The GOP’s top Colorado Senate candidate just had a Marco Rubio moment

[Liberal_in_LA]

Source: Washington post

Watch the video above, and try not to cringe. It's Jon Keyser, Republicans' preferred candidate to challenge Sen. Michael Bennet (D) in the Colorado Senate race, having what can be charitably described as a brain freeze — or, less charitably, a Marco Rubio moment. And it isn't good news for Senate Republicans hoping to unseat Bennet in a race that could help them keep the Senate.

At a GOP Senate forum Thursday, Fox 31 moderator Joe St. George asks Keyser about a Denver7 report (see below) that at least 10 signatures to get Keyser on the GOP's June primary ballot were forged. A Denver7 investigative reporter, Marshall Zelinger, said he noticed some of the signatures on Keyser's ballot looked suspiciously like that of one of the campaign's hired signature collectors, so he checked it out. This is what he found:


The story had been out for two days by the time Keyser appeared at Thursday's GOP forum. It was a big story in Colorado politics and pretty much a given the candidate would be asked about it.

But Keyser didn't seem to have a solid answer. Four times, St. George asks Keyser about whether he knew the signatures were forged. Four times he deflects by repeating a version of the same line: I'm on the ballot, and I'm going to beat Michael Bennet. (Keyser almost didn't make the ballot after Colorado's secretary of state called into question 86 signatures.)

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But that video arguably isn't even the worst of it. In an interview with Denver7's Zelinger during a lunch break, Keyser was asked eight more times about the signatures in question, and eight more times he repeated his talking point.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/12/the-gops-top-colorado-senate-candidate-just-had-a-marco-rubio-moment/

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[Sunlei]

1. signatures were forged. Shouldn't the Republican cheater be dropped from the election?

[padfun]

2. He should be thrown in jail

His actions tell me that he holds no remorse about this and was probably quite aware of the forged signatures. Possibly giving the order to have it done.

Another Election fraud by Repugs.

[BlueCollar]

3. The forger had a photo ID

So it must be OK....

[Hulk]

4. Wow...and empty puppets like this should be US Congressmen?

Holy shit. This was scary. Is this clown from earth?

[LiberalElite]

5. Oh.My.God. nt

[kag]

6. To me, that sounds like a "Mike Coffman" moment

Where the hell do the Republicans get these people, and who advises them? What's most scary to me is that even after the above video, Coffman went on to defeat Andrew Romanoff (a "Sanders" type Democrat) for Congress in Denver's 6th.

[Nitram]

7. No, that's not a brain freeze. It's just a lame attempt at avoiding answerring an awkward question.

Chapter One in the Politician's Handbook.

[tom_kelly]

8. Some males are

"dead ringers" for republicans with their crisp hair parts.

[L. Coyote]

9. Where is the Marco Rubio connection? Did Rubio forge signatures?

[ISUGRADIA]

10. An early republican debate

Rubio repeated the same point numerous times and was mocked for it later:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/marco-rubio-repeats-similar-line-times-gop-debate/story?id=36765261

...
“Let's dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing,” Rubio said a second time.

When Rubio started the line again, Christie pointed out the repeated comments: “There it is. The memorized 25-second speech.”
...

[L. Coyote]

12. Ooouch!! Rubio was out of the league, same as the rest of their clown car.

Thanks, and glad I missed all that crap.

[tabasco]

11. A talking-point-repeating teabagger twit like we just elected to Congress here in WV

Evan Jenkins, brain dead Congressman from WV.

They look and act like drones, radio-controlled from some secret CHAOS command center.