Colo. Republicans run from Steele

[ccharles000]

Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele showed up in Colorado Thursday but the GOP’s top statewide candidates didn’t exactly roll out the welcome wagon.

While scores of activists and local party officials attended a ceremony opening the headquarters of the Colorado Republican Party’s Victory program in Greenfield Village, the GOP candidates for governor and Senate declined invitations to appear with him. Their absence suggested the degree of Steele’s isolation, a week after he made comments questioning the Obama administration’s approach to the war in Afghanistan.

The RNC reached out to a number of Republican candidates, including former Rep. Scott McInnis, who’s running for governor, and former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton, the national GOP’s favored candidate for Senate, to invite them to the event. Neither McInnis nor Norton accepted.

“He has another event elsewhere,” McInnis spokesman Sean Duffy explained. “It was, ‘Can you guys attend an opening on this day, at this time?’ And Scott just wasn’t available.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39494.html

[Peacetrain]

1. The whole thing with Steele is so interesting..

The republicans are twisting in the wind on this one..

[and-justice-for-all]

2. They can run, but they can not ecape their frankensteins...nt

[niyad]

3. he was here thurs?? no wonder I was sick.

[DCBob]

4. Between the teabaggers and Steele the GOPers appear to be in complete self-destruct mode..

How nice!

[Brother Buzz]

5. Michael Steele is a hip cat, you dig?

[davidpdx]

6. They can't run fast enough from big bad Mikey

He's the wrecking ball that keeps on wrecking.