Amaesing Gubernatorial failure, Dan Maes, intent on further proving the point that he was one of the most embarrassing candidates in Colorado's history, sent a blast email out today insinuating he was Lincoln to Tancredo's John Wilkes Booth. We get it, Dan, you're bitter that you had the worst approval ratings of any Governor candidate in the country.
From the email:
Well, the bully of the 2010 election has decided he wants to hang out with the popular kids and he just is not feeling the love (tissue please). That's right, Tom Tancredo has friends trying to grease the skids for him at Lincoln Day Dinners. "Uh hem, Mrs. Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth would like to join you for dinner. He asked me to speak for him because he felt a little uncomfortable asking for himself". History buffs, just go with it.
Yes, Dan, you are Lincoln — if Lincoln shot himself in the foot and used the US Treasury to pay himself mileage for his ride to Gettysburg. Tancredo as John Wilkes Booth? Well, yes, Tancredo is a straight shooter, but a Presidential assassin, we think not. Just a guy who felt that conservatives should have a candidate they actually like running on their platform.
Tom Tancredo is an American stinkin' hero. We at the Peak love him, and so do Colorado conservatives. He made a valiant fight in the Governor's race, and gave conservatives a reason to vote. That was a huge boost to state house, state senate and even statewide races like Treasurer and Secretary of State. Far from castigating the Tanc, we owe him a debt of gratitude for giving Colorado conservatives a reason to turn out at all last fall.
The Amaesing One used most of his diatribe to go after everyone he felt slighted him, in a tone reminiscent of a 7th grade girl on MySpace, that only ensures even less people will retain a modicum of respect for the man.
What Dan fails to understand is that no one gives a rat's ass what he thinks anymore. He thoroughly embarrassed the Republican Party, and himself, throughout the campaign and conservatives have moved on. In a time of debates on the rising national debt, the last person with credibility is someone who had to rob a nice elderly lady to cover his mortgage deficit.
Dan, stop sending out childish rants about people who don't like you and go back to being a secret agent. We need more people like you to pull illegals off of the trains and shut down gambling factories in their in-laws house.
As a conservative, I’m not sure I agree with all the smoke you guys are blowing up Tancredo’s ass, “American stinkin hero” my foot…racist, religious bigot, with no grasp on reality, but who is sure as hell entertaining is more like it.
BUT PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE shut this Maes idiot up, STOP giving him a platform! The only platform this guy deserves is the end of the plank! Go swim with the political fishes, time to start singing “Danny Boy” to the guy with the email list and a bunch of voices in his head that tell him he is still relevant!
Wanna be A-maes-ing Dan? Stop. Talking.
did more damage to the state GOP than the “Fab Four” billionaires every could. Why is he still sending out emails? As in what could he possibly have to say that matters to anyone.
As for Tank, he’s maybe not quite the folk hero Peak makes him out to be, but it did take a lot of guts to do what he did–much less get nearly 40% of the vote as a 3rd party candidate.
In retrospect, didn’t Tancredo split the vote and hand the election to the Dems? I’m not saying Maes was a great candidate, but at least he was more consistent than Mr. “don’t go third party because it splits the vote” Tancredo. Like Jan Brewer, Tancredo is a one issue guy, but he has lost a lot of support by his act of sabotage. And I voted for him.
Tancredo did not cause the vote to be split.
Scotty and Danny split caused the vote to be split by not dropping out of the race when it became clear that the GOP had two horrible candidates.
They should have dropped.
If anything, Tancredo did us a favor by continuing to run as Dan Maes would have been far worse than even Hickenlooper. Maes has demonstrated clearly that he is a bumbling idiot.