Wow, if Salazar can't beat Pete Coors, he can't beat anyone.

[speedoo]

Coors is a horrible candidate.

They are currently debating on MTP.

[burythehatchet]

1. I was embarrased for Coors. He looked completely lost on the

question of the "tools in the patriot act"

[RafterMan]

2. I saw it

I had the same feeling I got when I watched the two OK guys last week. Pretty dismaying on all sides.

[Tweed]

3. Thank you for details

Another helpful, well thought out post on the DU

[RafterMan]

7. Coors

wants to lower the drinking age to 18, opposes the death penalty and doesn't think the patriot act should be changed.

Salazar takes opposite positions. Both blame each other for starting negative campaigning. Coors' position on Iraq is the same as Bush, Salazar seemed closer to Kerry than Bush. Coors struggled to express all of his opinions, Salazar only some of his.

I thought it was a lame debate on all sides.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

32. Lowering the drinking age, eh? A brewer? Go figure!

[bkcc]

4. He looked truly awful.

Just posted about it here.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1028145

[Catt03]

5. I thought Salazar came off very conservative

Probably Colorado politics, but I didn't particularly like him...and certainly not Coors.

[otohara]

22. Salazar is Super Conservative

almost a republican. There were rumors that he would switch to GOP after being elected. He said he wouldn't, but he will break with dems and vote GOP, count on it.

[mountainvue]

30. He is

conservative. He first supported Lieberman for the presidency. I'm not wild about voting for him but he's a hell of a lot closer on the issues to me than Pete Coors, who I would never vote for.

[DancingBear]

6. I was just going to post that!

While Salazar does not seem to be a great candidate, Coors is just an embarassment.

No conflict of interest between "family values" and Coors marketing strategies?

I feel for you, Colorado.

[janx]

8. Salazar is an excellent candidate! He's brainy and compassionate.

He saved us from the redistricting fiasco not too long ago--something that no Texas Dem, for instance, could manage to do.

[DenverDem]

9. Agreed. He's running a smart campaign for CO, and will kick Coors' ass

Ken will be a great Democratic senator.

GOTV Colorado!!!!

Fortunately I got a good three week contract for work. Unfortunately it has to be done in Florida and that takes me off the canvassing and phone banking until the 27th. Somebody in Denver help take up my slack!!

[janx]

10. I'm going to the feed store to get dog food today. The people

who run the store have a HUGE Salazar sign on the fence in front. I've always liked those people and now I like them even more!

[leftofthedial]

16. I was a Mile ssupporter

but I think Salazar will be a great Senator. He is more conservative and status quo than I wish, but I'm out canvassing for him and other Dem candidates.

[Bryan]

14. Salazar is the quintessential DLC candidate

I voted for Mike Miles in the primary (hell, I voted for the Green candidate when Salazar ran for State AG in 2002).

Salazar's odious business ties aside, he's an experienced public servant and a good Democrat (he fought hammer and tong against the Texas-style redistricting the Repubs were trying to push through). Pete Coors is a cronyist dolt with a head full of fuzzy-headed laissez-faire "the government doesn't know how to spend your money" horseshit. I find the choice unambiguous.

[rockymountaindem]

11. Salazar is a good candidate.

I got to hear him speak in front of an audience of about 150 (mostly GOP) independent pharmacists this summer. I even got to shake his hand! He seemed to leave a good impression on the bunch, but after all their former attorney was Dem. Congressional candidate Mike Feeley.

Salazar has to play it safe on several social issues because he knows that should he appear to be anything besides centrist he'll be finished in Colorado. Think about how big and mean the GOP attack dogs are nationally, then double the rhetoric and vileness and you'll have an idea of how down and dirty they are in Colorado.

He has a good environmental record, and he saved us from the nefarious re-districting scheme (as did the state SC, which is 5-2 Democrats). Furthermore, as the AG, he has the credibility to speak with authority on things like why the Patriot Act needs to be revised, and why the drinking age shouldn't be lowered, etc. He's an experienced attorney and the state's top law enforcement official (he's garnered the endorsement of the police groups). His opponent, however, is a foam-for-brains beer man who seems to think that having commercials filled with T&A and knowing how to sell beer to thirsty consumers makes him qualified to be a Senator.

Salazar may look like a bit of a DINO in the campaign, but he'll make us proud. Besides, anyone is better than Allard.

[Cha]

13. Hey, thanks for that amazing summary,

rockymountaindem..I was born and raised in Colorado and will forever be interested in what's up out there!

I was a Mike Miles person but am glad that Salazar is kickin' coors butt!

[rockymountaindem]

23. You're welcome. Miles would be a great Senator

but he's not cut out for Colorado politics. He's more of a Dennis Kucinich type candidate, whereas Salazar is more like a Wesley Clark. I think that Miles would do well to run for congress in Southwest Colorado or the Denver area. I think he would run well in more progressive areas, but statewide there are too many people who are more into those who project the "tough-guy" persona.

Interestingly, Salazar has totally cornered the market on the cowboy image. It's rather interesting to have the Democrat finally be in position to call his opponent a wimp.

[Cha]

24. Good for Ken..I admit I know nothing

much about him..I like that image of .."It's rather interesting to have the Democrat finally be in position to call his opponent a wimp."



http://www.salazarforcolorado.com/

[rockymountaindem]

25. Oh yeah.

Cowboy hat, pictures of him actually riding on a horse (something Bush can't do, since he's afraid of them) with the mountains in the background. Coloradans eat that stuff up. Coors and his plaid shirts can't come close.

Plus, Salazar's family has been in Colorado since the 1500's! Beat that, Coors.

[Cha]

26. Speaking of bush being "afraid of horses" and

I think pickles let that cat out of the bag..hehe!

Kerry is a Double Sagittarius..Sun and rising sign in Sag..and the symbol for Sag is 1/2 man 1/2 Horse!


bush needs to be afraid..very afraid!

[janx]

37. I was in Brighton recently and there were Salazar and Kerry

signs and stickers everywhere!

[politicat]

39. Yep! Brighton is returning to the Ag roots...

We're officially moving to Brighton after the election (Long story about owning a house each when we got married and then trying to sell the one we liked least, then trying to sell the one we liked better....) and I'm glad to see it's crawling out of it's Repuke funk.

The suburbanization of Brighton hasn't hurt, either....

Now, if we could just get some bus service...

Pcat

[janx]

42. Well if the signs and bumper stickers are any indication,

it's *definitely* crawling out. It's very refreshing to see Kerry and Salazar stickers on Brighton pick-up trucks!

[politicat]

33. Miles? Wimpy? Whatchoo looking at?

I'm sorry, but Army Rangers are anything but wimpy....

Miles for Gov in 2006.

Pcat

[rockymountaindem]

35. Most people didn't know that about him.

They thought he was a schoolteacher. That's just the way it is. Hopefully he will be governor, but he just didn't have the money to get his message out. Of course, that was in part because he was totally ignored by the DSCC. Perhaps he'd do better in a statewide race where foreign policy wasn't an issue, but I wouldn't count on it. I still think he should run for Congress.

[politicat]

38. It was in all of his materials... oh. Right. That requires reading.

I hate Short Attention Span programming/theater/politicking.

*bangs head against keyboard" rghtef uj rt rte h etuioh ht oijr ea;greaghvj eroag;

I feel better. NOT.

Pcat

[janx]

41. I supported Miles in the primary too. He'd make a

great governor.

[HootieMcBoob]

12. Salazar is leading in the polls

It looks like this is a Senate seat we'll pick up.

According to Colorado Springs' KOAA News, Salazar holds a commanding 12 point lead:

http://www.ourcongress.org/race/Colorado/

[Cha]

15. Fingers crossed!

We need those Senate seats and Congressional seats for Kerry and our Nation!

[janx]

17. There's no way Salazar can lose! He's ten or twelve points

ahead!

It'll be so nice to have at least one Dem senator from Colorado...

[Cha]

19. Finally!

:toast:

[DancingBear]

18. Very good news on Salazar - thank you Colorado DU'ers

He did not strike me as a very strong candidate while watching MTP, but I am glad to here that so many folks find him to be a very good candidate for the "good guys."

Apologies for using a first impression as a final one.

[0007]

20. "WTF" Where were these guys dug up from?

'Ya mean people indeed vote for clods like these to govern? Now ya know why folks don't vote.

[iwantmycountryback]

21. I guess he's not as liberal as we'd all like

But I know that in Colorado he wouldn't win if he came off to liberal. He's a solid candidate and is clearly better than the befuddled Coors who shows a complete lack of understanding of anything. I don't see how owning a beer company qualifies one to be senator.

[uncle ray]

27. what Coors has going for him is

lots of money to run his smear campaing with, name recognition with nearly all votors, especially ones who don't know politics well. it also doesn't hurt him that there are TWO Salazars running for offices in colorado, Ken, and John, many votors will confuse the smear campaigns currently against both Salazars.

[janx]

31. That money doesn't seem to be doing him much good now.

Salazar is far ahead.

[mountainvue]

28. He's a terrible

candidate. You'd think he would be a more effective public speaker. He's losing badly and I think he knows it.

[janx]

29. Salazar/Coors debate on now--local news (channel 9)

Salazar is rocking!

[janx]

34. Holee Cow! The Rocky Mountain News endorses Salazar!

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion/article/0,1299,DRMN_38_3240837,00.html

[yardwork]

36. The Coors family funded Jesse Helms's campaigns for years

I have a big resentment against the Coors family for that reason (and others). Helms - for those who are mercifully unaware - was a multi-term senator from North Carolina, somewhere to the right of Attila the Hun on the political spectrum.

Helms and his operatives invented a powerful and unique form of dirty campaigning here in normally polite North Carolina. The Bushes have made good use of those techniques over the years. Remember the Willie Horton ad that Poppy Bush used against Dukakis? Straight out of the Helms playbook.

Now Elizabeth Dole (the junior senator in NC) is making good use of the same ugly techniques.

Dubya's campaign approach is identical to that of Helms. Make up lies about your opponent, and when all else fails, scare the voters and appeal to their basest lizard-brain instincts.

[exliontamer]

40. Coors is in trouble

Not even the right wing Rocky Mountain News has endorsed him.

<a href="http://mhconwatch.blogspot.com/2004/10/rocky-mountain-news-shafts-pete-coors.html" target="_blank">RM News Shafts Coors</a>

[janx]

43. I know! I just learned that today! (posted above)

It's incredible!

[DinahMoeHum]

44. Ken's brother, John Salazar, is also running for Congress. . .

as a House Representative.

You can donate to both candidates through MoveOn.

Link:
https://www.moveonpac.org/give/04endorsed-full.html
(scroll down about 2/3 of the way)


:kick:

[janx]

45. kick