February 01, 2010 08:02 AM UTC

These Are the Facts

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• by: MADCO

I’m listening to the Grammies, writing something for work and reading something, while also watching the FEC for an update for Romanoff’s 4Q fundraising.

And it occurs to me the Romanoff campaign has never disputed certain facts that they apparently want to wish away.

It reminds me of great dialogue from a great film.

These Are The Facts

Sure, we all remember Colonel Jessup bellowing and bloviating.  But Santiago was murdered and Dawson and Downey did do it. And in the end they lose and all Caffey’s dazzle was just so much show.

Fact

Romanoff wanted to be appointed to the Senate seat vacancy.   He didn’t think the appointment process was bad then, though he has since implied the process was flawed.

Fact

Senator Bennet promised to be and has been a strong supporter of President Obama’s agenda. Romanoff supported a different presidential primary candidate and never endorsed Obama nor pledged to support the President’s agenda.

Fact

Romanoff put a poll in the field shortly after that appointment.  He clearly wanted to get a sense of the voters then.

Fact

The Denver post reports that over the summer Romanoff had conversations about somehow becoming Lt Gov. They claim he wanted it.

Fact

Several months later, Romanoff announces his primary to challenge Senator Bennet for the nomination to run for the Senate, with no cash on hand, and no ready source.

Fact

Romanoff has publicly provided precisely two minor policy differences with Bennet: referencing votes on bankruptcy reform ( cramdown) and some gun vote .

(mini-Fact: Neither vote ultimately mattered: cramdown failed to pass by several votes. And the gun thing was defeated by several.)

Fact

Romanoff took donations from PACs and other corporate donors when he was a State rep, in a safely D seat. It was apparently ok then.

Fact

Romanoff recently put out a campaign piece that said PAC donations should be returned, but has yet to return the donations he received.

So, we have a primary challenge by a candidate who:

has implied that the appointment process was flawed, though he wanted that appointment;

attempted to negotiate a back room deal to be LtGov though he has since decried back room deals;

has raised very little money (through Sep 30 2009) compared to similar  Senate races;

has only pointed to two minor votes as policy differences with his D opponent;  

decries taking PAC donations now, though he did before;

has suggested other candidates return PAC/corp donations though he hasn’t returned any, and;

never endorsed the president nor pledged to support his agenda.

These are the facts and they are undisputed.

fork, please.