Some quick predictions for tomorrow's primaries in Colorado...
Senate Republican race: Jane Norton defeats Ken Buck. Republican voters become more cautious after seeing Sharron Angle and Dr. Rand Paul blow up gimmie elections in other states.
Senate Democratic race: Senator Michael Bennett defeats Andrew Romanoff. Romanoff had a chance until he put out a distorted, ugly political ad that would have made Boss Tweed proud.
The ad leaves out the fact that the movie theater chain that Bennett "pushed into bankruptcy" lost only a few jobs during the reorganization under Bennett and now has more jobs than it has before it was saved. What happened to the plucky, spirited Andrew Romanoff? And the Cherry Creek News? Was the Tabernash Tribune not available? No Parker Picayune? I'm sure that anyone can rub two pages together and call it a newspaper.
Governor's Republican Race: Scott McInnis defeats Dan Maes. The ill-tempered plagiarizer defeats the conspiracy theory loving procrastinator in the race to be Mayor John Hickenlooper's opponent in November. It boggles the mind how large of a victory that Hickenlooper can pull out if the current trends continue. McInnis and Tom Tancredo get rolled in November.
- California's ban on gay marriage was overturned in federal court on Wednesday. Good. There is no rational argument against gay marraige. The opposition to it is simply due to religious reasons. Two heterosexual strangers can meet in Las Vegas and 24 hours later get married while a committed gay couple of 20 years cannot. That is inequity in its highest form.
- I don't hate Tim Tebow. He's athletic, works hard, and does great work outside of the I despise his cultist like followers that believe he will become the greatest player in NFL history before he has played a down. To bring perspective here's a list of Heisman Trophy winning quarterbacks.
2008 Sam Bradford Oklahoma QB 2007 Tim Tebow Florida QB 2006 Troy Smith Ohio State QB 2004 Matt Leinart Southern California QB 2003 Jason White Oklahoma QB 2002 Carson Palmer Southern California QB 2001 Eric Crouch Nebraska QB 2000 Chris Weinke Florida State QB 1996 Danny Wuerffel Florida QB 1993 Charlie Ward Florida State QB 1992 Gino Torretta Miami QB 1990 Ty Detmer Brigham Young QB 1989 Andre Ware Houston QB 1986 Vinny Testaverde Miami QB 1984 Doug Flutie Boston College QB 1971 Pat Sullivan Auburn QB 1970 Jim Plunkett Stanford QB 1967 Gary Beban UCLA QB 1966 Steve Spurrier Florida QB 1964 John Huarte Notre Dame QB 1963 Roger Staubach Navy QB 1962 Terry Baker Oregon State QB 1956 Paul Hornung Notre Dame QB 1947 Johnny Lujack Notre Dame QB 1944 Les Horvath Ohio State QB/HB 1943 Angelo Bertelli Notre Dame QB 1938 Davey O'Brien Texas Christian QB
So out of this list we have 2 Pro Football Hall of Famers (Roger Staubach and Paul Hornug who made his living at tailback in the NFL), one standout whose career may be on the path to the Hall of Fame (Carson Palmer), two guys who had long, admirable careers (Jim Plunkett and Vinny Testaverde), three young quarterbacks that the jury's still out on (Matt Leinart, Tim Tebow and Sam Bradford) and a bunch of career backups and flops. So discounting the three young guys (Matt Leinart may be on the verge of busthood regardless), you have 5 out of 24 successful Heisman quarterbacks, one of which played halfback in his NFL career.
If Tim Tebow succeeds in the NFL, it won't be for the lack of trying. He's not the only winner in college football history. Gino Toretta went 26 and 1 as a starter for the Miami Hurricanes, won the Heisman and flopped in the NFL. Jason White was 24-3 as a starter for the Oklahoma Sooners, won the Heisman and wasn't even drafted in the NFL.
I get it. Tebow isn't Ben Roethlisberger or Michael Vick. He's spent time as a missionary. He's a milk drinker in a Jack Daniels' world. But his fans are setting him up to fail, and doing a great disservice to him.
I hope he proves me wrong and I believe that he'll try his hardest. But history is against him.
Sooooooooooo... what's this world coming to? Wikileaks. Mosques. Bikes that are under U.N. Control. Senate candidates that want the press to ask the questions that they want asked.
-Brad Manning is in heaps of troubles as he should be. The former Army PFC had an act of conscience and leaked thousand of documents that showed war was hell. And outside of exposing the names of Afghani informants, nothing really crucial was exposed. We all know that war is hell. We all know that unfortunate killings are part of war. But what Manning did is treason. There's no other way to put it. He took classified documents and exposed them to the general public. He's no martyr and may have put people's life in danger. Why? To show that war is hell, which we knew anyway. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and on the side of the road is where good people with the best intentions that did the worst things lie.
-A muslim rights group is building a Mosque near ground zero in New York and it should be built and should be disdained at the same time. Allow them to build it but let the Muslims know that building this so close to where many Americans were killed by radical agents of their religion is harming their cause more than helping it. The 9/11 survivors and victims families have the right to be hostile. Politicians on both sides are missing the point. America is a forgiving country that needs to realize that moving on is what needs to be done to heal.
-Before we talk about Colorado Senate Candidate Dan Maes, a little house cleaning is in order... Okay, now that's taken care of... If the Republican Party's chances of winning the Governors race weren't decimated enough, Maes took a weed eater to them by espousing that the recent boost in bike riding and the Denver program of rent-a-bikes were part of a conspiracy to put U.S. cities under United Nations control. No, I'm not making that up. First, Scott McInnis is found to have plagiarized a report on Colorado water rights and then he threw his researcher under the bus. Then former Congressman and currently most despised conservative figure in Colorado (an impressive feat when this state also boasts Douglas Bruce and Reverend James Dobson as residents) Tom Tancredo joined the race as a third party candidate and now the mumbo jumbo conspiracy theory by Maes. If the GOP doesn't want the office, just say so. You're taking an office that was winnable and turning into mush, and may I remind you, you're doing it against the strongest possible Democratic opponent in the state. Mayor John Hickenlooper is a moderate Democrat and popular figure amongst all in the city of Denver. He has real life business acumen and bi-partisan support. You could run a perfect campaign and still lose. And the two candidates for the GOP are doing an Abbott and Costello routine... way to go. - I used to think that actor and Christina Hendricks' hubby Geoffery Arend was the luckiest man in the world, now I'm pretty sure that U.S. Senate majority leader Harry Reid is. Reid had no shot to retain his Senate seat and was a surefire loser in November in an down with the incumbent atmosphere. Then Sharon Angle happened...
You can see Carl Cameron's soul die in this video. He's a good newsman and he knows that her stance on the media is utter bullshit. Tea Partiers... again. Not every right wing person is Sarah Palin and not everyone believes everything that the Tea Party believes in... sometimes if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a loon. Reid went from being down double digits to being up by 4 points. The GOP and Tea Party are acting like they've hit a triple when they were born on third base.
