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June 05, 2016 10:42 AM UTC
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So much for that! Rumors of the hunky devout Christian no-longer-a-Bachelor tipping his toe into politics via a seat in the Colorado state legislature are now
I believe and hope that Dan will be reëlected.
This is so insulting to the HD4 voters…the idea that a pretty face with no political experience can be a viable candidate. I mean, I guess selling an actor's hero persona worked for Reagan and Schwartzenegger, but are voters still that gullible? We're in Colorado, not California, right? Right?????
Reagan had been a leader of an influential group (his union), a spokesperson for a large business, and an active political surrogate. He was much more than an "actor's hero persona."
Schwartzenegger had been a celebrity spokesperson for an anti-drug ad, chairperson of a Presidential Council, and of course, was married to a Kennedy. And he was elected Governor by less than half the voters in a special recall election.
Reagan also was elected the second time after signs of early stage dementia had become glaringly apparent during his first term. Confusing his films with reality, claiming to have been present at a concentration camp liberation, forgetting which South American country he was in, falling asleep at odd times, all predated his second election.
So, yeah, voters were pretty gullible there. Unlike The Governator, who was quite competent, Reagan was always a vessel for the machinations of others. There was never much "there" there.
Probably why he wasn't impeached for Iran Contra which was far more serious, a truly international criminal enterprise with the most serious national and international consequences, than Watergate, a completely unnecessary election dirt digging enterprise for an election the paranoid Nixon was in no danger of losing in the first place.
By the time it broke far into Reagan's second term it was so obvious that he was just a befuddled bystander to his own presidency, his own administration, completely dependent on Nancy (who was dependent on her astrologer) just to get through his remaining days in office, impeaching him would have felt kind of like drowning defenseless little puppies.
George HW Bush was very likely the architect of Iran-Contra within the White House anyway, which could be why he pardoned so many of its players. He had the connections and the experience to pull it off. Reagan so obviously didn't have that.
I don't live in HD4, but the GOP in this entire state insults me with it's criteria for picking candidates. If you put this Reality TV guy along with Jon Keyser, it looks to me like the Colorado GOP is trying to put together the next big "Boy Band" instead of doing its due diligence in finding viable political candidates who are actually qualified to do the job.