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Colorado surely isn’t stupid enough to vote for Gardner. Udall has been one of the better Senators. Gardner is anti women. He may be backtracking, but he is on record for voting for extreme anti-women bills. Republicans will say anything to get elected. Wake up Colorado.
Can’t wait for 2016.
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Speaking from experience, Gardner is qualified to be a, well, gardener.
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By all accounts it is stupid enough to vote for Gardner and the Post jumped to Gardner because they have a record of winning endorsements.
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Gary Hart was poised to run against the first bush in the 1988 election and he probably would have won because he’s smart, savvy and progressive, was an effective senator, and admired on both sides of the aisle. The Monkey Business scandal got in his way, he had to withdraw, we got Dukakis instead as a candidate, but imagine a world without a poppy bush presidency. At the very least there might not have been a dubya presidency.
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Should-a, could-a, would-a doesn’t get dinner on the table.
Hart came to my campus in 1988. Shortly after that, the scandal broke.
One can wonder.
Gardner will be another in the Ted Cruz mold. I could simply slap everyone in the Dem establishment for not running ads country wide making the point that the GOP is a cabal of fucking lunatics who want to turn the entire country into the disaster that is Kansas.
Really, it isn’t that hard.
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Gary phoned-in his complaint from a chaise lounge on the deck of his Bimini yacht, the SS Monkey Business…
ETA: When did Gary Hart become a sacred cow?
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Sorry, but they surely ARE stupid enough to vote for a far right wing, anti environment nut bag.
Sad, but true.
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That was completely unnecessary, and not at all funny.
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Well, it wasn’t so much it got in his way as he taunted reporters into making it happen. He dared them to follow him and find some scandal and they complied. (there were already rumors swirling about him carrying on an affair)
But yes, I believe he could have beaten Bush pretty easily. Of course, one has to wonder about a President that is that gallivant with the press while carrying on an affair.
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Who are you, and what have you done with Thunderclap Newman?!
I suppose some combination of Gary Hart + yacht + scandal must have put it over the edge? My somewhat sincere apologies go out to Gary Hart fans. I do agree with his rip of the Post, if that is any consolation.
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It was so long ago, and not the most important thing about Gary Hart.
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Who owns The Denver Post?
Follow the money.
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What do you expect, after all it is the state that doesn’t like teaching actual history!!
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2004 was the year I learned that newspaper endorsements are not to be taken seriously. The Denver Post was among several that endorsed George W. Bush against any rational analysis of his disastrous first term, because “freedom” or “strength” or some other nonsense.
I predict one of two outcomes:
- A “We regret our endorsement” column in 2-4 years. “How were we supposed to know Gardner would only vote the obstructionist, science-denying, civil rights-abusing, voodoo economics party line?” or,
- Their pride will be too strong to admit to being so foolish and naive. “Hey, at least we’ve called them all for the winners!”
Either way, Coloradans will certainly regret it.
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I’m not looking for a meal, just imagining a saner world, but nobody knows how much a newspaper’s endorsement influences voters, so let’s all get knickers in a twist.
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You probably know this too: He was the first candidate who was covered by reporters over something salacious, and those reporters imagined themselves to be the next generation’s Woodstein. It’s all unfortunate. He had the smarts and the capability to do some good in the WH.
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I actually like Gary Hart, he’s a smart and very well spoken man. I got to meet him once at Warren Beatty’s house and he impressed me. As an aside, I have a photograph I took at Martha’s Vineyard a few years ago, maybe around 1990, which shows the Monkey Business docked next to Chappaquiddick Bridge. This is true. I call it “Democrat’s Disgrace.”
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