Trancredo may run for CO governor as an independent 0_o

[Vepres]

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http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-000003706609&topic=Feature

[Lunar]

= Governor Hickenlooper if McIcecream is still in it

[You kip if you want to...]

yaaaaaay, vote splitting.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I love you, Tom. Just do it!

[RIP Robert H Bork]

What the hell?

Way to hand over the governorship to the worst option, Tom. And it's not like Scott McInnis is a liberal Republican....

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

What the hell?

Way to hand over the governorship to the worst option, Tom. And it's not like Scott McInnis is a liberal Republican....

Thats not why he is doing it.

[Хahar 🤔]

Wonderful!

[redcommander]

Scott will be forced to drop out soon and the Republicans will endorse Tancredo's candidacy in order to prevent the Democrats from winning the Governorship again.

[Saxwsylvania]

What the hell?

Way to hand over the governorship to the worst option, Tom. And it's not like Scott McInnis is a liberal Republican....

I disagree.  McInnis is the very definition of a RINO, even if his integrity is above reproach.

[Meeker]

Why is Tancredo suddenly interested in being Governor?

EDIT: Ah, the not-McInnis guy has issues too. Interesting.

[California8429]

Scott will be forced to drop out soon and the Republicans will endorse Tancredo's candidacy in order to prevent the Democrats from winning the Governorship again.

not if he still wins the primary and there's a 50-50 for that. Scott also has a huge temper and if he wins the primary, he won't just back out because people tell him too

[Vepres]

Tancredo gives ultimatum: either both McInnis and Maes drop out immediately following the August primary, thus allowing the GOP to select a candidate, or he runs as a third party candidate and splits the vote. He says he doesn't care if he is nominated by the GOP or not.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2010/07/22/tancredo-ultimatum-to-maes-and-mcinnis-get-out-or-im-in/12223/

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Tancredo gives ultimatum: either both McInnis and Maes drop out immediately following the August primary, thus allowing the GOP to select a candidate, or he runs as a third party candidate and splits the vote. He says he doesn't care if he is nominated by the GOP or not.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2010/07/22/tancredo-ultimatum-to-maes-and-mcinnis-get-out-or-im-in/12223/

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[Lunar]

Tancredo gives ultimatum: either both McInnis and Maes drop out immediately following the August primary, thus allowing the GOP to select a candidate, or he runs as a third party candidate and splits the vote. He says he doesn't care if he is nominated by the GOP or not.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2010/07/22/tancredo-ultimatum-to-maes-and-mcinnis-get-out-or-im-in/12223/

something tells me that that kind of blackmail isn't going to work.

[Lunar]

How much did Tancredo raise when he ran for president?  Colorado has very strict fundraising laws -- he's not independently wealthy, right?

He might not make a very big splash in the race as an Indy


edit: I see, $1.3m, hmm, I guess it depends on who those donors are.  My suspicion is that a lot less people would be inclined to donate to a spoiler candidate in a general election.  

Tancredo also has to explain why, if he thought he'd be such a great governor, why he wasn't in this race to begin with.  "The frontrunner turned out to have committed serious intellectual copyright theft in 2005" isn't the most compelling of reasons to explain why you entered a race where you presumably already knew you'd be the best person in the state to be governor already.

[Lunar]

And why would Maes drop out?  "Oh, the momentum shifted towards our campaign, so we thought it'd be best to drop out and let an undemocratic process choose the nominee instead"

[Meeker]

Hickenlooper's a strong candidate even in a year like this though and the Republican nominee isn't going to trounce him. Tancredo getting as little as 5% could cost them the race.

[Lunar]

We'll see.  Obviously if he got 5%, that would be significant in this race -- maybe he thinks Maes & McInnis will drop out, and he wants to put a lot of pressure on the CO GOP to pick him, but doesn't intend to follow through?

This could all be a bluff too, who knows what Tom is up to.

[Tender Branson]

Good.

That´s poetic justice for Maine, where the Cutler guy is taking votes away from Libby Mitchell and therefore enables a LePage win ...

[Vepres]

Dan Maes has been accused of campaign finance improprieties. Scott McInnis not only plagerized, but also regularly voted in the interests of his largest donors (many of whom he still has ties with) when in congress and the state legislature.

Hickenlooper just needs to wait for his coronation now

[Tender Branson]

Tom Tancredo Joins Colorado Governor’s Race

By Susan Davis

Former presidential candidate and Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo joined the race for Colorado’s governor today, making good on a promise to get in if the other two Republican candidates didn’t get out.

Tancredo told the Denver Post that he will run as a third party candidate on the American Constitution Party’s ticket.

The former lawmaker is expected to make the announcement official this afternoon.

Last week, Tancredo gave Republican candidates Scott McInnis and Dan Maes an ultimatum: get out, or I’m getting in. Both McInnis and Maes are dragging in the polls against Democrat John Hickenlooper, the mayor of Denver.

McInnis and Maes refused, so Tancredo’s making good on his word. The state Republican Party is not happy.

“Tom Tancredo has nobody’s interest in mind other than his own,” state GOP party chairman Dick Wadhams told the Denver Post. “But what do you expect from a guy who reneged on his term-limit pledge and has been running for office for five decades.”

Tancredo was a long-shot candidate for president in 2008, whose campaign focused largely on his opposition to illegal immigration. He is considered a conservative firebrand, and while he is popular among the party’s right flank, his bid is more likely to split the conservative ticket and make it easier for Hickenlooper this November.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/07/26/tom-tancredo-joins-colorado-governors-race/

[California8429]

21 tea party/ 9-12 groups just voted in an overwhelming majority to tell Tancredo to back down and that they won't support him.

There goes the only base he could ever possibly have

[Tender Branson]

21 tea party/ 9-12 groups just voted in an overwhelming majority to tell Tancredo to back down and that they won't support him.

There goes the only base he could ever possibly have

Even if he gets only 5-10% of the vote, which he will, Hickenlooper will win this.

[Dgov]

21 tea party/ 9-12 groups just voted in an overwhelming majority to tell Tancredo to back down and that they won't support him.

There goes the only base he could ever possibly have

Even if he gets only 5-10% of the vote, which he will, Hickenlooper will win this.

It's not all bad.  This prevents the Democrats from tying him to the Republican nominee, which was probably one of their best potential campaign tactics.  It also helps distance him from the Republican party in general, which is certainly a good thing for them in the long term.

[Meeker]

21 tea party/ 9-12 groups just voted in an overwhelming majority to tell Tancredo to back down and that they won't support him.

There goes the only base he could ever possibly have

Even if he gets only 5-10% of the vote, which he will, Hickenlooper will win this.

It's not all bad.  This prevents the Democrats from tying him to the Republican nominee, which was probably one of their best potential campaign tactics.  It also helps distance him from the Republican party in general, which is certainly a good thing for them in the long term.

Something tells me that wasn't page one in the Hickenlooper strategy book. Or that it was in the strategy book at all.