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On a related note, a lot of conservatives are down on Owens because of his backing last year of "Referendum C," a measure that temporarily suspended tax rebates under the state's Taxpayers Bill of Rights constitutional provision for the next five years. Owens, once considered a possible presidential contender, dropped off those lists after that. But I think that's a bit unfair. Owens was faced with a Democratic legislature determined to gut the Taxpayers Bill of Rights, and he managed to get a pretty good compromise. And, bottom line, the state's voters voted on Referendum C and voted to forego tax rebates for the next five years. If you like consitutional provisions that allow voters to vote on taxes, that means accepting it when they vote for higher taxes as well as lower taxes. The Denver Post recently ran a very good article summing up Owens' eight years in office. You can read it here. The Rocky Mountain Newspaper ran a good Q&A with Owens as his second term approached its end. You can read it here. In it, Owens gives some good advice to Republicans who are now in the minority in the Colorado legislature that is also good advice for Republicans who are now in the minority in the U.S. Congress: What advice would you give Republicans in the legislature?At one time Owens was my favorite choice for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008. He still would be if he ran, but he isn't running. He'd make a great VP choice, though. Posted in ElephantBiz.com
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Before I comment on Romney, I'm going to comment on former Gov. Owens of Colorado. Owens was considered Presidential timber until his personal life problems with his marriage reared their ugly head. In between ugly squabbles with his 1st Lt Governor and his going Sundquist (on TABOR, amongst other issues) before he was even reelected, this man was a fiasco of the highest order, paving the way for the CO legislature, one of the previously preeminent Republican-led ones in the nation, to become Democrat. He surely earned the title of RINO, and I wouldn't entrust that man to serve as dogcatcher, let alone as VP. It's going to take years for the CO GOP to recover from his horrible mess. Now, as for Mitt Romney, it almost is like another bird of a feather in relation to Owens. Romney was a johnny-come-lately to Conservatism, and scarcely did much of anything to promote those causes while in office, and did even less to help the moribund MA GOP. He proclaimed himself a "Weld Republican" on more than one occasion (unquestionably, after Christie Whitman of NJ, William Weld was the single-most destructive RINO Governor in the US in the past 50 years of ANY state). Rather than face the voters, he started suffering delusions of grandeur and AlGoreesque visions of avenging his father's denial of the Presidential nomination (his father was MI Governor George Romney, a leading 1968 candidate, that was until he started going on about how he was "brainwashed" about Vietnam). Romney abandoned his state, his party, and his Lieutenant, leaving MA in the hands of a racist Socialist Democrat successor, dubbed "Urkel" by a popular local commentator. We don't reward unaccomplished cut-and-run politicians in the GOP. I am frankly shocked that Congresswoman Blackburn would choose to align herself with such undistinguished and destructive RINO politicos that are cut from the Sundquist, rather than Reagan, cloth. Posted by: D.J. Jones at January 6, 2007 2:48 PMPost a comment
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