November 11, 2013 11:41 AM UTC

What Colorado Needs Is Another GOP Gubernatorial Candidate

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• by: Colorado Pols

Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Steve House, chairman of the Adams County Republican Party and the fifth Republican to file to run for governor of Colorado in 2014:

As reported today by Kurtis Lee of the Denver Post:

House is now among five Republicans vying to unseat Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper in 2014. Sen. Greg Brophy of Wray, Secretary of State Scott Gessler, former state Sen. Mike Kopp and former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo have all announced their candidacies for governor.

As the least-known candidate to enter this race yet, we have no idea how Mr. House intends to differentiate himself in a race already distinguished by the degree to which contenders are tripping over themselves to lurch father right. "Someone by the name of Steve House" was mentioned back in March as a possible GOP candidate for governor by the Colorado Statesman, but up until today we hadn't heard anything to confirm that.

It occurs to us that a "clown car," by definition, contains more clowns than the standard passenger capacity of a car. With that in mind, it stands to reason that we were always going to need more than four clowns. So for that, if perhaps no other reason, Mr. House is the man of the hour–or at least the next fifteen minutes.