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November 25, 2009 12:28 AM UTC

"Party Unity," Anyone?

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  • by: Colorado Pols

A sampling of opinion in the last 24 hours from the state’s conservative blog aggregator, the “I’m so ironic” People’s Press Collective–while GOP establishment leaders sing praise for Scott McInnis and the “Platform for Prosperity,” is the base picking up the tune?



Image courtesy El Presidente of Slapstick Politics

I learned from yesterday’s front page headline of The Denver Post that my party now stands united behind former Rep. Scott McInnis in the Colorado gubernatorial race. Odd that. I used to think we had primary elections for this sort of thing, but it seems they have fallen out of fashion in Colorado. It is, after all, far more efficient for the Party’s leaders to simply anoint a candidate. I am certain that Mr. Dan Maes would be overjoyed to know that he need not bother with a primary. Afflicted with the woeful ignorance of fashion so typical of Republicans these days, however, he still seems to be campaigning. I am sure someone will point out the faux pas, though.

I also learned that we have a new platform, again curtsey of Atty. McInnis and the GOP leadership, saving the rest of us a great deal of time and consideration. The Post even published a nice ten point summary of it on the front page. In fact, many of my Independent and Democrat friends called to chat about these bullets before I even finished reading the article. Although they are each greatly dissatisfied with Gov. Bill Ritter, and despite the fact that they agree with most of those ten points listed in the article, my honorable friends told me they were going to abstain from voting entirely, or else reluctantly support Mr. Ritter again, due to the fact that two of those bullet points were dedicated, yet again, to social issues…

So some Colorado GOP leaders have crafted a Prosperity Platform and rallied behind Scott McInnis as the gubernatorial candidate.

Meanwhile, some in the grassroots remain thoroughly unconvinced and stand behind hard-working longshot Dan Maes. The issue is not the rhetoric or the substance of the 20 governing principles that has earned skepticism or even ire. It’s some of the cast of characters involved that many understandably still have a hard time trusting. I’m not all the way there yet myself.

What might help make the Prosperity Platform more palatable is an escape clause – and by that I mean not for McInnis, but for us…

We’ll say this much: if a Democrat were saying things like this about Bill Ritter, the papers would be writing about it. What do you think, folks? Irrelevant? More little people in need of a “good talking to?” Or, just maybe, cracks in the wall of “McInnis unity” already appearing?

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    2. But the PUMAs were fake. Nobody’s ever claimed the People’s Press Collective is fake. The question is, how many Republicans share these view?

      I agree that the press should not be ignoring this.

  2. The GOP leadership always tells the rank and file what to do. The rank and file always grumbles a little and then falls in to line. That’s how Repbulicans operate – don’t look at them from a Democratic point of view.

  3. Dems should get out Nexis-Lexis and go to work.

    Paparazzi can now start putting  price tags on their gems in their files.

    It’s wonderful to have a target.  

  4. They are either not real Republicans, or they are too stupid to realize that McInnis is going to be the nominee whether they like it or not and shut up about it.

    Either way it will pass and Ritter is doomed now that we are united

      1. The biggest flame wars on Pols of late have to do with Bennet/Romanoff.  Party unity problems belong to no party in particular.

        We R’s really find it sweet that you D’s are so concerned about our unity.

        1. The biggest flame wars on Pols of late have to do with whether posters can disagree with another poster without there being “ill will” and personal animus involved.

  5. I would like to submit my comment application to receive a scholarship to the re|education PPC camp. If anyone is interested in contributing to my scholarship fund, I would also be interested in reciprocating and contributing a personalized seminar in trolling and spell check which I will make available to any interested attendees.

    I want to

    Learn how to effectively reach your audience without causing offense or beating them over the head.

    Yours in Liberty,

    SufiMarie at yahwho?

  6. And they insist on identifying with the color red?  If Obama’s Dems are Nazis, are these guys so far right they’ve met up with the far left and become Communists?  

  7. In 2002, I worked with one of the major Dems who wanted to run for gov.

    Instead, the Dems decided to protect legislative races — by not opposing a popular gov. By fiat — and clear phone calls to the candidates — the Dem’s shut down all but one candidate.

    Rollie Heath, of Boulder, was the sacrificial lamb.

    When told my candidate to pay me later — I was going to charge a pittance — he told me: “I’ve got kids who might need to go to school in Colorado, I’ve got business . . . I can’t run.”

      1. A rising star named Josh

        Had an inkling to be the state’s boss

        But the party’s elite

        Wanted Scott in that seat

        And poor lil Josh he got squashed

        Or a Haiku

        Scott McLobbyist

        Pulled a platform from his arse

        Pundits called it poop

  8. http://www.canoncitydailyrecor…

    “Don’t believe everything you read,” said Maes, an Evergreen businessman who acknowledges his role as underdog in the primary race. “Scott has been in this a long time. This is a marketing strategy to ordain himself. I suspect folks like you are a little bit too smart to buy into that program.” [Emphasis Twitty]

    Maes said if elected, he would immediately reduce the number of state employees by 4,000, starting at the executive level. Well aware of his surroundings, he also vowed to keep state corrections staffing strong.

    He also promised to cut state funding to kindergarten through 12th grade education.

    “K through 12 gets more than its fair share with Amendment 23,” Maes said. “Everyone else has suffered with this big hog at the trough.” [em, Tw]

    He explained his plan for education reform, including tax credits for home schooling, more charter schools, demanding the most from public education and allowing private schools to continue to have a place in the system.

    Maes’ platform is built on economic policies and includes changes in the taxing, rules and regulations of businesses.

    “I will cut the size of government, then cut taxes, then watch small businesses thrive and bring jobs back,” Maes said. “Government does not create jobs. What it does is create a business environment where small businesses can flourish. We have to tell small businesses we want to see them thrive.

    “I am a conservative and a Republican. As we’ve seen the last few months, there are differences between the two.”

    A strong supporter of states’ rights, Maes said he sees Denver heading down the same spending path as Washington D.C. He said Colorado is becoming “Obama West,” a trend he would reverse.

    “The federal government should primarily do one thing for us – provide national defense. Then, they need to stay out of our way and let us drive our own economy.”

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