That may be the single most idiotic thing I’ve ever read.
Gardner has consistently lied through his teeth about sponsoring a personhood bill. How the Denver Post can overlook this is criminal.
What evidence is there to suggest Republicans will suddenly become housebroken if they get control of the Senate?
And really, citing the WJS editorial page?
The writer is either incompetent or believes this kind of shoddy reasoning will swing this election to Gardner.
That has to be one of the most ridiculous and utterly stupid justifications for a Republican endorsement I’ve ever seen.
And what, pray tell, are the new and exciting ideas that Gardner would bring to the Senate? I mean, other than that brilliant, avant garde notion of fetal personhood?
Apparently, the editorial board flunked logic, and also did a demonstrably poor job or researching Gardner’s bona fides. He’s a far-right anti-abortion ideologue. This “over-the-counter” birth control is a smoke screen, as he’s demonstrated opposition toward woman having access to any birth control.
And why oh why would they think-- let alone print-- the absurd notion that Republican control of the Senate would “temper” their partisanship. Geez, they’ve been running the House for a while— the results speak for themselves.
As a Colorado resident … I would tell the Denver Post to cancel my subscription, but I already did that several years ago.
Pathetic. Just … pathetic.
As a fellow CO resident, I don’t understand their endorsement. They endorsed Hick and Halter here in the Springs, but endorsed wackjob Udall? That CO weed done screwed with their brain cells!
The Denver Post has decided to suck up to Koch bros. It’s just that simple, they sold their souls to the company …
The Republicans now control the Supreme Court, and threaten to win control of both the Senate and House in the Nov. election.
It’s going to be a grim two years. The Denver Post lies in order to advance its radical cause.
The editors of a major newspaper just aren’t that stupid. Obviously there’s something else going on— usually $$$$$
Shorter Denver Post “The GOP has stalled every legislative item in Congress so let’s send more of them to Congress to get nothing done.” If the Post had done any amount of homework, they would’ve noted that Udall and the Senate Democrats got comprehensive immigration reform passed in their body with Republican votes because they led on that issue. In the House, where the GOP has absolute power and an absolutely extreme caucus, they didn’t even bring up the bipartisan Senate bill for a vote.
Incredibly naive. They apparently havent been watching the last 6 years. If the DP believes Gardner will cooperate with President Obama, I got a bridge to sell them. As a Colorado resident I am absolutely stunned. Gardner was laughable in the debates, dodging questiions and just refusing to answer the most basic questions.
This is astonishing. The Post said that Gardner would introduce “fresh ideas.” Gardner is a tea bagger. Since 2010 he has been a stooge for Boehner; if he moves to the Senate he will be a stooge for O’Connell. The first idea that Gardner will introduce is tax cuts for the 0.1%. The Post actually appears to be taking Gardner’s fraudulent campaign at face.
If the Post board actually believe this about “tax reform” they are complete morons in macroeconomics. What else does the right have other than trickle down crap with tax cuts for the wealthy and big business. Gardner is nothing but a simple-minded Koch-sucker.
most weirdly reasoned and completely screwed up major (for the west) newspaper endorsement i have ever read. are they stupid or bought?
This endorsement is probably of little value. If the Post had issued a reality-based endorsement for Udall, it would have meant little to the wing nuts committed to Gardner. Still it is shocking to see journalists who should be paying attention display such ignorance of national politics over the last six years. They actually take Gardner at his word. That is gullibility beyond the line of unbelievable.
Those of us in Denver have come to expect this kind of stupidity from the Post editorial board. Disappointing, but not surprising. Why I dropped my subscription ages ago.
“The newspaper explained that it believed Republicans would “temper their policies” with control of the Senate.”
Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
Apparently, the Denver Post’s editorial board is taking full advantage of Colorado’s legalization of marijuana.
That is so stupid. Question for the board: Do you have any evidence to support that belief?
Crickets.
Instead doing their job of educating their readership on what the goppers have been doing for the past 34 years or so, okay just the past 6 years, they go Stockholm syndrome. Nice
I thought I had mistakenly clicked over to The Onion when I read that headline. I think the Post realized it was on the verge of endorsing only Democrats and decided to make a play for new subscribers from the Teabag crowd. Or, as many others here have pointed out: too much weed for the old white guys writing these things. Please vote, everybody. Please!