And candidate #14 has entered the ring. Gotta love the name, if nothing else. Actually he was a well-regarded two term governor of Colorado, who has a master's degree in geology, and also founded a brewpub. And as governor actually did something about gun violence.
I think it would be cool if he chose Pete Buttigieg as a running mate (full disclosure: that idea didn't originate with me.)
Don't laugh. Bourke B. Hickenlooper -- no relation to Gov. John, so far as I can find -- served as a U.S. senator from Iowa from 1945 to 1969. That's four statewide victories. He was a conservative and was always mouthing off about something.
ReplyDeleteHuh, another Hickenlooper. This article, sourcing the mayor's office when John was mayor of Denver, states they were cousins.
Deletehttps://www.vaildaily.com/news/senator-hickenlooper-its-happened-before/
I read that, prior to going to the Senate, Bourke Hickenlooper was first the lieutenant governor and then the governor of Iowa. So apparently he won six statewide races. In fact, if his Wikipedia page is to be believed, he won 17 of 19 races in his career. Best line from the Wikipedia page: "Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop once said in humor that the name Bourke B. Hickenlooper is "exactly the same name an English satirist would choose for an Iowa Republican.""
I heard John Hickenlooper on Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me on NPR a year or two ago. He seemed pretty likeable.
Could be worse. Could be "Hoopenlicker".
ReplyDeleteOr Hooplehead. Which reminds me that they're making a movie version of "Deadwood." Appropos of nothing other than that in these Last Days, we must be grateful for our trivial pleasures.
ReplyDeleteI wish Democrats would come out in support of a couple three of these candidates instead of looking in the mirror and deciding they're The Guy.
Since only one can get the nomination, most participants in the cavalry charge will be losers and give the Great Nasty Namer an answer to the Fact Checkers when he calls his opponents "a bunch of losers."
DeleteApropos of goofy sounding names, I see that Ollie Hoppnoodle's Haven of Bliss is on youtube. A sequel to The Christmas Story; I'm going to have to figure out how to stream it to our tv.
ReplyDeleteHaha, Katherine. Good catch. Have you seen it before? Ralphie as a teenager played by Matt Dillon.
DeleteNo, I haven't seen it yet. But I enjoyed "The Christmas Story". I'll have to talk to my techie sons who are good at figuring out how to stream any kind of content.
DeleteYouTube also has "The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters". American Playhouse
DeleteSorry. Not Matt Dillon. Jerry O'Connell if "Stand by Me" fame. Dillon was in another one.
ReplyDeletePffft. All those GenX brat-packers look alike ...
DeleteNot to each other. They are like hamsters that way.
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