Author: By Jon Caldara
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Fly Frontier to hell | CALDARA
It doesn’t matter what airline I use I always have the happy privilege of getting the middle seat between two guys trying out for the “Weight Watchers Before Photo Contest” on a flight that’s chartered for the Annual Colicky Baby Conference. My luggage always goes to more exotic destinations than I will ever know. And…
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Warning for post-Republican Colorado | CALDARA
Moses wandered the desert for 40 years. Looks like the Colorado Republican Party might do the same. That doesn’t mean conservative, libertarian and limited government policies can’t advance while the state GOP stares at its navel for a generation. The “Boot Barn Rebellion” that happened the other week was to be expected. Hardcore Colorado Trumpy…
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Tragedy shouldn’t trump free speech | CALDARA
The shooting at Club Q will be weaponized to attack Second Amendment rights. This is to be expected. What may be more troubling is how it is being weaponized to attack First Amendment rights. Semantic warfare in politics is fascinating and nothing new. Republicans had little luck reforming “estate taxes” until strategist Frank Luntz suggested…
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Spoilers | CALDARA
As Republicans digest how the last election could be an extinction-level event for their party in Colorado, some of their political grief might well turn to blaming spoilers. When a candidate wins, but doesn’t win by more than 50% of the vote, it means some third-party yahoo entered the race and “spoiled” it for the…
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CALDARA | What does a Colorado GOP win look like?
Jon Caldara I’m writing this column before Election Day. No one knows the outcome, but I have my speculations. Republicans will take back the United States Congress and a slight majority in the U.S. Senate. But my political arena is the state of Colorado, a blue, blue state. And if there was ever an election…
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CALDARA | Tiny steps to socialism on the ballot
Jon Caldara Both Jared Polis and Heidi Ganahl endorsed Prop 121, my citizen’s initiative to permanently lower the state’s flat income tax from its current 4.55% to 4.4%. I’m grateful. Jared’s endorsement certainly doesn’t sit well with his friends on his leftist team who hate Colorado’s flat tax and would rather a progressive tax like…
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CALDARA | Jared Polis is Donald Trump
Jon Caldara If you’ve been reading this column for a while, you know I’ve had a hard time figuring out how someone as smart and dynamic as Jared Polis could lie so effortlessly. Watching the last three gubernatorial debates finally gave me clarity. Jared Polis is Donald Trump. Even more, if Donald Trump and Bill…
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CALDARA | Ganahl’s bull feces vs. Polis’ unicorn feces
Jon Caldara There are two major party candidates running for governor. Both want to gradually eliminate Colorado’s income tax. They want the same outcome but by differing means. So why is it that one candidate is being lampooned for it and no one is talking about the other candidate’s plan at all? Heidi Ganahl put…
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CALDARA | Embrace vote harvesting
Jon Caldara Conservatives concerned about the integrity of this fall’s Colorado election are working to get poll watchers and election judges to witness and record any mischief. One big worry is ballot harvesting. Of course, there is one small problem. Ballot harvesting in Colorado is perfectly legal. Conservatives shouldn’t be angry it happens. They should…
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COLUMN: Vote ‘no’ on all the judges
It’s the complete afterthought of every election season. No media reports on it. No advertising is done for it. And no voter even thinks about it until they trip upon it on their ballot the same way you almost step on a dead bird in your backyard. Judges. We don’t elect judges in Colorado. That…