By Editorial Board | Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice
Adam Frisch and the Democrats are at it again.
In Colorado Congressional District 3, once again the Frisch campaign, in cahoots with the Colorado Democrats, is spending money and sending flyers to voters in support of a third-party candidate who can’t win.
This time they are promoting Libertarian James Wiley, who is running in an attempt to suck votes away from Republican Jeff Hurd.
The flyers promote Wiley as the only strong Trump supporter in the race, and mock Hurd’s long career as an attorney.
They neglect to say that his work as an attorney was solely focused on fighting back against federal bureaucrats’ overreaching regulations that were hurting local rural schools, farmers and ranchers, and businesses in addition to mitigating the increasing cost of energy, and stealing water from Western Colorado.
Wiley, who is not only a candidate in the general election, is also the executive director of the Colorado Libertarian Party.
It appears to the public that he and his organization are quite content playing dirty politics with the Democrats in the attempt to throw a race. We know that because his social media posts show his gratitude to the Democrats for elevating him.
Frisch and the democrats ran the same playbook in the primary election when they sent out flyers promoting and elevating Ron Hanks, who was one of six Republican candidates in the primary. Frisch believed that Hanks was the weaker of the top two, and the one that Frisch and the Democrats thought they could most easily beat in the general election.
Colorado’s 3rd U.S. House District voters are smart, and like us here at Rocky Mountain Voice, don’t like dirty, deceptive and slimy political gamesmanship. They also demonstrated in the primary that they don’t like candidates who demonstrate a lack of moral clarity and integrity, and spend all day practicing “angertainment politics”.
It reminds us of scenes from an old western movie where the audience (voters) know right from the start who the good guy is and who the bad guy is. The bad guy, with his black hat, is known for his trickery, deceit and abuses of those who are not wise to his agenda. The good guy, in the white hat, uses his integrity and honesty, and his energy to fight for the people who depend on him to win the day, and once again restore peace and prosperity to their community.
We find this particular type of deceptive dirty politics insulting to the voter. They are saying, without saying, they think the voters of the 3rd District are too stupid to know the truth when they see it. Hurd has a far better command of the issues and doesn’t have to stoop to vague platitudes while outlining his plan for policy when and if he is elected.
Frisch at no time has been specific in his policy positions; he uses loose and undefined talking points rather than thoughtful specific policy prescriptions action he will take for the people of the 3rd District. The only policy he has been specific about is the issue of abortion. He has promised to vote for federal policy that allows abortion up until the time of birth, for any reason, or no reason at all. Frisch is running a campaign based on this issue alone.
It makes sense to us that when you have no policy, and you can’t articulate with specificity what you will do for the voters, you would stoop to attack your opponent, whether the attack is truthful or not. It reeks of meanness and desperation, and we do not believe that the voters will fall for it. We trust the voters to see through this, and see it for what it is.
Frisch and the Democrats just look desperate when they use these tactics. It’s a clear hint that their internal polling shows them coming up short with voters.
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