Tancredo could blow up Colorado's GOP this fall

[babylonsister]

Boo hoo! :cry:


Tancredo could blow up Colorado's GOP this fall

By Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers


HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — The breakfast coffee was starting to cool when Tom Tancredo wrapped up his talk on the evils of illegal immigration and President Barack Obama and opened the floor to questions from his fellow Republicans.

One of the first: Why are you ruining Republican prospects by jumping into the Colorado governor's race as a third-party candidate?

Tancredo, a former five-term Republican congressman from Colorado, said he wouldn't be a spoiler. He won't, he said, draw votes away from an already damaged Republican nominee and allow the Democrats to win the campaign for governor.

"If I believed that, I wouldn't do it," he said. "I simply don't believe it."

He's virtually alone, however.

Even before they pick their candidates in a primary next Tuesday, Colorado Republicans fear that they're on course to lose in a battleground state they desperately want to win from the Democrats this fall.

Mostly, they worry that they'll lose a governor's race they thought was safely in their hands just weeks ago. They also fret that the scandal and infighting in that race could hurt their chances at taking a U.S. Senate seat away from the Democrats, one of the seats the Republicans need if they're to retake control of the Senate.

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/08/04/98633/tancredo-could-blow-up-colorados.html

[WI_DEM]

1. Good!

[spanone]

2. his ego is bigger than colorado

[damntexdem]

3. Stay out of touch with reality, Tom.

Stay your crooked course.

[mmonk]

4. Gee, too bad.

;-)

[librechik]

5. BWA HA HA!

oh, "they" thought the race was already over, the pigs.