CO-Sen: It's Official -- NRSC Pulling Out For Good

by: James L.

Fri Oct 24, 2008 at 12:45 PM EDT

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Ensign (R-Nev.) wants to make it absolutely clear: national Republicans are in Colorado's Senate race for good.

"The Colorado race has closed up, and that's the reason we're going to stay there. We're going to stay there up until the end," Ensign told an audience at a National Press Club breakfast Tuesday morning.

Well, it turns out that John Ensign is nothing but a dirty liar:

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is pulling out of the battle for Colorado's Senate seat, yanking its ads from television stations across the state beginning next week, according to an NRSC spokesman.

That decision leaves Republican Bob Schaffer on his own to try and close what some polls show is a double digit gap in the critical closing days of the campaign for Colorado's open Senate seat.

A video detailing the NRSC's internal strategy in Colorado was also leaked today: