The Dead Governors don't think the Republicans have a strong candidate in House District 27 (Arvada), and are putting their faith in Rep. Sara Gagliardi to win as a liberal incumbent. To borrow from a couple cliches, ignorance may be bliss, but what they don't know may come back to hurt them. Not that I'm predicting some sort of sweeping landslide of Republican state legislative victories in 2008. I'm too much of a realist for that. But you have to wonder if the Democrats' legislative majority is getting a little complacent, as their apologists repeatedly fail to notice how out of touch they are on issue after issue down at the statehouse. … [Read more...]