One of the biggest obstacles in front of gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis’ future political viability is his attack last October, just days before the election, on ‘insiders’ who engineered his removal from the 2008 Senate race–in favor of eventual loser Bob Schaffer. Even if he was right, as we believe he was at least partly, the timing and un-minced words from McInnis burned many, many bridges with fellow Republicans: the effects of which are still playing out today, as McInnis takes more fire from the his own party than anywhere else.
The moral of McInnis’ story…does not appear to have reached second-tier GOP gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes. As the Longmont Times-Call reports:
Maes, who’s campaigning to be Ritter’s GOP challenger in next year’s general election, pitched his candidacy Wednesday to more than 20 people attending a Boulder County Republican Breakfast meeting…
“We must have a Republican governor,” Maes said, especially if Democrats maintain majority control of both houses of the Legislature in the 2010 elections.
And while the 48-year-old Maes is a relative newcomer to Colorado’s political scene, he suggested his new ideas will be assets to the state Republican Party.
…During his brief breakfast speech at Longmont’s IHOP Restaurant, Maes did not identify any of his potential GOP rivals for the party’s gubernatorial nomination by name.
But Maes said one is “a 22-year-career politician” – an apparent reference to Grand Junction Republican Scott McInnis, a former congressman and former state legislator who filed his candidacy papers May 18.
Maes also said another possible GOP gubernatorial candidates is “a young man” who’s “already a career politician,” an apparent reference to state Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction.
Got that? Dan Maes for Governor, baby: everybody else sucks. Keep that in mind after he gets buried at the state party convention, okay?
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as McInnis burning bridges within the party. More than likely, both of these men, Penry and McInnis, are going to be in the primary with this guy and it’s only natural that he starts to distinguish what makes him different from his competition. Seems like typical pre-campaign posturing to me and nothing more,.
Sometimes candidates who have very little chance are a little nicer with their first media push, that’s all–lest they end up doing their best “Hillary Clinton in an RNC spot.”
Maes is a second-tier candidate?
Hell, he hasn’t even made it onto the big line on a state blog. What’s that tell ya? 🙂
the state blog is horribly and cruelly biased against him, and is above all afraid of him because his campaign is so amazing and different from any other campaign ever. The fix is in!
Well, thanks for clearing that up. 🙂
I say that’s a bold, new vision, especially coming from a party of bums that was recently thrown out.
And that whole “regional sales office” approach to campaigning — he better keep quiet about that lest his opponents catch on and start playing golf with voters.
I’m afraid of Don Maes. I admit it.
I’m Dan Maes, and I’ve got your TPS Reports right here, byatch!
AVERAGE VOTER: Then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn’t bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it’s not okay because if they take my stapler then I’ll set the building on fire.
[pause, look sincerely at camera]
Vote for Don Maes.
Was he the English version or the American version of the regional sales manager?
he plays the completely oblivious loser so, so well…
Baffled!
Only if he gets some traction and moves up a notch or two
If there aren’t enough candidates to be considered third or fourth tier, those who might be relegated to those positions move up by default.
You really think he’ll last that long?
If so, and he still doesn’t get the nomination, perhaps he’ll run a stronger than expected unaffiliated candidacy. I’ve been hearing about an “unaffiliated convention” for more than a year- perhaps that’s the ticket for him. Yeah, that’s just the ticket.
Rec’d 37.93% of Denver GOP straw vote in May, rec’d 13.33% of Denver GOP straw poll in June. This guy has a web site and actually won a straw poll in May. This is more than some of the other R hopefuls currently on the big line.