Where would Dan Maes go?
Reader “Airbus” says he thinks Maes will withdraw, but not until after the deadline “so he can stick it to the party.”
I think that’s not a bad bet, but I disagree.
My guess is that Maes stays in to the end.
At this point, it’s about his ego and his future.
Remember, he’s a very modestly successful businessman…or rather he was. Now he’s an unemployed former re-seller of credit reports and voice mail services.
Where’s he gonna go if he drops out?
At least if he stays in, he can put a few bucks into his bank account by draining his campaign contributions via “mileage reimbursements.”
He probably thinks – and it probably would have been right a few weeks ago but no longer – that his chances of winning some other political race in the future would be damaged by dropping out.
At this point, I repeat, where’s he gonna go if he drops out?
He doesn’t have money to start a new business. At least one former employer has said publicly that he would not re-hire Maes, not least because Maes secretly planned started a competing business while working for him.
Maes has become the butt of insults and even jokes. If I were Maes, I’d almost feel like I need to move out of the state if I don’t win the election.
Furthermore, if Maes really wants to spite the GOP, he’d be better off staying in the whole time than getting out after the ballots are certified.
What else? It basically doesn’t cost Dan Maes anything to stay in. He gets to extend his 15 minutes of fame while having no responsibility other than keeping track of the very small number of campaign contribution dollars he’ll receive in the future. He hasn’t hired a campaign manager, though he does have a “communications director” (quite a decent guy whom I feel sorta sorry for at this point.)
I hope, for the sake of Colorado, that Dan Maes has the good sense to quit the race within the next hour. But I doubt he will. After all, where’s he gonna go if he does?
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09/03/10 @ 08:49:44 pm
Very prescient comments indeed. Maes is motivated by greed that exceeds any concern for party, state or family. He had nothing and was a nobody going into this campaign but now he's somebody. Give it up? Not a chance! Maes used his sales skills and gift of gab (that's what sociopaths do) to sell himself to the tea parties. They bought it hook, line and sinker. Some of them are catching on backing off now, but Maes believes he can sweet-talk 'em into coming back into his camp. More than likely, this will work because even victims don't want sociopaths hurt. In the meantime, the sociopaths keep right on milking.
The penitentiaries are full of sociopaths -- habitual liars, some people call 'em -- but they are the dumb ones. Smart ones don't go to jail. They go into politics or preach the word of God. Whatever it takes to keep the money coming in.
Now I'm not saying all politicians and preachers are sociopaths -- they're not! But the two fields have their share of 'em and Mr. Maes is right out there in the middle of 'em, singing his song.
"I'm one of you," he says. "I'm a conSERVative!"
"In fact, I'm a constiTUtional conSERVative! Vote for me, and oh, by the way, send me some money. I need to make another one of those pesky house notes (where's Freda when I need 'er?). Simply aMAESing (gee, I love my name) how regular those things come around!"
"What's that you say, Mr. Wadhams? Do WHAT for the good of the party? Make like a duck, Dick, and get the flock outta here!"
"Now let's see, where did I put that manual on how carnies make it in the world? Ah, here it is, page 35! 'Stick it to the suckers before they stick it to you!' Yessir, that's the way the world operates!"