Hicklenlooper Blogs: Colorado is recognized as a leader in wind, solar and geothermal energy, and for what former Gov. Bill Ritter called the "new energy economy." Colorado is also home to abundant supplies of natural gas and low-sulfur coal.

At a July 26 rally in Centennial, Republican candidate and Tea Party favorite for governor Dan Maes warned the crowd that his Democratic opponent, John Hickenlooper, had enlisted Denver in a program that would lead to UN control. “This is all very well-disguised, but it will be exposed,” said Maes. “This is bigger than it looks like on the surface, and it could threaten our personal freedoms,” he added. The program in question? Denver’s bike-sharing program, B-Cycle.

Senate Republican candidate from Colorado Ken Buck, another Tea Party favorite, acknowledges similarities of his contest to those of Sharron Angle, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio. Buck has stated that while he’s not for “state sponsored religion”...“we would be much better off with a closer relationship between church and state.” Buck has also adopted other radical Tea Party talking points like eliminating the Departments of Education and Energy and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Even if some people say, well the Republicans should have done this or they should have done that, they will hold the president responsible. Now I don't want to even have to be associated with him. It's like touching a tar baby and you get, you get it, you know you are stuck and you are part of the problem now and you can't get away.

I think that birth has an influence over it [homosexuality], like alcoholism and some other things, but I think that basically you have a choice.