March 28, 2007 09:24 PM UTC

Well, That's a Relief

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• by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE: Bob Beauprez plants what presidential hopeful Mitt Romney hopes isn’t the kiss of death (from an email delivered moments ago):

Because we believe that the next presidential election will be a defining moment in shaping the future of this nation, we have taken the unusual step of making an early commitment to the person we are convinced should be elected President in 2008. His name is Mitt Romney.

Whew!

Former Rep. Bob Beauprez reassured Republicans at the State Capitol yesterday that he is still active in politics. As the Rocky Mountain News reports:

Beauprez joked with House Republicans that after losing a lopsided election to Democrat Bill Ritter in November some people made him feel “a little like the corpse in the coffin.”

“But we did not die. The sun did come up the next day…and we’re going to live to fight another day,” Beauprez said, drawing applause and knowing laughter from the House Republicans Caucus.

“We get the same thing in our caucus, Bob. We understand,” said Caucus Chairman Rep. Bill Cadman R-Colorado Springs. Statehouse Republicans, after a long stretch as the party in power, are also biding their time as a feisty minority and plotting their own political resurrection.

Beauprez said he is about to unveil a new free-market and traditional-values-friendly charitable foundation, and is blogging on his new “common-sense” public policy Web site (alineofsight.com). He won’t rule out a run for the U.S. Senate in 2008.

You’ve got to give Beauprez credit for one thing: He has shown an amazing ability to continually get stories written about him that discuss how he’s “not dead yet” (insert “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” voice here).

Great. We get it. You’re still around. Whatever.