Tancredo Likely to Enter Colorado Governor’s Race

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"For Republicans, the Colorado governor’s race just keeps getting bumpier, and noisier, and nastier.

On Monday, former Representative Tom Tancredo, who had already publicly said he didn’t think either of the two Republican candidates in the race could win, said in an interview with the Denver Post that he would wade in as a third-party candidate as early as Monday.

Tea Party activists denounced Mr. Tancredo for threatening to split the party, which would, they said, guarantee a victory by the Democratic candidate for governor, John Hickenlooper, currently the mayor of Denver.

"You want to impose your personal choice and will over the will of the people. You are subverting the process and our will. This is the opposite of the liberty movement and what we are about,” they said in an open letter signed by 21 groups.

The front-runner Republican candidate for governor, Scott McInnis, has already been wounded by admissions in recent weeks that sections of a water study report that had his name on it several years ago, for which Mr. McInnis was paid $300,000, contained plagiarized material. He blamed a researcher, but apologized and said he should have been more diligent in checking.

And as if bad press on plagiarism and third-party challenges weren’t enough, Mr. Tancredo and the state’s Republican Party Chairman, Dick Wadhams, added spice to the mix on Monday by shouting insults at one another on a joint radio appearance."

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the ego of these republicans never ceases to amaze. We should let them go they are the ones shooting themselves in the butt. And doing a good job of it, aren't they.

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