The Romney campaign did not take kindly to Axelrod attacking their candidate down the street from campaign headquarters and, echoing the leftist organizer Saul Alinksy's "Rules for Radicals," decided one dirty trick deserved another. So they sent staff, interns and volunteers to attend Axelrod's event and berate him back.

With chants of So-lyn-dra, "where are the jobs?" and boos, the Romney camp pushed back, leaving Axelrod flatfooted. At one point, Axelrod was so flummoxed by the sudden opposition that he literally shouted at the protesters "You can't handle the truth." 

Politics, folks, is a knife fight. And the Romney campaign is proving quickly, as Buzzfeed's McKay Coppins put it, that it's not the gun-shy McCain campaign. It's willing to rumble and throw some punches. 

Some people whine about tactics like crashing an opponent's event, and usually it does backfire on the protesters, but in this case it was perfect. Axelrod was there with the explicit purpose to embarrass Romney on his home turf and instead was the one who ended up looking foolish.

As Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey put it “David Axelrod got a large, unpleasant lesson in Chapter One of This Ain’t 2008 Anymore.”

That doesn't mean it was ignored altogether either. Soon after breaking, national news outlets Human Events and The Daily Caller picked up the story, with The Daily Caller headlining the news. With The Daily Caller reaching six million unique visitors last month, that's no small accomplishment, nor small audience.

It was a bit ironic that Human Events picked it up, considering it was former Colorado political scribe David Harsanyi who penned the post. Funny that a former Colorado reporter realized the importance of the news, but not any reporter still stationed in the state. 

The story continues to richochet across the internet today, with national sites Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, and PJ Media picking up news of the Obama campaign's massive hypocrisy.

All together, that accounts for thousands of Facebook shares and Tweets of the news, hundreds of thousands of views, if not more, and a realization that sometimes the Colorado press corps will ignore important news — so you have to drive around them to national outlets. 

We're still hoping members of the political press corps in Colorado will pick up essential facts like Peña's role in venture capital layoffs, or the massive hypocrisy of Congressmen Ed Perlmutter and Jared Polis in attacking Bain Capital's business model, as we pointed out on the Peak yesterday. But we aren't holding our breath. 

As Complete Colorado's success in breaking a national news story proves, increasingly you just don't need them.