‘Dumpster fire’ GOP's last hope is Lauren Boebert losing: Colorado columnist

The Republican Party’s last hope of putting out its existential "dumpster fire" is if Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert’s carpetbagger campaign in a new district fails, according to a columnist in her state.

Colorado Sun writer Mike Littwin painted Boebert — the MAGA firebrand fleeing her congressional district in hopes of winning among a more right-wing base — as the epitome of the problems plaguing the state’s GOP.

“I’m not exactly breaking any ground here by noting that the Colorado Republican Party, as presently constituted, is a, uh, dumpster fire. A train wreck,” Littwin writes.

“You can pick your own disaster-themed metaphor/cliché.”

Littwin points to the lack of Republicans in statewide offices, their dwindling numbers in the state legislature and the fact that not a single GOP incumbent is running in the three (out of eight) congressional districts they hold.

Which, of course, brings him to Boebert.

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“We all know all about Lauren Boebert, who presently represents the 3rd Congressional District, but won’t run for re-election there because even a built-in GOP advantage...was apparently insufficient to guarantee a Boebert victory,” he writes.

“And so she carpetbagged her way over to the 4th CD… Yes, Boebert is an incumbent, but not an incumbent, in much the same way she’s allegedly a working member of Congress, but not so you’d notice.”

Littwin argues the party’s problem is the thrall of former President Donald Trump and his MAGA base, which Boebert arguably represents.

That’s why Littwin is keeping a keen eye on the upcoming District 4 primary where voters have a wide spectrum of Republicans from which to choose.

“Republicans in the 4th CD could reject Boebert, making the profound statement that sending a laughingstock to Congress may not put your team in the best possible light,” Littwin writes.

Littwin does not predict Boebert’s defeat, or her victory, but simply notes she only won her last election by 546 votes cast before she went on a date to see “Beetlejuice” the musical.

As to hopes, yes, Littwin hopes she will lose.

“If one or more candidates, preferably none of your Trump sycophants, could beat Boebert in the primary,” he writes, “It could say there might be a whisper of a chance that maybe, just possibly, although certainly not any time soon, the state GOP would no longer be a complete lost cause.”