June 17, 2016 03:01 PM UTC

State Senate GOP: Colorado Pols Has "No Credibility"

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• by: Colorado Pols

We posted a few examples yesterday of social media responses from Colorado Republican state senators, as well as the official account of the Colorado Senate Republican press office, both blaming President Barack Obama for last weekend’s terrorist attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, as well as at least one post disparaging LGBT Americans themselves in the hours after the attack. The latter was posted by Sen. Randy Baumgardner:

Baumgardner’s Democratic opponent in Senate District 8 this year, Emily Tracy, reacted angrily to our blog about Baumgardner’s anti-gay post-Orlando Facebooking:

@coloradopols shows my opponent’s posts only hrs after massacre. Offensive, inexcusable. Help me retire him! #coleg https://t.co/qld5u5gYdM

— Emily Tracy for SD8 (@etbreck) June 17, 2016

To which the Senate GOP responded with an attack…on us?

No credibility. Group is attack dog 4 your party. It earns its keep by distorting, deceiving, demeaning #copolitics https://t.co/L17KnNbNbT

— Colorado Senate GOP (@ColoSenGOP) June 17, 2016

So folks, we can take the heat. But can we ask in all seriousness how our writing about Baumgardner’s social media content “distorts, deceives, or demeans” anyone? If anything, we would say those terms all apply to…well, to Baumgardner’s Facebook post, wouldn’t they? Not to our calling attention to it. Right?

We get that this response from the official Colorado Senate GOP mouthpiece is more of a knee-jerk insult than a thoughtful comeback. But given the very clearly “demeaning” material we called out in our post yesterday, to which we have yet to see any substantive response, this all seems like especially nonsensical bile.

And it surer than hell doesn’t make the one-seat Senate GOP majority look good.