Dan Caplis For Senate?

I say the more the merrier

Al Franken has made the jump from entertainer to politician so why not let Caplis have his moment in the sun?  Bunch up the Republican field and then let them try to out 9/11 each other.  The far right radicals like Caplis stand a good chance of alienating every moderate thinking voter in Colorado before 2010.  Please God add Caplis to the Tancredo and Beauprez mix and force Bill Owens to talk about his love child.  Please Please Please.  Pretty please.

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by: Gilpin Guy @ Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 14:19:43 PM CDT

about this

force Bill Owens to talk about his love child

can anyone go into detail about this. I heard of the love child thing with Owens a few years ago, but was not sure if it was just a rumor.

as for Caplis,
is this the best the GOP can do?



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by: wade norris @ Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 14:39:06 PM CDT

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No details,

but, when Owens last made noises about potentially running for national office, a Denver Post politics columnist wrote a column warning "Family Values" politicians from running for national office without checking their own closets for skeletons.  It was clearly a warning to Owens that, while the press had kept the gloves on while he ran for governor, they'd come off if he went national.  Owens apparently got the message, because he quickly tamped down any talk of running for VP, Senate, etc.

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by: CJ @ Sat Mar 14, 2009 at 11:07:54 AM CDT

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Probably need to FactCheck or snopes

this one but it was one of the rumors circulating regarding his separation from his wife and his decision not to campaign for Allard's vacant seat or maybe I'm confusing him with John Edwards.  Same stylish hair and access to assistants.

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by: Gilpin Guy @ Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 17:18:17 PM CDT

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Sweet...

I knew that when pols mentioned this a year and a half ago it would eventually come up again.  http://www.coloradopols.com/sh...

Man, it must suck to be a repub these days...  :)

Michael Bennet is the new Abraham Lincoln.
- Sharon Hanson

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by: Dabee47 @ Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 14:26:45 PM CDT

Thanks Dabee

I wasn't a Pols reader then, so I missed that one. He's said so many other outrageous thing since then, that there's a veritable cornucopia of reasons why his candidacy would invoke more tee hees.  

We are all triguardian, but some of us are more triguardian than others.

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by: redstateblues @ Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 14:34:36 PM CDT

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Is he still married to allegedly hot Amy (spelled with 2 A's and a smiley face)?

...now she knew to read a teleprompter

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by: Jambalaya @ Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 15:49:32 PM CDT

He is...

and he often talks about how she is a Democrat.  He might not even be able to count on her vote....

"But when I see a 9-11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh, shut up!' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining."  Glenn Beck  

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by: Arvadonian @ Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 17:06:13 PM CDT

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The main factor....

"The main factor now, he says, is whether his kids (11-year-old Joe and 8-year-old Caroline) would be able to withstand the rigors of their dad running for Senate."

More likely the devistating experience of seeing their father lose in a landslide....

"But when I see a 9-11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh, shut up!' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining."  Glenn Beck  

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by: Arvadonian @ Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 17:00:33 PM CDT

The poor tots

seemed to withstand the rigors of appearing on stage with their father at just about every Republican rally in the state last fall.

But your point is a good one, Arvadonian. Will they still respect daddy once he's been humiliated by voters, instead of the usual humiliation he inflicts on himself every day?

"Please don't eat any peanuts out of anyone's crap." - LaughingBoy

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by: RedGreen @ Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 17:05:10 PM CDT

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Actually they'll be more devastated

later in life when they find out that daddy was a goober who lied for a living.

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by: Gilpin Guy @ Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 17:19:53 PM CDT

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You left out a couple of my personal favorites

When Sen. Dan:

Defended claims made by Sarah Palin by repeating the inaccurate assertion that "20 percent of our natural gas comes from Alaska." http://colorado.mediamatters.o...

Asserted that gay "conduct is not natural" and is "immoral" http://colorado.mediamatters.o...

Defended the "egg as a person" ballot issue by claiming, "Humans don't have eggs" http://colorado.mediamatters.o...

And possibly my all-time favorite:

Caplis stated: "[I]f I'm sittin' on an airplane and there's somebody who looks like one of the 9-11 hijackers and they are sitting there praying out loud as we taxi, that airline darn well better remove that person."
http://colorado.mediamatters.o...

Good times...

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by: bmenezes @ Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 17:55:03 PM CDT

So many greatest hits

I love the last one, and it's true, I'd ask the TSA to remove Dan Caplis if he were sitting there praying out loud as we taxi down the runway.

"Please don't eat any peanuts out of anyone's crap." - LaughingBoy

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by: RedGreen @ Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 21:24:11 PM CDT

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Real man. Real Conservative. Dan Caplis for Senate.

Of course, we all know the real problem with the Colorado Republican Party for the last 3 election cycles is that they are not conservative enough. Voters are dying for a strong, principled, pro-life, pro-family, regular-guy-who-used-to-go-to-strip-bars-before-he-was-married, my-father-was-a-Chicago-cop, walking-talking-point, I-pathologically-cannot-let-Craig-win-an-argument conservative like Dan Caplis.

I say we give Dan Caplis a shot to prove his theory that all it takes for Republicans to win a statewide election is to run a real conservative like himself.  

When Drudge posts a picture of Pelosi, the least he could do is post a picture where she doesn't look so.. well.. you know...

-- my ex-sister-in-law

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by: poodlelord @ Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 22:43:35 PM CDT

I hope he runs

The race will be a lot more interesting if he does. If we could get Doug Bruce to also run, then along with the usual suspects we would have a ton of great entertainment.

Why should Illinois and Louisiana have all the fun?

Tea party support in the primary.

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by: DavidThi808 @ Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 22:50:55 PM CDT

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They shouldn't have all the fun!

and we need a former porn start to jump in -- senator, governor, 4th district, I don't care.

"Please don't eat any peanuts out of anyone's crap." - LaughingBoy

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by: RedGreen @ Sat Mar 14, 2009 at 00:37:32 AM CDT

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Political hackery

I don't know exactly how it works - but there seems to be a predictable path of ideological development or deconstruction for all those with elected office itch.
El Rushbo never seem to have the urge.
I wish Dan would run
ANd I wish Craig would let Mike Huttner or some other serious lefty fill in for him once in awhile.

I'm pretty sure Dan has no idea what he's in for. None. He thinks because he's reported one or two he has some idea.  It's like me watching Nolan Ryan throw no-hit #4 and thinking- it doesn't look that hard and sheeit- he walked that one guy twice. I could do that.
Except there's no way.

Good luck Dan- and btw- I think in the modern era you get to test the water twice- maybe three times.  But at some point you gotta put up or shut up. Or both- so hurry up cause either or both would be good for me.

Meanwhile- you gotta stop spewing the talking points of the day. Seriously- just beam off and make something up. Come out against the death penalty, or adopt the Catholic church position on immigration policy. Something.

Otherwise, you're just a hack with ratings.

What worries me is my friends on the left who are buying into the 'inevitable GOP resurgence' - or helping it for misguided reasons. JeffcoBlue Jan 2 2010

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by: MADCO @ Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 23:34:59 PM CDT

Talk about political hackery

ColoradoPols doesn't even put Dan in the Senate Line. He must be around 10,000-1, give or take a decimal point or two.

When Drudge posts a picture of Pelosi, the least he could do is post a picture where she doesn't look so.. well.. you know...

-- my ex-sister-in-law

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by: poodlelord @ Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 23:46:53 PM CDT

Caplis is slick as snot and has a 15 hour a week drive time audience..

He is not self-effacing..as even Owens is.  Just this week, Caplis referred to himself and Silverman as "virile bucks"

I hope to hell mmoc got that on tape....

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by: dwyer @ Sat Mar 14, 2009 at 09:22:39 AM CDT

Too good to be true

While the republicans have historically gone hard right following crushing defeats, this might not be the time, and Caplis probably isn't the candidate, to repeat such strategy.

Mr. Menezes put out a tiny sample of what Colorado Media Matters has documented over the last several years. It's   Caplis in Caplis' own words. He's got a listener ship, no doubt. But his views, and some of those views are pretty extreme, to say the least, would be on display for the entire Colorado electorate.

For that very reason, I simply can't see a scenario where the Republicans would consider him as a candidate. This next election is an opportunity for the Republicans to unseat a Democrat that, as yet, nobody knows (if indeed it's Senator Bennett surviving a primary). But it's an opportunity lost if the candidate is a fire breathing, extreme right wing bomb thrower. They had that in '08 with Schaffer. With disastrous results. Everybody, including Wadhams, knows it. So does Caplis.  

I think the fabricated hoopla is a win/win for Caplis. He's not going to run. But it keeps his profile front and center. Good for his program. Kudos for showmanship.

But.....we can always dream. As a candidate for U.S. Senate, Dan Caplis would energize the far right, no doubt. It would also energize the entire Democratic party. The campaign would be fun, the rhetoric unprecedented, the passions on both sides would rise to fever pitch, and it would be covered nation wide for entertainment reasons alone. Imagine Caplis on the stump, in debates, pure Elmer Gantry stuff, circa 2010.

Should he get the nod from the Republicans, let the volunteering begin.  

 

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by: rocco @ Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 11:32:53 AM CDT

This should be the norm

While I can't vouch for Dan Caplisas as I do not listen to AM radio, I would love to have more public officials come from this kind of background. I adore the idea of having a raw record of what someone I am potentially voting for actually thinks as opposed to mere coached statements designed to not upset and go down smooth.

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by: get off food stamps @ Mon Mar 16, 2009 at 17:00:23 PM CDT

The problem is

...these quotes are what he actually thinks.

Straight talk is one thing. Buffoonery is another.

We are all triguardian, but some of us are more triguardian than others.

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by: redstateblues @ Mon Mar 16, 2009 at 18:34:08 PM CDT

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If Media Matters pulls out of colorado, who will bell this cat???

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by: dwyer @ Thu Mar 19, 2009 at 18:19:11 PM CDT