I received the following note on Facebook from someone mistakenly thinking I’m a supporter of Dan Maes.  I’m leaving out the name of the sender:

Subject: Urgent!!! This is bigger than Dan Maes and also about the GOP trying to by-pass the system and ignor

Everyone,
Many of you are aware that the GOP elites do not want Dan as the republican candidate because he wasn’t chosen by them, but by us the people. Tomorrow they are having a meeting to change the by-laws so that republican officials would be allowed to support any candidate from any party. They are saying that we don’t matter, that our votes don’t matter, and that what we want doesn’t matter. Just as importantly, they are saying that the average person cannot have one of their own to represent them nor can the average person become a leader.
Irene

The following has the details of tomorrows meeting and what we are doing to try and stop them.

TOMORROW - Dick Wadhams is calling an emergency statewide meeting of the GOP to change the by-laws so that they may completely circumvent the People’s voice. Did we or Did we not GET involved because we are sick and tired of being ignored and having the powers that be running the show with complete and utter disregard for the people? Whatever your current views on certain races are - you must agree that the State GOP and powers that be are hell bent on destroying the people and their ability to participate in the process. United we stand, Divided we fall.

This is a crucial time in our lives- Our founding fathers sacrificed their lives, their families and their fortunes! What are we going to do????

This is serious, I mean this is bigger than just Dan Maes. This is a takeover by the GOP. They will not listen to us. They want to by-pass the system and ignore We the People.

PLEASE come to a “PEP” Rally tomorrow at 1:30pm…..at 5950 S. Willow Drive, Greenwood Village 80111. Pease wear your Dan Maes shirts (or a RED shirt). We must not allow them to do what they are planning on doing!!!!

We need you, your voice and we need to stop the Colorado GOP!

The Colorado GOP is calling for all county chairs to meet so they can vote on changing the by-laws and request to be able to support any candidate of their choice. They are ignoring the voters and the electoral process. This is unbelievable! Dan has done nothing wrong!!!

We are meeting in Colorado Springs at the Shops at Briargate (in the far west parking lot by Starbucks) to car pool at 12:00pm. Please come join us. PLEASE!!!

We are meeting at 12 noon at the Shops at Briargate- Please forward to only Dan SUPPORTERS!

Peace, Love, and Blessings
XXXXXXX

Following is my response:

So now what, XXXXXX?  The Tea Partiers and others who correctly complained about “party trumps person", who have recognized that blindly supporting a Republican primarily because he’s the Republican candidate has brought the nation to ruin, are supposed to get angry because some Republicans are actually coming to agree with the complaint?

Are you seriously saying they should be forced to support a candidate they think is no good?  That’s like saying all Republicans should have been forced to support John McCain, something many of us didn’t do.

And John McCain makes Dan Maes look like a guy who sticks with his positions!

Give me a break.  Dan is a TERRIBLE candidate who can’t and shouldn’t win.  He’s an accidental candidate who got here by not telling people who he really is and by the collapse of the other candidate who was never inspiring to begin with.

This may be a crucial time in our lives, but not because of Dan Maes. 

Finally, the people in the GOP who want to support someone else are NOT saying that you don’t matter or that your votes don’t matter.  They are saying that you can do that on your own dime but they don’t want to go along for the ride.  Trying to force them to support someone they deeply oppose represents your doing everything that you would complain about them doing in a parallel situation.

It’s not as if they’re trying to get Maes off the ballot or replace him as the GOP candidate at this point, since it can’t be done without Maes’ agreement, which is not forthcoming.

I completely support Wadhams’ move.  Preventing someone from supporting the candidate of his or her choice is unAmerican.  You should be ashamed for sinking to tactics which you would criticize in any other situation.

Those who supported Dan Maes should put their egos aside and recognize that they’ve made a huge mistake. They should learn from the lesson that having no qualifications for a job does not make you the best candidate for the job, even if you’re in an anti-incumbent mood.

I’m so sick of the rhetoric and tactics of Maes supporters.  I’m embarrassed for you since you apparently don’t have the sense to understand when you should be ashamed of yourself.