Jerry White
Leave it to Lauren Boebert to find a camera in Kentucky.
Colorado’s congresswoman headed to Shelby County and Oldham County this week to campaign for Thomas Massie — a man Donald Trump is aggressively trying to remove from office, harshly criticizing Massie over his opposition to the big, beautiful bill, his criticism of the Iran war, and his push to release the Epstein files. Boebert’s response? “I support both of these men.”
Of course she does. Hillbilly Boebert supports whoever has a microphone pointed in her direction.
This is the same woman who abandoned the western slope rather than fight for it. She had a legitimate shot at exposing what her supporters called election irregularities when her CD-3 race came down to a few hundred votes. Instead, she bolted for the eastern plains the moment a safer seat opened up — a seat she might still manage to lose to another carpetbagger in a district she didn’t grow up in and doesn’t belong to.
Having grown up in that region, I can tell you: there is no shortage of people out there with actual roots in the land, actual skin in the game, who could have run against her. The fact that no one did says more about party infrastructure than it does about her qualities as a representative.
Now she’s playing both sides in someone else’s state, declaring Massie “a great friend” while simultaneously wrapping herself in Trump’s flag — as if the two positions aren’t in direct conflict a few days before a primary Trump has made personal. It is a performance, not a principle.
Trump was reportedly so furious with Boebert over her Epstein vote that he vetoed Colorado water legislation — punishing her constituents to settle a score. And her response is to go campaign for Massie in Kentucky? She’s not playing 3D chess. She’s just playing to the cameras, as always.
With allies like Boebert, Trump doesn’t need opponents. And with representatives like her, the eastern plains don’t need neglect — they’re getting it built in.
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