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July 06, 2015 12:50 PM UTC
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Seriously, you can stop lighting fireworks now. Let’s
Could you produce some evidence that Coffmangate has put Mike Coffman in serious trouble? Besides a link to your own assessment? Something pointing to this scandal having reached the kind of proportions necessary in the eyes of the general public to seriously affect his congressional race?
There's this…
Oh, never mind. Same source.
Also this is from before his last election and it sadly had no negative effect then. Before that he got elected despite all of his embarrassing birther comments, apologies for birther comments, apologies for apologies for birther comments ad infinitum. Colpols does tends to get overly hyped about this kind of thing.
My POV is different. I see these things as very damaging, but our local media and local political chattering class doesn't do enough to get the full value from them. I blame you for this, but I also blame myself. We should all be talking about Coffman's misdeeds, and doing more about them at election time, but we don't. The local media watches Coffman squeak by and conclude that's what the people want.
I think we're all just lazy, and if we did our jobs, Coffman would be toast. That's why I'm gonna fight like hell for Morgan Carroll if and when she gets in this thing.
Ummmm…. we all do talk about this stuff all the time. In order to make a dent you need these things to blow up in the mainstream media/popular culture and stay blown up over time. That's what it takes to make a major public impact.
Talking to each other, our neighbors, writing letters to newspapers that a handful of people read, echo chambering with our friends on our blogs and FB doesn't get the job done. So you can blame yourself if it makes you feel better. But that's really not how it works anymore.
You need a coalition of big money and pols with balls to make a public impression. There was nothing vaguely grass roots about getting the Swift Boat narrative or the birther narrative or, here in Colorado, the NRA funded recall effort into the public consciousness. If big Dem supporting money and Dem pols don't have the balls to take advantage of any of what we're saying about Coffman, the media won't care and it won't be a blip on the average voter's screen.
R pols are much better at this because the one thing they don't lack is the balls to attack. Anyone. They'll even gleefully attack multiple amputee vets as being soft on terror without worrying for second about looking like SOBs. Our D pols and their donors and ops are still too busy being afraid of looking mean or unpatriotic or soft to have the nerve to point out the legit. We can only do so much without them. I don't feel guilty at all. Just exasperated.
It does, however, help to explain why the Coffmans live in two different houses. Perhaps he cannot be trained away from this disgusting habit.
You're not impressed with his athletic prowess?
Not enough carpet cleaner in the world to get that off….