A while back Mistermix had a dire warning about Boebert – I scoffed at his assessment. How could this carpetbagger that voters in general can not stand, win CO4. I mean she had to move from her district to super safe Red CO4 because she was in danger of losing to a DEMOCRAT of all things. She is toxic.
Now, as we look to the primaries tomorrow, I’m super worried we will be stuck with Boebert for the long term. Not because she’s popular, but because the CO GOP is in disarray. I doubt, besides polluting the airwaves and local theatres, she’ll have any effect on governance. She’s too stupid and lazy to do much more than promote Lauren Boenbert. But OMG, she’s a complete embarrassment for our state.
Because of the stupidity and dysfunction of the CO GOP, there are SIX candidates running in the GOP CO4 primary. And the general assumption is, that whoever wins the GOP primary will run away with the vote in the general in NOV
And with so many candidates running, it won’t take but a few votes for Boebert to win the primary. And why? Not because she has a lot of support – it’s because she has 5 opponents, who couldn’t find a way to set aside their egos and find one Republican to run against her. Our favorite debate moderator explains:
And now I’m annoyed, but District 4 gets what it deserves…probably no matter who they elect. Buck was no prize, no friend to Colorado, women, LGBTQ+, or the environment… and neither will whatever moron they elect this time. I’m just sorry to say, we may well be stuck with Boebert for the foreseeable future. As a proud Coloradoan, I apologize.
Governor Polis is interviewed by fellow (former) Coloradoan Tim Miller:
Primary is tomorrow. I am not expecting good news.
This is an open thread
TaMara
Also, congrats Panthers!
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Ice Cats win Lord Stanley’s cup.
Meow! Meow! Meow!
RaflW
Ranchers in CO-04 will just have to learn their lesson (or, more likely, not). She won’t do shit for them, ever. And we’ll see if she someday pays an electoral price for that in the form of a R challenger from the center. More likely she’ll end up retiring out of boredom, or a scandal worse than she’s managed so far.
And as much as she’ll bring some embarrassment to Colorado, what she will do moreso is help Colorado accelerate it’s move from purple to blue. Because she can be a poster-girl for everything that’s wrong with the CO Republican party for years and years to come.
States like CA and OR already have long-term rump GOPs. This is a step towards that for the Centennial State.
sdhays
My favorite was the guy who had, what, some trouble with the law (?) and thought that was all water under the bridge and he was still US House material. And, when you look at who Republican districts send to Congress, he’s not wrong…
sdhays
Still, it sucks when “Brave Sir Boebert ran away” is an actually winning strategy.
Citizen Alan
Why is this surprising? Shitgibbon only won the GOP primary in 2016 because the even larger pool of doofuses was even more egotistical and unwilling to put their constituents and their party over their own giant heads, and they all stayed in until the bastard won the primary without actually getting a majority in most of the states. Then, four years later, Bernie Sanders tried to run the same playbook but was completely flummoxed when most of the contenders realized that they couldn’t win, withdrew without embarrassing themselves, and coming out in favor of Biden.
artem1s
Well at least she’s not Gym Jordan. Come sit by an embarrassed Ohioan.
dmsilev
While it sucks having her be part of your state’s delegation, I think from a national perspective it’s not bad. There won’t be any voting difference between her and any other Republican elected out of that district, and she’s cartoonish enough to incrementally damage the GOP’s national reputation (see: Beetlejuice). ‘The Party of Lauren Boebert’ will put off at least some people who won’t care about ‘the Party of random guy who votes the same as Lauren Boebert.’
Roberto el oso
If she wins she’ll have achieved her primary goal: a permanent pension as a congressperson. She has no more interest in doing something productive for her constituents than she ever did. She appears to enjoy being the center of attention, and she gets more of that by being an idiot than by trying to learn how to do her job.
Like so many of her counterparts (Greene & Gaetz come to mind), one can only assume that her constituents are actually doing just fine, since it’s clear they’re not interested in any kind of sentient representation. They just like stirring shit up.
TaMara
@Roberto el oso: One of the reasons I am so very, very annoyed.
CaseyL
@Citizen Alan:
I was going to make that very same point :)
Boebert might do less damage overall, because she’s as sharp as a bag of hair. One of the others might be as evil but not quite as stupid.
I will never get over what a toxic pile of garbage the GOP is: its candidates and its voters. Never have I seen so many allegedly sentient creatures embrace degradation so thoroughly.
Bupalos
I don’t understand why we wouldn’t be rooting for Bobert here. She’ll be the worse general candidate, no?
sdhays
@TaMara: One benefit is she sucks at fundraising, so that’s one House seat which will be underperforming in trying to create a Republican majority.
Splitting Image
Boebert isn’t a problem provided her party ends up in the minority. As long as the Speaker is a Democrat, she and that other scold can blather to their little hearts’ content.
Michelle Bachman was at least as crazy, and brought as much shame to Minnesota as Boebert is going to bring to Colorado, but she eventually found better grifting opportunities and left. So will Boebert.
Every state, no matter how blue, is likely to end up with at least one rural district populated mainly by crazies. None of these districts will be represented by anybody capable of doing something constructive. Boebert may not even be the worst by the end of the next Congress.
sdhays
@Splitting Image: She’s not even the worst in this Congress!
JoyceH
Do the Dems have a candidate? Long shot I know, but stranger things have happened.
Mike in NC
Fat Bastard should have picked the pistol-packin’ mama as VP. Much better for MAGA Nation than wimps like Rubio and Vance.
TaMara
@Bupalos: It’s such a safe red district no Dem really has a chance. Unless of course there is some darkhorse independent that pulls a huge chunk of the Rep vote (that happened in our newest district – republicans split between party and independent candidate, Dems can do math and voted for the Dem and she squeaked a win).
SiubhanDuinne
O/T
Q: Want to know how to feel really old, really fast?
A: Get a phone call informing you you’re going to be a great-great-aunt.
Splitting Image
@sdhays:
Point taken. But she’s definitely in the bottom half. It’s likely that she soon won’t be.
Jay
@SiubhanDuinne:
Congrats!
And you arn’t that old.
TaMara
@SiubhanDuinne: But what a wonderful way to age.
Congratulations (btw, had the same experience when I was told I’d be a Great-Aunt – WTF? )
SiubhanDuinne
@Jay:
@TaMara:
Thanks! It’s a bit disconcerting, for sure. I also had a similar reaction when I found out I was going to be a great-aunt. That was 27 years ago — you’d think that would be long enough to get used to the idea :-)
Spadizzly
So Boebert goes into a pharmacy, walks up to the clerk:
“My boyfriend has a really bad case of the dandruff. What do you suggest?”
“Give him ‘Head and Shoulders'”
The next day, Boebert’s back:
“How do you give shoulders?”
Kayla Rudbek
@TaMara: I hope that I live long enough to be a great-aunt. Great-great-aunt would be extremely unlikely unless I make it to 100. Sometimes I look at the baby pictures of my godson and think that he looks like a little old man and I won’t be alive to actually see him as an old man (over 40 years of age difference between us).
H.E.Wolf
@SiubhanDuinne: You’ll be a *great* great-great-aunt!
prostratedragon
@SiubhanDuinne: Yeee-ep, that’d do it. But, congratulations! It’s also marvelous.
Chet Murthy
@dmsilev: I fear you’re right. And …. she’s cartoonishly ridiculous enough that she embarrasses her party, so there’s that. I mean, Qbert is a walking, talking advertisement for all our moms’ “Stop making that face, or it’ll freeze that way!”
lgerard
I was hoping to hear Randy Rainbow channel his inner Ann Margret with a rousing version of Bye Bye Boebert
still hoping
CaseyL
@SiubhanDuinne:
Congrats!
It’s fun being the Cool Auntie (I know because I have one).
Hopefully being the Cool Great-Great Auntie is also going to be fun. You probably have a treasure trove of Embarrassing Stories about the kid’s immediate relatives :)
Netto
@Bupalos: As a resident of this district, I had a doorknocker from the Ike McCorkle (Democratic candidate for the district) campaign stop by. For what it’s worth she claimed he’s polling ahead of Boebert. If true, it’s probably also an artifact of the fractured R vote, and the district will end up voting true to form in the general. At any rate, as an independent I did my duty and voted for one of her primary opponents. Probably too clever by half, though.
Yutsano
I’m too lazy to look it up right now, but the pick for governor from Washington is beyond cuckoo crazy.
Yutsano
@SiubhanDuinne: MAZEL TOV!
Melancholy Jaques
I am actually comfortable with Boebert and Taylor Green being the national faces of the Republican party.
JaySinWA
@SiubhanDuinne:
Double Plus
un-good.SomeRandomGuy
Remember, the video the theater provided shows Boebert acting like a spoiled child. She might run away with the vote, but, she might not. I remember reading an interview of a voter saying “she used her Christianity just to get my vote, then I found she was a low-life.”
I guess I’d forgotten just how many people think of “Christian” as “decent people,” and I mean, most emphatically, decent in the sense of “Can I come in? Are you decent?”
I would like to see her *lose* like her *loser* Jimjones, TFG, this November. Don’t think it’s impossible. Just imagine, it’s easy if you try.
karen marie
“Pro Hamas”
That doesn’t even begin to be funny, if he meant it as a joke. I don’t know who Tim Miller is except that he can go fuck himself.
Yutsano
@karen marie: He’s a Republican, if that helps. Never Dumper.
West of the Rockies
Boebert: a homely Sarah Palin. Discuss.
Ugh. She’s wretched.
karen marie
@Yutsano: My wish, if we should have the misfortune of Trump being elected, is that Tim Miller is among the first against the wall.
Manyakitty
@artem1s: stopped by to say just that.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@West of the Rockies: The vibe that Boebert and M. Taylor Greene give off, to my view, is maybe a bit more of a wannabe AOC, in the sense of “if that censored censored bartender from censored New York can do it and succeed, then obviously we can too, and do it better, because we’re Real Americans, not some censored censored censored.” (Which totally neglects the nature of AOC’s mojo, and the fact that AOC actually puts in the work for her job in Congress as opposed to being a purely performative honk-clang-aWOOga.)
Come to think of it, maybe Palin had a bit of that vibe too, except predating AOC, in that she didn’t seem to be willing to put in the work (there’s a reason she quit after only half a term as governor of Alaska, after all).
Manyakitty
@SiubhanDuinne: mazel tov!
opiejeanne
@Yutsano: You’re talking about the R candidates, right? Because Bob Ferguson (D) seems like a solid choice.
Semi Bird (what a name!) held a campaign event at the local grange, It’s pretty small, probably will seat about 150. The manager hasn’t told me how big the crowd was yet, but this is Reichert territory, the ex-sheriff of King County, so he’s probably going to win the R primary.
Dave
To be honest since it won’t be a democrat and sure as hell won’t be a Rockefeller type republican I’d rather have Boebert. She’s pathetic and dumb in a way that strikes many as unserious and doesn’t have the burning commitment to doing horrible things in the way Greene or Jordan do. Or even the quiet way our esteemed Speaker does.
Jinchi
Democrats have been rooting for the “worst” Republican candidate in every election for a while now, and they’ve gotten exactly what they asked for.
Personally, I don’t think it’s working out the way we hoped. I’d rather all of our elected leaders were sane and competent.
Mousebumples
Late to the thread, but I think there was a postcard campaign for tomorrow’s special election (to hold the seat through November’s election). Not expecting Trisha Calvarese to win, but maybe the Boebert shenanigans will make people think twice.
Question for CO voters, if anyone sees this – is the primary vote D vs R? Or D vs 6 Rs? Need to get a majority or just a plurality?
TaMara
@karen marie: You may or may not see this, but that’s totally inappropriate and you can take it elsewhere, but not in any of my posts.
I may not be able to ban you, but I’m happy to mock you and your concern trolling every chance I get. But I will not tolerate that ugliness in my posts.
Skippy -San
I agree. Fortunately, Colorado is a much better place than other places I have lived, but it is still a damning indictment of this country that someone so unfit can be in Congress.
She is worthless as both a human being and as a Congressperson.
Kosh III
Boebert, Shmoebert.
At least you don’t have Marsha Blackburn, the most worthless beauty queen to ever desecrate the Senate.