How Lauren Boebert could soon be the 'flashiest Trump minion to fall'

[Tom of Temecula]

In Colorado's small towns of Otis and Limon, New York Times' Opinion national politics writer Michelle Cottle recently observed US Rep. Lauren Boebert's (R-CO) latest campaign events earlier this week, ahead of the state's Tuesday primary election. Cottle points out in a Sunday, June 23 op-ed that the election will dictate the MAGA congresswoman's "political fate."

Paying close attention to Boebert's interaction with her campaign event attendees, Cottle writes: "She appeared a far cry from the outrage artist who so aggressively heckled Mr. Biden during his first State of the Union address that she embarrassed her own party’s leadership. But this election has forced Ms. Boebert out of her comfort zone, as she works to woo a set of voters on the opposite side of the state from the area she has represented the last few years."

As Boebert answered voter questions at Oscar’s Bar & Grille in Limon, Cottle notes that the far-right congresswoman "repeatedly tripped over her tongue, at one point joking that it would be great if anyone had some coffee, 'praise the Lord.'" The Times writer emphasizes, "That phrase is like a verbal tic for her, used frequently, less as an exclamation than as a filler or a bridge, especially at awkward moments. And one of the surprises during my time with Ms. Boebert was how many awkward or uncertain moments she seemed to have — at voter events, in debates or simply standing unnoticed in a crowd."

Cottle notes: After the Q. and A., as Ms. Boebert posed for pics, I asked a tableful of people for their impressions. 'I’m still trying to get my mind around the idea of her winning,' a middle-aged man named Chris told me. Chris and his friends didn’t have a problem with her politics. And they pooh-poohed her personal drama, expressing a who-among-us-could-live-under-a-microscope view. But they were plenty miffed that she had moved across Colorado to run in their district when the going got tough in hers. If she abandoned those constituents, how do we know she won’t dump us at the first opportunity? reasoned Chris, who pronounced her that slipperiest of all creatures, 'a politician.'

https://www.alternet.org/lauren-boebert-colorado-primary/

[tanyev]

1. "How do we know she won't dump us at the first opportunity?"

Oh, you can rest assured that she will definitely dump you at the first opportunity.

[Delphinus]

2. Hmm ...

They didn't have a problem with her politics or seemingly her personal life drama ... really? This, to me, intimates they are as corrupt as she (and her family) is.

[bluesbassman]

7. Pretty much sums up the MAGA cult ethos.

Character means nothing to these people.

[yardwork]

8. Exactly. In fact, being a decent person is now sneered at by MAGAs.

All the virtues the old-fashioned Republican Party used to extol are now sources of contempt to them. I grew up among right wingers and at least they were consistent back in the day. They praised hard work, being truthful, not cussing, clean living. We used to laugh at them but now they laugh at anybody who isn't a mean, foul mouthed criminal.

I don't get it.

[keithbvadu2]

11. Republicans used to say: Character matters. They've gotten over that now.

[bluesbassman]

12. So true. I grew up in the SF Bay Area suburbs.

Mostly blue collar, but there was a fair amount of upper middle class families and that’s where I was exposed to most of my early conservatism. This was the 60’s and 70’s so there was the odd Archie Bunker “love it or leave it” types, but by and large they were generally fair minded, honest, and consistent.

This current iteration of so-called “conservatives” are nothing of the sort. They’re bigots, bullies, racists, law breakers, and anti-democratic.

[bullimiami]

3. That's trashiest not ...

[brewens]

4. HAWK-TUA! LOL n/t

[Mz Pip]

5. 5 Republicans running in the primary

It’s a very conservative district. If she wins the primary, and she very well could, she’ll win the general.

If it was just her and one other Republican, she’d lose but with the vote split 5 ways we probably haven’t seen the last of Bobo yet.

[Tom of Temecula]

6. Yeah, you could be right.

A Kaplan Strategies poll conducted on May 31 found that 40 percent of registered voters plan to vote for Boebert, while 40 percent are undecided. Boebert's challengers received a small percent of support: Peter Yu got 5 percent, Jerry Sonnenberg got 4 percent, Deborah Flora got 4 percent, Richard Holtorf got 4 percent and Mike Lynch got 3 percent. The poll surveyed 343 registered likely voters in Colorado's 4th district and it had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.3 percent.

https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-primary-election-polls-1916157

[yardwork]

9. At least one of the other Republicans is crazier than she is.

I thought for sure she'd lose the primary but I think you're right. She's likely to win and her gamble will have paid off.

It doesn't really matter, though. It's a ruby red district so some MAGA is going to win.

[Wingus Dingus]

10. Lauren Boebert just got done with a campaign tour through her district...

and boy are her hands tired.