CAMPBELL BACKS OUT OF COLORADO GOVERNOR RACE. GOP IS NOW STUCK WITH THE MUCH-HATED TOM DELAY CRONY, BOB BEAUPREZ

CNN reported that retired U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell will not be running for governor of Colorado. He claimed that far right Republicans are repelling candidates with their demands for "absolute obedience" to a conservative agenda.

The former Democrat, who went over to the Dark Side in 1995 (after being elected to the Senate as a Democrat in 1992) groused that "You can't be held to a strict ideological code that you can't do anything about. What they want is absolute obedience." He wouldn't name who "they" are. The popular 72 year old Campbell adamantly refused to endorse either of the Republican's 2 current lackluster candidates, Congressman Bob Beauprez and former University of Denver President Marc Holtzman.
"I'm waiting for somebody I think will have real credentials to get into the race. Nobody has yet," he stated.

The Republicans have been having a very difficult time-- for obvious reasons-- recruiting top notch candidates this year. The extreme right-wing tilt, the overwhelming association between the GOP and corruption, the water-tight ideological control by the religionist right, have all combined to sour many potential candidates on the idea of running for office. "If you read it in the classifieds, nobody would run for that job," Campbell said. "I wasn't worried about losing, I was afraid of winning," he said.