What Are You Doing This Independence Day?

If I were a rich man...

If I were Josh Penry, I would run against Bennet.  Two young guys, more of an even matchup.  He'll look like a young, inexperienced upstart against Ritter.

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by: MiddleRoadDem @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 09:36:20 AM CDT

He's not old enough to run for Senate

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by: Colorado Pols @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 16:21:25 PM CDT

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Well then...

he's not old enough to be my governor.

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by: MiddleRoadDem @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 18:27:53 PM CDT

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Do you mean that literally

or just that he doesn't have the gravitas to run for the Senate? Because he's old enough to satisfy the Constitution.

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by: RedGreen @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 19:40:54 PM CDT

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You're right

And he's still not old enough to run for Senate.

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by: Colorado Pols @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 20:26:10 PM CDT

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OK gotcha

Don't you love the latest rumor floating around, that Penry is secretly running for the Senate and Frazier is secretly gunning for Ritter?

* I say that not to float an unfounded rumor, but to point out the ridiculousness of the notion, which has been raised a few times on here in recent days.

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by: RedGreen @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 21:00:37 PM CDT

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Memory Lane

Go back to the day of this stimulus protest at the Capitol and remember Mike Huttner's feeble attempt at distraction. He held an embarassing press conference inside the capitol, paraded around a poster trying to link Penry with Bush and did everything he could to worm his way in to the story.

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_1...  

He even paid the person we've come to know as "swastika guy" to get up to the front of the crowd, get on stage and get a picture with Michelle Malkin.

Pretty smart, actually.  

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by: Ram2010 @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 09:48:30 AM CDT

Eh, what?

Unless you can prove that last bit, I am nominating this comment for deletion as an unsubstantiated smear.

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by: JeffcoBlue @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 09:56:48 AM CDT

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Ram2010

has already been caught lying while shilling for Penry.  It is just what Penry supporters do. Of course, when Penry himself gets caught lying, we shouldn't be surprised that his minions follow his lead.

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by: WesternSlopeThought @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 10:14:25 AM CDT

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Yep, that's a lie

"George Bush and the Republicans have spent eight years creating this mess," Huttner said in an e-mail put out by his ProgressNow Colorado. "It's about time Penry and the Republicans start cleaning up the mess that they created."

That's the only reference to Mike Huttner in that article, so you should either find another link or way to prove that it's not a lie, or just admit that what you wrote is a lie.

The fact of the matter--the truth as it were--is that Swastika Guy was up there of his own volition, and Josh Penry was standing there without even blinking an eye that they were calling the President a Nazi.

Man, I really thought I'd never have to talk about swastika guy again, but there you go. I think I owe someone a coke now.

"Nice driveby spin" -- Libertad

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by: redstateblues @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 11:32:23 AM CDT

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Double Standard

I recall our last president being consistently referred to as a Nazi. Did you blink when fellow liberals cried Hitler on Bush? Or was it ok because he was a Republican president?

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by: the_spaces_between @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 18:51:27 PM CDT

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*beep* - this is a recording

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by: Jambalaya @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 19:09:44 PM CDT

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And this event is just added evidence of deception

Although the teabagger's claim that their "parties" are nonpartisan, they just can't help themselves from revealing their deceitful fabrication.  Or, to put it another way, they are blatant liars.  And that is a nonpartisan assessment.  

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by: WesternSlopeThought @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 14:08:53 PM CDT

Penry! Buck! Together... on one stage at a TEA PARTY in beautiful GRAND JUNCTION!!!

http://images.encyclopediadram...

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by: Half Glass Full @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 15:13:45 PM CDT

They'll miss the parade in downtown Grand Junction

Don't they support the troops?

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by: gertie97 @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 15:43:56 PM CDT

Now, what hand feeds you?

Notice that most, if not all, the guest speakers get their salaries directly from taxpayer dollars. So, if these Republican politicians were as serious about cutting taxes as they claim at these tea parties, they would be ripping up their paychecks.

Right now, the image of Sen. Penry saying "no" to more taxes as he walks in a bank to cash his government payroll check...well, it would be priceless....

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by: WestSloper @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 19:45:31 PM CDT

And he rips up

His wife's government paycheck, and his sister's government paycheck.

You're right. It's priceless.

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by: gertie97 @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 20:03:07 PM CDT

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And his wife's

n/t

When I use lots of words, they always form an analysis (and, while producing high volume, also produce high information-density).
--Steve Harvey, 2009

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by: Ralphie @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 20:44:20 PM CDT

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Oops

You got that covered.

When I use lots of words, they always form an analysis (and, while producing high volume, also produce high information-density).
--Steve Harvey, 2009

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by: Ralphie @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 20:44:58 PM CDT

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It's okay.

I still wonder why it's just dandy with the anti-government, anti-tax faithful that Josh and his lovely family make such a nice living out of the wallets of the faithful.

But they do love their little prince.

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by: gertie97 @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 23:39:14 PM CDT

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Notice where they're serving tea?

The Western Slope Conservative Alliance is organizing the tea party at the old Mesa County Courthouse, 544 Rood Ave.

In a publicly funded building. Priceless?

What is up with these "independent," "anti-tax," tea sippers? They can't find a private building to meet in? Can't they find any self-made, independent business owner to give a speech or two?


Sum Ergo Cogito.

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by: ardy39 @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 00:14:59 AM CDT

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If I were a tea partier...

I would tell you that the publicly funded building is fine. A good use of taxpayer's money.

It's the gross overspending on an ever-expanding government with ever-expanding powers to limit freedoms that needs to be protested.

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by: the_spaces_between @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 18:56:43 PM CDT

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and if I was ...

If you're NOT a "tea partier" then how would you know what you would tell me if you were one?

So far you have demonstrated high accuracy at retyping ideological talking points. Bravo!

Is there anything else occupying "the spaces between ?"

Sum Ergo Cogito.

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by: ardy39 @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 09:25:22 AM CDT

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