You may have read here a few days ago that Lauren Boebert finished 5th in a straw poll taken the night of the first speeches by Republicans running in the GOP primary for the place on the ticket which Ken Buck made vacant by resigning. This is some motley crew up there on stage. Of nine candidates, six had been arrested. Lawbreakers becoming lawmakers. How Republican politics has fallen into the abyss.
Boebert was asked to define what a carpetbagger was. She answered, “Is this one of those Mary Poppins questions?” I believe that was 1. an attempt at wit; 2. Literally the only thing she knew about a carpetbag. In all events, she either had somebody whispering to her via an earpiece or she remembered what a carpetbagger was.
Someone who flunked three GED exams is unlikely to know the history and meaning of a word like "carpetbagger."
— Hieronymus McGillicuddy (@HieronymusMcG) January 29, 2024
And here is one of her charming boys who needs a fresh start.
Ah, yes. A whole new district to terrorize…
— Gisele ☮️ (@Gisele23935327) January 29, 2024
I believe that’s her eldest son, the one who puts his kid to bed in the laundry basket. Better than in the washing machine, right? Or the microwave? There, now you’re getting in the spirit. Let’s look on the bright side of things, shall we? The glass is half full if he’s putting the kid in a basket of clothes, rather than in the kitty litter box, or the tool box in the garage, or the gun safe, or a number of other receptacles where he might fit.
Another great clip.
How disgraceful. Trying to make it cool. Their base can’t grift for fines & lawyer costs, they will lose their jobs & will not get hired, have a criminal record & can’t travel. This is wrong on so many levels. Lives ruined. Lock these cons up maybe they won’t be so cocky.
— Donna Shuster (@DonnaShuster2) January 26, 2024
Maybe she and Madison Cawthorn can go into the restaurant business. They both have experience doing that. Cawthorn was managing a Chik-Fil-A before he started answering phones in Mark Meadows’ office. And Bobo had her restaurant where all the wait staff wore guns. Maybe they could do a kind of a dinner theater thing, where Bobo can deliver pitchers of beer and cold French fries to tables, while Madison is up on stage punching the living hell out of a tree? Wouldn’t they be perfect?
What ignominious congressional careers. And assuming that Donald Trump goes down in flames at the polls or goes to prison or possibly both, they’re going to look even worse. If that’s possible.
This is what happens in a democracy when television is the common denominator. You get people running for elected office who don’t know anything and can’t do anything — but they look good on TV and they’ve got a great line of bull and so they get by. Until they don’t.
Watching Bobo flame out will be so satisfying.
The CO-04 seat is supposed to be impregnable. It’s rated as plus 29 Republican, which is massively discouraging. But CO-03 was rated heavily Republican as well, although in the single digits of support. That was before Boebert, however. She pretty much destroyed the status quo on the western side of the state and now she’s trying to mess up the eastern side.
I think she’ll do a Cawthorn and flame out at the primary level. And by the way: you don’t hear Donald Trump endorsing her right now, now do you?
Not that she has enough common sense to do so but Bobo should put herself on a strict budget right now. This time next year her fat Congressional salary (and those awesome benefits & other perks) will be GONE! No more income. Well, maybe waitressing in some dive bar. Putting up with some pretty nasty comments on how to earn a decent tip.
She won’t need any nasty comments on how to earn a decent tip. As long as her customers are men, she’s already got the skills she needs to get a decent tip. (I mean, she wasn’t even looking to “get” a tip at that “Beetlejuice” show.)
I never had a 175k job for doing nothing. I also never lost a 175k job for doing nothing.
She won’t qualify for fat Congressional pension at 65 either!
She can always go back to.her former profession before marrying/ I am sure she can manage to babble, “Want fries with that?” She is,a bit long in the tooth for Hooter’s.
But she has the other qualifications so who knows?