The only thing the media seems to be able to write about Cory Gardner, who's threatening Senator Mark Udall in Colorado, is how pretty his smile is.
(Actually, the Denver Post just published a story about how Cory sometimes cries when he's sad -- I'm not kidding.)
But an online video that has been TOTALLY IGNORED BY THE MEDIA shows what the media has been missing -- Cory Gardner is an uncompromising, angry ideologue.
Watch:
Gardner was the keynote speaker at the Steamboat Institute Freedom Conference in June 2013, an event headlined by Dick and Liz Cheney.
In his speech, Gardner denounced "radical environmentalists," "social engineers," and the "United States of Entitlement." He took credit for the idea of the House of Representatives suing President Obama. He even said "we will win" because oil and gas executives will "rise up" together in the "shale revolution."
UNITED STATES OF ENTITLEMENT
"Bailouts, handouts, and cop-outs have littered the economic path of a country that once valued the virtues of liberty and the free market. And yet our government grows, and dependency grows! . . . Will we be that nation that is content with the long, lonely journey to the United States of Entitlement? . . . We must cut spending and we must grow the economy!"
CLIMATE SCIENTISTS WANT TO CONTROL OUR LIVES
"You know what? This is more than a war on coal, this is a war on workers. This is a president who has decided he doesn’t like those jobs, he doesn’t like what they’re doing, and he’s going to put them out of business and out of work.
This is a president who said when he ran for office, ‘Under my plan, electricity rates would necessarily going to skyrocket.’
This is a president whose Secretary of Energy said he’d like to see European-style energy prices.
This is a president whose top science advisor said, ‘A war on coal is exactly what we need.’
It’s more than a war on coal, though. It’s a war on the kind of energy that we use every day, fossil fuels, whether it’s gas, coal, oil, because they want to tell us how we live our lives, how we heat our homes, how we drive our cars.
But make no — it is not just about coal, though. It’s about the kind of work that thousands and thousands of men and women are doing each and every day, that we don’t do, because we’ve chosen other options in life, but they’re in a mine, deep under the ground, in a pit, working heavy equipment, working hard each and every day, to make our lives better, to give us a chance to build a way of life for our families. This president has decided he doesn’t like those jobs. And that’s simply wrong. And we’ve got to hold him accountable for it. I hope you’ll — In northwestern Colorado let’s make sure every — every rotary club, every school, every chamber, everybody knows about it, and that the voices are heard in Washington DC."
FLIRTING WITH IMPEACHMENT
"We must force this president to abide by the law!"
TAKING CREDIT FOR SUING OBAMA
"I believe that may be one of the few choices that we have left."
RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS!
"We have to stand up to the radical environmentalists, the social engineers who believe that we must stop. And in Colorado we know that threat is real. We know they’re going to try to stop something that is creating jobs on the eastern plains and the western slope of this great state. We know they’re going to try to say no to the Marcellus, no to the Bakken. They’ve already tried to say no to the Keystone pipeline. But you know what? We know we’re going to win because of the power of our individual job creators. They are right, they are with us. And when the individuals realize what is at stake in this country, we will rise up, and we will win. The shale revolution is real."
If he's elected, Sen. Cory Gardner is going to make Ted Cruz and Rand Paul look reasonable.
This is the real Cory Gardner: