MODERATE FACADE CRUMBLES: “Most Stringent Gun Laws” Earns Hick Praise From DC Rag

Sep 4, 2014

“Love being praised from D.C. Insiders”

You know it’s bad for Gov. John Hickenlooper when Washington D.C. puff pieces can’t even spin his record to match his talking points.  PeakNation™, one would think being named to Politico’s 50 would be a thing to celebrate.  Yet, if you’re Hickenlooper, next time your named to such a list, you might request that the author of your piece actually understand Colorado.  Otherwise you end up with such memorable lines as these:

Moderates like Bill Clinton once promised a “third way.” Hickenlooper just might be Clinton’s 2014 successor, showing a way forward even on issues that are gridlocked at the national level.

Take gun control: Congress is at an utter impasse, but in 2013, eight months after 12 people were killed and 58 were injured at a shooting at a movie theater outside Denver, Hickenlooper, who once had a cordial relationship with the National Rifle Association, signed some of the strictest gun-control measures in the country. He has applied the same pragmatism… [the Peak’s emphasis]

So, Politico—do you mind us calling you Politico?—Politico, let us get this right: Hickenlooper is a moderate, not just a progressive in beer-swilling clothes, because he passed some of the strictest gun laws in country (your words, not ours) that was absent of any bipartisan support, absent from almost any elected law officials support, and, ultimately, resulted in three state Senators either being recalled or resigning?

Well, he is number 43 on the list, which, we’re guessing means you started writing numbers 12-42 about two hours before deadline.

See, this is what happens when people try to reconcile Hickenlooper’s false façade with his actual actions.  His ability to be a moderate falls short of his rhetoric.  Just today, a new advocacy group was announced (h/t Ed Sealover) because Hickenlooper destroyed the old moderate one.  Colorado Builds, the new organization, is the direct result of “moderate” Hickenlooper breaking what was once regarded as one of the most bipartisan groups in Colorado, the Colorado Association of Home Builders, apart.  Hickenlooper was so “moderate” that even the Democratic lobbyist for CAHB resigned in disgust over the way Hickenlooper was using the organization.

Unfortunately for Hick, the Republican Governor’s Association just released what The Denver Post’s Lynn Bartels describes as “a brutal ad” against him.  Not only do they reveal how clearly he is not a moderate, but they do it while cutting him at the knees on his so-called quirky likability.

 

 

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