Brandon Shaffer is getting desperate. It must be finally sinking in how badly Cory Gardner is going to spank his campaign on November 6. In an attempt to reignite what has been an embarrassing campaign so far, Lynn Bartels reports Shaffer is resorting to throwing out ad hominem, and not even believable, attacks against Gardner.
Senate President Brandon Shaffer dropped his normal low-key demeanor and unloaded on his Republican opponent at a fundraiser last night, calling U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner an "Etch A Sketch congressman" who will say and do anything based on polls.
Shaffer also said he doesn't think Gardner believes "half the sh**" he says, and noted Gardner once was a Democrat.
Shaffer, a Longmont Democrat, is trying to unseat Gardner, a Yuma Republican, in the 4th Congressional District.
"I'm not going to respond to a temper tantrum," Gardner replied.
Well played, Congressman Gardner. No need to respond to a loser like Shaffer.
Whenever Shaffer has opened his mouth during this campaign it hasn’t turned out well.
Like the time he compared himself to victims of rape and sexual assault.
Or the time he was caught lying about a “truth clause” bill he was pushing. (How’s that for irony?)
Or remember the time he accused us at the Peak of “fabricating” everything we write about him, only to have the Colorado Statesman point out his accusation was merit-less?
When Brandon Shaffer opens his mouth, you can usually expect something stupid to fall out.
Whatever sound and fury pours forth from Shaffer HQ until November 6 will signify all of zero and zilch. He's going to lose and by the looks of Lynn Bartels's article today, he's going to lose looking like a four year old child.
But here we are with both Congressmen Mike Coffman and Cory Gardner looking very safe in their newly laid out districts. And is Sal Pace really looking all that strong against Tipton? Ed Perlmutter is going to have to raise a LOT of money to hold off Joe Coors. The only Dem whose congressional seat is completely safe right now is Diana DeGette.
And as to Rep. Gardner being a Democrat at one time, so what? So was Ben Nighthorse Campbell, but switching didn’t hurt him any more than leaving the Democrats hurt Joe Leiberman.
Schaffer, along with other Dems, has no platform to stand on. Their top line in the election is looking shaky, their beloved plan to force us to buy health insurance from an industry they were reviling when they drafted and then passed it is going down, and their “populist” Occupy movement has become toxic. Temper tantrums are pretty much all they have left.
Just keep thinking that way. Click your heels three times…