January 24, 2017 11:28 AM UTC

Cory Gardner Concern Trolls Women's Marchers, "Clears Up" Pence Vote

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• by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE: Some questions for Sen. Gardner posed by the Colorado Independent’s Mike Littwin in December are timely once again:

Didn’t he care that a Pence write-in wouldn’t be counted? When did he know Trump was going to win, and did he consider calling Greg Norman to get Trump’s number to congratulate him early?

…A Washington insider (well known to Gardner) told me that Gardner’s best near-term hope is for Trump to implode and quickly. Given that Trump often sets the implosion stage, but nearly always to no visible effect, what does Gardner think is his best bet in making Trump forget that Gardner walked out on him at the RNC and dumped him, in a strongly worded statement on Trump’s lack of character, in October? (Advice: If Trump invites Gardner over for frog legs, Cory should insist that the press isn’t invited for a photo-op.)

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For anyone who follows the slippery exploits of Colorado’s junior U.S. Senator Cory Gardner, his long-form interview last weekend with the newly re-networked Greta Van Susteren of MSNBC (video above) is a must-watch. Asked about the size of crowds marching against Donald Trump Saturday, Gardner launches into a ramble about how we shouldn’t be “talking about crowd size,” but how it’s great that everybody is so passionate and stuff about, you know, stuff.

From there, Gardner questions who the “leader” of this new left-leaning protest movement–the Bernie Sanders wing? The Elizabeth Warren wing? This struck us as odd, since the comparison being made was to the 2009 “Tea Party” movement, which at least maintained a pretense of not having a titular leader. But apparently the ambiguity as to which Democratic usual suspect is winding all these liberal toy soldiers is a real flummox.

Lastly, Van Susteren gets in a real question for Gardner–about his write-in vote for Mike Pence last November, citing the release of the “Pussygate” video on October 9th. Gardner freely admits to writing in Pence (uselessly) after calling on Trump to withdraw from the race, but says since then Trump has won him over:

I think if we go back to that November 9th morning, the day after the election, I guess it was two or three o’ clock in the morning on Election Day, or the day after Election Day, where Donald Trump gave his speech talking about the victory. And he talked about bringing the country together, and he talked about working for the forgotten men and women in this country…

And there you have it, folks. Cory Gardner is happy for the protesters, happy for Donald Trump, happy for everybody! Who knows how long Gardner can keep all these contradictions airborne, especially with his own local offices regularly besieged by demonstrators and votes he can’t take back being cast every day.

But clearly he means to try.