Cory Gardner: Republicans Should Not “Change Positions” To Win

[madamesilverspurs]

Since his entry into the U.S. Senate race in late February, a defining characteristic of Rep. Cory Gardner's campaign strategy has been the swift and unapologetic abandonment of a number of stridently conservative policy positions. The most widely publicized example of this has been Gardner's flip-flop on the Personhood abortion bans, for which Gardner's former support was public and longstanding.

Within a few weeks, Gardner had also flipped on such hot-button social issues as LGBT parent adoption, and whether undocumented immigrants should be deported to their countries of origin. It's been a wild ride for Gardner in a short period of time, and the wisdom of simply jettisoning en masse all of Gardner's political stands which are now liabilities in a statewide election is a major point of debate today. Should Gardner prevail against Democratic Sen. Mark Udall this November, it would set a new precedent for the ability of a politician to reinvent their image to a truly sweeping degree and still win an election.

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[LuvNewcastle]

1. That's what Romney did in his first debate with Obama,

which is why he won it. I think Obama was so taken aback by it that he didn't know how to respond. I thought that Romney might win the election after that first debate. What do you do when they lie, other than call them a liar? So many people don't pay attention to the election until the debates that they don't even know a candidate is lying when they do that shit. If this guy gets away with it, they're all going to start doing it.

I can't stand a fucking liar. Of course, in the case of choosing a candidate, all you can do is figure out which one is lying the least. Democracy is on its last leg in this country, but if Republicans start winning elections by pretending they're Democrats, that'll be all she wrote.