McCain just lost Colorado

[Hope And Change]

Colorado to McCain: Hands Off Our Water

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/16/16825/8416/570/568960

[likesmountains 52]

1. yup, that was on the front page of my Colorado paper today..people are not

going to like that!

[Kdillard]

2. I sure hope you are right and I would love for the Obama

campaign to run an ad on this to really drive it home.

[gateley]

8. You're right - a tailor-made ad! nt

[Cosmocat]

36. P I L E O N ! ! !

If the roles were reversed, there would be an attack ad with grave sounding music and a doom and gloom voice over talking about BO rustling Colorado's water ...

It is that time in the campaign when NO BULLET can be left unfired ...

HAMMER McCain with it !!!

[aaaaaa5a]

3. Maybe McCain...

should be drilling for water instead of oil!

[thewiseguy]

4. Great!

:bounce:

[thewiseguy]

5. Note to DUers in Colorado..We need to hit this issue quick

[writes3000]

6. I see a new Obama ad coming. Thanks, McCain! n/t

[Spazito]

7. I LOVE this from the Denver Post....

"Memo to: John McCain.

From: Five million thirst-crazed Coloradans.

Subject: Forget about winning our nine electoral votes next November. We don't vote for water rustlers in this state; we tar and feather them! ..."

Beautiful, just beautiful!

:rofl:

[gateley]

9. McCain's Fifty State Strategy -- Piss 'em off one at a time. You go, John! nt

[Phx_Dem]

18. Good one. Fist bump.

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[K8-EEE]

24. LOL! good one n/t

[Submariner]

10. That's a quick 9 electoral votes for Obama - a FREEBIE

Thanks Johnny Boy.......suckerrrrr

[Hope And Change]

11. Kick!

[Undercurrent]

12. LOL

What some of the local Colorado newspapers are saying:

McCain suggests raiding Colorado's water
By Bob Ewegen
The Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_10218277

Memo to: John McCain.

From: Five million thirst-crazed Coloradans.

Subject: Forget about winning our nine electoral votes next November. We don't vote for water rustlers in this state; we tar and feather them!

Yes, fellow citizens of the state whose official motto is "Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting," John McCain has thunk the unthinkable — and proposed renegotiating the 1922 Colorado River Compact.

To quote from Charles Ashby's story in the Friday Pueblo Chieftain:

"The water compact that Colorado and other upper basin states have with California and Arizona should be renegotiated," U.S. Sen. John McCain said Thursday.

"In a telephone interview with The Pueblo Chieftain, the presumptive GOP candidate for president said the water sharing agreement reached in 1922 between seven Western states doesn't take into account increases in population and changing water needs."

You can read the rest of McCain's politically suicidal ramblings at www.chieftain.com. Suffice to say, they aren't pretty.

As a senator, McCain has long represented a state, Arizona, that would love to steal Colorado's water. But now, he wants our votes. Apparently, nobody bothered to brief the candidate who Paris Hilton called "that wrinkly, white-haired guy" that stealing Colorado's water to benefit Arizona, California and Nevada isn't as popular an idea in Colorado as it is in Arizona, California and Nevada.

(more at link)

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State officials assail McCain's remarks on Colorado River Compact
By MIKE SACCONE
The Daily Sentinel(Grand Junction, Co.)
http://www.gjsentinel.com/hp/content/news/stories/2008/08/15/081608_1A_McCain_and_water.html

...Doug Kemper, executive director of the Colorado Water Congress, said there has already been dialogue between Western governors about how to implement the compact. Reopening the compact, Kemper said, is another issue entirely.

“I believe our board would be strongly opposed to reopening the compact,” Kemper said. “We believe that this was something that was negotiated and we’ve relied on for our water-supply planning.”

John Redifer, a member of the Colorado Water Conservation Board and political science professor at Mesa State College, said McCain’s position makes sense in light of Arizona’s needs, but not as a national policy.

“I wonder if he is running for president of the United States or for something in Arizona when he makes those statements,” Redifer said. “I’m really kind of surprised that someone running for president … that needs to carry the state of Colorado would make a statement like that.”

Colorado’s statesmen also questioned McCain’s plan, with Congressman John Salazar, D-Colo., saying he is “totally disappointed in McCain.”

Salazar, via his spokesman, Eric Wortman, pledged to fight McCain’s plan.

“Over my cold, dead, political carcass,” Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer said...

(more at link)

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also:

By CHARLES ASHBY
CHIEFTAIN DENVER BUREAU
http://www.chieftain.com/articles/2008/08/15/news/local/doc48a548fed1e6f772542859.txt

[ingac70]

13. Obama needs to smack him with a commercial. n/t

[Faygo Kid]

14. Same thing in the Great Lakes states. Call for water diversion there, too, John.

Who needs Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Pennsylvania anyway? Go for it, John!

Bill Richardson mentioned the possibility. He took it back, but he pissed a lot of people off by mentioning it.

Anyway, very good post. Colorado goes blue this year.

[Canuckistanian]

31. Not to mention Canada

I think we'd have a FEW things to say about Great Lakes diversion.

[Hope And Change]

15. Kick!

[hadrons]

16. Don't assume this will be the case ....

When have being fucked over stopped Republicans from voting Republican??? Bush shitted on these people's heads twice and both times they convinced themselves they got a free hat out of it.

I'm not saying it won't happen, but how much can anyone who voted for Bush be trusted?

[FatDave]

28. How can you say Bush shitted on their heads?

When everybody knows the past tense of "to shit" is "shat"?

(sorry, I'm not a grammar nazi, I just couldn't resist the joke)

[Phx_Dem]

17. Thank you John McCain!

Obama needs to pound Colo with ads on this.

[DCBob]

19. That's good news. McCain was moving up a bit in latest polls.

Obama will also get a big CO convention bounce. When the dust settles in a couple of weeks Obama could have a double digit lead.

[otohara]

20. Drain All The Pools in Arizona

first John. Fucks up the air anyway.

[DCBob]

21. McCain must be looking ahead to next year when he is not POTUS and ..

just a Senator from a dry and thirsty lower basin state.

[Hope And Change]

22. Kick!

[americanstranger]

23. Sounds like something a Senate candidate would say.

A Senate candidate campaigning in Arizona.

McCain's so out of it, he thinks he's running for his Senate seat again. Why else would he say something so completely stupid?

- as

[FatDave]

30. Exactly what I was thinking.

He forgot who he was pandering to and thought it was the people of Arizona.

[AlinPA]

25. I hope that's right. But once he starts waving the Cross and Bible and

visits a few megachurches, he will bounce back.

[southerncrone]

46. Sadly, you are correct Al....

the Fundies can't see past Repukes pandering to their Bible.

Read here on another thread that McCain changed from Episcopalian to Southern Baptist! That is a HUGH leap in belief!! Proves he'll do ANYTHING to please voters.

[Hope And Change]

26. Kick!

[rockymountaindem]

27. Maybe, maybe not

This story likely won't have legs unless the Obama campaign plays it up. They would be wise to talk about this a lot.

[catgirl]

29. Exposure to McCain's brain can only help

Let's see more! K & R

[FrenchieCat]

32. McCain lost a long time ago.....it's just that the media wants to

carry his decaying carcasse into the White House, if we let them!

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[FrenchieCat]

34. I'm kicking this till it hurts

McCain!

[tannybogus]

35. Better be careful with an ad.

It's stepping into volatile water war policies. Nobody ends up happy.

Obama better check his positions carefully, and he better be ready to

have an answer about how to help NM and AZ. This looks like a sure fire

winner, but watch for pitfalls.

[paulk]

37. this might lose him CO

for sure it will turn a lot of votes on the western slope

but it could also win him NV and AZ

[FrenchieCat]

45. McCain has a real problem with Nevada via his Nuke Enthusiasm......

and I'm not too worried about AZ...after all, it is the state that he is from.

So I think it's a win for us, that John McCain doesn't know what he is talking about, and to whom he is talking about it.

[Reader Rabbit]

38. Water disputes in the Four Corners States are legendary.

More guaranteed to start a fight than rustling someone's stock! McCain sure stepped in it!

[Carrieyazel]

39. Then why has Obama fallen behind McCain in Colorado?

You guys are really grasping here. Colorado will be a fight to the death.

Obama does not have that state won, I can assure you.

[writes3000]

41. This just happened. I know you love spreading doom and gloom negativity but even you...

Must understand that an event that just happened wouldn't be reflected in polls taken a WEEK before the event.

PS - I doubt the OP seriously meant the title as a declarative fact. The OP is rooting for the outcome. And honestly, I suspect that's what really gets under your skin.

[quantass]

40. k

[Liberalboy]

42. Water rights

is what made Colorado and the west and what created the cities of Denver, Salt lake, Las Vegas, LA, Phoenix. Colorado has one of the most complex water laws in the entire WORLD and they are there for a reason. Way to go McCain!

[CrispyQ]

43. People are pissed now, but will they remember come November?

If McCain had said this a week before the election it may have made big impact, but 2.5 months before the election?

Colorado's not in the bag. This election is not in the bag.

[DCBob]

44. Well placed and well timed ads will help keep it in the minds of voters.

I believe Obama will win CO. Also, the convention bounce will be big and should last since many of the 75,000 at Mile High will be locals.

[Cosmocat]

47. hhhmmm ... Pressure gauges ???

for the SUPPOSED tire inflation gaffe ...

What kind of little McCain gadget could be a spin off for the water gaffe ...

[featherman]

48. This is a serious error - K&R