Sewer politics
So Dick Wadhams thinks Michael Huttner, director of ProgressNowAction, is a “sleazeball” (“Schaffer chided for school vote,” Aug. 9).
Yawn.
Maybe Wadhams should come clean with the people of Colorado and tell us why he’s not working on George Allen Jr.’s presidential campaign. Wadhams’ pathetic spin on Allen’s macaca moment (“It was a mashup of Mohawk!” etc.) would have been laughable had it not been so contemptuous and dishonest. We in Colorado can now brag of our skiing, mountain vistas and sewer politics.
Don Donahue, Loveland
Don, if you think this is the first major Colorado sewer political smear from Colorado you must not know anything about Colorado politics. Take a look at recent history of Pena , Webb, Lamb, McNichols, Hickenlooper, and Ritter. Not a single one of these recent officials can sayn they EVER were in or ran a fair and clean campiagn.
Posted by on August 29, 2007 04:23 AMAsking politicians to not run dirty campaigns is like asking family values Republicans not to have gay sex in public restrooms.
Posted by Charles B on August 29, 2007 07:19 AMDick Wad is an appropriate name
Posted by just sayin' on August 29, 2007 07:48 AMchas b maybe they could run a gay prostution ring out of their basement like barney frank did and then fix the parking tickets for his customers. but then they would have to tell everyone they didnt know what was going on in their own house.
sure makes you mad that any group would have family values doesnt it?
Charles and anon at 7:48 pull a cover over all conservatives that actually have "Family Values" (unlike themselves) but when one of their own gets busted for some sleazy act or in a "lie" of their own - it is an isolated incident that shouldn't be painted with a broad brush.
Hypocrits
Charles and anon at 7:48 pull a cover over all conservatives that actually have "Family Values" (unlike themselves) but when one of their own gets busted for some sleazy act or in a "lie" of their own - it is an isolated incident that shouldn't be painted with a broad brush.
Hypocrits
Charles and anon at 7:48 pull a cover over all conservatives that actually have "Family Values" (unlike themselves) but when one of their own gets busted for some sleazy act or in a "lie" of their own - it is an isolated incident that shouldn't be painted with a braod brush.
Hypocrits
is there an echo in here?
Posted by on August 29, 2007 07:57 AMWadhams is a sleazeball, true, but cant come close to Dobson for being corrupt; that fraudulent family values guy
Posted by sly on August 29, 2007 08:40 AMWadhams is a B-List Donald Segretti. He can't even get his dirty tricks right and he was the primary reason for the loss of the Senate race for Allen. Colorado Dems welcome Wadhams back to Colorado and hope he gets involved in as many Republican campaigns as possible, because he's a loser and will surely cause more losses. Given his sleazy tactics, it's ironic that he is now "washed up."
Posted by HistoryRepeats on August 29, 2007 08:49 AMPosted by on August 29, 2007 07:48 AM
"...sure makes you mad that any group would have family values doesnt it?"
Sorry, I should've included the "ironic quotes" when I said "family values"...
Posted by Charles B on August 29, 2007 09:10 AMWell, after all, we do have the example of Nixon's Chief of Dirty Tricks to look at.
After taking sewer politics and sleaze to the logical end of felonies, Mister Dirty Tricks went to prison.
And Lo! And Behold! He "found Jesus"!
Now, as Reverend Dirty Tricks, he's regarded as one of the outstanding franchisees in the Je$u$ Bu$ine$$ - which is the origin and "home" of the "family values" claque.
Just another example of the good old "rags to riches" theme - in political form - that motivates the Republican Party; i.e., they get the "riches" by puting you in "rags".
As is true with becoming a virtuoso in anything, it's all a matter of practice, practice, practice, and more practice.
And Cowlorado is a great place to practice Republican sewer and sleaze politics; as well as being the home of a large number of the "family values" claque - along with a host of other nuts, kooks, and loose screws who always vote Republican - as Wadhams undoubtedly knows. All in all, it's a great opportunity to advance his own career.
Posted by Old Grouch on August 29, 2007 10:00 AMBoth sides can make a (unfortunately long) list of sleezeball politians. And both are right. The question is: why do WE keep electing these kinds of people? The Romans would cut off the nose of officals who accept bribes, and tie them in a sack with wild animals. How about WE vote them out and vote for people with integrity.
Posted by Tom on August 29, 2007 10:00 AMTom, no one gets in a position to run for public office without becomeing a sleezeball in the first place by promising the voters he will fix all the corruption and make things right for the people he represents, yada, yada ,ad naseam, while at the same time making promises to his fat cat contributors to fix things in their favor.
Posted by Allen Campbell on August 29, 2007 10:32 AMOld Grouch, I think you're referring to Chuck "choirboy" Colson. Segretti has made a comeback and ran the Orange County, CA campaign for McCain in 2000. Boy, THAT'S a tough one to win for Republicans. Hey, I know, maybe Wadhams should move to Orange County to revive his career.
Posted by HistoryRepeats on August 29, 2007 11:10 AMAll politicians are liars and sleazeballs,they have to be to get elected.
They have to call people names and degrade them as people because of differing opinions.
Sot of like some of the bloggers on this forum.
Are you sure some of you aren't running for public office?
Posted by Can I get an AMEN! on August 29, 2007 01:02 PMAllen,
I agree with you, and those politicians that do have good intentions or really want to serve the public soon are tempted and take the wrong path. It is too tempting to have the power and the money too. Remember it's all about the power and the money!!!
Posted by Mike D. on August 29, 2007 01:11 PMCan I get an AMEN!...
Clutched her pearls and twisted her hankie...
"Oh civility lost"!
Posted by Charles B on August 29, 2007 04:29 PMold grouch,do us all a favor and go thru one of your cleaver mispelled country boy rants and then just end it with a long over due dirt nap. Thanks!
Posted by on August 29, 2007 07:41 PMHuttner is a partisan attack dog, who makes allegations, none of which have stuck.
Posted by on August 29, 2007 09:57 PMOh sorry Im in the wrong blog..I saw the title and assumed this was a Republican blog...
Posted by Gay Craig on August 30, 2007 07:12 AMGay Craig,
Welcome aboard. You're not wrong. It IS A "Republican blog", at least this segment is: i.e., a brief, but pungent, analysis of that Party's campaign tactics, and "spin doctors", with particular respect to the upcoming election in 2008.
Dive in. And join the fun.
Posted by Old Grouch on August 30, 2007 08:06 AMOld Grouch, you're probably right. If it wasn't for Northern Virginia's enlightened populace, Wadhams may have been successful for Allen. He had the Virginia braintrust from Tidewater ("dog fightin' country") to Pulaski County convinced that a macaca was a South American musical instrument.
and it's Marilyn "Manson" Musgrave....just as crazy as Charlie and with just as fanatical a following.
Posted by HistoryRepeats on August 30, 2007 09:22 AMHistory Repeats,
Thank you. For some reason, when I wrote earlier, I could visualize the TV ad; signature pink outfit, seated at desk with pen in hand, and the totally vacuous stare off to the FURTHEST distance - perfect indication of the totally absent mind - but, for the life of me, I couldn't come up with the name . . . er . . . uh . . . oh well, Whateveritis.
Ah! That's it! Musgrave! Thanks, again.
Lost the mnemonic there too, I guess. Always tack it to that Sherlock Holmes story about the Ritual, where the rather vacuous young fellow has an old parchment, from which he mumbles something about an old family legend; and Holmes finally manages to make sense out of it. Empty heads together, that is. Too bad the voters were'nt even as bright as old Watson, and kept her on.
Or maybe . . . might it be the voters WERE about as bright as old Watson, and sent her back off to Washington, where she really wasn't doing anything anyway, and at least got her out of their hair for a couple of more years?
Well, well. Eminently forgetable name, either way, don't you know.
South American musical instrument, eh? That's one of the better ones at that Sort of on the order of one chappie's argument that a chipmunk couldn't be human because chipmunks couldn't have composed the Moonlight Sonata. About the best he's come up with to date, too.
Anyway, 2008 is going to be FUN!
Seriously, Welcome aboard! I hope we see more of you as we go along.
Posted by Old Grouch on August 30, 2007 11:41 AM