December 23, 2009 08:38 PM UTC

Jane Norton Lets "Tea Party" Crowd Go Nuts, Loves "Passion"

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• by: Colorado Pols

From the Huffington Post, more footage from Senate candidate Jane Norton’s November visit with the Morgan County Republicans:

Former Colorado lieutenant governor Jane Norton, one of the five candidates competing in the Republican primary for the state’s 2010 Senate race, is distinguishing herself with her full-hearted embrace of the tea party crowd.

Appearing at a recent coffee-shop event with Colorado voters, Norton sat silently while a female attendee declared twice that President Barack Obama is a Muslim and while a male attendee insisted that the president — who he deemed “an idiot” — wanted to let babies die on the side of the road “with the garbage.”

“Well as you can tell there is a lot of passion around what is happening in our own country,” Norton responded to the crowd, rather than correcting either individual. “And how we can channel that into positive constructive ways that will get our vote out it is going to be absolutely critical.”

As we’ve said repeatedly with Norton and other GOP candidates like Scott McInnis, pandering to this sort of far, far-right base may be helpful in a primary, but it is most certainly not useful in a general election. The more that Norton looks like a right-winger, the less likely she will be to win a general election.