May 27, 2010 06:39 PM UTC

Dan Maes Is Against Abortion But Not Against Roe v Wade

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• by: jaytee

(I HATE people that parse poorly. – promoted by Middle of the Road)

The Colorado Independent caught up with the new GOP frontrunner for governor. Maes is not career politician. That is to say, really, he is no career politician! “Do I look like a wacko and talk like a wacko?”    

I am ardently pro-life, he said, but he added that “Roe v. Wade  is the law of the land, and people tend to forget that. I would not try to undo that.”

Yet he said he not only favors Amendment 62, the personhood amendment, but that he voted for a similar amendment when it was on the ballot two years ago and that he signed the petition to get it on the ballot this time. Still, he says the amendment is largely rhetorical and that he believes its passage would have no effect on the availability of legal abortions in Colorado.

“People are overestimating the personhood amendment. It simply defines life as beginning at conception. That’s it. Who knows what the intent of it is? They are simply making a statement. That is all I see it as. Do they have another agenda? I don’t know.”

Both-Ways Maes? There are some issues you can fudge, maybe, if that’s your thing. Abortion probably no.

Tea party groups in Colorado have embraced Maes. That’s no accident, he said.

“The tea parties were born in Colorado at the same time as my candidacy. They had a message and a base. I was a candidate with a message but no base. They were looking for someone who had the same message to carry their torch, and that was me. They have made it clear that they will not hold their nose for another moderate Republican.”

He said a Republican cannot win in Colorado during this election cycle without tea party support and played down the image of himself as a strict tea party candidate in the general election

“The liberals will absolutely try to paint us as wackos. Do I look like a wacko and talk like a wacko?”

Really, Colorado, Dan Maes is not a wacko.