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July 18, 2014 09:41 AM UTC

Democrats Call Out Beauprez's "47% Moment"

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  • by: Colorado Pols

A press release from Colorado Democratic Party chairman Rick Palacio this morning:

"Clearly Congressman Beauprez thinks he's better than Colorado's seniors, veterans, firefighters, students and hard-working families in our great state," Palacio said. "Instead of apologizing for his ridiculous and derisive comments, Congressman Beauprez stood by his remarks claiming that half of the population are freeloaders who are "perfectly happy" that someone else is paying the bill," said Colorado Democratic Party Chairman Rick Palacio.

There are lots of politically self-destructive on-record moments for Bob Beauprez awaiting publicity, and although we've discussed a few of them in this space, the majority of that material has not been seen by Colorado voters. Democrats are right to zero in on Beauprez's "47% speech" early, given the similarity of his remarks to those made by Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential campaign. For Romney, this was a gaffe from which his campaign arguably never recovered, and in hindsight was probably his fatal mistake. It's just too easy, as Colorado Democrats show in this video, to alienate such politicians from ordinary voters by explaining how, whether they realize it or not, they are either part of that 47% or know someone who is.

Once that sinks in, it's easy to make the case that Beauprez–like Romney–doesn't have their best interests at heart.

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6 thoughts on “Democrats Call Out Beauprez’s “47% Moment”

  1. Democrats, who unexpectedly find themselves behind in both the US Senate and Gov racess call out the candidates who are leading their candidates.

    Who would have thought?

    1. That's so silly.  Let's try a Mad Lib..

      [Name a political party] who [adverb] find themselves [name a position] in the [name a political office] race(s) call out the candidates who are [name a position] their candidates.

      Who would have thought?

    2. I hope you know….

      polls are pointlesss

      your posts are clueless 

      you are… Gutless

       

      neither the Senate nor the gov are going R this year. Wait til next year!

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