OPINION
As a young man there was a so-called Freudian question you would be asked. Do you know the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? Can you name the Dwarfs? And whatever dwarf you could not name was you. To this day I can’t name the seven little suckers anyhow. But… I have seen them reemerge in the Colorado political scene.
Whether you want to believe it or not, 34 people have tossed their hat into the ring to be the next government of the Centennial State. Which dwarf can’t you name?
On the Democrat side of the ledger there are two declared candidates. Senator Michael Bennet and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser. Standing in the wings is Ken Salazar, and wisely many of the other potential democrats who have declined to run. The choice is clear; do you want someone who snuffs out the baby (ie: Colorado) with a blanket (ie: Weiser) or slowly starves the baby (ie: Bennet).
Michael Bennet, as the political rumor now has it, potentially wins and then turns around and names Colorado Governor Jared Polis, who is term limited, to replace him as Senator. So, everybody keeps a job as Democrats representing our state.
We’ve been often quoting Barry Maguire in his song Eve of Destruction, and this is when I say, “Look around you boy. It’s bound to scare you boy.” And the Democrat party seems to have us on the eve of destruction.
If Bennet wins, it’s the slow boat to China but if Phil Weiser wins, we’ll be Sacramento in a flash.
Your Colorado Republican Party
There are 34 dwarfs and Barb Kirkmeyer who thinks she’s Snow White. Whichever of the 15 or 20 of the Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidates you can’t name — you are.
I don’t know 90 percent of these people. Do you know a Republican hasn’t been elected governor since 2002 and the GOP has not won a major statewide office since 2014.
Kirkmeyer has garnered a horrendous F/48 rating from the Liberty Scorecard meaning if you elect the leading Republican candidate she will be in essence no different than Michael Bennet.
I have a couple of favorites.
Do you remember Abass Yaya Bamba? He ran for Denver mayor in 2023, and for the president of the Ivory Coast in West Africa in 2020. Receiving 24 votes in his bid for Denver mayor. And God only knows how he did in the Ivory Coast,
You gotta love him. But my real sleeper is Joshua Griffin. The oldest Division I player in Colorado football. He played for CSU as a walk-on at age 33. Also, a combat veteran in the Middle East. Why can’t we pick a guy like that?
So, what do we have?
A lot of people.
Former Congressman (for six months) Greg Lopez. And Snow White. Representative Scott Bottoms, a Colorado Springs pastor fighting against gay marriage and apparently transgender people. All you need to be is anti-marijuana and anti-abortion and you have the trifecta of how not to win here in Colorado.
I realize it’s early in the game, but I thought you’d all like to know what a lineup is coming our way.
No caped crusaders, no heroes, just a bunch of mediocre dwarfs, or worse.
— Peter Boyles
