Colorado Pols in the News

At this point, Rutt Bridges, a self-made millionaire and chief executive of Bighorn Center, is the favorite in the race on the Dems’ side. Yet, as a two-term Denver district attorney, Ritter clearly has the superior political credentials.

Chances of the party’s apparatchik supporting an abortion-foe Democrat, however, are slim. The big tent is open to people of all races and creeds – provided, of course, they walk lockstep.

“I am a conservative on this issue,” wrote Bridges, from all indications with a straight face, in a Q&A on the political blog Coloradopols.com (our emphasis). “I don’t believe that government has the right to dictate the decisions we make in our private lives. I support a woman’s right to choose what is best for her and her family.”

…Even Democrats who oppose parental notification laws and support late-term abortions have now employed the rhetoric of keeping abortions “rare.” (Though, you wonder, if there’s nothing morally wrong with abortion, why keep it rare?)

“I do believe that there is much to be done in our society, and in our state, to make abortions rare,” Ritter explained to Coloradopols.com (our emphasis). “In the area of teen-pregnancy prevention, greater efforts can be made in educating our youth.” Not a radical position. A mainstream one, actually. In fact, it may be a position that makes Ritter the strongest candidate in the Democratic field.