coloradolib.com has a guest post from Bill Winter up that they want people to cross-post liberally. I am liking Winter more and more, so I am going to pass along a link to the full article on coloradolib.com.
The Cost Of War
Yesterday morning I went to the meeting of the United Veterans Committee of Colorado, an organization that brings various veteran’s advocate groups together. Tom Tancredo showed up late, spoke for five minutes, and left, but an interesting thing happened while he was there.
Mr. “Let’s Nuke Mecca” spent his whole five minute speech talking about all the “positive” things being done in Iraq. Most of what he said was provably untrue. I don’t know if he was actually lying, or just doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Either way it’s a shame that he chooses to put partisanship above the welfare of America and our troops.
(…click for more of Bill Winter’s post)
Well now this is extremely interesting: Sean Duffy, Republican and former Communications Director under Governor Owens here in Colorado, will apparently lead the opposition to an anti-gay-marriage amendment here in Colorado (via ColoradoPols.com).
I’m kind of cynical, so my first instinct is to say, “yeah, right, sure… I’m supposed to believe that someone like Duffy would actually support gay rights, or at least would work to have rights taken away from gays? Sell me another bridge, why dontcha.” But it turns out that this is exactly what Duffy is going to do:
Duffy said he knows that many conservatives may be surprised by his involvement in the issue, but he believes many Republicans share his belief that gays should be “left alone.”
“I have a number of conservative friends who are on board with what I’m doing in terms of gay rights,” Duffy said. “There are a lot of folks ideologically on the Republican side who believe putting a ban on gay marriage in the state constitution is overstepping government authority.”
Duffy actually sounds like a reasonable guy regarding this issue. Will he actually come through? I’m keeping my fingers crossed!
