The liberal wailing and gnashing of teeth continues

With Eric Eidsness withdrawal, anger at Sen. Ken Salazar seems to be building among liberal circles over his role in the Dem's CO-4 primary.

Colorado Confidential expressed it last week:

Anyone who questions U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar's role in Colorado politics should take a look at the state's Fourth Congressional District...

Maybe Salazar is not a Godfather in the traditional sense, but he makes offers you can't refuse.

No matter how subtly Salazar wields power, that's the Godfather's way.

Weld County's Wide Street's is predicting another Musgrave victory today:

[Sen. Ken] Salazar’s working hard behind the scenes (though Betsy will try to minimize this), and has now cleared the field for another CD-4 Democratic loss.

Eric Eidsness Ends Campaign For Congress

Eric "His Eidsness" has ended his campaign for Dem nomination in CD-4. Speculation abounds that Congress is much too small for someone with Eric's ego and that he is in fact running for President of the United States as a (insert party here) candidate. We will keep you updated on the wonder that is Eric Eidsness. In other news, the sun will still rise tomorrow morning.

From the Coloradoan

Eidsness ends congressional campaign
By Coloradoan staff

Eric Eidsness abandoned his bid for Northern Colorado's Democratic congressional nomination, apparently clearing the way for Betsy Markey to challenge Republican incumbent Marilyn Musgrave next November.

"The hand writing is on the wall and I see it is not my time to be elected to national office to represent (Colorado's 4th Congressional District)," Eidsness said in a prepared statement. "While my populist message appeals to a broad range of voters, particularly in the more rural areas, I do not have the support I will need here in Larimer County to win the Democratic nomination."

Eidsness is the second Democratic candidate to drop from the race in the past week. Angie Paccione, the party's 2006 nominee, withdrew last week.

That leaves Markey, a former Larimer County Democratic chair and aide to Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., as the sole announced Democratic candidate.

Musgrave, who's served three terms in Congress, narrowly defeated Paccione in 2006, when Eidsness ran as a Reform Party candidate.

Eidsness ditches Reagan, joins the Donkeys

As was discussed here earlier, Eric Eidsness is now a registered Dem.

Tim Gill's shills over at the Dead Governors' has the full story. Eidsness was insignificant in as a reform party candidate, now he won't even get out of a primary. Good riddance.

Here's part of Easy E's press release:

"I think most Coloradoans regardless of political affiliation believe in keeping their house in (fiscal) order; don't want big government telling them what to do; help their neighbors when they need it; and, believe in law in order", says Eidsness.

"Many of us are at once conservative, progressive, green, libertarian and independent - it depends on the issue. Being true to my conscience and our values here in Eastern Colorado will remain my principle goal. I won't change for political expediency".

"I said when I announced in April of 2006 and do now that we are a two-party system", emphasizes Eidsness. His web site home page noted he was not trying to build a (third) Party but to join a movement of moderate, common sense and civil elected representatives in Washington who put country above ideology.

Eidsness' move to the Democratic Party is a logical progression and other former Republicans have done the same in recent times.

Eidsness a Democrat

Read what the Greeley Trib as to say about former CD 4 candidate Eric "Did I mention I kind of worked for Reagan" Eisdness becoming a Democrat. Hat tip to Pols for making Colorado Conservative Project aware of the story.

I don't care if you are a Democrat, this guy has to make you as sick as he does us Republicans.

He is not a Democrat nor does he embody anything the Dems stand for. He is an opportunist in the worst way and will do anything to grab abit of power. He claims he was stonewalled from the leadership in the 4th District GOP, but talk to leadership and they will tell you that he never ever called, emailed or wrote them. He will tell you that there were some covert operatives of either (switch names accordingly) Allard, Schaffer or Musgrave that sat him down and told him he could not run for Congress as a Republican and made some backdoor deal for him to be (switch position accordingly) State House Represenative, State Senator or the Sultan of Brunai, but talk to any of those offices and they say, "huh?????"

He will tell you that he only wants to serve the people. The reality is that his interest in serving the 4th Congressional is not altruistic but rather midlife crisistic. He got to a point in his life where he thought "Darn it, I used to work for Ronald Reagan. Somebody please give me credit for working for Ronald Reagan...It's Ronald Reagan for heavens sake..you know the Gipper...Everyone likes Ronald Reagan now and I kind of used to work for him...I am kind of a big deal and I want people to know that. I am going to have memoirs one day for when I kind of used to work for Ronald Reagan and people are going to read them. Somebody please put me on a poster, put me on TV, put me in Congress!!!"

The guy needs to take one of those cheesy political quizzes that you get in the email and figure out which side of the aisle he should be standing on rather than straddling the aisle, crying that people don't like him.