Denver, Colorado, has been taught a great politically correct witch hunt lesson. All of the above, and many more who we will speak about in this column, took a nice, 41-year-old white woman from a farm in Iowa, who probably never even muttered any words or terms that could be construed by the witch hunters on the left to be remotely racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, or anti-global warming; who also, I believe, does not like Donald Trump; and these bastards were able to turn her, with the help of the Denver media, into David Duke.
You folks all remember David Duke? Remember when he ran against Edwin Edwards to be the governor of Louisiana, and the bumper stickers said vote for the crook because David Duke was such a horrible human.
Did you get the opportunity to witness the Hancock celebration party at Hancock election headquarters when the numbers came in early that he had taken this very decent woman and beaten her into the ground? Walking next to him, the one and only, former Governor Bill Ritter; cheering him on, former Mayor and presidential hopeful, Governor John Hickenlooper; the true master of the City, Wellington Webb; and, of course, the crown prince himself, Michael Hancock, doing the victory dance. (Conspicuously absent from the victory party was current Governor Jared Polis who did not endorse or do any fundraising for Hancock.)
To the man, these are philanderers. To the man, they understand the power and money in Denver. To the man, they knew they were taking this decent woman and turning her into George Wallace or the granddaughter of Lester Maddox.
Have the television outlets no shame as they covered and interviewed a cheerful Michael Hancock?
I can’t tell you how many times my sainted father would say to me and my brothers, “What the hell’s wrong with you?” To the City of Denver, in the words of my father, what the hell’s wrong with you?
This woman made some amateur mistakes, like not knowing what the initials of the NAACP meant, and taking the picture of an Asian man after they did a deep dumpster dive, and discovered she made some remark about Chinatown on social media that they lifted and implied it was some sort of racist anti-Asian remark. Maybe someone could ask the Brownstein Law Firm about that.
I’m told when she made the runoff her total war chest was $700 thousand and change. I’m also told, by reliable sources, that the minute it was announced, Hancock raised that amount of money and added it to his $2.7 million war chest.
As an amateur reader of history, it’s been noted that any time a candidate starts with negative advertising he or she is behind. Hancock came out of the box after promising Jamie Giellis they would not go negative. He went on the negative offensive turning her into a modern day KKK Night Rider.
That was despicable and we may never see the internal polling data, but you can bet your ass they knew he was in trouble.
There’s some smarmy character on the payroll and in the words of Al Davis, “Just win baby,” and they did. It’s sad that this cabal of wealthy men took this fine woman and dashed her on the rocks of hate. They brought in Hillary Clinton to endorse Michael Hancock. I suspect they did because Michael must remind her of her husband Bill. Keep an eye on this one folks. The only good news is that a Marxist beat Albus Brooks. Watch the skies.
— Peter Boyles