I also love whoever the Democrats nominate, provided the contest is fair and transparent. Full disclosure, this headline was really tough for me, because Hickenlooper sounds ridiculous:
“When I come into office, I would go to Mitch McConnell to his office and I would sit down with him and say, “Now what is the issue again?” and we would talk and I would continue to speak back to him — it sounds silly, right? But this works, this is what I did with the suburban mayors, and they hated the city of Denver. You go to any metropolitan area in the country, the arguments between the big-city mayor and the suburban mayors, they’re almost endless. We’re the one place where this has gotten done, and I think it’ll work in Washington.”
Mitch McConnell, a guy only Joe Biden could describe as reasonable, is going to be really open to getting things done with a Democratic President. WTF, Hickenlooper? Been living in a cave for 20 years?
DENVER — John Hickenlooper, the two-time Colorado governor and former brewpub owner who has overseen Colorado’s remarkable economic expansion, declared his candidacy for president on Monday.
Mr. Hickenlooper, 67, a socially progressive, pro-business Democrat who has called himself an “extreme moderate,”
