My love-hate relationship with The Denver Post editorial board

The Denver Post editorial board and I have a longstanding love-hate relationship. They hate me and I love that they do so.

In Chuck Plunkett’s Sunday piece entitled “The Tom Tancredo Road Show,” The Post once again has tried to come to the rescue of the Republican Party, because we know how deeply The Post cares about the GOP’S wellbeing. This happens every time I run for office, or in this case, even think about it.

The Post explains that the Republicans would be so much better off if they ran, say, a Bob Beauprez for governor because he would be so much more acceptable to the people of Colorado (and obviously, The Denver Post).

Need I remind the readers that the Republicans lost only one statewide race in 2014, the governorship? Beauprez was predictably shellacked by incumbent John Hickenlooper and that made Chuck Plunkett — and to be truthful, a whole bunch of establishment Republicans — very happy because Hickenlooper would not (and has not) upset the cozy relationship that exists between Democrats and crony capitalist Republicans. Illegal labor would be welcomed by the home builders and other industries that pad their profits by exploiting low-wage illegal labor, and the Democrats would watch gleefully as thousands of them would use our cartoon called same day voter registration with little identification to dutifully cast ballots for the party of law breakers.

Well, as Plunkett, the editorial page editor, noted, I do keep showing up just when they think they have heard the last of me and think the boat will stop being rocked.

Plunkett, it happens only in your dreams.

Re: “The Tom Tancredo Road Show,” Sept. 17 Chuck Plunkett column.