Entries from February 2008
[ February 26, 2008; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Join DMYR for our monthly meeting for February. Our guest speaker will be John Andrews, former State Senate President, a founder of the Independence Institute, Senior Fellow with the Clarmont Institute, and the host of Backbone Radio.
Social hour starts at 5:30 and the meeting will start at 6:30.
Location:
On The Border Mexican Grill
7293 E. Hampden Avenue
Denver , [...]
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[ February 15, 2008; ] The Denver Metro Young Republicans club invites you to join us for our February Friday Afternoon Club event. This month we are going to a Mammoth game! The Colorado Mammoth will be playing the Philadelphia Wings. Game starts at 7 pm, but we’ll meet up for drinks in front of the Pepsi [...]
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February 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Is it just me, or is there something a little off about this guy’s platform:
Bob Kinsey, a Denver peace activist who in a 2004 congressional race was able to peel off significant votes from the major parties, says he’ll run as a Green Party candidate for Colorado’s open Senate seat.
Kinsey’s entry throws a potential curve [...]
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Brian’s comment to the post below got me to thinking a bit more about what it would take for the party to lose my support (and vote) this year.
Short answer: not much.
I vowed to myself many times over the past year that I would not vote for McCain if he became the nominee. And now [...]
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Tags: National Politics · Philosophy
February 7th, 2008 · 6 Comments
With John McCain the presumptive GOP nominee, and Ron Paul too far behind in the delegate count to have a realistic shot at the nomination, what do you do now?
Whatever Dr. Paul decides to do now regarding his presidential bid, at least one valuable thing has come out of it: he has awakened a passionate interest [...]
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Just as I cynically predicted over a year ago†, John McCain has effectively been handed the GOP nomination. Though in this case he was handed the nomination not because it was “his turn” or because the party pushed him on us (though many in the country-club wing did their best to do so), and certainly [...]
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[ February 22, 2008 11:00 am to February 23, 2008 1:00 am. ] It’s not too late to get tickets for the LPR Annual Retreat, scheduled for February 22/23 at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs.
This year’s featured speakers include:
Dr. Patrick Michaels, CATO Institute Senior Fellow and climatologist who may be the most popular lecturer in the nation on the subject of global warming
John Fund, columnist, The Wall Street Journal
James Humes, [...]
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[ February 5, 2008; ] Remember that TODAY is Super-Duper-Über Tuesday, and as part of the festivities we here in Colorado will be holding our precinct caucuses and presidential preference poll.
ColoGOP has a whole bunch of useful information about the caucuses available here, including a precinct locator to let you know where to vote. Remember: you must have been a registered Colorado Republican [...]
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