The best thing that could happen now for conservatives and the Republican party would be for Maes to drop out and endorse Tancredo, to keep Hickenlooper from winning. Never happen, given the animosity between Maes and Tancredo, and how can a party encourage its own candidate to drop out of a race?

Maes’ campaign is now hopeless, not just way behind in the polls but also WAY behind the other candidates in fundraising.

By forcing out the only good candidate early on, we got stuck with a candidate that is completely inept and unqualified. The establishment didn’t need to do anything to Maes, he’s crashed and burned all on his own by making up stories about his business acumen and police work. This is what happens with groups back a candidate without experience that they don’t know anything about. If there are skeletons out there to be found, they will be found.

For me, this election has come down to a number. That number is 10. There’s no way Maes or Tancredo wins this thing unless Hickenlooper is caught with a small boy. For the GOP to remain a majority party in Colorado, Maes has to pull in at least 10% of the vote. If for no other reason, Republicans should vote for Maes to make sure he gets at least that, or it will affect every GOP candidate for the next four years.

Where I come from (just so happen to be a Colorado native), integrity counts for something as well. The more that is revealed about Mr. Maes the more it is readily apparent that he lacks integrity and the ability to tell the truth. I have been a registered Republican since the age of 18 (over twenty years now) and I have been faithful to the party. However, nominee or not Mr. Maes has lost my vote due to his own actions. You obviously have not studied the situation here in Colorado. That is the only logical explanation I can conclude given your statement.

Not to mention that Tancredo has been running against Maes while I have yet to hear Tancredo run an ad against Hickenlooper.
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You are way overestimating me. Or overestimating yourself. Either way, get over it.

You are correct about one thing. Neither Maes nor Tancredo will drop out, and CO will have a Democratic governor. Get smug with that.

At our Tea Party meeting today I asked her rep if she has EVER endorsed Perry; was told she is supporting some no name third party person, I was livid. She got what, 18% of the vote in the REPUB primary, has a ton of loyal followers and won’t throw them to Perry?

And remember when Glenn Beck outed her as a truther??

Yes Perry is ahead but he is not as popular as you would think…can you say Trans Texas corridor? Bill White made Houston a sanctuary city and just about ruined it financially. I can just see him teaming up with O to continue to close Texas refineries, hitting oil from both ends and of course vetoing all the R legislation! Omg, immigration.

It’s funny how so many ppl inTX think Murky and Castle are horrible but Medina is fine. My argument is then she should have run as an Independent or Libertarian! Her bio says her experience comes from high up in RON Paul’s organization. Yikes! if she makes us lose….

(nt) means there’s no text after the comment title.

5 is a throwback to the original RS site software, referencing the highest rating on a comment, marking one of very high quality.

1) “nt” is an abbreviation for “no text” which means that the entire content of the message is in the comment title. This in turn means that the reader doesn’t need to click on the comment, because what you see is what you get.

Incidently, you need to put in a separator, such as -nt- (which is what I use) and there are some others that work too – otherwise the text editor will reject your attempt for lack of a text portion.

2) “five” which is almost always written as a number, often expressed in various numeric permutations to indicate a superlative, and usually located in the comment title – means that the commented strongly agrees with the prior comment and/or thinks it an excellent comment.

This shorthand apparently comes from an early version of the RedState platform in which readers were able to rate other comments on a 1 to 5 scale, 5 being the highest.

Very rarely, someone may use a “1″ to indicate the opposite, but I’ve only seen this once or twice.

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Tancredo is in it for Tancredo. We aren’t giving him enough TV time for him to feel like a superhero to save our lives. I could never stand him, never believed he was sincere, and wish he wasnt acting out his revenge now