President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Kamala Harris
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
98%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
95%
5%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
50%
50%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
80%
20%
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
70%↑
30%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
February 28, 2009 05:00 PM UTC
32 Comments
Always found your posts thoughtful and reasoned, even when I disagreed.
Best of luck in the future.
Yeah, it’s a bad joke.
Sorry to see you go, even if you did move righward after the election.
Shoot me a mail now and then, hey?
I can understand where you’re coming from – when you’re busy, blogging can be a major distraction.
But thanks for the pic of your sweetheart – now we can point out that she’s not dressed for success!
Your point being that if a female candidate looks & dresses pretty then she’s not someone we should take seriously?
Look at the picture. Does she look presidential in those boots to you?
I made my judgement based on what she said and did, not how she looks or what she wears. By the same token I don’t judge the Salazar brothers differently because they always wear a cowboy hat.
I was giving LB a hard time, you silly person.
But you’re also such a tech guy. No dressing for success there. 😉
…whose opinions I respected (and on an occasion or two, even agreed with to some degree).
You will be missed!
Life is always more than a blog (although there seems to be a few around who have no real life other than here)
Get togethers are fun. DT needs to arrange one for March.
See you then.
You will be sorely missed. Thank you for the good fight. Hope you can see your way clear to come back when circumstances permit.
See, i knew something was up…first BE at the Post, then the Rocky, and now you.. Probably all gathering at that undisclosed location…
May it go well for you and yours.
I’m sorry to see you go but I understand. (I’m so busy now that some days I haven’t even hit Pols and other days it’s a quick 5 minutes.)
But please do stop by as you can – this site desperately needs more voices from the right. And we desperately need voices that are logical like you.
There are not enough R’s on this site that are able to stand up to the barrage of left leaning critics.
You are able to banter with wit and respect towards others and always made conversations better. What I really like about you is if you have nothing to say, you had a sexy Sarah Palin pic available, which is nice too.
Hope your re-priortization goes well. Just rememeber, your family may grow older, your friends may move away, and your dog may go blind, but CO Pols is forever!
May the Shwartz be with you!
You’re the kind of conservative I like having coffee with.
Pols is a tough habit to break. Good luck.
A friendly piece of advice….I’ve tried getting in the car and hitting the open road and taking every right…it wasn’t nearly as fun, nor did I get as far as when….hitting the same open road, I took every available left turn….the trip was always much more interesting, and I always made it a lot farther down the road before hitting a dead end.
All the best. Say hello to your wonderful family for me:-)
I enjoyed our back and forth on all the issues we discussed. Hope your future is bright.
Why are you all being so nice to this chump?
I mean it. All these dumbass Republicans whine about all the “liberal bias” here, and yet the front-pager elected to represent Republicans posts…what? Vapid two-liners every couple of weeks and photos of Sarah Palin?
And now we get this asshole sendoff where he hopes somebody “based in reality” will represent conservatives against “the sea of opinion that’s often the electronic equivalent of a Che T-shirt.”
You could turn the whole blog’s message if you wanted to, or at least heavily moderate it, but you’d rather self-servingly declare hopeless what you never bothered to try.
Fuck you, LB, you’ve got nothing. And if you did you would win debates, not lose them, which would make you feeling like sticking around.
Ya know, even GW would have found a civil host with me if he showed up at my door. (“Hey, Mr. President, there’s no media here. Ya want a REAL beer?”)
Your reaction is exactly what we lefties have accused the R’s of for eight years. LB is not AS or Libertad or any number of hard hearted, often illogical “conservatives” seen in America these days.
First off, didn’t your parents teach you to be gracious when circumstances called for it?
Second, I’ve found LB’s posts here to be some of the more thoughtful posted. Doesn’t mean I agree with them but he always discussed the issues themselves and did so intelligently.
Third, there is little any one person can do to change the views of most on this blog. And this site is unfriendly to people of a conservative bent. Look at the venom we place upon Libertad because of his single-minded answer to everything, yet we do not do the same to those who are single-minded on the left.
Fourth LB said he is leaving because the real world is requiring more of his time. I’ve left at times because of work, Danny the Red left because of work. That’s just the fact that life requires trade-offs. It’s not running away from the debate.
Finally, everytime we lose an articulate voice from the right – NEWSMAN, Haners, LB, ColoradoPols becomes a bit less interesting to me. A site where everyone agrees is boring.
but hopefully not in a boring manner. 🙂
LB is not some wingnut loser who thinks his talking points really shows us libs; he is thoughtful, doesn’t take himself too seriously, and never indulged in pointless name-calling without being drawn in first.
While I wish a hearty good riddance to the Geckos and GOP sock puppets, LB’s absence will make this site poorer, at least until another respectful ‘pub picks up his slack.
Most centrist thinking posters here would probably join me is saying, “Fuck you, Jeffco Blue.”
LB has added more to thoughtful debate on this site than you could even think of adding.
Palin 2012
once in a while. You are my favorite conservative and will I always be your “silly person”?
But it looks like I’ll need to find a new “conservative friend.”
You’ll be back. Col Pols is like a gory car crash; You can’t stop look’n.
…I was trying to decide if I should invite you out for a beer at Wynkoop, or challenge you to a shoot-off at the range in Wheat Ridge.
Please, LB, make some time to keep up appearances on CP. An honest, forward-thinking Conservative is needed on this website!
that your departure is really one of those “When you least expect it, expect it!” kinds of deals. So that even in your absence, you’ll be keeping people on their toes.
We’ll just have to keep trying to incite you back, I’m sure.
I’m not positive if they still say, “Vaya con dios” in the homeland of Montecristo cigars or not. But as a Republican governor of Austrian extraction is noted for having uttered, “Hasta la vista!”
I’m thinking you got something to take with you from your frequent encounters with flaming liberals. Perhaps you discovered that we aren’t that different after all.
Fare well where ever you fare.
You can’t go! You’ll cut the conservative representation of Pols by 33%!