October 27, 2014 04:12 PM UTC

Colorado "Unites In Orange"--Dick Cheney's Back In Town

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• by: Colorado Pols

Former Vice President "Deadeye" Dick Cheney is in town tonight hosting a fundraiser for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez at the swanky Cherry Hills Village home of Trish and Ken Green. Here's the invite, admission a bargain at $1,000 per couple to start:

We recognize that this is the time in a political campaign when it's best to look forward, not backwards, but let's face it–the Bush administration was Bob Beauprez's halcyon days of yore. So what's old is new again–much like Bob Beauprez himself!

One other issue that might make a Cheney/Beauprez fundraiser a bit uncomfortable is the fact that both Cheney and Beauprez received multiple draft deferments during the Vietnam war. Back in 2006, with the Iraq war raging, the issue of Beauprez's draft dodging did come up, as it did for Cheney while he was sending the next generation off to fight the "war on terror." Dodging the draft may not be quite the issue is was back in 2006, but then again, we don't see Dick Cheney every day either.

Being within the city limits of Cherry Hills Village, we assume there won't be any firearms discharges–and for an event featuring the only Vice President in history to have shot a hunting partner and then received an apology from the man he shot, that's good for the host's insurance coverage. Of course, they might tell Cheney all the orange being worn tonight is for the Broncos, but there are much more practical reasons.