Drinking Liberally in the same room as Joe Rice

Yeah, so here's the thing about Drinking Liberally with HD38 Democratic nominee Lt. Col. Joe Rice. I got there late and missed the Joe Rice part of the evening. I was there for the drinking part, though. And for the CD6 Democratic nominee Bill Winter endorsing Joe Rice part, too.

When I read through johne and TakeBackTheHouse's recaps at Square State, I saw that Rice didn't spend the night talking about his three tours of duty in the Middle East. His response to a question about healthcare strikes me as one of the most well-reasoned things I've ever heard on the topic:

We already have universal health care. We already have it. We aren't letting a lot of people die in the streets. It is a question of point of access. We see people when they show up in the emergrency room, but we could be getting to them at a lower financial cost, and a lower human cost.

I banged on a lot of doors in Denver's rightwing southern 'burbs in 2004. And I can tell you that they're winnable. Especially given that the term-limited Republican incumbent is leaving his office in disgrace, after filing his per diem reports, er, liberally. Rice is the right candidate to turn that part of Colorado blue.