Heavyweight CO GOPers Sick Of Bobo, She’s Getting Primaried Bigly

“Oh, what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day, Republicans decide they hate Bobo, they’re throwing her ass in the hay.” TIME Magazine is breaking an exclusive story. The last Republican governor of Colorado, Bill Owens, has made the decision that he’s had it with Lauren Boebert’s slutty ways and he’s leading a group of old school Republicans to oust her. Between the Democratic candidate Adam Frisch outraising her and her own party turning on her, color Bobo gone.

“I am proud to endorse Jeff Hurd for U.S. Congress for the 3rd district,” says former Colorado Governor Bill Owens, the last Republican to lead the state, in a statement provided exclusively to TIME. “Jeff is a man of character. He is a hardworking, smart and sincere leader who will deliver for the district.”

The endorsement from Owens, who served from 1999 until 2007, is the most prominent of a handful of Republican officials who have recently announced their support for Hurd, with several citing Boebert’s Beetlejuice scandal as the moment that pushed them over the edge.

“Just after the congresswoman’s issues at the theater, I just decided that we had to do something different,” says Delta County Commissioner Don Suppes, who knew of Hurd but didn’t know him personally before endorsing him this month. “So I started reaching out and trying to make sure that we had the right person in that seat for the next election.”

It’s actually sad that it took the night at the theater to make this decision because Boebert’s incompetence is the issue, way above her indiscretion and lack of class. But hey, if her sluttiness is what gets her gone. Fine. Who cares what the rationale of Colorado Republicans is, just as long as they’re doing the right thing, which is bouncing her out of politics?

And even people who approved of Bobo before have given up, Mesa County Commissioner Cody Davis being one of them. 

“I’ve defended Lauren for [two-and-a-half] years now, hoping that things would improve and she’d become a more effective leader,” Davis wrote. “I think she was about to round that corner, and I was complimentary of that, but what she did at Beetlejuice was altogether indefensible.”

Davis says he’s received some criticism from Republicans for refusing to forgive Boebert, but he insists character matters in politics. Fellow Mesa County Commissioner Bobbie Daniel agrees, adding that Boebert’s performance in the county last year raises questions about her ability to hold on to the seat in 2024.

“In the previous election cycle, I received over [4,000] more votes than the sitting Congressional Representative,” Daniel wrote in an email to TIME. “This showed that conservatives are voting, and thousands did not vote for the incumbent; that’s a problem.”

Daniel also attributed her decision to endorse Hurd to Boebert’s “latest round of self-inflicted wounds.” “We have to face the fact we can’t keep going on this trajectory and keep this seat,” she said.

That’s exactly right, but I think they may be too late. Boebert’s Beetlejuice theatrics ended up becoming a major news story, dominating that week’s news cycle as it kept developing and kept getting worse. It even made the world news. All that publicity devolved to the benefit of Democrat Adam Frisch. Frisch pulled in $3.4 million in Q3 and he’s got a lot of steam behind his campaign. I think he’s going to flip that seat without a problem, considering the fact that he only lost by 546 votes the last time.

Now it’s time for some comic relief from Boebert’s campaign manager.

Drew Sexton, Boebert’s campaign manager, says in a statement that Boebert “has the support of grassroots conservatives and 3rd District voters because they’ve seen the substantive work she’s doing for them in Congress.

“From leading the fight to impeach Joe Biden to the seven bills on local 3rd District issues like water and rural economic development she’s gotten passed through at least a House committee, voters know Rep. Boebert is producing results,”…

Let’s fix it for the man, shall we? “From wasting time in a specious fantasy that Joe Biden did something impeachable to giving lip service to bills which somebody else drafted (because Bobo can barely read) the congresswoman has accomplished nothing in her two terms in office, other than a lot of appearances on TV and many tweets — before making international news groping her date at the theater. The most high profile result she generated in Washington, was missing the vote on the debt ceiling because she was out screwing around doing something else.” 

That’s an honest assessment of Bobo’s career in Congress.

Hurd is campaigning as something of an anti-Boebert, stressing that he would work across the aisle on water and agriculture issues in a way that the incumbent can’t. But he also admits that what happened in the theater in Denver last month is impossible to ignore.

“I think that it’s one of a number of things that people have seen as a spark,” Hurd says. “And that I think, for a number of people, that was the last straw.”

If it took the embarrassing night at the Denver theater to wake these people up to the fact that that congressional seat is in the hands of somebody egregiously unqualified, then again, fine. It takes what it takes. But the reality of the situation is that Ted Cruz encouraged Boebert to run because he saw her as “a bomb thrower” Sarah Palin lite, i.e., a photogenic female GOP talking head who makes headlines with her stupidity and that is all she’s done since she was elected. Since Cruz doesn’t represent his constituents either and spends all his time podcasting and tweeting, it makes complete sense that he would perceive elected office as a public relations gig and nothing more and encourage a lightweight flake like Boebert to get involved in politics, too.

If we’re incredibly lucky, we could wake up the day after election day and both Bobo and Cruz would be gone. And what a beautiful morning that would be. Now is the time to work towards it for sure.

Colin Allred for Senate, get Ted Cruz out

Adam For Colorado.