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(D) Phil Weiser
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(D) David Seligman
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(D) Jeff Bridges
(R) Kevin Grantham
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(D) Milat Kiros
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(R) Jeff Hurd*
(R) H. Scheppelman
(D) Alex Kelloff
70%
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) Trisha Calvarese
(D) Eileen Laubacher
90%
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CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Jessica Killin
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(D) Manny Rutinel
(D) Shannon Bird
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November 25, 2006 05:09 PM UTC
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who will they find this late in the season or who will they draft next year?
The Bronco’s have Jay Cutler sitting on the bench. They don’t need to wait for the draft, they can start him next game against Seattle.
A lot of rookies have been given a shot this year, and have done well including Vince Young and Matt Leinart. And the Bronco’s already brought in a rookie running back, Damien Nash (only 23 years old) and who has proved he can play in the big league.
It’s time to bring in Cutler. He can’t do any worse than Plummer.
Just because the election is over, doesn’t mean the Iraq war is over….obviously! The daily carnage reaches new highs with more and more atrocious violence. Here’s my complaint this morning. Remember:
10/23/06:
Senior U.S. government officials and military officers have suggested that Iraqi insurgents are trying to influence the U.S. midterm elections. A U.S. military spokesman in Iraq last week attributed the increase in violence at least partly to terrorists who want to influence the American vote.
His comments Thursday echoed those made by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney two days earlier on conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, which is carried on the Armed Force Radio network in Iraq.
George Bush, 10/18/06:
There’s certainly a stepped up level of violence, and we’re heading into an election.
Rumsfield 10/26/06:
Here they are, getting up every day saying, “We’ve got an election in two weeks in America, gang, and we want to change horses over there because we don’t like the folks we’re having to deal with now; they’re a little tough on us. So let’s get out there and let’s make some noise.“
John Hinderraker 11/10/06:
I don’t think there is any doubt about the fact that the terrorists, world-wide, were hoping for a Democratic victory. See, for example, this article by Aaron Klein. And the spike in violence in Iraq prior to the election was generally understood as an effort by the terrorists to help Democratic candidates.
And now the incontrovertible proof is here that what they said was a lie designed to manipulate Americans into voting Republican out of a desire to punish the Democrat-favoring terrorists in Iraq, and what are the consequences? They lie and manipulate like this not only because they lack any shred of integrity and character — although that’s true — but also because they know they can do so with impunity.
The “liberal” press lets them get away with it. Repugnant. I’m sure the readers at ColoradoPols are on to them like white on rice.
The US dropped 9 places in the 2006 Index of Press Freedom by Reporters Without Borders issued last month.
52 countries ranked higher and 115 ranked lower.
Finland, Iceland, Ireland and the Netherlands tied for first, with no recorded censorship, threats, intimidation or physical reprisals — criterion that the Paris-based group uses to rank countries.
The US was outranked by most of the European counties, but also by such unlikely nations as Slovakia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Namibia, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Botswana.
As you might expect, the three worst violators of free expression were North Korea, at the bottom of the Index at 168th place, Turkmenistan (167th) and Eritrea (166th).
We need to hold the press accountable for their lack of truth and historical perspective!
Our once great nation is plummeting by so many objective standards it’s hard to know where to begin. And we can’t fix this until people like the RMN letter writer the other day stop talking platitutes and wake up and smell the earth approaching fast. Splat. He just kept repeating that America is “the greatest nation in the world.” No evidence, no specifics.
I agree that we were once, and we can be again, or at least as good as any other. I don’t need to be “best.” Just fair, humble, and supportive of the middle class.
We used to be #1 in longetivity, infant mortalitiy, balance of payments, liklihood of one born in poverty to achieve middle or upper class (sorry, FFF, Europe is doing much better), and so on. We, who gave the world liberty, imperfect but trying, have now dumped habeous corpus and approved torture and warrantless wire tapping.
In order to graduate from HS io 1964 I was forced to take “Americanism vs. Communism.” A good brain washing! All the things mentioned above were taught to us as part of the evils of Communism. But here they are in America and few are upset.
We spend 50-60% percent of our federal budget on the military (including interest on debts, retirements, etc.), more than the rest of the world combined while citizens can’t get affordable health care. Welcome to Sparta.
As Jefferson said writing to his friend Dr. Rush about slavery, “I tremble for my country if God is just.”
There is little wriggle room in the halls of principle. We need your voice to elucidate, clarify and sound the alarm! I, for one, appreciate your voice.
Keep up the good work.
I’m just generally thought of as another annoying liberal “hate America” Democrat.
One of the interesting things I’ve noticed about human nature since being part of this blog and in conversation with conservative friends and family members, is that facts don’t matter!
For instance, a friend recently asked if I had read Bill O’Reilly’s latest book. I responded in the negative and explained that BO (love that!) is a liar, pulling “facts” out of his ass. I mentioned four specifics off the top of my head.
My friend’s respnse was that BO sometimes takes and unexpected stance, even “liberal”. That’s true, but nothing about his history of lying and why we therefore shouldn’t believe him.
My conclusion: Facts are of the least value for us in the “reality based world” to change the mind of ideologues.
Where are we ranked in the BCS? Probably not as high as Boise State.
Jake has done well for us, but he can’t get us to the SB. He’s on too short of a leash and is too busy looking over his shoulder to focus on the game and play like he did last year.
We can’t let Cutler’ potential go to waste. It is time to see what the kid from Santa Claus can do. He may deliver just the gift we need.
Steve Ludwig says he is up by 7000 votes.
Does anyone have confirmation for that? How did he pick up so many votes and Ken Gordon pick up so few from 11/7 on?
Do the math and Ludwig picked up a whole lot more votes than Gordon if Ludwig’s count is now correct.
Any Republicans have numbers showing a different result?
I think a lot of you may find this interesting as I was a Democrat working on a Republican Senate campaign. My thoughts are here at Political Geniuses my ass (comments welcome on my blog).
I wonder if the Republican campaigns here found the same lack of assistance.
– dave
Combined it with the Katherine Harris boob fest and perceptions of reality were altered. Mostly for the good.
Maybe it worked perfectly. They plugged in “golfers” and “snowmobile owners” into their database queary, forgetting only one small detail……..
I don’t whether to suggest that your mom switch parties or stay where she is and reclaim what ther Repubs once were. Either will be good.
My guess is that she was too radical for the current crop of Repubs and that she was used as a ballot filler.
Thanks for you insider look at things!
Who knows if it will actually happen, but probably worth putting on The Big Line.
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The 58-year-old said he’ll miss his job in Congress and might run for office again but maybe for the U.S. Senate.
“We’d take a serious look at almost any opportunity including that one, I suppose,” Beauprez said.
If he runs like he ran for Congress. That’s the shame of his gubernatorial campaign. The man is a conservative superstar and very much in line with Colorado values. But he ran like some farming/ranching Buchananite.
I think everyone here can agree that nobody expected his downfall. We all thought it would be a lot closer a year ago. As I recall, for a time he was tops on the Big Line. But then he started campaigning and Ritter danced the prettiest line in Colorado politics and *Kazaam*…it’s over for Bob.
I think Allard runs again and wins a lot more comfortably then people think now. My real interest is in Salazar’s seat in 2010 along with Ritter’s re-election run. Do Republicans mount a real challenge to either seat or do they just go Roley Heath? Salazar is really not all that bad and Ritter, I presume, will be very much middle of the road and will surprise a lot of conservatives with his middle of the roadness. I would say that Owens may have a good shot at the Salazar seat and that the GOP should spend time and money on growing their 2008 legislative majority rather than trying to unseat a pretty palatable governor.
Stick a fork in him. He lost his race for Governor because he ran a horrible campaign. Colorado as a whole is a moderate middle-of-the-road state. Someone who has been a rubber stamp for the Republican party will not be qualified to hold statewide office here anymore.
Beauprez running for 7th again, why would state party believe he could win statewide after this past election
I don’t think that the 7th will take him again. He didn’t even beat Ritter in that district. His “natural successor” was also beaten.
He wouldn’t have to relocate too far east from where he is to be in the 4th. He’d have no problem winning the 4th — if he wants to be the first best option to Musgrave….and he wouldn’t be a drain on the RNC coffers.
No way the Rs will choose him for Senate, or any other statewide office for that matter. And Perlmutter would have him for lunch if he ran in the 7th again.
But I could see Bob winning 4th or 6th, if Marilyn or Tancredo decide to hang it up.
We all saw this coming. Only the dumbest Republicans in Colorado thought this was going to be a piece of cake year.
That was the whole selling point for choosing Beauprez over first Coffman, then Holtzman: Only a superstar would be able to win against whoever the Democrats put up (and let us all remember that unless you asked the two Mrs. Ritters, those names were going to be Polis, Bridges, or Hickenlooper… Not really Ritter).
Beauprez was supposed to be invincible. He never really had a platform, every good idea Holtzman had Beauprez made his own as soon as it was uttered, it was all about Bob winning, he was the bulletproof congressman, because only Bob could win. How wrong we were.
I find the latest spin amusing… Bob confirmed it the night of the election when he pulled John Marshal close and summarily threw him under the bus by telling everyone that it wasn’t Marshall’s fault… Yeah right, now all we hear is what a crappy campaign those stupid Beauprez staffers ran. But not Bob… He was a victim of a bad staff… He was a victim of a bad year to be a Republican Congressman… He was a victim of an unpopular war… Yeah, yeah…
Well, I have had a chance to attend a couple GOP events and I’ll tell you Bob, we’re not buying it. You let us down. Just like Coors did before you. Please do us a favor and sell your bank and go on permanent vacation.
Run, Bob, run! In both directions, if at all possible! Better sign John Marshall up now as campaign manager. It’s gonna be a crowded race on the GOP side.
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It will be intersting to see if the New York DA is as spineless as Ritter or if he will actually charge the cops who murdered this young man on on the night before his wedding. Of course the New York community does demand more of their elected officials. We promote or mistakes to Governor so there is hope.
….they make DPD’s abuses look like amateur night! There was Amado Diallo who I believe was gunned dwon in the lobby to his apt. bldg. when he was trying to take out his wallet after the cops demanded to see some form of ID. (After the shooting, they claimed that they shot him because they thought he was pulling a gun.)
There were was the hapless Abner Loeuma who had the misfortune of having a colostomy performed on him by some of the officers in a particular precinct using a toilet plunger while they shouted at him, “Know what time it is? It’s Guiliani time!”
he’s unemployed, what does he have but opportunities?