Money doesn't equal clout in Colorado, Jared

Rich guys really don’t fare very well in Colorado politics.

There is either a terrible gypsy curse on them or they are all awfully dumb.

Just ask Jared Polis.

Jared Polis is just the latest example of a rich guy who thought that money was the same thing as political clout.

It’s not.

Just like Pete Coors and Marc Holtzman, he learned the expensive lesson that money buys you nothing in politics if you don’t have the goods. And it cost them plenty to find out, each of them.

It’s funny as Holtzman spends millions and couldn’t even make the ballot because apparently the people he hired to count petition signatures didn’t know to count a little higher.

Polis has spent $400,000 on his race for congress and he apparently hires people that can’t even read a map and so consequently gets zero delegates out of Grand County.

And then they pretend they have solutions for global warming, Iraq, healthcare, TABOR.

Sure you do.

At least Pete Coors knew how to win a primary.

Say what you want about Coors run for Senate but at least Coors won something.

He may not have known who the Prime Minister of Canada was but unlike Holtzman and Polis, he knew how to count and knew how to read a map.

And those qualities are really important if you got a lot of jingle and enough political experience to swell your head.

Maybe next week they should hold a joint seminar working on recognizing basic shapes and colors for logos and bumper stickers?

Politics for Rich Guys, you’d call it?

Nope.

Politics for Dummies.