January 26, 2016 03:23 PM UTC

Perlmutter Draws GOP Opponent With Some...Interesting Views

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• by: Colorado Pols

Republicans in Congressional District 7 (Jefferson County) now know the name of the candidate who will not be defeating incumbent Democratic Rep. Ed Perlmutter in November.

Perlmutter has consistently churned out double-digit victories every two years no matter whom the GOP sets in his path, so you don’t need to know much about Westminster city council member Bruce Baker to conclude that he has virtually no chance at defeating Perlmutter. But just in case, as Ernest Luning reports for the Colorado Statesman, you’ll be interested to know that Baker sounds like a pretty terrible candidate anyway:

We need to end immigration — all immigration, not just illegal immigration,” Baker told The Colorado Statesman Tuesday. “We built this country for ourselves and our posterity, not the world’s posterity. I’m more concerned about the well-being and success of Americans than I am about some smart, willing, friendly immigrant coming from somewhere else.”

Uh, okay. Stop immigration altogether? Even Donald Trump won’t touch that one.

He said that Republicans needed to step up and draw the line on immigration the same way the party opposed slavery and went on to compare the two issues.

“Immigration is an institution of slavery,” Baker said. “It’s built on the exploitation of people. Immigration is the exploitation not only of the immigrants coming in but of the natives being displaced from their jobs. That needs to end.”

Immigration is like slavery as apples are to…yeah, you lost us completely there with the slavery comparison.

Baker is also proposing establishing a high tariff on all imports as a way to address what he called concerns about global warming and shrinking resources…

…The tariff, he said, should start at 10 percent and then be raised “on a consistent basis,” resulting in “self-sufficiency.”

So, a 10 percent minimum tariff on all imports? Let us know how that works out.