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The Spectacle Blog
The Denver Post is reporting that about 20 current and former Republican elected officials in Colorado — along with Congressman Steve King of Iowa — have come out and endorsed Tom Tancredo over GOP gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes. Maes won the primary after former Republican frontrunner Scott McInnis got caught up in a plagiarism scandal. Tancredo responded by bolting the party and running as the American Constitution Party candidate.
Recent polls show that Tancredo and Maes are splitting the GOP vote, essentially handing Hickenlooper a victory. Tancredo is hoping that enough Republicans will decide to throw their support behind him to make the race competitive.
“These endorsements tell every Republican that it’s OK to vote for Tom Tancredo, even if I’m in another party, because I would be a Republican governor,” he said.
Haley Barbour has already hinted that the Republican Governors Association is giving up on this race. “We have spent money in Colorado. Past tense,” the RGA chair told National Journal. Ford O’Connell and Steve Pearson recently wrote about the Maes-Tancredo split on the main site.
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SoCon| 9.9.10 @ 11:28AM
That's huge. Steve King is very smart; his endorsement makes me think Tancredo could win. What an interesting election year.
nobama2010| 9.9.10 @ 12:07PM
Tancredo is a nut job. Just like republicans to grab defeat out of the jaws of victory.
Patriot| 9.9.10 @ 2:18PM
I like Tancredo because he's NOT a RINO nutjob.
arationalaversion| 9.10.10 @ 8:45PM
Nut job? Those who vote for the republican slow bleed as opposed to the democrat jugular offensive are the nuts. At least with the dems an American knows he or she is going to have an attempt made on his life. I was (WAS) a republican since 1968 and learned through experience that the republican party will shoot us in the back every damned time. 1994 and 2002, for example. Rotgut cowards, backshooters and and traitors, they are. I suggest contrarians are the nutjobs.
mo derate| 9.9.10 @ 1:04PM
fairly bad news for republicans who wanted to see that state house flip
Mimi| 9.9.10 @ 2:02PM
I have always liked Tancredo....He stood above the rest of the crowd by defending our BORDERS. That was his issue....he owned it. Now when we really need a knowledgeable SPOKSMEN on this issue....He also will make a darn good Govenor. GO TOM!!
Marti| 9.13.10 @ 11:11AM
Ditto
ME| 9.9.10 @ 2:08PM
Tancredo's stupidly giving the race to the Democrats. Henceforth, he should be known as H. Ross Tancredo.
Bo| 9.9.10 @ 2:29PM
So, Tancredo really, really wants Hickenlooper to win?
Laura Gravina| 9.9.10 @ 5:58PM
Tancredo isn't liked by either the democatic establishment or the republican establishment, and that is exactly why I will be voting for Tancredo and sent the maximum amount to his campaign day #1. If Tancredo is a nut job, then I am a nut lover. Go Tommy GO!
Interested Conservative| 9.9.10 @ 7:11PM
Good luck, Laura, hope Tancredo is elected!
S Rubicon| 9.10.10 @ 4:03AM
If Hickenlooper is elected, then the folks will get the government they deserve. They have the alternative & in an instant Tancredo is the better choice.
Rick Johnson| 9.10.10 @ 2:16PM
If you consider Tom Tancredo a nutjob you probably belong in the Democrat Party.
J J| 9.10.10 @ 6:08PM
Sometimes you feel like a nut Good luck Tom you have my vote.
Desert Cactus | 9.13.10 @ 3:50AM
People just don't get the movement in America. Democrats just can't figure out the anger and why we are angry at BOTH the Democrats and Republicans. They simply haven't figured out that we are filled with rage at a system that has systematically raped us, our children and now our future generations in the name of Pork and who you know politics; where money and power have tainted the system so badly that candidates are spending 100,000,000 dollars just to be mayor of New York. Our government has been hijacked and :American citizens are willing to lay it all on the line to get our nation back on keel before it topples over into the ocean of debt we look at over the gunwales.
Get a clue. We don't care who it is as long as they are willing to figth the system that is there - Dem and Republican. We want American Patriots back in leadership in our nation - not traitors to big government and ungodly spending.
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Rich | 9.13.10 @ 4:28PM
If Tancredo was smart he would have run as an independent with no party affiliation. By running as a candidate with the American Constitution Party, he has no chance and the Democrat will probably win.