Last night was an expensive eye-opener. Not for me in the eye-opener part. My eyes have always been opened as to why Jay Fawcett has to be the next Congressman from my district. Jay is the right man, at the right time, in the right place. That was never more clear than last night!
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It was expensive because..... well...... OK, here's the truth
(she says as she blushes with embarrassment). The debate was in a town about forty miles southwest of Colorado Springs. At best a fifty minute drive. On the way home, I was driving a young volunteer and myself home. Egads, I missed my turn to come north, ended up driving another 30 miles before going north; then less than five miles outside of my city, got stopped for speeding in a double speed zone. I honestly did not see the speed signs
(it was very late) posted and I was only 13 miles over but alas Mr. Stern Police Officer had no pity on an old lady.
Sigh! What's the point of being older if it gets you no pity points!!!
But not one speeding point I earned, nor one penny I will pay, can take away from what I witnessed last night.
Here is the unabashed truth! Anyone, democrat, republican, independent, anyone short of being a Rush, O'Reilly neocon, witnessing that debate knows who they should vote for. Anyone witnessing that debate has to know that Jay Fawcett has to be the next congressman from CD-5! I admit that I am and have always been a Jay supporter. I admit I knew ahead of time that Jay could easily beat Doug in a debate. But I had no clue at how utterly incompetent a speaker Doug Lamborn is. I knew I did not like his answers on many issues (like his extremely conservative pro-life, anti-gay stances), but when it came to things like the war in Iraq, veterans' issues, taxes, or anything not connected to the religious right's extreme culture conservatism, he was clueless. The notion that this man could actually be voted in to represent my district, to SPEAK for us, is totally, irrevocably unacceptable.
I honestly was embarrassed for him and his supporters because he was so awful. Embarrassingly awful. Feel sorry for him awful. He presented facts he may have had incoherently; was unable to articulate anything he stood for; contradicted himself, yelled angrily at someone in the audience who made a remark, and then asked the moderator to make Jay answer first on a question he seeminlgy was unsure of how to answer. As a retired educator, my heart was feeling that old compassionate feeling one gets when one of your students is faltering in front of the class, stumbling over words, and you know he/she is going to be targeted by the other students, and your heart urges you to do some rescuing. But as a diehard Jay supporter, I was gleeful.
If the voters in CD-5, once that debate is shown around, still vote for Lamborn, they will sadly regret it. Next to Doug, George W Bush's speaking skills make him look like a literary genius. Seriously. How scary is that! I have never in all my years of following politics seen a worse representation. It is perfectly clear to me why many republicans are turned off by Lamborn. Any thinking person would be embarrassed to vote for Lamborn to represent them, and "speak" for them.
And before I am challenged with "just because he is a poor speaker does not mean he is a poor legislator", I urge you to check his record as a state senator.
GO JAY!!!!
CD-5 deserves an articulate person to speak for them.
http://www.fawcett4congress.com/
And oh yea! Don't feel bad about my ticket. I don't. I look at it philosophically. Here I am, a woman nearly 61 years old, late at night, with a twenty-something young man in my car, stopped by the police. Let the people have some fun with that!