LOVELAND, Colo. —
Lauren Boebert was preaching to the faithful, lurking the phase of a megachurch and providing a preaching– filled with Scripture and recommendations to Christ and Satan– taken directly from the Book of Grievance.
She spit fire.
At President Biden and citizens of the Beltway overload. At those criminally prosecuting previous President Trump. At political leaders presuming to replace their judgment for God’s. And, not least, at the “sellouts” within her own Republican Party.
“Every time that filthy four-letter word called ‘compromise’ turns up,” Boebert fumed, “it’s constantly Republicans stepping far from their concepts, their platform, your concerns and siding with socialists, communists and Marxists.”
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With her arrogant personality, noticeably non-Washington closet and gleeful trampling of procedures– heckling Biden throughout his State of the Union speech, carrying a handgun in defiance of the capital’s hard weapon laws– Boebert made herself into among the most popular faces of a feral type of conservatives assaulting Congress from within.
It didn’t play so well back home.
Regardless of her district’s sturdily Republican leaning, Boebert really almost lost her seat after a single term, to a Democrat who attacked her headline-hunting and “angertainment” technique to workplace. Dealing with a difficult rematch, she suddenly decamped this year to a district clear on the other side of Colorado, where the Republican deals with 5 challengers in a June 25 main– numerous with deep roots in the area.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) offers a thumbs down as she sits with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) throughout President Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address.
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“This is where I matured,” conservative activist Deborah Flora specifically specified as Boebert doodled notes along with her at a breakfast online forum in Castle Rock, a fast-growing exurb on the far edge of Denver’s vast city. “This is where I raised my kids.”
“I assure not to humiliate you,” another challenger, Logan County Commissioner Jerry Sonnenberg, chimed in. “I assure not to embarrass you.”
Sonnenberg wasn’t anymore particular. He didn’t need to be.
In September, Boebert was thrown out of a Denver proving of the musical “Beetlejuice” after vaping, continuing and getting handsy with her date. The scene was caught on cam and the PG-13 clip went viral, turning the 37-year-old legislator into a nationwide punchline.
Worse, from a political viewpoint, the shady episode raised doubts about Boebert’s judgment and impetuous nature, and terribly weakened her image as a family-minded conservative and devout Christian.
She has actually said sorry consistently, though sometimes Boebert appears less than contrite.