October 09, 2018 10:30 AM UTC

Just Wow, Walker Stapleton (Redux)

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• by: Colorado Pols

Via American Bridge and KRDO-TV Colorado Springs, a moment from last night’s gubernatorial debate at Colorado State University-Pueblo in which Republican Walker Stapleton earned a sustained round of indignant booing from the audience:

.@WalkerStapleton was booed at the #COGov debate last night for making a strange comment about his opponents children.

We agree. Booooooooooo. 👎 #copolitics pic.twitter.com/cQAO8f8oW0

— American Bridge (@American_Bridge) October 9, 2018

STAPLETON: Does that mean you tell your kids to smoke weed for schools? Is that the, uh, is that the idea? [Pols emphasis]

We’re honestly not sure what’s worse here–Stapleton suggesting that Jared Polis would give his four and seven-year-old children marijuana, or the awful half-smile half-grimace Stapleton has on his face as the crowd reacts to this outlandishness:

That, gentle readers, is the face of the guy who never gets the joke, never tells the joke right, and never understands why nobody else is laughing. If it seems like every time these two candidates meet Walker Stapleton has some kind of bizarre highly embarrassing on-camera gaffe or meltdown, it’s because that’s exactly what’s happening.

Again, maybe it’s a Bush thing.