June 11, 2007 06:24 PM UTC

Schaffer Parties Like It's 1999

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• by: Colorado Pols

We joked last week about the “BS” label affixed to Republican Bob Schaffer’s Web site recently set up for his run for U.S. Senate, but equally perplexing is the message on the site itself. If the letter on the front page of his Web site is any indication, Schaffer is a little confused about what year it is.

The six-paragraph letter on the front page of Schaffer’s Web site is all about what Republicans have done wrong and about how terrible Democrats are doing in congress. It might be a perfectly good letter if Schaffer was running in a Republican primary, but he’s not. His biggest problem in a general election against Mark Udall is going to be the perception that he’s too conservative, but he sure isn’t worried about feeding into that idea. For example, check out this section:

But after just five months of taking control in Colorado and with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi running the U.S. Congress, it is clear the activist-Democrat leaders are overreaching. They are trying to swing Colorado and the country in an unfamiliar direction – cutting family income, increasing regulation, hurting the economy and retreating from the very real threats to national security.

These are some of the reasons I’ve decided to run for the United States Senate. I’ll campaign on common-sense, reform-oriented themes that will offer sharp contrast to the agenda of the Reid/Pelosi government.

Back when Schaffer was the congressman in CD-4 (he retired prior to the 2002 election), Colorado was very much a Republican-dominated state. It’s not anymore, although it doesn’t look like anyone told Schaffer. While Udall moves closer to the center, Schaffer is moving closer to the right. If he’s going to continue to gleefully tout right-wing talking points and spew nonsense lines like “activist-Democrat” that are right out of a Rush Limbaugh show, he’s going to continue to be beloved by right-wing conservatives in Colorado. He’s just not going to be a U.S. Senator.