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(D) Jerry DiTullio
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(D) Joe Salazar
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January 16, 2014 01:15 PM UTC
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Tom record is catching up with him. He won't be the nominee.
So to join the Republican Party these days, do you have to name all the hits from .38 Special and Guns 'n Roses?
Moddy will be singing from "The Praises of 'Tanc," just a soon as the primaries and caucuses are over (and he's getting paid for it, . . . of course!)
Same goes for "Buck's Alltime Greatest Chart Toppers" . . .
On a totally unrelated note,
. . . anyone ever hear whatever happened to that douchenozzle, ArapaGOP??? Just curious . . .
I've sort of wondered the same thing myself along with the n3bbisher and its offensive av image.You'd believe any gun related thread would bring them out of the woodwork to proclaim the glories of their genitalia enhancers and the benefits of a totally armed society. We could only be so fortunate as to have any association with the Republican party of the time be so embarrassing that even the most wingy of the nuts don't want to claim their connection.
His fundraising was pretty good. At least so far.
Are you ready to make a prediction?
Nobody is going to beat Hick on gun issues alone. Gunzos are like 25% of the population, and they overlap with hardcore anti-abortion people, and they are in all political affiliations. The old PPP post-recall poll showed that.
Latinos and anti-racists are never going to forgive or forget Tancredo's vicious anti-immigration rants, so they (we) will never vote for him.
But his anti-immigrant stance is what makes him appealing to a certain young white low-information voter. Not necessarily racist, but working in construction, convinced that immigrant labor takes the bottom out from wages in this industry. It's hard to argue, because it's true. People scared of being deported will put up with poor wages and working conditions, and work hard, too.
Yes, a path to citizenship will help people come out from the shadows and wages will come up. That will take awhile. And these low-info voters propelled the Tanc to 37% of the vote in 2010.
So Tancredo is bolstering his following among these mostly young voters with his ganja-friendly stance. I don't think Tancredo will be the R nominee, because i think that Gessler will manipulate the system to gain the nomination. But Tancredo is the greater threat.
Of course nobody is going to beat the Governor on gun issues because the people for whom gun-rights are a hot-button issue wouldn't have voted for Hickenlooper under any circumstance, and the people who do support Hickenlooper aren't swayed on guns alone.
Don't see Tanc's pot friendly stance as a way of winning him more support among young R primary voters than he already has. None at all in a general. After all, it's already legal under Hick who isn't going to be running on repealing it. Not a campaign issue unless it's different from the other guy's. It doesn't exploit a difference. Now if he could be pro-puppy and get Hick to come out for gut shooting puppies, that could make a real difference.
You're right BC, in that there won't be any substantial marijuana legislation to argue about at this point. All of the R candidates support the voters in legalizing marijuana.
Tancredo is the only one who's gone so far as to say he will smoke it in public, that he sees Colorado's law as repealing prohibition, etc. That kind of talk endears him to the pot-smoking crowd.
In my opinion, none of these guys (Brophy, Tancredo, Gessler) can crack 35% in a general election, because they all have limited appeal or significant liabilities. Now, if only we had some really good progressive, independent candidate coming in to challenge both sides….
Tancredo may support legalizing marijuana but there are still social conservatives who believe Reefer Madness.
True. But in any case you have to have somebody who wants to repeal legal pot in order for being in favor to make any difference. If everyone running is OK with it, it's nothing. So if he's pandering, he's forgotten how to do it.
Say, wasn't that a young Tancredo who played the piano in that movie . . . ???
(. . . sure would explain a lot . . . )