When it comes to crime, Colorado governor Hickenlooper “granted an indefinite stay of execution to Nathan Dunlap, convicted of murder in the deaths of four people at an Aurora Chuck E. Cheese restaurant.”
Source: http://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2014/06/25/gops-focus-turns-hickenlooper/11380815/
When it comes to guns, “Hickenlooper signed an expansion of background checks for gun purchases and limits on the size of ammunition magazines in response to mass shootings from 2012.”
Hey may have apologized to the Sheriffs, but when asked if he would vote the same way again, he said he would.
Luckily for us, Republican Bob Beauprez plans to remind voters that a vote for Hickenlooper is a vote for murderers deserving the death penalty.
Beauprez told supporters in his victory speech that he would order Dunlap’s execution and said during the campaign that he would work to repeal the gun restrictions.
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Democrats, meanwhile, are expected to highlight Beauprez’s 2006 gubernatorial defeat, when he lost by 17 points to Democrat Bill Ritter. Also, Beauprez has occasionally made incendiary comments about the Obama administration, including an unsubstantiated 2013 accusation that it had been influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Democrats are also likely to try to force Beauprez into taking “ultra conservative positions on abortion and gay and lesbian rights” to alienate him from independent voters, said Bob Loevy, a retired political science professor from Colorado College.
Source: Idem
Abortion shouldn’t even be an issue, the procedure is legal. What more abortion rights do they want? The right to force a Catholic Hospital to provide abortions? After-birth abortions? A state-sponsored abortion lottery?
As for gay rights, it’s judges and legislatures that decide these issues. I was an early supporter of gay rights when it meant ending the sodomy laws and the ban of gays in the military. Never thought it would mean forcing a Christian business to service gays. I love porn, but I don’t buy it at the Christian bookstore, should I call the Colorado Civil Rights Commission?
With that said, independents do get scared of anti-porn candidates like Rick Santorum, you can be a Christian but you don’t have to be Torquemada. So I encourage Beauprez to do what he can to win, but try to attract independents by being pro-gun, pro-business, pro-individual liberty. And when you attack Obama, make sure you base it on his record and not some unsubstantiated rumors. Is Obama pro-Muslim Brotherhood? Most likely, but we can’t prove it so why attack him with that when we can beat him with the NSA, the VA, Fast and Furious, insane executive orders, etc, etc, etc.
Independents reject emotion, but they’ll embrace facts. When independents vote for Democrats is because they fear Republicans will turn American into Christianistan, a stupid fear, but when a Republican candidate says he wants to outlaw abortion after rape, that’s the feeling they get.