I really wasn’t going to post about the CO4 Republican debate, because it’s so inside Colorado baseball. But it has gone viral so I did what I didn’t want to do, I listened to Boebert lie and lie and lie again.
I passed on the debate the first time because the district she’s carpetbagging – I mean running in – is no longer my district by just a few blocks. The legislators came to their senses and redrew the lines so I’m now in Joe Neguse’s district, thank the stars.
If you’ve tuned into a few of my posts, the moderator will look familiar. I’m usually posting his good news stories.
Kyle Clark doesn’t just hold Boebert’s feet to the fire…enjoy.
Under Trump, the Republican Party has become a dumpster fire of debauchery and criminalty.
In Colorado, the depraved and degenerate behavior of Republican candidates Mike Lynch and Lauren Boebert was called out by moderator Kyle Clark, who didn’t hold back. pic.twitter.com/tf3L6d0r70
— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) June 2, 2024
Under Trump, the Republican Party has become a dumpster fire of debauchery and criminalty.
In Colorado, the depraved and degenerate behavior of Republican candidates Mike Lynch and Lauren Boebert was called out by moderator Kyle Clark, who didn’t hold back. pic.twitter.com/tf3L6d0r70
NEW: Rep. Lauren Boebert claims credit for projects in Colorado even when she votes against the bills funding them. Boebert said in our #CO4 debate that she would still have voted no if she was the deciding vote, killing those projects she claims credit for now. #copolitics pic.twitter.com/JwDLJ0tKgm
— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) May 31, 2024
If you feel the need to torture yourself, the entire debate is here (youtube link).
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Besides his funky jackets and his nightly good news, he also reads feedback in the last minutes of the broadcast. And he often chooses some of the most brutal. And has some snappy comebacks. But this was brilliant.
VIEWER FEEDBACK: Jeff in Brighton writes, “If bulls#!t was music, you’d be a brass band.” pic.twitter.com/ackbUTWH2t
— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) May 8, 2024
Since the debate has gone viral, lots of big names are calling for him to go national. My reply, he’s ours, hands-off. I may not agree with him all the time, but he’s as brutal with the Dems as he is with the rethugs and his journalism makes (some) of the other local news stations up their game, too.
Open thread
Miss Bianca
Kyle Clark has given shout-outs to both news orgs that I work for, mostly on First Amendment issues. He’s a solid man and a damn fine reporter, amazing for a TV journalist in this era.
rikyrah
Squirrel Run Farm (@RunHomeste50262) posted at 3:57 AM on Tue, Jun 04, 2024:
Maybe you can answer my question… why exactly is his flags an issue? I honestly don’t understand this stance.
Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) posted at 8:01 AM on Tue, Jun 04, 2024:
Two reasons: one, the flags show support for insurrection and insurrectionists. Two and the most important reason, Alito is deciding cases involving January 6 Trump and many other issues. Every standard of judicial ethics requires recusal if there is a genuine conflict of interest or an appearance. Here we have both. And we have a Supreme Court Justice lying about the first flag and pushing blame onto his wife for both.
(https://x.com/NormOrnstein/status/1797976967406293286?t=S3zsXe5ft8Mrka9Tr0IP3g&s=03)
Old School
Going after Republican candidates probably isn’t the best way to go national.
jnfr
This is the kind of Colorado inside baseball that I love to so. I am so embarrassed that she might continue to represent any part of our state.
rikyrah
Manu Raju (@mkraju) posted at 4:23 PM on Mon, Jun 03, 2024:
John Cornyn says he stands by Larry Hogan despite the criticism that the MD Senate candidate has endured from Trump allies for saying voters should respect the Trump verdict.
“I hope Larry Hogan wins,” Cornyn, who is running for leader, told us.
“It’ll mean the difference…
Angela Alsobrooks (@AlsobrooksForMD) posted at 6:38 PM on Mon, Jun 03, 2024:
John Cornyn, a possible heir to Mitch McConnell, is saying what we already knew.
Larry Hogan will hand Republicans the Senate majority to pass their far-right agenda.
We won’t let that happen. We’re going to win in November and keep Maryland’s Senate seat blue.
(https://x.com/AlsobrooksForMD/status/1797774956845269074?t=n7uUQH0da5ZtUUIzCE-wiQ&s=03)
gene108
I might be alone in this opinion, but Lauren Boebert could’ve been a very inspirational figure, if she wasn’t such a jerk.
I don’t think too many teen mom high school dropouts have been elected to Congress. It’s a very unique background for someone in Congress to have and a lived experience that might’ve been able to lead* to better legislation.
But she’s a jerk and revels in being an obnoxious jerk, and degrades whatever stature and respect Congress might have.
* Typo fixed
Baud
@gene108:
I agree, but it’s tough for a high school dropout to be good at that job, and she’s not good at it, and her only selling point is being a jerk.
TaMara
@Miss Bianca: I remember one night when he did and I almost emailed you to make sure you knew. Good stuff.
rikyrah
3 fake electors indicted in Wisconsin.
A Ghost to Most
I am in NO way a Kyle Clark fan, but props to him for riling up Beetlebert.
cain
@gene108:
If she was liberal. But this woman came into GOP politics through an escort service. Nothing wrong with that. But wow, you’d think it’s something that the GOP wouldn’t want. This party is just weird in who they pick for banner carrying.
I find the flag stuff really fucking nutty. The right has so many flags – blue line, red line, torn up – I find the whole thing bizarre. The super patriot group flying flags that isn’t the U.S. flag.
Eolirin
@cain: They’re patriots of the Confederacy, not the Union.
smith
@rikyrah: I think they were the conspirators sent by the Felon to set up the fake electors plot, not the electors themselves. Among them is crowd favorite Kenneth Chesebro, who ostensibly flipped in GA, but later was revealed to still be lying about his participation in MI.
Jeffg166
The bodies in the basement are a complete mystery to me as is all the incriminating evidence found among them. I deeply regret any pain I may have caused. Life in public isn’t easy.
Jackie
Eric Swalwell accuses worshipers of TCFG they might be a cult! Tis a thing of beauty to watch GQPers heads explode!
https://youtu.be/MPiMTSwJ89k?si=FWD9S0S_rMOeQ2e9
Belafon
The ruling against the company investing in black women run companies is basically this:
I will have to figure out how, as a white male, to buy more things from companies run by African Americans.
JaySinWA
@smith:
I think you are right
clevland19.com link
Baud
@cain:
Don’t forget upside down flags!
jimmiraybob
I have friends in the CO 04 so, very good.
Jackie
TaMara, thanks for the entertaining video!😁😂
Baud
@jimmiraybob:
So you have friends in low places?
thruppence
I have reached my toxic limit on these horrible people. When I watch the news, my thumb never leaves the mute button. I’ll read what they’ve said, but I can’t stand to have their voices in my ears
Baud
@thruppence:
Same. I feel the same way about them in my TV as I do about animal abuse commercials. Can. Not. Watch.
Betty
Gotta love that guy!
jimmiraybob
@Baud:
From my stompin’ grounds anything above 500′ is high places.
cain
@Baud: I’m pretty sure that most of these right wingers also like to wear the flag as apparel! JFC.. literally love to wrap themselves up in the flag with their damn flag fetish. :D
cain
@JaySinWA: He’s probably worried about how it looks – but this is a serious crime. Faking electors? He needs to man up and do his damn job and not worry about right wing freak out.
TBone
@Jackie: ha ha ha ha hah! Gymmy J was having a FIT
Cry harder, cultists!
TBone
@JaySinWA: we here in PA need to prosecute. I hope our AG steps up but am not especially confident that will happen. Damn, I wish she would. She has a whiff to her though…
smith
WI Governor Tony Evers:
eclare
@Betty:
Agree! He was impressive, the way he passive-aggressively brought up the guy’s DUI.
Baud
@smith:
👍
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Over a year ago when we were working to landmark a house here over the developer’s objections (a former city councilman called him “The Trump of Denver with all the associated psychological issues”), Clark was the only media outlet that actually provided a good piece on the issue instead of letting the developer ‘live lie’ and keep the lies in edited pieces w/o any follow up or counterpoint (one other TV station’s report didn’t and the two “print” media pieces followed suit).
So the fact he pushes back and isn’t shy about it is in keeping with his journalistic style.
Dangerman
I like the cut of his cuts.
No opinion on jib. Whatever the fuck a jib is.
TBone
@smith: LOVE it!
TBone
Marge said Lil’ Mike Johnson is infested with demons and needs an exorcism in an interview today. I’m not linking to her full comments because she needs to be deprived of oxygen. She went full-on crazy Q cult. Running distraction plays for Dotard, it’s gonna get nutty all over!
eclare
@smith:
Excellent statement. It’s a work of art.
Geminid
Boebert’s primary is three weeks from now. New York and Virginia will also hold primaries June 25. Virginia Democrats will choose candidates to replace retiring Reps Wexton and Spanberger. Wexton’s 10th CD is fairly safe for Democrats, but Spanberger won the 7th CD by only 4 points last time so we’ll have to work for it this one.
Down in the coastal Virginia 2nd CD, two good candidates are contending in the Democratic primary. The winner will face Rep. Jen Kiggans, who unseated Elaine Luria in 2022.
New York Democrats are choosing challengers for 5(?) Republicans who flipped seats in 2022. And there is a rancorous fight in the Westchester County/Bronx-based 16th CD, where Rep. Jamaal Bowman faces challenger George Latimer, the veteran Westchester County Executive.
Former Rep. Momdaire Jones is running in an adjacent district, but he used to represent much of the current 16th CD. Jones just endorsed Latimer.
Sure Lurkalot
Boebert’s outrage about her privacy being violated is chef’s kiss for the party that longs to monitor women’s menstrual cycles.
H.E.Wolf
@Dangerman:
If one takes a moment to Google, the phrase has an interesting history. Thank you for prompting me to further my education!
Jeffro
OT but you’ll never guess: trumpov just came out BIGLY in favor of absentee, early, and mail-in voting! He’s been saying it for a few weeks now but clearly Susie has gotten through to the orange toddler about how important it is that he, himself, pound the message home.
(Go ahead and criticize him, Republicans – we know you loooooove consistency! NOT)
(Go ahead and ask him why it was ‘corrupt’ in 2020 but is ok now, snooze media)
Old School
@smith: Jinx!
smith
The RNC’s high quality hires strike again:
They later replaced the picture with the real Milwaukee, but the original’s been forever preserved on the Wayback Machine.
Geminid
@Geminid: Now I remember. New York Republicans flipped 5 seats in 2022, but former Rep. Tom Suozzi reclaimed the 3rd CD George Santos got expelled from.
Speaking of Santos, his criminal prosecution is still hanging out there. I’m hoping prosecutors haven’t moved on it because Santos is dishing so much dirt on other New York Republicans that they’re still assimilating it. A pleasant thought!
UncleEbeneezer
eclare
@H.E.Wolf:
That is interesting!
Ramalama
That was beautiful.
I lived in Boulder for a time. Not a good time in history (Amendment 2 had recently passed). Glad to see Colorado being bold and brassy.
TBone
@TBone: Tiedrich does it best
https://open.substack.com/pub/jefftiedrich/p/spork-toes-and-the-house-gop-beclown
sab
OT: and in wrong time period.
Vanguard thinks I am a real person and gave me an account number and I was therefore able to jump through the hoops to inherit.
In the course I learned sisters’ legal names weren’t their use names. Like that is weird. But I didn’t know older sister’s legal name.
Whatever, I think we are moving ahead. And Vanguard doesn’t read their mail timely. But we all knew that. A week at least to notice they have mail.
JoyceH
@Geminid: quick correction- Va primary is June 18.
I’m in VA 7 and the signs and commercials are multiplying. Just driving to get groceries the other day I saw two signs call a GOP candidate a “common sense conservative”. Then when streaming one of the free streamers I saw a creepy apocalyptic ad from a guy calling himself a “Trump conservative”. I like that framing – the opposite of common sense is Trump.
Over on Ballotopedia I see there are seven Dem candidates. A number of worthy state leg vets and Eugene Vindman, who’s raised almost four million dollars to everyone else’s two hundred k.
Trollhattan
@gene108:
At this point the only thing she could do to restore her rep and dignity, would be to record a bunch of those “Kids, stay in school so you don’t become me!” PSAs.
Given her supreme self-regard it ain’t happening so I’ll fill in:
“Kids, don’t become a Boebert—stay in school and do not go out with that jerk, Jared!”
pat
Looks like the repukes have figured out exactly how to corrupt the system.
HumboldtBlue
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David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Baud: All these different flags are camouflage. Colonel Flag was always in disguise
CCL
Okay – this is weird. We (life-long dems) just got a robo call – Texas Twang – talking about the evil democrats who are turning this country into a socialist, evil place, weaponizing the judiciary — yada yada yada …
I couldn’t believe my ears as it was the craziest, space lasers, MTG/Boebert type “Dems evil, corrupt” etc. etc. etc. Of course, finished with a “donate to us to stop this evil corrupt takeover” plea.
Anyone else getting this stuff? It’s definitely a first for us.
sab
@sab: Girls with their girly names fuck up everthing everytime.
Maybe no girls things improve, better yet.
Best is if we figure out girl name changes, mostly marriage, occassionally criminal.
Not taking a married name will be a problem if you have kids in a hospital and your kid has your married surname and you don’t and dad is off elsewhere. Some dads have to travel
Also too, it will have devastating chanceses on inheritance. Nonths later.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Old School:
didn’t Laverne and Shirley work at a brewery in Saigon
sab
@sab: Married women sometimes change their names. Othertimes they don’t. Everytime computers are stumped. Normal, like cats eating heads off chipmunks. Happens every day, but everony say ” No. Diddn’t uappenn.
eclare
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:
Hahaha…loved that show back in the day.
TF79
The Colorado GOP has really doubled-down on awful persons and policies – https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/local-politics/colorado-gop-call-burn-gay-pride-flags/73-e5156582-2888-46d2-b535-d5981c149817
rikyrah
Naw, Son…Trump is still YOUR BOY….
Lips so pursed…..
Sam Janesch (@samjanesch) posted at 8:25 AM on Tue, Jun 04, 2024:
Larry Hogan will “definitely” not attend the RNC next month in Milwaukee. via @sunjeffbarker
Candidly Tiff (@tify330) posted at 8:41 AM on Tue, Jun 04, 2024:
“Hogan’s brand has long been distinct from the Republican Party. He actively opposes Trump and portrays himself as a solutions-oriented anti-politician.”
Hogan portrays himself as what 😂..Platitude Larry has no solutions he is a fraud.
(https://x.com/tify330/status/1797986973359235408?s=03)
Betty Cracker
@smith: Well done, gov!
rikyrah
scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) posted at 5:45 AM on Tue, Jun 04, 2024:
Media outlets got fat in the Trump years treating his presidency like a reality show and then boring old Joe Biden won and <poof> the revenue streams dried up b/c he doesn’t fire people via tweet, thumb his nose at our allies, or play footsie with dictators. They need Trump back https://t.co/QsE5to6YyO
(https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/1797942794658680871?t=_5bKUg16r6qOYtM5OFHJbA&s=03)
PAM Dirac
@sab:
And sometimes the computer changes their name for them. When my wife and I got married she didn’t change her name. We started filing our tax returns jointly. She used her legal name and SS# as did I. The IRS computer would change her last name to mine and then we would get an error letter saying that her name and SS# didn’t match. Duh, that’s because YOU changed her name. I think it took 4-5 years before that was fixed.
eclare
@PAM Dirac:
I guess I’m lucky that I had no issues changing my name when I got married and then back when I got divorced.
I’m also fortunate to live close to a Social Security office.
Geminid
@JoyceH: The Republican field in the 7th CD could be more diverse. There’s are retired Marine and Army officers, and a former Navy SEAL. No Air Force though.
Jackie
@Sure Lurkalot:
She wasn’t in a private place when she was being
violatedfondled by her date.RaflW
OT but related, in a viral video sense, I just read this written by my friend Sara. She published in to all users on FB so I’ll post it in full (alas w/o the lovely photos of these intensely amazing youths – or click here if you’re an FB hanger-on like me, like and even share Sara’s post!).
cain
@Old School: how the fuck do you use a picture of another city?
Trollhattan
@RaflW: Jeez. To think this is the “blue bit” of Idaho.
Clearly, Handmaid’s Tale and Fahrenheit 451 require teaching as a matched set.
And good for Annabelle, she will go in life as far as her vision takes her.
“Removed books” [shakes head]
Trollhattan
@cain:
SWAG web page designer put “generic city” image as a placeholder in the banner with a comment in the HTML “insert Milwaukee skyline here.”
And that never happened.
RaflW
That last part of the OP is why, on the rare occasions that I do turn on my TV in the mountains in CO, I tune to Kyle Clark’s newscast. He’s got some one of a kind qualities, but seriously, TV stations around the country could (and should!) take lessons from him and his co-producers. He’s unlocked a formula for news & public affairs coverage that meets the moment, is engaging to watch, and is a big brass band of badass.
RaflW
@Trollhattan: Sara stayed with us for a couple nights last summer during her sabbatical. We didn’t talk too much about Idaho politics since she was in need of downtime, but yeah, it’s a wild (and not good) world out there.
Baud
@CCL:
Were you persuaded?
lowtechcyclist
@Jeffro:
Oceania was at war with Eurasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
rikyrah
@RaflW:
thank you.
Baud
@lowtechcyclist:
Perfect.
lowtechcyclist
@CCL:
Yes, I’ve started getting fundraising calls from the RNC and so forth.
When the caller on the latest call paused for breath, I told him that his party was trying to institute a theocracy, so they shouldn’t expect any contributions from me.
TaMara
@RaflW: This honestly deserves a post all its own and if I can find the time, I might just front page it.
Thanks for sharing the FB link.
In a world of book banners, be an Annabelle.
lowtechcyclist
@rikyrah:
Sure, anyone asked him which party he plans to caucus with if he wins?
Jeffro
@lowtechcyclist: next thing you know, trumpov will be crowing about President Biden’s ‘Access Hollywood‘ tape and his deficit-busting tax cuts for billionaires.
Omnes Omnibus
@Old School: I think Milwaukee’s history of actual Socialist mayors confused them.
Baud
@lowtechcyclist:
On point.
John S.
@Trollhattan:
The dreaded FPO image (For Placement Only) strikes again!
Jeffro
OT but the mail just came, and with it, another anti-Bob Good (VA-05) flyer
(courtesy of the equally psycho GOP candidate…well, an aligned PAC, actually…)
Have at it, VA GOP!
cain
@Trollhattan: I do events for a living (amongst a lot of other things) – you’d think that this something easily caught.
The GOP likes to give their business to their cronies who do a half-ass job of it and charge 2-3x more. After all, it’s not their money – it’s all those donors.
UncleEbeneezer
CCL
@Baud: It was so over the top, I had to put it on speaker. I kept thinking that this is how they are trying to pollute the airwaves of folks who don’t listen to FOX et. al.
@lowtechcyclist: We listened, the twang was weird, and at first I thought it was an over the top parody, but wow! I know I am probably paranoid, but I really do think this is how they are pouring their sewage into the ears of normies, independents, and dems.
jimmiraybob
@Omnes Omnibus:
PBS has a nice documentary available about that: America’s Socialist Experiment.
A blurb from the website: “The victories and failures of a unique brand of socialism in Milwaukee reduced corruption, improved conditions for workers and cleaned up the environment between 1910 and 1960.”
I think that the reaction against it was the “reduced corruption” part.
rikyrah
@Old School:
Because…of course….
Milwaukee…Ho Chin Minh City….I mean I make that mistake all the time.
Manyakitty
@smith: between him and Todd Blanche, I have to wonder what broke in their brains. They used to be Democrats and ostensibly normal, but wow.
karen marie
@lowtechcyclist: He needs to lock in votes before people come to their senses.
hueyplong
@karen marie: It’s as though GOPer advisors got word that Trump’s sell-by date is in late October.
smith
@karen marie: That could be happening. According to Newsweek, a third of Republicans now think the Felon was the wrong choice to nominate for president. Take it with as much salt as you prefer
ETA: It will be interesting to see how many vote for Nikki Haley in today’s primaries.
TBone
@sab: I’m glad that worked out for you! Great news!
sab
I just jumped through the right hoops, so Vanguard might be financing my dream house. Not a fucking mansion. Just a normal house that happens to be everything I want in a house, as an old person.
EarthWindFire
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: Is there a Vietnamese translation for schmiel schmatzel?
TBone
@sab: that’s exactly what I did with my inheritance. No stairs, everything on one floor. I’m really happy for you, congrats! 😊
Anyway
@sab:
Congrats – That was quick. had you been looking for a while? How old is the house? When’s closing?
rikyrah
@smith:
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@EarthWindFire: ► Xin loi
rikyrah
@sab:
been following this saga, and I hope that it is resolved soon.
I don’t think that I will ever use Vanguard.
rikyrah
@TBone:
It’s so funny what 30 years will do for ‘ dream home’ dreams.
You couldn’t give me a house with stairs now. Just couldn’t.
My dream is to have the laundry room on the same floor with my bedroom. no more basement laundry.
VFX Lurker
Great news! Hoping all goes smoothly from here. ❤
eclare
@rikyrah:
Once my parents got older, they moved the washer and dryer from the basement to the butler’s pantry. The stairs to the basement didn’t even have a rail.
Geminid
@smith: Once enough Republicans get some doubt in their minds, Trump will be on thin ice. The conviction is bad enough, but he can hurt himself even more with his snarly mouth. What happens at his rally in Vegas this Sunday might not stay in Vegas.
Timill
@sab: Mansions so rarely come with the necessary staff…
particularly not for free.
Timill
@rikyrah: I could settle for an elevator a la Nero Wolfe.
VFX Lurker
In the past, Vanguard offered the best deal for small, individual investors. That may be why sab’s dad kept his investments at Vanguard.
However, Vanguard forced other companies to compete. Today, one can find low-cost, total-market index fund options outside of Vanguard.
NutmegAgain
Since this is an OT, I just want to note that since the orange slob was convicted, there has been scant coverage of Gaza and it’s horrors. Anybody else notice this? I mean, 2 weeks ago I’d say the majority of the above the fold coverage was the I/P situation. I’m quite sure it hasn’t resolved since then.
Gloria DryGarden
@Belafon: I think lowes is black owned.
RaflW
@TaMara: I’m sure Sara would be thrilled if it gets FP’d. And if you’re swamped and can’t get to it, I understand. I hadn’t thought of it as rising to that level!
Also, too, I’m gonna say how much I loved this line: “the fastest way to get an introvert angry and fired up is to take away her books!”
VFX Lurker
Not black-owned, but they’ve had a Black CEO since 2018. 👍
Gloria DryGarden
@TF79: just read it : horrifying. Not keeping up w local news.
I just had to tell off a bible person in my Facebook feed, who asked why I’d posted a rainbow pride flag explaining all the colors. Just told her if she didn’t have friends family and mentors from the gay community, to please not comment.
In other Colorado news, my email says a ballot is coming, so (sigh) I’ll have to learn about whatever statutes and propositions are in there, what’s out of state funded, etc.
I certainly hope ms boebert loses in her attempted new district. She’s an embarrassment to Colorado and the nation, and doesn’t make sense when she speaks. I don’t know how she got elected, lying about her ged, not showing up to court for her tickets, and now vaping in public even when asked by a pregnant person not to. She’s pro-life? All she seems to be saying ever is a variation on disrespect and fuck you.
Knowing she got elected by the people in her area, makes me think I need a map of her current district, so when I drive across the state I don’t spend any money there (or only if I clarify how people voted, or where the majority dem enclaves are).
Did she get elected for her big boobs? Is she pretty, w her spunky mouthy attitude, and that fancy gun on her belt? I don’t get it. Does she just have to say she’s Christian, and spout some judgey evangelical crap, and all the other judgevangelicals get behind her? I certainly hope she gets primaried.
Geminid
@Gloria DryGarden: Boebert made her name when she tried to keep her restaurant open during the pandemic. Then she jumped into the 3rd CD Republican primary.
Rep. Scott Tipton, the veteran Republican incumbent, might have been overconfident. At least, he never attacked Boebert on her criminal record and other vulnerabilities even though he had plenty of money to spend. He might have feared alienating her crazy followers.
Boebert won the primary by 7 points, and went on to win the general election by 6, the same margin Trump carried the 3rd District by.
Gloria DryGarden
@Geminid: I had heard she ran in her primary against a highly competent women who was well versed in land use and water rights, the needs of rural Colorado. Diane somebody. But boebert won. Why? Trump crazy rhetoric? People / republicans seem to vote against their own interests, and ignore lies and immoral behavior. I don’t get it.
Geminid
@Gloria DryGarden: I think you have Diane Mitsch Bush in mind. She was Boebert’s Democratic opponent in November, 2020, and was a former state Representative. Boebert’s 6% margin of victory equalled Trump’s.
This brings to mind something Rachel Bitecofer said, that demographics typically overcome candidate quality. She used the examples of Tammy Baldwin and Claire McCaskill. McCaskill could have won in 2018 if she ran in Wisconsin, Bitecofer said, but Baldwin couldn’t have won in Missouri.
I think this precept is true in a relative sense. In 2022 though, Boebert almost showed the limiting case. She barely beat the Democrat, even though redistricting had made ithe 3rd CD more Republican. By then, district residents knew Boebert was an idiot.
Republicans feared she’d lose the seat this year, so it seems they told Boebert that with Ken Buck retiring, she had a clear path in the Colorado 4th CD. She took the bait and packed her carpetbag.