QUID HAS HEARD that democracy can bring out the worst in us, or at least the worst rhetoric. If you’ve forgotten, let your faithful hack remind you that GOP Congressman Mike Coffman stepped in it in 2012 when he told a political gathering east of Aurora — thinking he was out of media earshot — that he didn’t think that President Obama was in his heart an “American.” Despite backing it off after causing a firestorm of criticism from non-Republicans, Coffman never made it clear whether he was questioning Obama’s allegiance or his birther creds. That was then, now Democratic Aurora state Sen. Morgan Carroll, who’s running to take Coffman’s job away from him, told Democratic caucusgoers Tuesday that the GOP presidential race is filled with “nut jobs” on a “slow march” toward fascism. Whether she was calling the clearly fascist GOP nut job candidate Donald Trump a fascist or painting all the GOP candidates with the F-word, is unclear. What is clear is that while Coffman’s comments caused an awkward and embarrassing stir, Carroll’s quips seems to have been swallowed up in an ocean of Trump pandemonium. It’s so hard to get a headline these days.
AND QUID HAS HEARD that even though the Colorado Twitterverse erupted with a cacophony of some praise but mostly disdain for Colorado’s weird presidential caucusing system, one chirp rose above the rest to put the momentous event in true Colorado perspective. Denver dude @VicVela1 offered this: “It’s refreshing to see long lines outside places other than pot shops and Voodoo doughnuts.”
AND QUID HAS HEARD that nobody’s mocking at least the math part of the dreaded Common Core educational standards this week. Seems that more people are trying to do the new math on how their favorite presidential candidate can win the nomination than when most of the country was trying to figure out what their take-home would be if they won the massive $1.6-billion Powerball jackpot in January. Yours truly has now seen every candidate and camp contort the delegate count as absolute proof they can still get there from here. Quid sees the whole thing as a formula for moving toward monarchy or a benevolent dictatorship and believes most of these people have a better chance at winning Powerball. Do the math.
AND THAT’S ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS.