June 04, 2009 04:53 PM UTC

Dan Maes Slams Everybody!

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• by: Colorado Pols

One of the biggest obstacles in front of gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis’ future political viability is his attack last October, just days before the election, on ‘insiders’ who engineered his removal from the 2008 Senate race–in favor of eventual loser Bob Schaffer. Even if he was right, as we believe he was at least partly, the timing and un-minced words from McInnis burned many, many bridges with fellow Republicans: the effects of which are still playing out today, as McInnis takes more fire from the his own party than anywhere else.

The moral of McInnis’ story…does not appear to have reached second-tier GOP gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes. As the Longmont Times-Call reports:

Maes, who’s campaigning to be Ritter’s GOP challenger in next year’s general election, pitched his candidacy Wednesday to more than 20 people attending a Boulder County Republican Breakfast meeting…

“We must have a Republican governor,” Maes said, especially if Democrats maintain majority control of both houses of the Legislature in the 2010 elections.

And while the 48-year-old Maes is a relative newcomer to Colorado’s political scene, he suggested his new ideas will be assets to the state Republican Party.

…During his brief breakfast speech at Longmont’s IHOP Restaurant, Maes did not identify any of his potential GOP rivals for the party’s gubernatorial nomination by name.

But Maes said one is “a 22-year-career politician” – an apparent reference to Grand Junction Republican Scott McInnis, a former congressman and former state legislator who filed his candidacy papers May 18.

Maes also said another possible GOP gubernatorial candidates is “a young man” who’s “already a career politician,” an apparent reference to state Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction.

Got that? Dan Maes for Governor, baby: everybody else sucks. Keep that in mind after he gets buried at the state party convention, okay?