I like John Hickenlooper. I’ve heard many extended interviews with him on the Mike Rosen Show, dating back to when Hickenlooper was elected mayor of Denver. He seems like a nice guy and a person you would want to talk with and get to know. But, I don’t like him as governor of Colorado.

He has demonstrated on many occasions why you don’t vote for the person, you vote for your party. Why? Because a person who runs for office, picks a side. He looks at what each party stands for, decides which of them best represent what he stands for, and then signs up. So what does that mean with Mr. Hickenlooper?

It means he has problems with the Second Amendment; the Right to Bear Arms. Hickenlooper’s comrades in arms; the Democrats of the Colorado Senate and House, who controlled both chambers of the General Assembly, rammed through three new gun control bills. One was fairly benign; a background check law. The next was a slap in the face everyone; requiring Colorado citizens to pay for the privilege of exercising their constitutional rights, and the final one was laughable and unenforceable; the high capacity magazine bill.

Most anyone would have signed the background check bill. Someone towing the Democrat party line, would have signed the bill requiring you to also pay for it, but only a fool would have signed the high capacity bill. Not only did he sign it; he did so against the advise of all most all of the elected county sheriff’s, without a fair hearing from the opponents of the law, and when challenged later on this act of stupidity, he said he signed because a staffer had promised his Democrat friends in General Assembly, that he would. That’s leadership, huh?

What else does it mean? It means that he has a problem with the death penalty. Nathan Dunlap planned and the murdered four people at his old place of employment, Chuck E. Cheese. He took the days receipts and went home and had sex with his girlfriend. Why the robbery and killing? He was pissed off that he had been fired weeks earlier. That and he wanted the money.

He was convicted on all four counts of first degree murder, sentenced to death, and had his 20 years worth of appeals. He had three separate appeals that ended up in the Colorado Supreme Court. They upheld the conviction all three times. This is the liberal Colorado Supreme Court we are talking about. One of these appeals called “the evidence against him staggering”. After all of this, he was finally set to die during the summer of 2013. Then along came John.

Hi Readers. I am completely befuddled as to why Mark Udall, the Democrat candidate for US Senate, in Colorado (and the rest of the Democrats) have such a low opinion of the women in Colorado. Really. They act like the our female population stands in front of a radio each day waiting for the words “contraceptive” or “abortion” to pass through the speakers, so they can take up signs in protest. They act like half of Colorado’s population isn’t concerned about the economy, about jobs, about immigration, about the rising cost of health insurance (ObamaCare), or anything other than abortion of birth control.

The reference in my title to Mark Uterus is not original. I heard it from Lynn Bartels of the Denver Post, as she moderated a debate between Uter…I mean Udall and his challenger, Cory Gardner.

The genesis of the nickname is obvious. It seems like every ad that the Udall campaigns runs accuses Gardner of being in favor of turning our ladies into baby-making slaves. It’s a complete sham and it is not playing well in Colorado. The women of Colorado see right through his ploy and the polls show it. Gardner has now made up the original deficit and is leading in all major polls, and pulling through the margin of error in some.

This campaign is not solely about reproductive issues, and neither is this blog. Mark Udall is the incumbent, the man currently representing us in the United States Senate. He was elected six years ago, so this is the first time he has faced his constituents to show what he has done. This should give you a hint as to why half of his ads are trying to tap into the emotions of women.

There is nothing he proudly points to and says “This is what I have done for the people of Colorado in my six years” I looked at his GovTrack 2013 (latest available) scorecard and it confirmed what I was saying. In 2013 Udall managed to get ONE bill out of committee and to the floor. It is been sitting there since June. 

Hello Readers. Andrew Romanoff wants to represent the 6th Colorado District and he wants to really bad. You could even say, and I certainly am, that his candidacy is contrived out of thin air.  Contrived, by the Colorado Democrat Party and with an assist by the Colorado Supreme Court.

Romanoff was term limited from his job as State House Representative after the 2008 state session. In 2010, he tried to become one of Colorado’s US Senators by challenging vulnerable, Democrat incumbent, Michael Bennett in the state primary. He lost.

But, 2010 was a census year. Why does that matter? Because each US census carries with it a prescribed redistricting of each state’s congressional boundaries. (Stop yawning. This will get interesting in a minute.) What this means is that each state redraws the lines around the state to figure out which group of people will be represented by which district. Move a line a few miles and you add more Democrats to a district making it easier to elect a Democrat.

In 2010, that is exactly what they, the Democrats, did in the 6th Colorado Congressional District. The Democrats had their gerrymandering plan, which would make the 6th Congressional District more favorable to electing a Democrat, without harming any of their three incumbent representatives in the next election. The Republicans had their own plan, and the fight was on. It should have been an even fight, because after the 2010 elections the Republicans controlled the House, with Dems retaining control of the Senate. But with liberals in firm control of  Colorado’s Supreme Court, the outcome was preordained. The court rubberstamped the Democrat plan with almost no thought and definitely no consideration from the opposition. Just like that, Mike Coffman, the incumbent representative for the Colorado 6th was now in a fight for re-election.

Andrew Romanoff is sure he is just the man for the job. Only Andrew, until recently, didn’t meet the residency requirements for the job. He lived in Denver. The 6th Colorado does not include Denver. So in 2013, just in time to establish the minimum residency time requirement Andrew moved to Aurora.

Ta-dah. Candidate contrived.

Romanoff is an interloper with no ties to the 6th. He was born in Ohio, went to school at Harvard and Yale. He got his law degree in Colorado; in Denver. He represented Denver in the state house and likely only visited the land he now wants represent as he drove through it to the airport. 

Hello, readers. Last time I told you this blog would be about the race in Colorado 6th District; Coffman vs. Romanoff. Well, I changed my mind. I decided after three blogs of telling you to; “Pick your issue. Pick your side. Pick your party. Vote your party”, that I might want to “help” you pick your side.

To review there are two side; Republicans and Democrats. At this point in time, no other party matters. If you don’t get that, go back and read the first three blogs in this series. We’ll wait.

You have heard people exclaim that “There ain’t a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties” They are right. There is not a dime’s worth. It is more like a trillion dollars worth of difference. Let’s look at a few issues to illustrate this

Federal Government Spending

This one is my favorite. Republicans believe that we are spending too much money and that we have to stop spending more than we take in. The answer has to include a reduction in the GROWTH of social programs. Republicans are OK with spending more on Social Security, Welfare, Unemployment, Medicare, Medicaid, each year because the population increases and inflation decreases purchasing power of the dollar. But, they are not OK with making it so easy to get on these programs that it causes a disincentive to work. They are not OK with able bodied persons collecting Welfare, Disablity, and unending Unemployment, at the expense of their neighbors.

Democrats believe that the amount of money we are spending is too low. They believe there are people in need and it is the Federal government’s job to provide for the needs (no matter how “need” is defined) of the American people. To finance this we must tax the hell out of the rich and corporations.

We already have the highest tax rate in the industrialized west. Do you think that it’s an accident that many companys, like Burger King have sought to become citizens of another country? Do you think increasing that tax rate will make the Whopper American again?

We also have already exceeded our tax capacity. In the entire history of the US Federal Income Tax the feds have never collected more than 20.9% of the Gross Domestic Product (GNP) of the country. The GNP is the worth of all the goods and services produced in the United States. It is how much we as a nation “make”. Raising the tax rate, i.e. saying someone making $1,000,000 must pay 30% instead of 25% does not mean that the federal government will collect that extra 5%.