September 04, 2010 03:40 AM UTC

Top 10 reasons the conservatives are getting shafted in the Governor's race

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• by: The Bob Hatter

(Really interesting post-mortem – promoted by DavidThi808)

So I decided to give a shot at this whole dairy thing and write about the 10 people/groups that are fault for giving conservatives the shaft. now granted this is written from my perspective as a small government type.

 

10.) The Tea Party and 9/12 movement.

Let’s face it. Dan has proven he’s not the candidate a lot of people hoped for. I’m going to assume the grassroots didn’t call any of his personal references; they just took Dan’s word. However I can’t place the Tea Party higher on the list considering the choices they had.

9.) Jason Clark, Jamies Brown, Paul Fiorino, Willie Travis, and Michael R. Moore (TIED)

Who are these guys? They are all 3rd party candidates who didn’t run in the Republican Primary, but will be on the ballot in November.  Had they went through the Republican Primary, there is a good chance they would have won. I also believe if either of these 5 got in, they would have taken Dan seriously from day one, and a lot of the stuff that got out would have got out sooner.  So yes these 5 people partially to blame for the current mess.

8.) Joe Gschwendtner and his staff (note: I am among this group)

Joe G was going to petition on. He hired a company who hired someone to get all the signatures. This person lied to his boss about numbers, and by the time everyone found out it was too late. By the end, we were very close to the amount needed; in fact maybe 3 more days would have been enough. Had Joe G hired the right person sooner, Joe would have been on the ballot and probably would have won.

The worst part was I saw it coming and when I brought it up, I wasn’t loud enough. So I guess that should give me spot 7.5

7.) Josh Penry

I honestly don’t know what the GOP had on Penry, but he was making good on fundraising. Had he stayed in he probably would have been the nominee.

6.) Ben Goss

The ACP sold out. Tom does not agree with all the views of the ACP party, but through backroom dealings they were able to circumvent the Primary process and make Tom their choice for Governor. I thought republicans where the only ones who bend on values to get a candidate who can win, guess I was wrong. Ben Goss was the candidate for Governor and could have stopped all of this. This is why he gets #6

5.) Tom Tancredo

Had Tom got in last November when he was hinting, he probably would have won. But Tom decided to have McInnis sign a paper to show how HARD CORE conservative he is. We all know when a politician puts something on paper, they ALWAYS follow it…

4.) Scott McInnis on Fox News and Scott McInnis dealings with the plagiarism (TIED)

Scott McInnis made two mistakes that killed him. Who ever put him on Fox News and had Neil Cavuto call him the Tea Party Candidate was not paying attention. All that did was push the Tea Party groups closer to Maes. Scott also didn’t handle the plagiarism well at all. Had he not made these two mistakes, he would have been our nominee.

3.) Dan Maes and his Staff (or lack thereof)

Dan has been HORRIBLE with his PR. Every single mini scandal has him barfing all over anyone who can hear. When Freda was on Peter Boyle’s show, why didn’t anyone of his staffers lock him in a basement without a phone so he couldn’t call him up and look like a raving loon? Why in the hell did he even give Freda an unsigned check? That just put it in the media even more. Why didn’t a single staffer look over his resume and say “The skill set of an undercover cop doesn’t add to your resume as a Governor, take it off.” Why does his website still have stories from 2009 on the front page? Why doesn’t he have a campaign manager yet? This is not amateur hour. Either Dan isn’t listening to his staff, or he’s listening to them and they are giving him bad advice.

2.) The GOP establishment.  

The GOP pushed Scott McInnis on everyone. Had Dan not gotten in, we would have had Scott McInnis. A lot of people would not have been happy with that. So of course they are going to go to Dan Maes. The backroom guys had better learn that career politicians with moderate leanings are not going to work anymore.

And the Number one person to blame is…

JOHN MCCAIN

John McCain started the whole “we need to move to the center” ideology and was the latest politician to pull “it’s my turn.” He lost worst then any Republican Presidential Nominee in Colorado since Gold Water. John McCain has done more damage with his fiddling around than anyone else on the list.