QUID HAS HEARD that there’s no voter fraud in Colorado. The state’s furthest righty-tighties say so. Seems that Big Gun Victor Marx exorcised all the election fraud fears from the usually fearsome folks when he squeaked out a 2,466-vote win over state Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer during the June 30 GOP gubernatorial primary election. It was a nose-hare win after days of agonizing over counting late ballots, the kind of thing that sends Donald Trump, Tina Peters, Heidi Ganahl and the rest of the GOP Conspiracy Dream Team into a tailspin of “what a world, what a world, what world.” Not this time. Ne’r a word was said about missing ballots or ghosts registering to vote for the party’s cogent competitor. In fact, one of Colorado’s chief conspiratologists, Rep. Lauren Boebert, PhD. ,sent out a missive gushing over how fabulous it is that Marx — the candidate who can’t or won’t recall how many people he’s killed as a real child or man-child — is the GOP nominee for governor. The few remaining adults in the GOP wing of Colorado politics don’t feel quite, or at all, the same burn for the guy who raises money to send tens of thousands of desperately needed stuffed animals around the world to children who desperately need food and a safe place to live. In trying to unite what’s left of the Colorado Republican Party behind his candidacy and fabulous stories, there appears to be little interest in conservatives becoming Marxists through November and beyond. Boebert, however, has raised her hand high, high, high for the job. “The insiders didn’t pick him. The consultants didn’t build him. The backroom deals didn’t get him here. The people did,” Boebert bubbled out this week in a commercial letter begging for bucks, not for her own direly underfunded campaign, but Marx’s. “Victor Marx is not a politician. He has never held public office and never wanted to.” At least, Quid understands, he has that in common with about 99% of the state. But who needs cash when the smartest person in any empty room has your back? Boebert had more to say: “I’ve been in politics long enough to know the difference between someone who wants power and someone who feels called.” ‘Nuff said. So for those Colorado voters who feel the need to check a box for the callin’, your choice is made. ‘X’ Marx the fraught.

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