December 05, 2007 06:21 PM UTC

"Welcoming" Douglas the Bruce

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• by: Colorado Pols

Newly-minted Rep. Doug Bruce could be the best thing to happen to statehouse Democrats since Joe “Per Diem” Stengel, as the Denver Post’s conservative columnist David Harsanyi writes:

Surely, the best news Colorado Democrats have heard in a while was the reappearance of conservative über-villain Doug Bruce.

Bruce recently won a party appointment – voters would have had more sense – to fill the House District 15 seat in northeast Colorado Springs.

It’s not all negative for the Right, I admit. On entertainment value alone, throwing the vitriolic Bruce into a mix – where he can go toe to toe with equally nasty folks like, say, Michael Merrifield, D-Colorado Springs – should provide for some wonderful melees.

In the end, though, constituents will witness a huge waste of time.

And for the Republican Party, it’s just another illustration of why ineptitude has placed it in the minority… [Pols emphasis]

In fact, to state that Bruce has brought scorn upon himself is to state that you peddle in understatements of astonishing absurdity.

Principle is one thing, but Bruce considers anyone who fails to strictly adhere to his philosophy – often not very ideologically conservative at all – as “phobic” monsters.

The anti-Ronald Reagan, then. Instead of a joke, there is almost inevitably a personal attack. Instead of reasoned response, there is nearly always an emotional acting out – the same emotion-based logic he chides liberals for adhering to.

More than that, he has an inability to work not only with enemies, but with allies. Is this the type of representative Republicans believe will convince a skeptical public that leaner government is better government?

Unfortunately for David Harsanyi, that never stopped them before.