Post endorses Bidlack

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   Believe me, Hal is a smart guy.  I’ve met him and heard him speak.  Excellent communicator.  Excellent presence.  He looks good.

   But this is the 5th CD, and Hal is out of synch with the values of the community.  
   
   I know, there are “progressives” here on this website who live in the District, and who agree with Hal on the conservative social/ religious issues.  But are their views representative of the District ?  

   he is far from a liberal

   EXCUSE ME ?  What the heck does that mean ?  

   A couple of years ago, he was blogging on a website for “skeptics” that he doesn’t believe in God.  He actually is the moderator for a well-known annual conference of atheists.  

   While he doesn’t say so on his own website, he has filled out candidate surveys and said that he supports ready access to abortion.  

   Granted, Hal is smarter and more suited to the typical work of a Congressman than me.
   
   But the nation is in a crisis, and we DO NOT NEED a typical Congressman right now.  
   
   A typical Congressman mostly spends his term cozying up to lobbyists and special interests in order to collect money for his reelection campaign.  

   We’ve got a veritable cornucopia of crises and disasters, current and looming, and Hal wants to be elected so he can be an important Congressman who brings his particular expertise on the Constitution to the debate.  
   
   Screw the debate.  I want the position only because it will help me fix the Iraq problem.  

   Hal wants to debate the important issues of the day.
   
   I’ve already got my sleeves rolled up and dirt under my fingernails, working on solutions.  

   Look, there won’t be any vote in the 111th Congress on rolling back Roe v. Wade, or on Gay Marriage.  
   
   In fact, unless several people like me get in there, there won’t even be a real Congress anymore, just the lapdog we’ve seen for the last 8 years, abdicating its Constitutional responsibilities.  

   This is a rare time when we need men of action in the Congress, not men of words.
   
   Hal is better at words.  
   
   I am already wrassling the Army in Iraq, in federal court and at the GAO, over Mercenaries and illegal contracts, protesting awards to the companies who tortured detainees, and offering to personally devolve power down to authentic indigenous local leaders.  
   
   I’m already pushing the State Department to set up a US Commission to acknowledge Iraqi losses, and pushing the Iraqi puppet government to conduct a national census.  I’ve already teamed with Iraqi businesses in Iraq for contract bids.  
   
   I’ve already got a contract supporting the Secretary of Defense to help provide the next Administration with an assessment of what’s at stake strategically in Iraq.  
   
   I know the terrain, and I know what should be done starting 3 January – the first day the 111th convenes – to advance US security interests, as opposed to the interests of one political party or another.  

   I’m ready to help stop the slide our nation is taking toward banana republic status.  Hal wants to debate it.  Doug Lamborn isn’t even aware that he’s contributing to the decline.  
   
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2. Let’s face it, Lamborn is going to win no matter what happens.  This was a safe opportunity to shore up the face-value “see, we’re unbiased” argument, without actually affecting the election results.

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   1. might, in its language attempting to sing his praises, piss off anti-Lamborn Republicans.

      The current roster of Republicans in federal races — Musgrave, Lamborn and Schaffer, so just how mediocre the Republican bench is this year.  The only strong Republican candidate running is Coffman, and his run is causing the GOP to forfeit a statewide office in order to gain a seat it already holds.

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