Today was the day of reckoning for former Congressman Tom Tancredo. As his ultimatum deadline loomed, so did his reckoning with the voters of Colorado. Once again, it's about Tom Tancredo and his ego. He loves being in the spotlight. If splitting the Republican electorate achieves that for him by jumping in this race, we are more than happy to see him as a candidate.
However, Tancredo has a long history of never following through with his outrageous ideas and comments. He is just another example of why Republicans can't be trusted.
Tancredo promised to observe term limits as a member of Congress and then reneged on the promise. Dick Wadhams has been quoted, "what do you expect from a guy who reneged on his term limits pledge and has been running for office for five decades?"
Excuse me, but that also describes Former Congressman Scott McInnis.
So the real question is how can voters trust any of these guys? Dan Maes has been less than truthful about his finances. (By the way, I have been traveling the roads of Colorado for the past five years and added 100,000 miles to my car. By my calculation that would add up to $50,000 of mileage reimbursement. So how do you get to $44,000 in less than a year at fifty cents a mile?)
No need to point out the plagiarism issues for McInnis. And we do keep hearing there is more out there.
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That statement would be much more credible if the Democrats were fielding completely honest, honorable candidates of their own. When may we expect to see Senator Bennett explain how he works for the little guy, but his voting record is very much in the favor of big business. What little guy gained the most by the failure of the Brown-Kaufman amendment?
I think British novelist Douglas Adams came closest to the truth when he penned.
"The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
Substitute just about any elected office for the word President in the last line, and you have just about as accurate a blanket condemnation of our election process as a rational human could find.