Rossputin left a comment on our last post, which we publish here:
As someone who also attended the LPR event, I agree with your assessments of the speeches. I am not interested in seeing Mike Huckabee as our next president, but his speech was excellent, interesting, funny, and showed him to have more depth than I expected (even though I already expected a good speech from a guy who is clearly the best communicator in the GOP race this year.)
Also, I'd add that it's good to hear that you and Jeff Crank had a cordial discussion. While you have been neutral, Jeff clearly could have taken some of this site's content as non-neutral. Maybe it's part of the reason I like Jeff.
With turnabout as fair play, I'd mention that I spent some time having equally cordial conversations with General Bentley Rayburn even though he's well aware that I've been supporting Crank.
I told the General in no uncertain terms that while I continue to support Jeff, I would not consider it a horrible outcome if Rayburn won the CD5 primary, whereas I would consider it a very bad day for Colorado if Lamborn wins again.
Although we were not in private and there were other people around, and although I've taken a public position against Rayburn's candidacy, what he said to me will remain confidential. I've picked my horse in that race and continue to believe Jeff Crank is the best choice, but as I always I have great respect for General Rayburn, and in particular for his military career (as I'm the son of two Navy officers.)
I thought the LPR event was a big success all around, and I hope more readers of your site and mine will attend in 2009.
There are many advantages to being an incumbent, and one of them is that when someone like this blogger tries to tamp down untruthful or unfair attacks, the incumbent can say nothing and be the beneficiary when others try to attack him unfairly. If the blogger attempts to keep the party down to a dull roar, it is almost impossible to appear neutral when the incumbent is saying nothing.
Jeff has attracted some very enthusiastic supporters who have sometimes set higher public standards for his opponents than we think fair or achievable. We'll leave it at that.
We would be quite comfortable with whomever of the three wins the primary, so it is quite easy to be neutral even when it is difficult to appear to be neutral.
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