Let's Call it the Rocky Mountain Rebellion

As late as Sunday the Colorado GOP deemed the recall elections futile. Yes, the NRA did kick in $350 thousand but recall proponents were outspent 6 to 1 as Mayor Bloomberg's slush fund, Mayors Against Illegal Gun and other gun control groups poured $3.2 million into the race. When all was said and two Democratic Senators were fired, turned out through the work of three people with no political experience. This should be a shot across the bow of all elected official who refuse to listen to the voters. As Charles C. W. Cooke at NRO put it.
The new gun laws, locals in both Colorado Springs and Pueblo told me repeatedly, were “the straw that broke the camel’s back.” Their more fundamental message: “Listen to me, goddamnit!”
Senate President John Morse was a case study in democratically elected despotism. He antagonized not only gun owners but also the legalize-marijuana movement, rural Coloradans, independent taxpayers, and women’s advocacy groups. He engineered the hearings for the anti gun legislation so the opposition was barely able to be heard. As a good Democrat he indulged in ad hominem attacks against the recall organizers calling one, Victor Head, "an unemployed plumber" ( Head and his brother operate a plumbing business) That produced this morning after tweet.

'And I have a message for John Morse ... Who's unemployed now?' -- Victor Head, Pueblo Freedom & Rights. #PuebloRecall #COpolitics
— Nick Bonham (@NickBonham1) September 11, 2013

Angela Giron refused to talk to the opposition. At two townhalls she would not answer questions on the subject of gun control. Eventually she relented and at a third townhall thousands crowed into a library to shout their opposition to no avail.
Rather than reflecting on their mistakes in well earned humility the defeated duo took to the airways with their new found grievance, voter suppression.
"This was voter suppression, pure and simple," moaned pure and simple DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
 Oh yes, court ordered voter suppression; there's a lot of that going around. After the recall petitions were certified an election date was set but election officials complained there was insufficient time to mail out ballots. The question was eventually resolved in court and there were no mail in ballots. Rather than admit that their people were to lazy to go vote Morse pled his case on sympathetic MSNBC while Giron went on CNN where she ran into a professional anchor, Brooke Baldwin who was in a no nonsense mood.
“Forgive me, but I’m going to cut you off right there,” Baldwin said to Angela Giron as she began to cite the issue. She then tried to steer Giron back to the salient issue, gun control. Worse yet she pointed out Giron's huge cash advantage she seems to have fumbled away.

Take heed politicians, this could happen to anybody. Even you.