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October 06, 2016 10:45 AM UTC
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I've posited for years on this site that the beady-eyed bird-brained Coffman and his gang of thugs were the most cowardly, immoral, unethical, backsliding scumbags — along with Con Man Cory Gardner's slimy crew — on the Colorado political scene. No low too low, no lie too obscene.
This piece merely reconfirms it. Again.
Facts mean very little to these guys……not sure why you spend so much time on them. And they know damned well that facts mean even less to their supporters and voters.
They'll lie and lie, say one thing to the Evul Press, another to their most die hard supporters, then (and I know, here comes the "both sides do it" charge, which D's should and can easily refudiate.-ed.) do whatever is most politically expedient:
If Dems didn't let Republicans get away with it every time they'd probably have to change their behavior. But many Dems would rather be friends with Republicans and perpetuate the “purple state” bullshit that is most beneficial to those in power ’round here than truly hold them accountable for their behavior.
This is just another thing that Coffman has in common with Trump. Lie your ass off if that's what it takes to win the election.
I don't care about the lawyer thing (and I am one) in the socio-economic areas where this sort of stuff might make a difference, people there don't feel the same way that others might feel. That stuff is for Douglas County and the richer areas of Arapahoe, not Aurora.
What I care about is this tax shit. That can and will hurt if not rebutted and rebutted hard. The commercial is really easy. "Mike Coffman and his friends say Morgan Carroll raised our taxes $____Billion and increased the budget by ____%. How stupid do they think we are??? (Mike with a dunce cap). We all know that pursuant to Amendment One only the voters in Colorado can raise taxes. And, the budget. Well, it's also limited by Amendment One. Just like Donald Trump. You can't trust anything he says. Really Mike? We expected more of you. Mike Coffman, no different than the rest of the Republicans in Washington."
Not only is it easy to write, but you've got to love the reference to Amendment One, the Republican's best friend.
many journalists have said it is not their job to correct a politician is he or she "misstates" something. Calling it a LIE is good strategy because even a 3-year-old knows what a lie is and that it is wrong. If Dems do the ugly job of rebutting every lie, pointing out the liar, reminding people of the truth, I suggest that R's will tell a lot less lies and/or the press will start doing their jobs a little better.
It won't be fun, but it will be effective.
and so when Mikey Bennet and his little pal Cory go on another Wheat Grass snorting tour, let's not make light of it and try to be best friends with Cory. Let's call him a LIAR right in front of the press and let them defend Gardner's lies.
I betcha they won't do that more than a news cycle or 2.
Amen.
This stuff plus Carroll raising your taxes by zillions is appearing in anti-Carroll ads. Anti-Coffman ads say that he's too much like Trump and said mean things about Obama.
There are no Carroll ads that I've seen that refute the story lines about raising your taxes like crazy and going after doctor's and hospitals.
Coffman has a very well produced ad with a multi-cultural group of shiny happy people all talking about how they like him and trust him.
In short the positive ads for Coffman are far superior to the positive ads for Carroll. The anti-ads against Carroll are about pocket book issues that matter much more to low info presidential year voters than whether Coffman said something mean about Obama years ago or isn't sufficiently opposed ( what a shocker) to his own party's presidential candidate. Well, d'uh.
The Big Line's assessment of this as a 50/50 race is ludicrous. If the Carroll campaign loses by any less than the Romanoff campaign did it will only be because of a few extra points thanks to its being a higher turn out presidential year.
Pretty pathetic.
I couldn't agree more. Coffman will win handily and Democrats have no clue how to beat him.
I see Coffman running for high office someday. He's the best Republican politician in Colorado.
"I see Coffman running for high office someday."
Good one, Moderatus. Maybe he can be elected Governor once again.
As soon as Governor Gessler completes his term.
When did Congress stop being "high office"?
Again, kudos to you for resisting the liberal groupthink and telling the truth about this race. That's why I respect you no matter how much you insult me.
But I really do hate it on those rare occasions when the truth means something agreeable to you. So glad it hardly ever happens.
And of course you never diverge from group think except when you make mistakes in these confusing times, thanks to Trump, about what the group think is supposed to be.
With all due respect, I think your concern trolling of Morgan Carroll became ridiculous a long time ago. Maybe the fact that Moddy is praising you for it should give you pause.
So, concern trolling is pretending to be an ally, when in reality you are in opposition. You may not like what BlueCat has to say about Morgan, but you'd have to be crazy to think she wants anyone other than Morgan to win that race.
She's not a troll. She's someone who has things to say that you disagree with. To see what trolling looks like, just look at the comment one up from the one you responded to.
I just let BC vent on this without comment. Obviously, I hope Morgan wins and BC might be available to help her retain the seat in the super challenging 2018 election. (And, I just did a penalty lap for mentioning 2018.)
Hope is fine. I hope so too. Got any polling data? I'd love to see it if it shows I have no idea WTF I'm talking about here.
Well, in all honesty, BC, it wouldn't kill you to let a day go by without a shot at morgan carroll. Who knows, there might be someone else you can slam.
V, I don't believe your opinion of what the outcome will be differs from mine. I also don't believe that cheer leading will help. I just wish some day Dem ops would would wake up to the fact that when they cede the economic issues to the Rs here in CD 6 they aren't going to win.
They should know perfectly well that they will be attacked for raising taxes and being more concerned about so called PC, bleeding heart issues than they are about jobs while Rs claim to have the answers. So what if that's bull? Dem campaigns play right into all of it when they barely say a word about jobs and economic growth as if they either don't care about those meat and potatoes issues or are afraid to challenge Rs on them.
CD 6 voters, very much including CD6 women, have shown over and over that they just don't care as much about the issues that Dem candidates have been choosing to play the starring roles in their campaigns as they do about jobs, their pocketbooks and a bright economic future for their kids.
They care about choice but not as much. They may not like the way Coffman spoke about Obama but they don't care about that as much either. They don't care as much about catching pols lying because it's expected.
They keep saying what they do care most about and voting accordingly.
If this is the way Dems are going to keep campaigning in CD 6 they'll keep losing even though CD6 is now demographically sufficiently competitive for a Dem win.
It wouldn't kill me to shut up about it but it wouldn't do any good either. My bitching isn't the reason a Dem still hasn't won CD6.
And maybe you should look around you and ask yourself if you honestly believe Carroll is on the brink of winning. Perhaps you have a role in the campaign. Perhaps you feel obliged to cheer lead. I'm sure you know less about my CD than I do.
I have gone door to door and phone banked and contributed and done GOTV and either scheduled or attended events for every Dem candidate for the CD 6 seat since well before the district was reconfigured. I have been a PCP and an HD level officer here. I've been to I don't know how many yard parties, coffees, town halls for candidates at every level in my territory.
I'm no concern troll which means someone pretending to be concerned while working for the other side. I'm just not a reality denier. I've seen enough campaigns to know when one is not being effective. Carroll's isn't. Even with a great campaign this would be a tough mountain to climb but this one is very weak.
As for modster I wouldn't dream of letting his opinions affect mine one way or the other. I'm not going to say Carroll in a landslide to play opposites with the likes of modster.
I would have loved for the Carroll campaign to be great. If you read past posts you'll see I was confident it would be and enthusiastic about having my first Dem CD6 Rep.
I was wrong then. You're wrong now. My admitting on this little old blog that Carroll is losing isn't going to change the outcome any more than your cheer leading or the Big Line's ridiculous assessment is going to.
When it happens, if it makes you fell better… be my guest. Blame my "concern trolling".
That's why I drafted the ad above. No fuss, no muss. Get someone to narrate, put a dunce cap on Mike and go on the air.
That's 100% correct, sad to say. Coffman is Teflon in that district, and the people in his campaign organization are very good at their jobs. This one is indeed likely to go the way of Coffman-Romanoff, another race that was supposed to be a toss-up.
V. wrote (to BC): "it wouldn't kill you to let a day go by without a shot at Morgan Carroll……" Hey V: can you wake us all up when Carroll stops running such an inept campaign?