In Defense of the Political Insult

by Eileen McGuire-Mahony | 4:31 pm, September 16, 2011

It is one thing to allow some behavior legally and another altogether to smile upon it in polite society. Trying to legislate manners is as stupid and dangerous as trying to lower the murder rate via cotillion lessons.

PPC 2010 Colorado Ballot Initiatives Sample Ballot

by T.L. James | 8:00 pm, November 1, 2010

The PPC editorial board’s voter guide for the 2010 Colorado ballot initiatives.

9News Laphamizes the Elections

by T.L. James | 8:37 pm, October 29, 2010

I’m guessing this election results page at 9News is merely something published accidentally while they were testing the site for Tuesday, but it’s interesting and amusing (while it lasts online). Will be especially interesting and amusing to compare their “predictions” to the actual results.

Breaking: Coffman Withdraws Support for Maes

by T.L. James | 1:14 pm, September 3, 2010

Hot on the heels of Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck’s announcement, Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CD6) will announce shortly that he is also withdrawing his support for Colorado Governor candidate Dan Maes. Time is running out for Maes to make a decision — SoS Buescher is looking to certify the ballot by close of business today. [...]

Will Ken Buck’s extremism beat Barack Obama’s?

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 8:29 am, August 14, 2010

Ken Buck is going be a big target for the Dems, especially on social issues. That could scare away the independents’ votes for Buck. In the eyes of independents, moderates and Democrats, Buck is an extremist on social issues. Indeed, that is how I see him, but i”m willing to put that asside because I’m more worried about Obama’s extremism than Buck’s.

Voters are very unhappy with everything Obama’s doing, and outside groups will hammer Bennet on that.

At this point Buck has the anti-Obama tide at his back. But Bennet has more money and better name recognition as well as the Obama organization behind him.

As I’ve said before, outside groups will make the campaign vicious and nasty. While that will turn off the non confrontational know nothings in the electorate, it will ensure that most voters will know more about the candidates, including a lot of lies, than they ever wanted to know.

This election will be about values, goals and the future of Colorado and America. It will be decided not by traditional Colorado Democrats and Republicans but by the more than a million of us who’ve moved to the state over the last 20 to 25 years. 

You might think of this year’s senate race as a battle between Midwestern Republicans and California Democrats, although it’s probably not as black and white as that. 
Ken Buck is going be a big target for the Democrats, especially on social issues. That could scare away the independents’ votes for Buck. In the eyes of independents, moderates and Democrats, Buck is an extremist on social issues. Indeed, that is how I see him, but I’m willing to put that asside for now because I’m more worried about President Barack Obama’s extremism than Buck’s. The Tea Party didn’t made the difference in the GOP primary. The social issues Republicans did. But nobody but the Democrats want to talk about that. And they already are making it an issue by calling Buck an extremist.
Most Colorado voters are very unhappy with everything Obama’s doing, and outside groups will hammer appointed Obama Democrat Senator Michael Bennet (D-Washington, DC) on that. Obama and Bennet are doing all they can to give the federal government the power to micromanage our lives and limit our liberties, and that should cost them big in the November elections.
At this point Buck has the anti-Obama tide at his back. But Bennet has more money and better name recognition as well as the well-organized and well-funded Obama campaign organization behind him. 
This will be a fight between Buck’s believers and the government employes and unions who want to use Bennet to control the federal government.
Buck’s supporters want to take our country back.
Bennet’s supporters have strong financial incentives to work for them. Indeed, the federal government is paying them to vote for him.
Government employes and unions want to be their own bosses, and they can do that at the expense of taxpayers by electing Obama Democrats like Bennet. If government employes and unions control the Democrats and the government, they write their own rich tickets at the negotiating tables when union contracts with the federal government come up. No wonder federal employes on average make nearly twice as much as the taxpayers they work for.
They negotiate with themselves and give themselves rich salaries and benefits.
As I’ve said before, outside groups will make the campaign vicious and nasty. While that will turn off the non confrontational know nothings in the electorate, it will ensure that most voters will know more about the candidates—including a lot of lies—than they ever wanted to know.
The Buck versus Bennet election will be about values, goals and the future of Colorado and America. It will be decided not by traditional Colorado Democrats and Republicans but by the more than a million of us who’ve moved to the state over the last 20 to 25 years. We’re a Blue, hard left state until the voters change their minds and turn Colorado Red again.
It is in no way a sure thing that Colorado will turn red in 2010. Buck’s extremism on social issues might keep Colorado Blue. And he can’t move to the center on social issues because he doesn’t want to be called “Both ways Ken.”
Republicans’ only hope is that Bennet’s rubber stamping of Obama’s job-killing extremist positions on spending, taxes, health insurance, energy, climate change and union card checks will help Republicans turn Colorado Red.
Bennet is trying to move to the center, but his hard left record is there for all to see. It’s the record of a senator who represents government workers and his home town of Washington, DC, not Colorado values. It’s the record of a shameless Obama rubber stamp.
If Buck’s supporters want me to elaborate on his extremism, I’ll be glad to. If they’re smart, they won’t ask.
 

Why Ken Buck leads Michael Bennet 46% to 41% in Rasmussen poll

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 10:36 am, August 13, 2010

Why is Ken Buck leading appointed Obama Democrat Senator Michael Bennet (D-Washington, DC) by 46% to 43% in Rasmussen Reports’ Aug. 11 survey of 750 likely Colorado voters?
Some reasons that Buck starts the general election campaign with a small lead:
Andrew Romanoff’s attacks on Bennet in the Democrats’ primary were much tougher than Jane Norton’s snips at Buck in the GOP primary. Bennet is living down Washington and Wall Street and a bungled financing deal for the Denver Public Schools. Buck is living down high heels and half a dozen “dumbass” Tea Party birthers.
Bennet has voted for numerous job killing amendments and bills, and he promises to vote for more. He voted for a job killing stimulus bill early last year and for ObamaCare. ObamaCare imposes huge tax increases on all Americans while giving Obama the power to sharply restrict access to care for very sick people and most seniors. After the election, win or lose, Bennet will vote during the lame duck session for job killing climate and energy bills and for job killing union card check bills. He’s a rubber stamp for Obama’s job killing efforts to redistribute wealth in America.
Buck knows Colorado and wants to represent the state. 
Bennet grew up in Washington, DC, and wants to represent the over paid employes in his home town. He wants to create more government jobs and spend more on our failing public education morass.
Even though Bennet made more than $11 million in the  private sector, he wants to crush it. Bennet knows how to give us the same kind of centrally-planned and mismanaged Federal government that destroyed the old Soviet Union. While he enjoys being rich, he thinks being powerful would be more fun and satisfying. Bennet is Washington, DC’s first Senator just as the man he replaced, Sen. Ken Salazar was Mexico’s first Senator.
Ken Buck is very accessible to reporters, editorial writers, columnists and most bloggers. He isn’t afraid to discuss anything with anyone. He believes that if he answers questions honestly, he’ll win.
Michael Bennet is relatively protected by his highly-paid political consultants and handlers, most of whom probably are from out of Colorado. (I don’t really know, but high-powered campaigns usually bring in talent from outside the state.) 
Ken Buck has spent the last year driving to all 64 Colorado counties multiple times. He has friends and believers in every county, and they are working hard for him.
Bennet’s been too busy micro managing our lives in Washington to spend much time in Colorado. He has establishment Democrats who depend on government jobs and handouts working for him in every county.
Financial incentives in the form of jobs and expensive government handouts for party hacks will work to Bennet’s advantage, but true believers will work to Buck’s advantage.
LINKS:
www.Rasmussenreports.com.
Bennet versus Buck. Editorial, The Daily Sentinel.
Bennet, Romanoff join hands, shift target to GOP’s Buck. By Michael Booth.
Colorado Dems make nice as contest gets tougher. By Michael Booth.
Can Ken Buck buck the system? By David Cantanese & Jonathan Martin.

Colorado Elections 2010: Primary Results

by T.L. James | 8:00 am, August 10, 2010

This post will be stuck to the top of PPC for the day, as a place to post and discuss the results from Colorado’s 2010 Primary Elections.

Tom Tancredo’s saying that Scott McInnis has to quit or he’ll run as 3rd party candidate

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 6:52 pm, July 22, 2010

Scott McInnis has to decide.
Is it time for Gov.-elect John Hickenlooper to measure the curtains in the governor’s mansion?
Will he let his kids live with the disgraced McInnis name, which will be hard to live down if doesn’t quit the governor’s race?
Does McPlagiarist plan to spend the rest of his life herding sheep because he won’t dare set foot off the ranch?
How will he explain to his contributors that he not only blew off the Hasan Family Foundation, he blew off people who sent him more than $2 million for his campaign?
Can he stand being the butt of Colorado jokes for the rest of his life. He’s no Bill Owens, Roy Romer or Dick Lamb.
Will he make his living talking about mishandling his disgraceful demise to ethics classes?
Does he really want to let Tom Tancredo use his gubernatorial campaign to sell his Amendment 42? That ballot initiative would make Colorado a UN-Free Zone exempt from any UN treaty that overrides the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution.
Today, Tancredo said that if Scott McInnis and Dan Maes don’t promise by next Monday, July 26, that they will drop out of the governor’s race if they win the Aug. 10 primary, he will run as a third party candidate. Tancredo wants the winner of the primary to drop out and let a 24-person vacancy committee name a new candidate.
Tancredo correctly believes that if McInnis or Maes runs against Gov.-elect Hickenlooper, they’ll not only lose to Hick, they’ll take down the entire GOP ticket with them, regardless of national trends.
If Tancredo winds up in a race against McInnis and Hick, 95% of Republicans, including this one, will vote for Tancredo. 80% of independents and 100% of Democrats will vote for Hick.
Scott McInnis must decide what kind of state he wants Colorado to be. He needs to decide how he wants Colorado will remember him. And he has to decide whether he wants to make the McInnis name such a joke that his kids and grand kids will move out of the state to escape his reputation.

Tom Tancredo makes Ken Buck and Jim DeMint look like moderates

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 10:04 pm, July 8, 2010

Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo today said President Obama is the biggest threat to America’s liberty. This brought condescension and flames from the left, and Buck didn’t applaud the statement, which Tancredo made at a Buck fundraiser attended by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC). 
While Tancredo obviously reflects the views of a lot of conservatives and independents, his comments shocked the hard left Obama Democrats and a few too cool liberal reporters in the mainstream media.
Actually, Tancredo showed how he can use a few words to make Buck and DeMint look like moderates.

Scott McInnis promises to roll back Democrats’ tax increases,  restore tax exemptions, balance budget

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 3:39 pm, July 4, 2010

Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate, Scott McInnis, has used an interview with the AP to reiterate his promises to roll back the Democrats’ tax increases, reinstate tax exemptions eliminated earlier this year by General Assembly Democrats and to find ways to overcome the state’s looming $175 million budget deficit without reducing “essential services.” If he is elected governor, McInnis will need a legislature that is controlled by Republicans instead of the Democrat-controlled legislature that has helped create Colorado’s budgetary problems. This was McInnis’ first interview with a major news organization. I’ve interviewed him as have small town papers and some broadcast reporters and talk show hosts. Find the AP interview by searching for “Scott McInnis” on the web.

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