The buzzards are circling Dan Maes. Repugs and Teabaggers alike claim he is a figment of someone else’s twisted imagination (not theirs, of course), and even the insane neolibertard Ken Buck just gave him the heave-ho.
GOP voters decided in the primary that they’d prefer a feeb to a thief, but the party apparatchiks were appalled at their choice of the dingbat Maes — a mental midget, serial liar and astoundingly inept “businessman” who equates bicycles with blue-helmeted, black-helicoptered One World Gummint — over Scott McLobbyist, who had been the anointed front-runner until he got caught with someone else’s words under his byline and tried to brazen it out, like a shoplifter snagged with a hot Blu-Ray player stuffed up under his shirt. “Who me?” Yeah, you, pal. Out y’go.
So now they’re trying to get Maes to bail from the gubernatorial race before today’s 5 p.m. deadline for ballot certification so they can appoint a candidate with more computing power than a 1982 Osborne Executive.
Never happen, says state Sen. Dave Scheisskopf (R-The Crazy).
“You won’t see Dan backing down, I know that,” Scheisskopf told our local cage-liner. Let’s hope not. Watching John Hickenlooper kick the mortal shit out of this clown is liable to be the highlight of my fall election season.
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This is what the Demo’s are hoping for — these extreme right-wingers don’t appeal to many of the moderates on the right so they’ll either stay home in November or vote for a third-party candidate. It’s sad that the donkeys don’t have much more than that to base their optimism on. A similar thing happened here in Iowa back when Howard Dean was doing well in the polls — the establishment Demos thought him too left so they torpedoed his chances and gave us….John Kerry as the Democratic Party version of ol’ Bob Dole. But this time the extreme right-wingers look to have defied the party bosses, quite likely throwing away their chances to defeat Democratic Party candidates.
Then there are the established, incumbent right-wing whackos like our Steve King. Don’t know if this made news outside of our area like King has done so many times in the past with his whacky statements but earlier this week his Democratic challenger, Matt Campbell showed up at a King “town-hall” meeting and challenged him to debate. King’s been ducking him (has never debated any opposition candidate during his tenure) so Campbell showed up to make public his challenge. King looked even stupider than usual and even our local right-wing fishwrapper is now calling on him to debate the issues with the challenger. I was so excited I went to Campbell’s website and made a campaign contribution! A slim chance for the Demo’s to gain a seat in DC and for us to have a congressman who’ll do more than pal around with Tom Tancredo and make idiotic statements.
All this talk about the GOP kicking serious butt this fall and in ’12 … but the thing is, you can’t just say “they stink,” you have to come up with your own guy who doesn’t reek. A 20% approval rating still beats a 10%, ya know.
Everyone said a sock puppet could beat Bush in ’04 … and then the Dems ran the guy who lost to the sock puppet.
And despite the media coverage that the Tea Party gets, they’re just not turning out at the polling stations. Sarah Palin Herself could only whip up 28% of them to show up for the Miller / Murkowski contest.
Here’s what I don’t get: in ’08, Obama won the college grad vote … the first time ever (I say again, ever) that the Dems had beat the GOP in that demographic. And instead of taking it as a wake-up call, the GOP sees it as a badge of honor: we don’t need no steenking smart people in our party!
All this talk about the GOP kicking serious butt this fall and in ’12 … but the thing is, you can’t just say “they stink,” you have to come up with your own guy who doesn’t reek. A 20% approval rating still beats a 10%, ya know.
Everyone said a sock puppet could beat Bush in ’04 … and then the Dems ran the guy who lost to the sock puppet.
And despite the media coverage that the Tea Party gets, they’re just not turning out at the polling stations. Sarah Palin Herself could only whip up 28% of them to show up for the Miller / Murkowski contest.
Here’s what I don’t get: in ’08, Obama won the college grad vote … the first time ever (I say again, ever) that the Dems had beat the GOP in that demographic. And instead of taking it as a wake-up call, the GOP sees it as a badge of honor: we don’t need no steenking smart people in our party!