May 22, 2009 04:11 PM UTC

On The Efficacy of Nicknames, Part XLVIII

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• by: Colorado Pols

From Michael Roberts at Westword:

Scott McInnis has been positioning himself for a political comeback since at least last year. Note that in October, McInnis prematurely pissed on the GOP’s grave by publicly predicting that Bob Schaffer would lose to Mark Udall in the U.S. Senate contest — and adding that he could have won the seat. But his stealth campaign for the 2010 governor’s office brought him into the crosshairs of organizations such as Colorado Ethics Watch, which repeatedly rapped him for refusing to make the run official. He finally did so yesterday, and in the wake of this move, ProgressNow Colorado, another liberal organization, rushed out a press release praising CEW and branding McInnis as “McLobbyist.”

Sound familiar? Republican senatorial candidate Wayne Allard twice beat Democratic rival Tom Strickland in part because conservatives successfully stuck Strickland with the tag “lawyer-lobbyist.” Dems bellyached plenty about that at the time, but it was inarguably effective — just as they hope a variation of it will be against McInnis. Expect to hear a lot of “McLobbyist” yap in the weeks and months to come.

A perennial poll–and by that we don’t mean Scott “McLobbyist” McInnis personally–follows.

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