Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Friday, September 01, 2006 4:27:10 PM
As you know by now, I both make phone calls all over the state for Beauprez, and I walk precincts.
Perhaps two months ago, I called a family in Parker where the husband was (I) and the wife was (R). The husband answered, and it turned out that he was upset that some of his Republican friends were running around with Ritter bumper stickers. I asked why they were doing that. He told me they were convinced Ritter would protect their gun rights better than Beauprez.
Last month, I was walking a precinct directly north of Parker and
not more than 10 miles distant. Three different sets of (I) voters told me they were voting for Ritter because he favored gun control. When I told one that I had bought a shotgun in 2000 after discovering at 5 am one June morning that my house was being burglarized, he said "the burglar didn't kill you, did he." I kid you not.
Someone described Ritter to me as Colorado's Slick Willie. Now I see why. He has both the the gun control and the gun freedom folks supporting him.
Today, when I
read in the G-T that Ritter has announced that he wants to build shooting ranges around the state, I had to laugh. If Ritter were running in New York as a Republican, using this same level of ethics, he would doubtless announce that his motto was "A chicken in every pot, a ho house on every block," knowing that the conservatives would know the houses would never be staffed while the liberals would never stop hoping they might be.
Such is the state of politics today.