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Tancredo Offers To Drop Out if Maes Joins Him; Maes Refuses

by | 10:47 pm, August 18, 2010 | 1 Comment

The Denver Post is reporting that American Constitution party candidate tom Tancredo offered to drop out of the race for governor of Colorado of Republican candidate Dan Maes would drop out too. Maes refused.

Maes' refusal ended the last hope for defeating Obama Democrat John Hickenlooper in November. Tancredo has enough name recognition that he'll easily pull enough votes from Maes to give Hickenlooper the victory. The only way for Hick to lose would be for Conservatives to unite behind a single candidate. That won't happen.

Maes will lose votes because he was recently fined for breaking campaign finance laws and his lies and half truths about his success as businessman. The guy's also a RINO.

Unfortunately for Tancredo, there are too many idiots in Colorado who will vote for anyone who has an 'R' after their name. It also doesn't help that he's ticked off the tea party groups by going back on his "No Third Party" stand.

As much as I would love for this to be a case similar to NY-23 where the grassroots rallied around Doug Hoffman against Republican candidate (and Democrat supporter) Scozzafava, it's not going to happen. Tancredo has alienated the grassroots.

Unless Maes or Tancredo (or both) drop out soon, Hickenlooper is going to have an easy victory. Governor Hickenlooper will kill any useful changes proposed by the new Republican majorities in the Assembly and he'll get to pick at least one (and maybe as many as four if Clear the Bench Colorado succeeds in their goals) Colorado Supreme Court justice. A Hickenlooper victory will also strengthen the new government union which would have been killed by both Republican candidates.

A Hickenlooper victory will add a dark cloud to what's looking like a bright day in November.

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Comments

  1.   Lynn
      August 19th, 2010 @ 1:57 am

    So this seems that Tancredo has a bigger posture or thinks he does. This just shows that T.T. got into the race to be a control freak. Dan doesn’t not want to drop out. Us voters don’t want to have him drop out. Ahem… he won the most gov. votes for a GOP candidate.

    And for those writer’s whose leanings are Libertarian and/or 3rd Party to write to try to pressure the GOP candidate to leave is hypocritical. Donald, Ross, Ari, Perl, etc. Your accusations are silly and old. The financial issue was explained (well) along time ago. But you guys don’t want to admit it. It doesn’t fit your agenda’s. You are third party guys and the GOP doesn’t make you happy.

    You guys think that if you just say something long enough, isolate Dan long enough, and fail to focus on Hickenlooper that you will weaken Dan. Well he’s won State Assembly, the Primaries, and appointed a good Lt. Gov. Maybe if you guys stop applying the left’s Saul D. Alinsky’s tactics on him he would be even farther along against Hickenlooper.

    TANCREDO: Your ego can play a good game but your conscience before God will always be there to warn you of your bad decisions. You can fool people but God you cannot fool. Your game of trying to get Maes to drop out and you will? What in the hell is that? Do you know how stupid you are making yourself nation wide?

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