Ron Hanks: Vote for Brian Peotter, Not Joe O’Dea

Ron Hanks requires one particular final, uh, shot at Joe O’Dea.

We did not expect that throughout the initially week of October the greatest tale in Colorado politics would be about a matter that is not going on: Republican gubernatorial prospect Hiedi Heidi Ganahl’s obsession with “furries” in faculties.

We also did not assume that in the course of the to start with week of Oct, previous Republican Senate prospect Ron Hanks — the guy who gained topline on the Primary ballot at the Condition Republican Social gathering Assembly — would be endorsing any one other than the formal GOP nominee for U.S. Senate.

But that is what occurred right now. Hanks introduced this two website page letter endorsing Libertarian applicant Brian Peotter for U.S. Senate in its place of Republican prospect Joe O’Dea.

Hanks is evidently even now pretty salty about shedding the Republican nomination to O’Dea in June. He writes:

Subsequent month, I will vote for Libertarian Brian Peotter for US Senate, and I really encourage all Colorado Conservatives to do the identical.

The explanations are very clear: Brian Peotter is the only conservative on the ballot for US Senate. The COGOP’s candidate in the race has no grounding in conservative positions, nor any proven curiosity in supporting them.

Foremost between conservative principles is preserving the unborn. Libertarian Brian Peotter is Professional-Life. The COGOP’s candidate, Joe O’Dea, pretends to be, but he supports murderous abortion ahead of 20 weeks of gestation. To O’Dea, apparently, some murders in the womb are satisfactory, based on the calendar. [Pols emphasis]

Libertarian Brian Peotter is a fiscal conservative. He believes the Biden Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Invoice are inflationary. The COGOP’s applicant O’Dea has no these types of clarity: He has declared a single inflationary, but not the other. Such cloudy logic gets to be clearer when we learn he and his main supporters have grow to be wealthy from authorities contracts.

Hanks also has some particular bones to decide with O’Dea that go back again to last Spring’s Major fight:

On abortion and other issues, Libertarian Brian Peotter is vastly far more conservative than this “pay-to-play” fake Republican who acquired his way on to the ballot, skipping the classic caucus and assembly course of action, staying away from Republican voters by paying for petition signatures.

Avoiding the point out assembly was not basically political cowardice. It was a deliberate method to disguise his accurate political sights from Republican voters. When O’Dea’s liberal positions were being exposed, several in the so-identified as conservative media have been surprised, and some have considering that declared him unsupportable. [Pols emphasis]

Hanks says that O’Dea has a “near-zero opportunity of staying elected” and provides, “Only his marketing campaign has declared the race shut – a cynical effort and hard work to entice donations and cut down the particular charges of dropping significant.” On this, at minimum, we agree.