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March 18, 2009 05:57 PM UTC
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My diary on this is to your right.
Clearly we were all on it. Be proud.
Link: http://www.coloradopols.com/sh…
Your diary is clearly much more substantive…but visit mine for the poll.
And if you want to frighten small children grab the print edition for the graphic.
🙂
Timing each other to see who beats up on Penry first. Classy. This drama is incredible. What makes McInnis think that he could capture the nomination of the GOP in Colorado? I don’t know the party that well but it seems to me that a pro-choice earmarker that served shoulder to shoulder with Tom DeLay in the 90s is not what the Colorado GOP needs. Just ask Bob Shaffer. Bottom line is that our governor is at risk with his endless list of bone-head decisions and if the GOP gets their act together — and forces goons like McInnis out — Ritter is extremely vulnerable.
Even with a good candidate I think Ritter wins strong. But with the keystone cops that the GOP has on hand – who’s even credible?
I do know the party well. Former Jeffco GOP Chair and now former Republican. McInnis is disqualified for any high office in the Colorado Republican party’s mind because, as you said, he is pro-choice. End of story, end of campaign. Penry’s the man.
I’m sure the party is itching to reward the sawed-off little rich boy who came up with the “Both Ways Bob” moniker that stuck so well in 2006. I suppose Holtzman could try to buy the nomination again this time but I’m guessing he learned a pretty valuable lesson about buying GOP nominations in Colorado when he was shut out of the nominating assembly in 2006.
Holtzman couldn’t even land a primary spot with Bob Beauprez, and Penry’s way smarter than Beauprez was.
Isn’t he the guy who insisted on doing actual ethics investigations and got kicked off the committee by his own party?
Of course the fact that I have a modicum of respect for the guy probably means he’s a no-hoper with the Colorado Republican party.
– and yes he’s to be comended highly for that.
Scott, YOU are no Joel Hefley.
An unqualified disaster? Are you kidding me? He’s a rock star. If you could find one — just one — Republican member of the Senate who raised one — just one — hesitation about Josh’s tenure, you might have credibility. Josh is adored by conservatives and moderates, is uniting the party, and giving the party a voice against Ritter and the increasingly left-lurching Democrat leadership. Can you imagine a Penry-Ritter debate? Penry would clean the Gov’s clock. I guess a daily barage of attacks from Colorado Pols is the price of success, though, eh?
n/t
What you smoking, kid? Got some to pass around? Penry is not ready to take on Ritter, although I sincerely hope he tries. That just means a second term for Ritter.
So what does the party’s united voice say about whether babies should get AIDS again?
If Penry is uniting the Party to talk about equating gay marriage with murder and applauding babies who get AIDS…then well done.
What I think would be entertaining would be for the GOP base to ask McInnis what HIS position is on issues like gay marriage. I think the base won’t be too happy with his record when they start sorting through it.
Karate Kid has it right. I voted for Ritter in ’06, and I’ll vote for him next year. But Ritter’s a horrible public speaker, Penry’s way quicker on his feet, and he had nothing to do with Renfroe and Schultheis’s gaffes. I’m not defending how he handled those situations, but he would never agree with them. Equating him with those two loonies is straight up unfair.
Penry would give Ritter a serious run for his money, especially after Ritter’s jacked up auto fees and basically increased property taxes.
…you write like my old friend, “Moonraiker”. Guys – remember him? That was a fun time.
was a rock star, too.
from all their recent defeats. Penry is to the right of Beauprez’s extremism. And how well did that work out for R’s in the last race against Ritter? Penry’s brand of reactionary intransigent extremist ideology is far from anything moderate Colorado would support. In a time when Colorado is hamstrung by cross-purpose budget law, we need our politicians to think outside the box to keep our state from becoming the Mississippi of the west. Penry has been and will be wedded to the Karl Rove style of divisive politics where the goal is not what is good for the people but what is good for an individuals political career.
Actually, CO and MS spend about the same per capita. What you should be really worried about is following in the footsteps of CA and Michigan. Because that’s the direction of this legislature and governor. Big government. Big unions. Anti-jobs policies. Residents fleeing the states, etc.
McInnis is throwing out hay waiting to see if any cows come running. And it’s not over the governor’s race as much as wrestling over the control of the state Republican Party. Think of the millions of campaign dollars floating around to defeat amendments, legislation, and other Democratic candidates, etc – so why would Scooter McInnis limit himself at a gov’s race trough? He’s interested in taking over the king-making position from Wadhams, not running for office, but it sure keeps his name in the media every time McInnis “thinks” about entering a race. (Why have an ad agency when you have the Sentinel?)
Plus, if Scooter didn’t pass the candidate vetting process two years ago, nothing has changed for the oil and gas lobbyist that will propel him into office in 2010. Yeah, his problems have gathered more dust, but in comparison, Gov. Ritter is still a saint. However, there is no vetting to become King of the Republicans and think of the power Scooter will have with all the subjects come begging for a piece of the O&G $ pile (apparently the millions left from the successful battle over Amend 58 is now in a 527.)
It’s only a Democratic wet dream that Josh Penry and Scooter are vying over the same seat – they are as close as flies on stink. Who do you think Penry is taking his orders from? It ain’t has-been Wadhams.
The only thing bigger than Scott McInnis’ ego is his deluded sense of relevance. McInnis almost resigned his seat mid-term in order to cash in on his seat on the ways and means committee as a highly paid DC lobbyist. Mix in his ties to DeLay and Abramoff and top it off with him paying his wife from campaign contributions and he’s got an ice cube’s chance in hell of being governor. He’d have a hard time being elected as volunteer fire commissioner.
Is that vacant? McInnis is definitely interested if it is!
And blamed Dick Wadhams, Bob Schaffer and Bill Owens for the plight of volunteer firefighters in Colorado.
are in a Republican primary for Governor. Holtzman (the more conservative of the two) will win the primary and then loose to Ritter. I think Penry waits and finishes his tenure in the State Senate and runs for Governor when the seat is open.
Penry is too young to lose his first state-wide race. I hope he’s really looking at being a running-mate. That would make more sence.
His ego is too big. dem83, i think, poses a more likely scenario.
but I worry about McInnis. Penry is too young and inexperienced and Holtzy has a real crappy resume with 5 jobs in the past 10 years- it’s an uphill battle for both. Both are too conservative for the general electorate to boot.
McInnis obviously has a battle with his own party, but he has name ID, congressional wins under his belt, and is more palatable to the average Colo voter.
My two cents…
Clearly there are a lot of people here, starting with ColoradoPols, going out of their way to generate hits on Senator Penry. There is more than a little whiff of desperation.
You watch Business Class Bill Ritter in his Tony Kovaleski interview and he’s out of his depth.
http://www.thedenverchannel.co…
Compare that to Penry on Channel 9.
http://www.9news.com/rss/artic…
The contrast is pretty stark.
Penry for Governor it is. I think you should go with that.
it isn’t “out of the way”.
Lieutenant Governor would be a step down from State Senate. It makes far more sense for him to run for Governor in 2014, and being the running mate on a losing ticket is not the right path.
I’m thinking Penry should announce his bid for Governor at the much ballyhooed and advertised “National Tax Tea Party” demonstration that conservatives are planning to hold at the State Capitol Building April 15th.
On hand will most likely be Tancredo, Malkin, Owens, Andrews, Shulteis, (he’ll be working) and “swastika guy”. Caldara and Newman can introduce Josh, and the basest of the base will have their candidate.
What possibly can go wrong with that strategy?
Now that would be fun to watch as Ritter trounced her. Something tells me she would never have the guts to actually run for anything – doesn’t want to learn how small her support is.
Hardly. Penry is exactly the over the top, extreme type Republican that can’t carry Colorado any more.
His gaffes in the State legislature will damage him, but his ideological stubbornness and his zany intolerance will bury him.
Here’s hoping it’s Penry, although even Wadhams won’t stretch it that far.
Not to mention the haircut. Pols is right about that.
/Scott McInnis’ ego
not saying I disagree, but I do wonder if anyone will care….maybe if we called Scotty’s payment to her a BONUS!
To keep her from working for and giving away company secrets to the opposition?
There’s no statute of limitations on “crooked.”
It’s one of those things that could be a big deal – or could be ignored. Fine for McInnis to flip the coin on that, but a bit more problematic for the GOP to take that risk.