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John Hickenlooper thinks you’re a small-minded redneck (if you don’t live in Denver)

by | 10:33 am, October 22, 2010 | 2 Comments

Colorado’s own National Review Online columnist Michael Sandoval has done some remarkable research through the archives, finding a 2009 interview of Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper by transgender reporter Eden Lane following the news that the Matthew Shepard Foundation was setting up offices in Colorado.  (In 1988, Shepard was tortured and beaten in Laramie, Wyoming, dying in a Colorado hospital a few days later, by two men who apparently committed the crime simply because Shepard was gay. The Foundation was started by Shepard’s parents in his honor.)

In the interview, John Hickenlooper makes this remarkable statement:

I think a couple things, I mean, you know, the tragic death of Matthew Shepard occurred in Wyoming. Colorado and Wyoming are very similar. We have some of the same, you know, backwards thinking in the kind of rural Western areas you see in, you know, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico.

If you don’t live in Denver or Boulder (and perhaps Fort Collins), John Hickenlooper thinks you’re a small-minded redneck rube.

Earlier today, Colorado Tea Party activist Lu Ann Busse, self-deprecatingly referring to herself as “country folk”, offered this comment on Hick’s remarks: “Hick calls us Hicks! I live in the rural foothills and have a master’s degree from Northwestern Univ.  I’d put my & my husband’s intelligence, education and right minded thinking up against a geologist turned beer joint owner turned inept big city mayor any day.”

I’ve said repeatedly that John Hickenlooper, with his love of Van Jones, his desire to force economic liberty to submit to a radical environmental agenda, his allergy to making government smaller, and his blank-slate nice-guy “moderate” persona covering up a left-wing approach to the world, make him, except for his pasty whiteness, Colorado’s very own Barack Obama.

Now, with Hickenlooper’s own version of Obama’s “bitter clingers” gaffe – well, it’s not actually a gaffe as much as an insight into how these men really think – we have one more piece of the Hickenlooper = Obama puzzle in place.

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A few further thoughts: Some people have asked how a guy who refused to support John McCain based on principle would be able to support Tom Tancredo.  I’ll give a few short answers, because much of this has already been debated among readers of these pages:

First, I believe Tancredo is much more principled than John McCain. I believe he’s a real conservative and, more importantly for me, I believe he has a libertarian streak in there somewhere.  While I’ve said repeatedly that I have a big problem with Tanc’s views on immigration, especially legal immigration, I’m hard pressed to find validity in the argument of some that I should not vote for Tancredo for an office which will have precisely zero impact on legal immigration policy, but which has huge impact on how the state of Colorado will spend its money and tax its citizens.

Second, I was OK not supporting McCain and knowing that was effectively a vote for Obama because my belief was that people need to learn what “Progressivism” really is, who “Progressives” really are – namely dictatorial haters of liberty who think that everyone but them is stupid – in order to finally rebel against it.  It was the “boiling the frog” story; McCain and Obama would both keep us on the path to big government, it’s just that Obama would drive the road so fast that it would scare the passengers whereas McCain would make our ride to our own economic death much more pleasant for the average American and therefore much more likely to be completed.

But Americans have learned that lesson (at least for a little while) and I don’t need a leftist Governor of Colorado to add an extra helping of watermelon (green on the outside, red on the inside) to the shit sandwich that is our federal government.  There is no important additional valuable lesson to be learned by electing Hickenlooper.  There is only pain and damage for the state.

With every bit of new information on Hickenlooper, I am more and more convinced that any conservative who doesn’t vote for Tom Tancredo – indeed even any moderate who doesn’t want the state government to go down the road that the federal government is going down – will owe Coloradans a massive apology if Hickenlooper wins because these “conservatives” voted for Dan Maes, a man who can’t and shouldn’t win election to anything.  Perhaps if Hickenlooper wins because of Maes voters, those voters will volunteer to pay the extra taxes we’ll be saddled with due to their holier-than-thou obstinacy.

Link to Original post at Rossputin.com.

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