Discussion for article #228525
Here’s what I don’t understand about Democrats like Udall: Why don’t they ask their opponents if they want to put American troops on the ground in Iraq? Don’t let them define the issue as whether Obama should have withdrawn troops, define the issue as whether you support putting troops back on the ground in Iraq. Udall will win that debate every time.
I fear Americans once again failed to learn anything from thousands of lives and trillions of dollars wasted in Iraq for no particular reason. Udall knows that lacking a draft, CO voters are quite willing to send other people’s kids in harm’s way. The Chickenhawkitis plague is well established throughout the United More or Less States of America.
To be accurate, ISIL is NOT an imminent threat to the US. The countries to whom it is an imminent threat, like Turkey, don’t seem to want to do anything. So, it’s a perfectly legitimate question to ask why, if they won’t do anything, should the US do more than it is doing already?
Please don’t lump all us Colorado voters in with one broad brush. It’s much fairer to say right wing Colorado voters will be quite willing to send other people’s kids in harm’s way.
BTW, locally here, I’m seeing more Irv Halter signs in the Springs and practically none for Lamborn. I’ve seen quite a few for Gardner, but there are some for Udall popping up. I’ve also seen a few more Hickenlooper signs popping up to counter the number that have been up for Beauprez. I’m optimistic that Halter has a decent chance at beating Lamborn, and Udall and Hick should be able to win.
Coloradoan here, and a Udall supporter. Udall wasted a month of single -issue campaign ads (Gardner’s Personhood/anti-abortion stance), while Crossroads and Gardner’s campaign ripped him mercilessly on ACA (cancelled insurance policies), Obama-partisanship and now ISIL. Udall has been playing defense (meekly), and in my mind, has been running a plodding, reactive and poll-driven race. If the guy doesn’t grow a spine and start putting Gardner on the defensive for his Boehner partisanship (how many votes to trash ACA?), and start touting the fact that CO has the fastest growing economy in the nation, he’s going to lose this one. I agree that Hick is probably going to win, I don’t see Lamborn losing, and Romanoff is almost certainly doomed against Coffman. But Senate should be a slam dunk for Udall, and it certainly doesn’t look that way now.
I stand corrected. Right wing CO voters. Apologies to the progressives. That said there are a disturbing number of Americans beating the war drums these days.
The new version of the “soft on communism” charge.