Baiting Romanoff & Booting Temple

by John Andrews
January 15th, 2008

State Rep. Douglas Bruce jerking around Speaker Andrew Romanoff before joining the House was one thing: a calculated bid for attention, rude but arguably shrewd. His putting the boot, literally, to a Rocky Mountain News photographer is something else again, however: plug-stupid with no conceivable justification.

Someone needs to tell him the ink-by-the-barrel rule of political life and public relations. Bruce’s foolhardy footwork, bringing down the wrath of Rocky publisher John Temple along with a near-unanimous rebuke from his own Republican caucus, is an utter loser for the man’s legislative aspirations and, worse, for the GOP conservative cause he claims to support.

Deliver us, please, from such friends. My endorsement of Bruce’s candidacy for this House seat, and my congratulations to him upon winning in it, are on extreme probation and rapidly approaching termination.

After being wrong fourfold about the New Hampshire primary last week, I now have the embarrassment of being — it seems — wrong again about what constructive benefit might come from having the self-proclaimed “terrorist” of taxpayer protection join the Colorado House of Representatives.

Mea culpa. One humbling experience after another; how much character-building can I stand? “When I make a mistake,” as Fiorello La Guardia famously said, “it’s a beaut.”

The author can be reached at John@BackBoneAmerica.net

Comments on this article


  • Dear John,

    Thanks so much for your comments.

    by Penny Baldwin

  • John, hats off to you for rethinking your endorsement of Bruce. I only wish Kent Lambert had heeded my warning about inviting Bruce on the House floor before he was sworn in. This whole debacle could have been avoided, but Kent wouldn’t listen!

    by Jim Bensberg

  • Can you imagine the human wreckage this nitwit has left behind him in his trail through life? All the way from kindergarten, playground bully, family, teachers, salespeople…….on and on.

    Usually such men who care nothing for others were spoiled by their mothers, convinced their brilliant issue had his own sun and moon.

    What an a$$hole!

    by Cal Ward
 

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