We're fine. Really. Honest. We are.

[madamesilverspurs]

In spite of what you may have read, seen and/or heard the Democrats in Colorado are just fine. Please keep in mind that it isn't a Democrat who:

-- wants you to vote for him because he doesn't wear high heels (for the record, he really is misogynist and a bigot)(senate candidate Ken Buck);

-- believes that riding bicycles will turn us into scary UNers (gubernatorial candidate Maes);

-- took $300K to write a report that he plagiarized, then tried to get an elderly assistant to take the fall (gubernatorial candidate McInnis);

-- demanded that the Republican candidates remove themselves from the gubernatorial race, then bolted from the party to run for the office from a fringe party (Tancredo);

-- made national news by breaking up their Tea Party fife-and-drum act over a disagreement about sheriff candidates.


Seriously, we've got our own knock-down-drag-out senate primary race going on. But we ain't been drinking whatever the other guys have been chugging, not by a long shot. Why, by comparison we look positively sensible.


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[Hekate]

1. A toast to Colorado Democrats!

:toast:

Long may good sense reign. Just chuck a little something at those pesky Repubs if they get too obstreperous.

Hekate

[mrs_p]

2. sent my dem primary ballot in yesterday

hoping the best for november!

edit: as i wrote this, there were three ads in a row, norton, buck, then buck again. must turn channel away from local news...

[madamesilverspurs]

4. Thought I heard something earlier

wherein Jane Norton is pleased to accept endorsement by Jan Brewer. Haven't seen or heard it repeated, so couldn't include it in the list. Creepy.


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[Robbien]

3. There is a good mcclatchy article today about Dems Bennett and Romanoff

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/08/04/98648/insurgents-surging-in-colorados.html

Now Obama is aggressively supporting Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado in a Democratic primary next Tuesday. Yet Bennet could lose to Andrew Romanoff, a former speaker of the state House of Representatives, who says he'd be a stronger advocate in the Senate for such things as government-run health insurance as an option for everyone.

A new Denver Post/Survey USA poll this week showed Romanoff up by 3 points over Bennet for the first time, erasing a 17-point Bennet lead in six weeks.

There's no doubt about Obama's support for Bennet, whom the governor appointed to the Senate seat that was left vacant when the president appointed Ken Salazar secretary of the interior.

Romanoff said his experience forging coalitions in the state legislature made him better qualified to work in the Senate, and that he'd be more aggressive pushing such ideas as government involvement in health care — either providing its own insurance to compete with private insurers or taking over the whole system in a "single payer" system .

"I support single payer. My opponent does not. I would have fought for the public option. My opponent did not," he said.

"My opponent wrote a letter (supporting the public option) but it was just cosmetic. When push came to shove, he didn't push, he didn't shove."

Bennet refused requests for an interview and for a schedule of campaign appearances.

Romanoff said he knew Colorado better than Bennet did thanks to his experience in the legislature and on campaigns for fellow lawmakers and liberal ballot initiatives. That, he said, makes him a stronger general-election candidate against whichever Republican wins that party's primary Tuesday, either Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck or former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton.

"I wouldn't run if I didn't think I had the best qualifications and best chance to hold the seat," Romanoff said. "I have a better chance to beat the Republicans."

Romanoff's fueled his come-from-behind surge with hard-hitting ads financed in part when he sold his home and lent $325,000 to his underdog campaign.

Bennett is more of a conservative Dem, is he not?

[mrs_p]

5. yeah, bennett is the more conservative of the two

he leans democrat, but is like Betsy Markey and tries to appeal to the conservatives here in Colorado