Sarah P(h)alin endorses third party Tom Tancredo for Colorado governor

[jefferson_dem]

Sarah Palin endorses third party Tom Tancredo for Colorado governor

For all its clean air and blue skies, Colorado has been a weirdly messy place politically this year.

There was former President Bill Clinton allegedly offering yet another Democratic Senate candidate a job working for the Obama administration if he left the competition. He didn't and lost anyway.

Then Republican ex-Rep. Tom Tancredo, he of the spectacularly unsuccessful bid for the GOP presidential nomination, jumps into the governor's race as a third-party American Constitution candidate.

And now on the last day ex-Gov. Sarah Palin endorses Tancredo against the hopelessly trailing Republican, Dan Maes, and Democrat John Hickenlooper. If you're following the World Series, that's 7 to 4 to 5 to 1.

In a campaign robocall that started going out to Colorado voters Monday afternoon, Palin says, "Tom is the right man for the job and he'll fight for lower taxes." Then she adds, about his trademark issue, "And we know he'll continue to work to end illegal immigration."

It's actually not a bad political move for Tancredo and Palin. With no GOP damage since Maes is a non-factor, she solidifies her anti-establishment, go-with-the-common-sense-conservative-guy-no-matter-what stance. Palin's pal and Tancredo's former House colleague Michele Bachmann made the same move earlier. If Tancredo wins, it looks like he'd owe her, if Palin were to run for something else someday soon.

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/11/sarah-palin-colorado-tom-tancredo.html

[bullwinkle428]

1. Jesus...better late than never!

What a tool.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Amazing, she knew enough to endorse him before the election.

I give her credit for that.

[tanyev]

3. Sarah Phalin. Love it.

[Arkana]

4. So when he gets pounded today she'll have yet another failure on her resume.

Good luck to soon-to-be-governor Hickenlooper, Coloradoans.

[donco6]

5. Actually, they're tied quite closely.

And we have enough dumbass Teabaggers here for Phalin's endorsement to put Tancredo over the top. Seriously.

[Imajika]

6. Tancredo might keep it closer than you think..

"So when he gets pounded today.."

The polling evidence seems to indicate Hickenlooper may only win by 5 points or so.

[Arkana]

8. 5 points or 15 points, doesn't matter.

Hickenlooper's gonna win and that fascist nut Tancredo will have to go back to his Klan halls.

[golfguru]

7. That might just put him over the top /

[timkainemustgo]

9. Sarah Palin is a money grubbing KOOK

Enough said.

[LeftishBrit]

10. Ugggh. He's like the sort of far-rightist who can be a big problem in the UK (BNP and such-like)

But does his candidacy increase the chance of a Dem winning?

[MattyGroves]

11. If he wins based on this endorsement Palin's pretty much has the nomination in 2012

Seriously, if she can elevate a crack-pot "birther" third party candidate into the governorship she's pretty much golden.

The Republican candidate had enough issues that the party base will forgive her for backing an independent (who will govern as a Republican 99.9% of the time) and any attempt to derail her by the leadership is going to hurt them more than it will hurt her.