Tea Partiers lose another candidate: Colorado's Dan Maes being forced to step aside for lying, cheating
Gee, no irony in this video from "the friends of Dan Maes", is there? "Last man standing," indeed:
Top Colorado Republicans are attempting to convince gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes to drop his bid for governor by the end of Friday, a well-placed Republican in the state tells POLITICO.
In a meeting Friday morning, party chairman Dick Wadhams and other members of the state GOP executive committee met with Maes to present what one called “damaging evidence” that hasn’t yet been made public but would further erode his standing as a candidate, according to the source.
A second Republican consultant confirmed the account and said while there was no explicit ultimatum presented by the chairman to Maes, the message was clear.
“It was: Do you really want to put your family through this? If you stay in the race, you’ll have to endure this and this,” said the Republican, citing potential reports by the Denver Post.
Wadhams did not respond to a call for comment and another Republican aide said he did not expect the chairman to address the media until Maes came to a decision.
A Maes spokesman indicated that the candidate was meeting with those who want him out of the race.
“Dan is listening to the concerns of those who believe he should stay in the race, as well as those who believe he should step aside. He has no plans to exit the race at this time,” said Maes spokesman Nate Strauch.
Since upending Rep. Scott McInnis in the GOP primary last month, Maes has run into a string of problems and questions about his own credibility. Earlier this week, the Post reported that Maes falsely claimed he did undercover police work in Kansas before being terminated. He lost the endorsements of former Sen. Hank Brown and former state Senate president John Andrews.
Early Friday afternoon, GOP Senate nominee Ken Buck also withdrew his support for Maes, the latest signal that his time as a candidate may be limited to days, if not hours.
Of course, no matter who they replace him with, it's over. Democrat John Hickenlooper is far ahead in the polls anyway.
How come we keep hearing about the Tea Partiers' occasional successes -- like Joe Miller in Alaska (now there's a good national barometer) -- and ignoring their multiple failures?
It will certainly be interesting to learn what these papers were about to report. Sounds like there were some juicy skeletons in Maes' closet. But then, right-wing authoritarianism does bring out the best in people, doesn't it?
I just sent an email to Washington Week in Review:
I think the reportage on the mid-term elections is more about molding opinions or creating stories than reporting them.
On the lead the republicans supposedly have, it's only ten points. Anywhere from 3-6 points is usually spotted for MoE. That leaves a lead of only 4-7 points.
Now Independent voters are the gadfly here, as always. The problem is the astroturfers are primarily hard-right republicans, yet they identify themselves as Independents, and are about 20% of the electorate. So they skew the polling results for the Independents who are turning against President Obama by at least 20%, when they had no intention of voting for him in the first place.
So by not noting that discrepancy, whether intentional or not, it's molding the outcomes, possibly by depressing turn-out to the polls. This can take two forms over-confidence in the republicans or despair among the Democrats. If the republicans are successful in retaking either or both houses the media can crow, "You heard it here first." If neither scenario is produced it will be the "Surprise election results," and in either case be resultant in new cycles of stories such as, "What did the Democrats do wrong or right?" Conversely the story could be, "What did the Republicans do wrong or right?" And then there's the ever-present story of just how reflective of the electorate are all these polls?
What do you think, too nasty?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
But still, right on the money.
"So by not noting that discrepancy, whether intentional or not, it's molding the outcomes"
What I'm seeing in my neck of the woods, in a Senate race that is currently even, is the two candidates specifically running on that they're the lesser of two evils. Neither candidate stands for an issue, AT ALL.
Instead, the Republican, rather disingenuously runs on that 70+% of the state opposes Obama care, (without mentioning that much of the opposition favored single payer) and represents that the opponent should have endorsed the status quo. (The status quo has medical care costs rising at 10%/year while GDP is stagnant, would have priced us all out of health care).
Meanwhile the Democrat runs on the Republican receiving the most corporate funds and inserting corporate welfare covenants into legislation. They're even in the polls.
Meanwhile, in an environment where these politicians think that they can peremptorily "take issue off the table", the corporate media is only too compliant in taking excessive military spending off the table.
These politicans need to specifically come out and say where they stand on the Ron Paul/Barney Frank proposal to reduce military spending, with our nearly 800 foreign bases, where we're the world's policeman. The proposal attempts to save $1 trillion over 10 years. (I'd like to see double the savings)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-barney-fran...
We're getting hit in the wallet with:
1.) The highest health care costs in the world.
2.) The highest defense costs per capita in the world.
3.) The highest drug war costs and collateral damage (murders, robberies) in the world.
Instant runoff would increase competition by allowing people to vote for a third choice without that choice facilitating the greater of the two evils.
http://www.instantrunoff.com/FAQ.php
http://www.fairvote.org
We always knew implicitly that we were voting for the lesser of two evils, but this is the first election where I'm seeing it rubbed in our faces.
That's the other thing they don't mention, much of Obama opposition is not due to any inroads by teabaggers, but liberals who are upset that Obama isn't more liberal, or prefered a single-payer system.
Come the election hopefully they'll vote for Democratic candidates, because they're not Obama, who''s not presently running for anything, and because of what the alternative is.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
... that's not what we're seeing. I've posted for quite a while now, that on various issues, we're seeing a fake dichotomy that mirrors the fake dichotomy in our elections, with the big money issues, health, war, and drug war off the table.
Let's speak to the horse baloney that will never be discussed in the elections:
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/...
That's the drug war. In our huge success to off-shore everything, along with our economic collapse, we've managed to off-shore the violence from Prohibition II. Here's the corporate media spin.
This caught my eye. "When gunmen are willing to line up and shoot migrants in cold blood, for whatever reason, the terrorists have descended into an entirely new realm of inhumanity."
The "terrorists" label.
Fact is, we could fix our Mexican problem real cheap. First, fine any employer hiring an illegal enough money to deter the problem, maybe $50,000 per knowing violation, and $20,000 for other violations. Second, to eradicate the black market cash flow, people who are already addicted, should get maintenance prescriptions (along with legalization of marijuana). That would end the profitability of drug distribution and end the incentives to addict new users. This approach would end the problem.
Instead, along with health and defense, solutions that don't pick the pockets of Americans remain "off the table", with the corporate media as the first line of censorship.
Not nasty enough, IMHO, but it doesn't matter what you write to them, they already have their narratives decided upon.
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Great video. :D
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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do you all hate America???
Because it's so easy?
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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damn it AA , why do you point out the obvious
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
Play him off...
Hee, i'm captain obvious.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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did you demote yourself ?
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
I have no idea, what did you think what a rank i had? I know i had the "BS" and "cat" rank. I was born with the "captain obvious" rank. Or are you talking about the "Führer" rank i had for a while? Yeah, well, there were some people that took offence by that.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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if you were an admiral , we would have to call you triple A ( lol )
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
Bra size?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
thats tiny (tim )
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
Admiral_Alerta_Alerta? Erm..... OK! If that makes you laugh.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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that if the man stepped down his skeletons stayed in the closet. My prurient interest is just about exhausted and he does have a family who won't deserve what is about to happen to them.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Rapists, murderers, mafia types, bank robbers, Madoff types.
Do we excuse and forgive their crimes if they have a wife and kids !?
Whenever theres some sobbing GF/wife (of some bank robber) on TV saying how she never knew her BF/husband was doing X (yet lived in a big house on a garbage mans wage), just remember that she lived the good life on the proceeds for months/years before the arrest.
the level of criminality? The usual tawdry extramarital affair perhaps? Something sufficiently tawdry to cost him the election, which he isn't going to win anyway but will crush and embarrass his family? If it were criminal he would already have been charged don't you think? Unless he continues to seek office why would anyone need to know anything about his character?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Via Kos:
"Republican Dan Maes, Democrat John Hickenlooper and American Constitution Party candidate Tom Tancredo are officially on the November ballot in the race for Colorado governor.
"Secretary of State Bernie Buescher certified the list Friday. Buescher says any changes to the ballot would have to come from county clerks from all 64 counties."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?...
"How come we keep hearing about the Tea Partiers' occasional successes -- like Joe Miller in Alaska (now there's a good national barometer) -- and ignoring their multiple failures?"
Maybe the same reason the media let Al Capone run Chicago for so long?
and why the media lets black government ops go on and on.
and why the media will continue to let the richest elite 1% go untaxed while the poorest continue to starve.
Why the media doesn't mention that Blackwater is still in business, while Acorn it out of business.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Then by what right do we have as a nation to be called a democratic republic? Without a free and truthful press, how can people make a reasoned decision?
...incidentally, i just noticed, there is a real news story about Blackwater shenanigans out just today. Perhaps real journalism takes a little longer to unfold.
Republicans are radical and Democrats are conservative. How about that...
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
::facepalm::
and Yes.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
What gets me is what the article points out. That this situation is being hidden by the press while the few successes are getting played up to a ridiculous level. This one of the major problems in our country today. How can one make an informed decision if the information is muted due to bias?
The Progressives need to start taking advantage of this stuff and be mounting an effective counter punch. We should have never gotten rid of Howard Dean as DNC Chairman. The corporate wing of the Democratic Party must not have liked his effectiveness and his fifty state strategy. We have a fight ahead of us.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Even the "analysis" of WWIR is facile.
It's mostly horse race pacings. When the refer to the issues at all it's in general terms and how it may help or hurt a candidate, particularly President Obama when he's not running for anything this year.
But as to actually analyzing the stances of individual candidates that is not done.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
dont you mean , individual corporations ?
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
No, they seek to be the invisible forces behind campaigns.
Although it's ironic that WWIR refers to policies regarding Iraq, Afghanistan and possibly Iran, and what is the first commercial you see after the show?
Boeing bragging about their military contracts.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I remember when Boeing was talking about leaving Seattle , the slogan was " the last one out turn off the lights "
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
they were in a slump. Seattle was in a depression.
me-oww!
It's all the rain...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdrGS__yg6Q
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I am always happy when I am depressed , its so confusing , it must be the sunshine
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq7DGPYzAvg
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Seattle was in a depression , because Boeing was in a slump , I was here , I have built so much tooling for Boeing and when Boeing is in a " slump " , it affected all small business's .
Your right they were not talking about leaving ( my bad ) just shutting down all out sourcing to small contractors , however I do remember " the last one out turn off the lights " .
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
I was here too. Nordstrom stock was $4.
I've linked to a pic of that billboard on the site.
Speaking of Boeing I was 3 miles from Boeing field yesterday when a 787 flew directly overhead making its approach, so it was pretty low. As long as the engine stays on, those things are damn quiet.
me-oww!
Sorry, I was trying to reply to ape-man. I'm still trying to get the hang of this thing.
Not particularly apropos of anything, but I'm listening to it for the first time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhNEzKxRBis&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKyNIY9oMnw&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Shows what I know.
I thought lying and cheating was a prerequisite with these spuds.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICGrjmJouWA
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Why do conservatives have such shitty taste in music? That was Gawd-Awful. And I watched it til the end waiting for some kind of zinger.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewnfWoSQz3o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCniFuHlPG0&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Why do conservatives have such shitty taste in music?
They're the party that brought you Ted Nugent.
Let's see how far to the right they go before they fall off of the edge of this flat world.
He offered Joe Sestak a non-paid job to convince him to not run for the Senate. It seems that the Republicans feel that the rule is that you cannot offer anything to convince someone to not run for office.
I happen to think that the use of extortion qualifies a little better, but no one will notice or bring this up.
Paul C
If this was the Democrats forcing one of their candidates out with information about as yet unpublicized scandals, then Fox News, all the right-wing radio shows and every prominent Republican in the state or national parties would all be yelling "Extortion!!" as loud as they could.
is the one in which he takes a shower every time he sees a negative ad and promises he won't run any.
I laugh because he doesn't have to run any at all.
Shower
Lying, cheating ? That's not why , those are Republican virtues , right up there with greed .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
isn't that standard issue in the Rethuglican rule book?
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Where does the line between reacting and blackmailing begin, and where MSM employees act as agents of political parties (when they don't run the damaging details if the candidate stands down) !?
well, he won't get a chance to become david vitter.
*shucks!*
Some stuff you can't make up!
Contrary to the report here, OFFICIALLY, according to the Denver Post this morning as well as channel 9 and channel 7 news there, Dan Maes is ON THE BALLOT..
May not have a chance in hell's oven of winning but he and Tancrazo gotta face Hickenlooper for the Gov. office.. tee....hee... and a HAR..HAR...HAR to all the pee-party loons around.. As Queen so aptly stated in 1980's tune..."Another one bites the dust"...
Link if UR interested:
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_15989513
I would hate to be sitting at the family dinner table with them tonight. No doubt, Mrs. Maes has a few questions.
I am a former member fo the Democrat Party. I left the party in 2003. I am currently a member of the tea party. I did not lose a candidate for governor. Unlike voters in the Democrat party - Many in my extended family included - will vote the party line regardless of moral inadequacies of there candidate. Ted Kennedy is a great example of this. I like jfk in many respects but even he falls into this set. Bill Ritter and Barack Obama are great examples of this. But I digress. I am not willing to vote for a candidate who is caught lying about his resume (John Edwards) as Maes has done but still I have not lost a candidate. My vote will go to Tom Tancredo. Many here do not like him for his stance on illegal immigration. What strikes humerous is the fact that most in here have whined and cried for 8 years about otusourcing of jobs while obediently following the democrat party line of increasing the importation of illegal workers to take jobs away from americans in their own country. The utter hypocracy is shameful at best treasonous at worst. Then to have it come to light that it was The Democrat Governors association's funding of Dan Maes candidacy that allowed him to get the nomination in the first place. Having spent time on both sides of the aisle I can tell you first hand. Conservatives (not all Republicans are conservative) put country first Democrats put Party Power first. The tea party is about economics and personal freedom. Democrats and Progressives are about Power and Control.
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