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October 11, 2008 01:31 AM UTC

Can Schaffer win conservative love with a nod and wink?

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by: ColoRabble

( – promoted by Colorado Pols)

As the Denver Post reports:

When Republican Bob Schaffer, a staunch values conservative who once compared embryonic stem-cell research to Nazi medical experiments, came out in opposition to this year’s personhood amendment, the party’s anti-abortion base hardly blinked.

“He made a calculated risk,” said Patrick Davis, a Colorado Springs consultant who works closely with anti-abortion groups.

The Republican Senate candidate, Davis said, understood that many of the state’s conservatives were “going to say ‘I know what Bob’s doing here and in the end I know I can trust him.'”

It appears as if the anti-abortion crowd is just coming out and saying they know Schaffer is full of crap. And if they assume all conservative voters agree, then Shaffer is in trouble (although looking at the polls, we all know he’s in deep doo-doo anyway).

Voters are rarely mobilized by candidates who refuse to say what they believe. They are never mobilized by candidates who say the opposite of what they believe.