March 13, 2014 09:39 AM UTC

Tancredo Hoping to Ride a Joint into the Governor's Office

•  
• by: Jason Salzman

(Promoted by Colorado Pols)

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo thinks he can ride his support for pot legalization into the governor's office.

That's what he said Tuesday on Michael "Heck've a job" Brownie's KHOW talk show, when Brown asked him how he can "grab the unaffiliated” voters in the general election, if he wins GOP primary.

Tancredo: "One thing, admittedly, makes a lot of my more conservative friends mad at me, and that is my support for Amendment 64 [pot legalization]. But that translated into a lot of support among people who aren’t necessarily the typical Republican voter."

No one pointed out that it's Tancredo's conservative friends who will be deciding whether he wins the Republican primary and is able to enter into an orbit where unaffiliated voters matter to him. [Then we can discuss how it plays among suburban women.]

Tancredo's other explanation for his popularity among unaffiliated voters: "I am sort of the anti-Republican Republican."

Ironically, being the anti-Republican Republican might help Tancredo among Republicans, but still, I was waiting for Brownie to ask, "Do you think unaffiliated voters might possibly remotely maybe find other reasons not to like you, like the fact that you're anti-choice (anti-abortion, even for rape), anti-undocumented immigrant (round 'em up and throw 'em out), anti-environment (global warming is "Bull"), etc., etc. (and that's a big fat etcetera, etcetera)."