s keynote address?
My guess is Schaffer will devote his assembly speech to that most pressing of all public policy issues…the overlooked threat to our national security posed by zip codes.
That is the pressing of our time. I even read a letter to the editor about that in today’s paper, as if the DICK wrote it himself, how Mark Udall really is a Boulder Liberal and names like “Big Oil Bob” are unfair and untrue!
Children, please play nicely today in Broomfield…
John McCain’s daughter who according to Michelle Malkin’s logic is a terrorist sympathizer?
… or will Dick Wadhams be there to give the acceptance speech for him?
Bob Schaffer and the history he brings with him, both in his voting record and his “affiliations” are the perfect combination for a republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. Fresh off his sterling performance managing the outstanding campaign of George Allen for the U.S. Senate/Virginia/’06, Dick Wadhams is the right campaign manager for Bob Schaffer. The perfect time for the perfect candidate and the perfect campaign manager.
is another party’s bubble.
“Colorado Republicans are motivated and excited to carry our state for Senator John McCain for president, to elect Bob Schaffer as our next United States senator, and to elect majorities in the Colorado state Legislature,” Republican Party state chairman Dick Wadhams said.
How come you never hear from anyone else in the party? Ever? It’s like they’re all pod-people with Wadhams controlling everything.
Paul supporters ask for 5 minute response to Romney’s speech, stand-up vote denies the motion to change the agenda.
After an introduction by Bob Schaffer, Romney opens with a flat-out lie:
The crowd seems not to mind and cheers his falsehood.
Whoa! and then I’m reminded of this ad
He used that same tired old line at the El Paso County dinner last year.
His predecessors, Bill Weld and Paul Celucci were honorable Republicans who sincerely tried to build a two-party system in Massachusetts by appealing to indies and moderate Dems to cross over and vote for them. They saw this as a long term process.
Mittens came along and decided that after running as RINO for Guv, he’d swerve to the right to run for president and in doing so, trash his state ever chance he got. He knew that in doing this, he could never be re-elected.
It’s no wonder that when his Lt. Guv ran against Deval Patrick in ’06, she only got about 30-35% of the vote.
Bob takes a shot at Boulder. For some running a STATEWIDE campaign, he sure does a good job of discriminating against voters by where they live.
His slogan should be, Schaffer will represent you… unless he doesn’t like where you live.
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I’ve told my sons that they don’t need to serve in the military,
that they made plenty of sacrifices already for the defense of the nation.
I said that,
since they had to go without a Daddy while I was away from home due to Army service,
that their obligation was paid in full.
You can argue with that,
but I did not want them serving and dying in a vanity war.
…………..
Well,
Bob Schaffer put a new twist on that cross-generational excuse for not serving in the military.
He flipped it upside down.
In this video,
I’m pretty sure he is excusing his failure to serve in the military by hiding behind his three children who are in college, preparing for the military in ROTC or the Air Force Academy.
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Here’s a frightening tidbit from Jeremy Pelzer’s PolitickerCO live blog of the GOP convention:
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thanks for not posting video.
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