The Colorado Senate race, that is. After Scott McGinnis announced this week that he is withdrawing his bid for the Republican nomination in Colorado’s 2008 U.S. Senate race, the race is wide open for a conservative challenger. Plenty of people want Bob Schaffer or Bob Beauprez. Marc Holtzmann and Mike Coffman are names that always seem to pop up, as well. Can any of these candidates beat Mark Udall?
Not the way Colorado has been leaning the last several years…
At least Udall was a gentleman about the announcement:
“I am personally disappointed that Scott McInnis has taken himself out of the race for the U.S. Senate in 2008. I regard him as a friend and only a week or so ago we met and traded jokes about our respective futures,” Udall said in a statement released Wednesday afternoon. “Scott has been a strong advocate for the West Slope, and I believe he would have been a formidable candidate for the United States Senate.”
Recent pandering by the Colorado Democratic majority isn’t going to help Republicans in the state (why is it that when felons get to vote, they vote overwhelmingly Democrat?) And why would the party want that? Or demand it? I’m embarrassed for them. Apparently that has to be enough, because they don’t appear to have the integrity to be embarrassed for themselves.
UPDATE: ToTheRight has more.