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Tom Tancredo Jumps Into Colorado Governor's Race

Bump and Update: Tom Tancredo has announced he's running for Governor. NPR asks, "Can You Say Governor Hickenlooper?"

Original Post (Sun Jul 25, 2010 at 08:19:34pm)

Former Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo has given an ultimatum to Scott McInniss and Dan Maes: Either exit the Governor's race by noon Monday, or he'll run as a third party candidate for the American Constitution Party. He says his goal it to prevent Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, from winning. [More...]

McInnis is not likely to fold. Which means in November, the Republican vote will be split, which makes Hickenlooper a shoo-in.

While I doubt Hickenlooper would run ads replaying "Bomb Mecca" and "Impeach Obama," I wouldn't be surprised if McInnis did.

So what do Republicans do? Wait until after the primary and put in one Ken Buck or Jane Norton, one of the two Republicans vying for the Senate seat held by Michael Bennet?

Despite his awful position on immigration, Tancredo is pretty entertaining. He's also against the war on drugs. If he runs, maybe we'd actually hear candidates debating it.

I'm not convinced he'll enter the race. He isn't stupid and he knows he wouldn't win. His campaign for President a few years ago really tired him out. Maybe he's recouped his energy, but I don't see him looking forward to the grueling travel schedule of a statewide race. Maybe he's just trying to get Republicans moving on Buck or Norton. (It's too late for write-in names for the August primary, but as soon as that's over, if McInnis dropped out, Republicans would get to pick his successor. Tancredo also knows Republicans wouldn't pick him.)

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    McInnis wins re no. of signs in SW CO. (none / 0) (#1)
    by oculus on Sun Jul 25, 2010 at 09:45:17 PM EST


    Observed the same (none / 0) (#19)
    by christinep on Tue Jul 27, 2010 at 01:14:37 PM EST
    Husband, doggy, and myself returned Sunday from southwest-Colorado variation loop (from home in Denver to Salida to Montrose to Ouray to Telluride to Gateway/Grand Junction to Vail and back.) Mixed in with all of our state's wonderful sights & experiences was the signage for McInnis (and Republican Senate candidate Jane Norton.) While that was a bit of a blight, I had to remind myself that Grand Junction and area serves as the home of McInnis (and Norton.) Oh, oculus, the NY Philharmonic's Sibelius #2 and Beethoven's 4th piano in Vail were delicious...beautiful breeze, deep green trees against mountain twilight.

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    Damn peculiar (none / 0) (#2)
    by andgarden on Sun Jul 25, 2010 at 10:21:16 PM EST


    Business as usual... (none / 0) (#9)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Mon Jul 26, 2010 at 08:27:16 AM EST
    ...for the Colorado GOP under Dick Wadhams.  

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    Have to agree (none / 0) (#5)
    by nycstray on Mon Jul 26, 2010 at 12:10:03 AM EST
    His political schtick borders on the offensive, and often crosses that frontier with hate speech that panders to his GOP base's worst fears and in