February 16, 2010 08:18 PM UTC

More whine with your Senator?

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• by: peacemonger

Hold on to your hat: this opinion is mine, and mine alone.

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A friend of mine read Pols yesterday, and when we met for coffee, she said,

“Even though you’ve been an outspoken Bennet supporter, you’ve praised and defended Andrew Romanoff in conversations with me for years. When I criticised him for being a PUMA and belonging to the DLC, you always rushed to his defense. You’ve always said you respect Andrew Romanoff and think he is a wonderful person, an inspired Speaker, blah, blah, blah… What happened that today you sound so different than you did during the last 9 years?”

Here’s my answer:  I am tired of the whining.

Andrew Ramanoff and/or his supporters whined when he  wasn’t selected as Lt. Governor, whined when he wasn’t selected as Senator (as if Governor Ritter didn’t have a right to appoint whomever he wanted — hmmmmmppfff!), whined when the President didn’t love him as much as he loved Michael Bennet, whined when Senator Bennet wouldn’t debate him twice in the same week (the nerve — it’s not like the guy has a family and a full-time job 1200 miles away!), whined when people held him accountable for the tone of his campaign and the people he hired…

Has anyone ever heard Senator Bennet whine over the difficult job he had to do post-Bush administration with little support from his home state? Did he whine when hundreds of people in tea-bag hats waved hateful signs everywhere he went?  No — he just went to work, worked like a dog, built a strong record, earned the respect of the President and other MOCs, said nice things about Andrew Romanoff, then turned the other cheek when Romanoff had a tantrum at a pro-Romanoff gathering.



No thanks — I don’t care for any whine with my Senator. I want a grown-up representing me in Washington.  If that Senator has as many friends out-of-state as he does in-state, and wins because he took PAC and UNION and liberal political non-profit group money, so be it.

And if Andrew Romanoff decides to grow up, stop slinging-mud at another Democrat, and run on the positive values and principles for which he used to be known (caring for people in CO and all over the world), I will certainly reconsider my opinion.  I think I might still have some Romanoff stickers laying around here from the last four election cycles.