U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet’s latest ad campaign is so outrageously offensive, we were clicking our way to report it as abusive content to Facebook before we even realized it was our own senator’s post.

The Cringe Factor 10 photo is certainly an attention grabber, targeting the most despicable people on the planet, or radicalized liberals who believe this crap, we’re not sure which.

But wait, there’s more social media memes that are just as offensive, Bennet says. Just click on his ad and go to his book’s promotional page where the photos will flash across your screen quicker than you can read.

It’s the most bizarre book promotion/presidential campaign ad in the history of mankind. That’s right, Bennet has written a book about these pictures. Or it’s a picture book, we’re not sure which.

For as little as $1, his supporters can send a copy of the “book,” which looks more like a pamphlet, to U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell.

Bennet is apparently mad at McConnell because a vote wasn’t taken on some unnamed bill he insists is required to save the universe from horrible pictures — like the ones Bennet is splattering across social media. 

Democrats are really grasping at straws if they think this social media cost Hillary Clinton the election.

Bennet’s featured photo had a minuscule reach of maybe 50 people, until Bennet spread it further in this Facebook campaign, and the original message with the photo was to stop racism.

It’s a pretty far reach to suggest these photos turned voters against Hillary, including this one Bennet features:

Or this one:

Mixing a book promotion that targets Mitch McConnell has nothing to do with running for president against Donald Trump.

It’s all just so weird and twisted, we’re not sure what to make of it.

John Hickenlooper just went down as the weakest presidential candidate of the 2020 cycle, and it looks like Bennet is right behind him with the most offensive campaign of this election.

The Colorado media coverage of John Hickenlooper’s short-lived presidential aspirations feel dramatically short of the mark.

We’re aware that actual copy editors are scarce these days, and Hick’s announcement he dropped out of the race wasn’t really unexpected, or dramatic, in any way.

Still, some of those articles screamed for rewrite, and in the interests of brevity and accuracy, we are more than willing to lend an editing hand.

Denver Post

John Hickenlooper ended his presidential campaign Thursday morning the same way he started it: troubled by a divided nation and calling for unity. broke.

Colorado Politics

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announced on Thursday that he was ending his Democratic presidential campaign and said he intends to give “some serious thought” to running for the the state’s Republican-held U.S. Senate seat in 2020. in the Democratic primary election for the U.S. Senate seat.

Memo to Colorado Politics: You don’t have the power to anoint Hick as the Democrat’s chosen one and just skip the primary election altogether. That magic wand to bypass voters belongs to the Democrat’s Senate leader, Chuck Schumer.

Colorado Public Radio

It’s official: John Hickenlooper is out of was never in the race to challenge President Donald Trump.

Boulder Daily Camera

John Hickenlooper, the beer entrepreneur turned politician who touted a talent for “bringing people together” to heal a divided country, will end his campaign for the White House on Thursday, The Denver Post has confirmed with two sources.

Still unable to come to grips with reality, Boulder’s front page story has not been updated with yesterday’s announcement.  They do acknowledge Hick failed to bring us world peace.

Pueblo Chieftain, Associated Press

DENVER — Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Thursday ended his longshot bid for the Democratic presidential nomination and said he may run for the Senate in 2020 against a Republican considered one of the most politically vulnerable incumbents.

Et tu, AP? Surely the media is aware Hickenlooper cannot run against Gardner unless he wins an election among Democrats for the party’s nomination? Stop trying to hand him the crown!

Oh, and we’re going to need some attribution as to who exactly considers Gardner vulnerable. The broad term, “Democrats,” will suffice. Also, is that statement considered pejorative? It’s hard to tell with you guys.

Colorado Sun

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper formally ended his failed-to-launch presidential bid on Thursday morning, pouring gasoline on speculation about whether he will jump into the state’s crowded Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.

Wow. Surprisingly accurate. Well done.

Daily Sentinel

A large portion of surplus revenue the county has collected under the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights would end up elsewhere, County Assessor Ken Brownlee and County Budget Manager Jeremy Caudle told the Mesa County Board of Commissioners on Monday.

We couldn’t find a story about Hickenlooper’s announcement on their web site. They obviously have more important issues to worry about.

John Hickenlooper, seated and defeated on some random stranger’s front porch in Iowa.

Sometimes, we hate it when we’re right. 

But we’re not going to stand on ceremony with a lot of “told-you-sos,” because John Hickenlooper has become so predictable, our dog actually made the call.

Hick did not announce he will run for the U.S. Senate during his unemotional and wholly predictable concession speech.

As we said:

Since Hick’s making this morning’s statement in a taped video, we predict it will not include an announcement for a Senate run.

Because that’s not the worst possible way to enter the race.

Instead, he’ll play coy and tease it out, holding out hope for a run until donors throw bales of money at him, basking all the while in the pleadings from the press corps to challenge U.S. Senator Cory Gardner.

Because Hick’s learned nothing from this whole mess.

That’s exactly what he did.

Hick plopped down on some stranger’s porch out in the middle of Iowa with a cameraman it tow, and read his prepared statement with all the canned passion we’ve come to expect from him, about all the serious thought he will give to a Senate run.

And now, we sit back and watch all the knives coming out for Hick among the two hundred Democrats in the running, or thinking about running, against Cory Gardner for U.S. Senate.

John Hickenlooper is giving up the ghost of his presidential run after five months on the campaign trail, according to a late night report from CBS 4 News, which everyone else in the media says they’ve also confirmed.

Hick will tell us himself during an 11 a.m. tapped video Thursday, which is when we’ll find out if he’s been named Miss Congeniality by official Washingtondom, and will soon wear the crown of Democratic nominee for Senate.

The timing of last night’s leak was perfect, falling on the heels of Jimmy Fallon’s Late Night monologue mocking Hick’s failure to launch.

“John Hickenlooper is considering dropping out of the race,” Fallon said in his opening. “Don’t do it, said absolutely no one.”
“Do you guys know about John Hickenlooper?” he asked the audience. “Yeah, that’s part of the problem.”
“He’s leaving the race. When he broke the news to all his supporters, they were like, ‘Cool dad, thanks for telling us.’”
“It makes sense right now. He’s polling at zero percent. I’m not saying his campaign is in bad shape, but even the guard who fell asleep watching Jeffrey Epstein is at 2%.”

Ouch.

You can watch the whole clip here, including Fallon’s farewell to Hick video.

Since Hick’s making this morning’s statement in a taped video, we predict it will not include an announcement for a Senate run.

Because that’s not the worst possible way to enter the race.

Instead, he’ll play coy and tease it out, holding out hope for a run until donors throw bales of money at him, basking all the while in the pleadings from the press corps to challenge U.S. Senator Cory Gardner.

Because Hick’s learned nothing from this whole mess.

It took an eternity of speculation for John Hickenlooper to finally decide to run for president.

His campaign seemed to trip going in the door, entangled with speculation throughout that a mistake had been made, and further speculation as to when Hick would drop out.

The consolation prize for coming in last place in a field of nearly two dozen almost from the get-go? 

Colorado’s Senate seat.

Please send our regrets to the Democratic Party Machine in Washington, D.C.

Because if Hick can’t hold his own on a stage filled with Senators debating policies of great impertinence to our nation, he’s entirely unsuitable for the job of being a Senator among them.

The New York Times reminds us of this pesky fact in reporting Tuesday Hick may abandon the campaign because he’s “mired in polls” — at a number so low, he’s been bumped from the Real Clear Politics ranking.

Mr. Hickenlooper has pooh-poohed his interest in running for the Senate. In February he told reporters in Iowa that he is “not cut out to be a senator.”

The New York Times report is mega significant, because U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is a top editor there, and guess who got the inside scoop on a private car conversation between the two Coloradans discussing Hick’s exit?

With that in mind, we’re going to go ahead and call Hick’s exit from the race.

What remains to be seen, is how Hick will be welcomed back home after showing his complete incompetence on the national stage, low these few months, and whether he can catch fire with voters in an equally crowded field of Democrats up and running with heavy war chests for the Senate nomination.

A new poll shows a majority of Coloradans will support Prop CC when you tell them it’s not a tax increase, they just can’t have their money back because it needs to be spent on transportation, schools, and higher education that already amasses a fortune in tuition.

We sure are a rich, bountiful and carefree state.

Or maybe it’s just that the ballot question is rigged for a win with this opening statement: “Without raising taxes …”

The Magellan Strategies poll released Wednesday of 500 likely voters shows the ballot initiative has a head start of 54% willing forgo a tax refund, compared to 30% of voters who will likely say, “no way.”

That’s a horrible start for conservatives opposed to the measure.

Interestingly, the poll was weighted with 36% Republican, 34% Democrats and 29% unaffiliated voters. 

Not surprisingly, Democratic voters overwhelmingly support Prop CC, with 72% intending to vote yes, compared to only 32% of Republicans intending to vote yes.

Still, 32% of Republicans say they’re for it.

While voters are willing to forgo money they don’t realize is theirs if they believe it will go to education and transportation, they still aren’t willing to repeal TABOR outright in the 2020 election cycle — 48% still support TABOR, 36% oppose it, and 16% are undecided, the poll said.

What the poll suggests is that a majority of voters don’t really understand how TABOR works, many weren’t even born when the measure passed 27 years ago.

Like the proverbial canary in the mine shaft, the poll is a good indicator that voters need to be reminded of the merits and minuses of TABOR, before voting in the November election.

While John Hickenlooper is still playing at running for president, a political action committee is taking advantage of his loser status to raise money for themselves.

Just click the button on the ads popping up all over the Denver Post, and you can donate up to $2,800 to this so-called “grassroots” organization, based in Washington, D.C., and led by a losing congressional candidate from Pennsylvania, and they will use your donation to urge Hick to run for Senate in Colorado.

It’s the very opposite of grassroots. And, it’s the dreaded “dark money” that Democrats like Hick are always complaining about.

They’ll also take your email address and harass you through all eternity for more money to support their cause of raising money to buy ads for liberals in other states.

And these aren’t just any liberals, they are “recruiting” candidates who have degrees in science and hate Donald Trump, and will commit their life goal to ending global warming.

Oh, and ban guns, because science. Free health care platform, also a bonus.

While official Washington is still trying to persuade Hick to drop out of the presidential primary and run for (insert any other office here), the former governor is still on the campaign trail begging for media time.

Hick’s gotten so desperate, he agreed to go on Fox’s Neil Cavuto to talk about the man no Democrat wants to discuss — sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged suicide.

All for the chance to get a plug in for his presidential campaign.

It’s the most awkward interview in the history of 24-hour cable news. Do we really want this man to be our U.S. Senator?

Watch it here

To no one’s surprise, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold dropped out of the Democrat’s U.S. Senate primary to challenge Cory Gardner.

Technically, she was never in the race — except to fuel months of speculation, inspire a poll to see where she ranked, form an exploratory committee, and collect a cool couple hundred thousand in donations to beef up her campaign war chest.

The Colorado Sun reports she regretfully has declined to actually run because “now is not the right time for me to run.”

Apparently, she just needed a little attention.

Or, someone with authority to explain why it’s a really bad idea for aspiring public servants to abandon the very first job they were elected to, after only a few months, and attempt to salsa dance their way into one of the top 100 political jobs in the whole freaking nation.

Just like she treated her campaign for Secretary of State like a joke, Griswold was just joking around, or something, when she pulled in a ton of money to consider challenging the Democrat’s most sought after political seat in the state.

Honestly, watching the Democrats’ flailing attempts to take on Gardner is like watching a toddler trying to peddle a motorcycle.

The man who would be president senator politician-for life, John Hickenlooper, threw a hissy fit and bailed mid-interview when faced with the most common question asked of political candidates — abortion.

This wasn’t a Washington, D.C political show, or New York newspaper interview — the man folded like a cheap suit in his own backyard — during a KHOW radio show last week with Dan Caplis.

You can hear the brief interview here. A Washington, D.C. newspaper also reported on the incident.

Where was the Colorado media when this went down? Whistling past the graveyard, we suppose.

The interview begins with a question on abortion and continues for several minutes on the topic until Hick is asked if abortion should be legal throughout the nine-month term.

The president is not the “supreme decider,” such decisions are not for lawmakers to decide, that’s for the women to deal with, Hick responded.

Then he suddenly turned testy and accused the host of “trying to inflame people’s emotions.”

That’s when Hick insisted the entire interview was supposed to be about gun control and red flag laws, which just so happens to be the issue de jour Democrats are hyping to “inflame people’s emotions” with the recent tragedies.

Hick the Hypocrite doesn’t want to discuss “hypotheticals” about babies born alive and whether they should live — hypotheticals are suddenly off the table.

Except on the issue of gun control, Hick was chomping at the bit to discuss hypothetical situations with guns that would “inflame people’s emotions.”

Hick was the proverbial pot calling the kettle black, proving once again why voters are lining up in droves dozens to support him for political office.

Hick can’t stand the heat.

He needs to get out of the kitchen altogether and retire from the public dole.

Kennedy Enterprises has to pay back Walker Stapleton nearly $236,000 for breaching their contract to collect signatures for the 2018 gubernatorial campaign, a Denver District Court judge ruled Friday.

“I feel vindicated because my integrity and the character of the campaign and me individually as a statewide elected official were directly called into question as a result of Mr. Kennedy’s actions,” Stapleton said after the verdict.

PeakNation™ will recall a video surfacing during the campaign with a man named Daniel Velasquez, who claimed to be an illegal immigrant hired to collect signatures to get Stapleton onto the ballot.

Gasp, right?

Stapleton vehemently denied it, the polling company, Kennedy Enterprises, insisted their subcontractor never hired such a person, the media made a huge deal over it despite Stapleton’s denial, yadda yadda, yadda …

Long story short, Stapleton was forced to pull the whole petition effort at the last minute and was able to pull off a win at the GOP convention.

The ruling not only gets Stapleton his money back, but vindicates the Republican and proves he had no knowledge whatsoever of questionable hiring practices that allowed Mr. Velasquez on the payroll.

Too bad Stapleton wasn’t given the benefit of the doubt — when it seriously mattered — during the campaign.