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December 19, 2009 03:48 AM UTC

McInnis Wishes He Was in Dixie?

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis, in the midst of a heated disagreement with the “Tea Party” groups who feel he has tried to hypocritically co-opt them, is trying really hard to prove out his conservative bonafides. Earlier this week, McInnis was interviewed for former Sen. John Andrews’ Backbone Radio program–apparently, and we confess to being entirely ignorant of this, McInnis is ‘close friends’ with Texas Gov. Rick Perry:



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Approximate transcript of McInnis’ answer:

McInnis: Well, you’re probably referring to the Tenth Amendment.  It’s interesting…

KK: Well that and other things, yes.

McInnis: Um, a very close friend of mine actually was hunting on my wife’s–[garbled]-went hunting on my wife’s ranch before he went into elected office. It was Rick Perry–he’s the governor of the state of Texas. And when I announced that I was gonna run for governor of the state of Colorado, Rick called me right up and said, “Look, Scott, I’m not being presumptuous, but if you get elected, you’ve got to take some state rights back. And I want you join us–the state of Texas and several other states–that are deeply concerned. [Pols emphasis] Not fanatics. But deeply and sincerely concerned that the federal government is overreaching.”

Now the invokation of Gov. Perry along with this “Tenth Amendment” business goes back to the April 15th “Tea Parties” held around the country. You remember this because it was one of the crazier news stories from that day, but here’s what the AP reported:

Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax “tea party” Wednesday with his stance against the federal government and for states’ rights as some in his U.S. flag-waving audience shouted, “Secede!”

An animated Perry told the crowd at Austin City Hall – one of three tea parties he was attending across the state – that officials in Washington have abandoned the country’s founding principles of limited government…

“There’s a lot of different scenarios,” Perry said. “We’ve got a great union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that. But Texas is a very unique place, and we’re a pretty independent lot to boot.”

He said when Texas entered the union in 1845 it was with the understanding it could pull out. However, according to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Texas negotiated the power to divide into four additional states at some point if it wanted to but not the right to secede.

Texas did secede in 1861, but the North’s victory in the Civil War put an end to that…

So, several, um, questions naturally present themselves. How many states are we talking about that are, you know, “joining” with Texas? Do they all have cool imaginary deals giving them the right to secede–rights that survived the Civil War, the last time a bunch of states “joined together” against the federal government? Failing that, did Perry ever get around to describing any of those “scenarios” he referred to? If he didn’t, perhaps McInnis would care to?

Look, folks, you know this is a bunch of John Birch Society bug-eyed claptrap as well as we do, as well as McInnis does. We don’t think be believes it. But we have to say it’s getting really thick as McInnis tries to herd the “Tea Party” and “9/12” contingents into the fold–he has to be racing to the phone to reassure all of his sane donors every time he makes an appearance at this point. And when he finally gets to the general, who is this pandering to the fringe going to help?

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26 thoughts on “McInnis Wishes He Was in Dixie?”

      1. I don’t know if they were at the state or somewhere else.

        Also they announced there are $40 million less to spend, but they’ll spend it anyway with a few more tax hikes.

        1. This is from the CO Dept. of Labor and Employment:

          http://lmigateway.coworkforce….

          “Colorado’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell one tenth of one percentage point to 6.9 percent in November from the revised October estimate of 7.0 according to Donald J. Mares, Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. “Both employment and the unemployment rate are now holding steady which marks a turning point for Colorado’s economic recovery,” said Mares. “Over-the-month job growth, while slight, is positive news after months of job declines.”

          Current Labor Statistics, Nov. 2009 Unemployment Rate  

          Colorado 6.9%

          U.S. 10.0%

          Colorado Job Growth    

          (Oct. ’09 – Nov. ’09)   1,800

          (Nov. ’08 – Nov. ’09) -90,000  

    2. the Governor talks about secession- that governor should be impeached or recalled.

      There is no secession. Not for any state. Not even Texas

      See Texas v. White, 1869

      http://www.law.cornell.edu/sup…

      Sure it should be all about jobs- like the governor in tis state can create any of those. (Can’t hire, can’t recruit- can’t sell new companies on how great our schools and infrastructure are.)

      But it will attempt to encompass the wacky stuff- like states rights to secede.  

      1. If the voters perceive an unhealthy economy, Ritter is toast.  The party in power owns the economy.  Period.

        If they perceive a healthy economy, it can only be because Ritter’s campaign convinced people that he did what he had to do.

        Peopole aren’t going to be driven by wedge issues in this election.  There’s too much bread-and-butter stuff at stake.

    3. If McInnis continues to sell himself as someone who will say anything and stands for nothing, then he can lose even if unemployment is still high. We Dems won most of the close races in ’08 – but not all of them. If unemployment is high the Repubs will win most of the close races in ’10 – but not all of them.

      There’s also a lot of people on the right as well as the middle that find even bringing up the concept of succession as, if not traitorous, repugnant at a minimum. That can overpower the jobs issue – or at least compete with it.

      McInnis appears to be using the standard GOP statewide playbook – crash and burn.

      1. Succession is what Prince Charles hopes for one day.  But I agree. While everybody knows that not even Perry, much less McInnis, is serious about secession, Dems can make great sound bite ads, with this and other examples, a whole pastiche, demonstrating how this is a guy who says anything and can’t be trusted to mean any of it.

        Also, chances are the economy probably will be doing a little better coming into the shank of next election season as well. Dems will be more concerned about re-electing a Dem Guv than the tea partiers will be enthusiastic about a guy like McInnis no matter what he says from this point on.  

          1. We got some miles out of Both Ways Bob.  Now if we could just get him to pose with, say, the wrong end of a jackass.  But you’re right.  It will be the economy.

            1. –adjective

              1. ineffective; incompetent; futile.

              2. having no sense of responsibility; indifferent; lazy.

              I’ll try to keep things on a 6th-grade level in the future, fellas.

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