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May 14, 2007 09:10 PM UTC
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Bob Magoo will take his place alongside Both Ways Bob and Madam Beastiality Rant Rowland in the Pantheon of Political Boobs!
It did make me laugh though… Not because the jabs stung Bob any, just because how lame the post was.
C’mon, admit it – it was one of the lamest starts to a campaign in Colorado history. As CP said, it doesn’t mean he’ll lose when all’s said and done, but what a lousy beginning.
I have to admit it. I have some respect for Bob. He was true to his term limits pledge unlike some people we know ( cough! cough! Tancredo). But in the end whatever respect I have left for the man has been greatly diminished by this quixotic run for the Senate…..again. At least this time he won’t get his ass beat by a beer baron in the primary. It looks like he’ll actually make it to the general this time – where he’ll get his ass handed to him by Udall. I know it’s early and it is going to be a tough race. But the guy’s making some major mistakes and once the pressure’s on this kind of amateur hour hijinks will only intensify. My two cents.
Schaffer will hang “Boulder liberal” around Udall’s neck as much as possible.
Udall does not have this locked up by any means. It will be anyone’s guess who wins this thing.
with no repub primary I wouldn’t be surprised if tricky dick starts slangin mud at Udall by memoral day. This is going to be a long nasty fight and that is bad new for Udall.
Then Bob Magoo really will win!
This is like how they run a candidate in CD-1. They know they will lose but they need to have someone on the ballot. I think they figure Udall has this won.
– dave
That was the narrative early on in 2004, as well. Tancredo, Musgrave, several others had declined to run, prompting the right-wing National Review to wring its hands, wondering if any Republican would step up to the challenge at all.
And this year the Colorado GOP is backing into the election even more timidly.
Hee, hee.
Shari Williams also master minded the “brilliancy” that was the Bruce Benson campaign which, as others have suggested, ranked right up there with the BWB mess…
AND
…she served as “unofficial” GC for the No On Ref C camp in 2005.
wasn’t “Condom Bob” the Oil & Gas Man’s running mate for Lt. Guv in ’94?
Man, you’re good
Seriously, she must have done SOMETHING right to earn the nod? Someone please edify the rest of us.
behind the curtain running Schaffer’s campaign. I suspect he will be “running” a bunch of legislative, especially the Senate, campaigns. He’ll set the tone for all the R races and have regular sessions with individual campaigns to shore them up. He’ll have a handfull of assistants, Williams being one.
It will be interesting to see how the Dems respond.
This certainly is weird. How could someone who’s announced so many other times have messed this up so bad? I mean, come on….with as many e-mails as I get from Republicans, I didn’t even get one for this announcement. How many people even showed up?
Udall has helped to broker a compromise with Allard and Repubs for wildnerness protection of Rocky Mtn Natl Park, and has sponsored and passed legislation out of committee to restrict eminent domain takeover of Pinon Canyon extension by the Army, protecting both environmental and ranching interests.
On Iraq he voted against the McGovern Amendment to force withdrawal of US forces but for the limited supplemental funding resolution that passed–a cautious but politically defensible pair of votes.
These actions may not directly address the fundraising criticism but they do add to a base of tangible actions with broad spectrum support.
I read this blog, I read these posts. I can smell your fear.
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Let me know if a Republican with any sense(not cents) actually runs for Senate. IMO, Schaffer announcing finally that he is going to run is about as exciting as watching George Bush trying to to say something meaningful.
I thought you guys already ran pretty much the same story before? Schaffer has already got 3 separate days of stories talking about him running, doesnt sound bumbling to me. Average voter doesnt care the exact date he announced or if he back tracked on his announcement, nor will most of them ever know.
…it has to do with a Republican. Hence the cool graphics.
BTW, Love your name! Just one question, though – Who are you ?
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John Galt’s name is enshrined in the question “Who is John Galt?” The phrase is used popularly as an expression of helplessness and despair at the sorry state of the world. As many on this site know, he was a main character in Atlas Shrugged.
I never read Atlas Shrugged so all that was going right over my head. I tried to read The Fountainhead once but just couldn’t get through it. I seem to recall a scene where the “hero” basically date-rapes some girl and decided that was enough for me. (It’s been a long time, someone correct me if I’m wrong about that.)
Ah, you’ve caught me. One of my favorite books, which I’m now in the middle of again.
I disagree, Sir Robin, as to the meaning of the question. Galt rebelled at collectivist or socialistic principles being forced on him. TO me, it’s obviously a metaphor representing the great gifts lost to mankind when freedom is restricted, in this case, economic freedom.
If everyone on this blog read or re-read Atlas things would be very different around here. I doubt there would be any ‘Fairness’ doctrine discussions similar to the ones we’ve had.
Had very much her own axe to grind, after what the Bolsheviks did to her father’s business. (I hope I have the general idea, here.)
But it’s a hell of a long way from a Communist revolution taking things over than a deliberative, democratic process.
Remember, it’s fiction.
…they may come after you, Scientologist-like
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Closer to reality than you’d probably be comfortable with. We probably have completely opposite views on free market economics.
When capitalism was the most unfettered, we had the grossest violations of economic human rights. Only when we controlled the fire, but still let it burn, did we have the great American middle class develop.
Ideology is fine, but history rebutts “free market economics” as being good for society.
Respectfully, of course. Name a major benefit to mankind that has come through collectivism as opposed to capitalism…
The military is one of the most collectivist organizations on the planet. They did a pretty good job in WWII…
in the ideal form, anyway. Government will always be needed to provide infrastructure. Most businesses know how to operate, even exploit, the confines of regulation.
PR is right. Business needs regulation like government needs separation of powers. It prevents abuse because abuse is inevitable. The free market ideal, like the communist ideal, is based on the idea that people are all altruistic. The sad reality is that enough people are not. Still, capitalism is the best economic system to choose from. Just make sure government, which is ultimately accountable to us all, is watching out that business, which is not, doesn’t take unfair advantage of consumers.
This is why I’m always skeptical of businessmen running for office. They aren’t by nature the kind of people who think of everyone’s best interest. Look at our current president as an example…
…that they need guvmint to operate. Where would they be without the courts, roads, and schools? (To name just three “collectivistic” successes, LB.) It’s the lay people like LB who don’t get it, not the CEO’s.
The natural progression of unregulated capitalism is monopoly. Think Standard Oil, Carnegie Steel, the RR’s, etc. Oh yeah, Exxon-Mobil and many other mergers in the last decade. Where are TWA, American Motors?
Did you just say the schools were a “success”?
Funny you should mention the airline industry and the automotive industry – two business entities largely run into the ground by collectivist union interference.
I never said we didn’t need the government. I think we need much, much less of it. There is a vast difference between unregulated capitalism and over-regulation. We are much farther toward the over-regulation side. If you own a business (I don’t know if you do or not) than I think you understand this very clearly.
OK, I admit, Parsing. We do need roads. Great point.
I’ve seen this “unions run business into the ground” talking point over and over without any detailed examples of where that happened. The first industry you mentioned is the victim of a marketplace that doesn’t want to pay a lot for its service (I can generally find tickets for around $250 – $300 a pop, which is not much up from the $200-$225 I paid 15 years ago – and I know their expenses have gone up and it ain’t all pension and salaries so don’t try to tell me it is). The second industry is the victim of stagnant business practices, e.g. not being innovative (they let Japanese automakers get the edge on hybrids) or flexible (they kept on pouring out the SUV’s like gas wasn’t going to get expensive again).
In short, they’re the victims of the marketplace. Capitalism at it’s finest.
the most unionized airline in America. And the most solvent and the most growing.
Now, what was that about unions?
As to the others, HINT: Baaaaaaad management.