Jon Caldera out to destroy his own credibility

Independence Institute wonk Jon Caldera had a bad 2006. His Ref C refund didn't make the ballot. And as Curious Stranger wrote on election night:

Tonight's losers?...John Caldera, who was "very surprised" on 9 News that all of the ballot measures he or his buddies were behind - Amendments 38, 39 and 40 and referendum J - went down in flames. Once again, the voters of Colorado reject the Independence Institute's constellation of anti-good-government anarchists.

Caldera has responded not by contemplating the issues, but by lashing out at Governor-elect Bill Ritter. Check out Jon Caldera's latest, courtesy of Media Matters for Colorado:

CALDARA: [Ritter is] a guy I'd trust to baby-sit my kids -- I mean, I'd count the silverware first, of course, but I would still trust him to, to, to baby-sit the kids. He's a, he's a good guy.

JOHN STRAAYER: He would bring extra silverware and leave it for you. That's the kind of guy he is. Don't you think?

CALDARA: He would bring that little plastic stuff from McDonald's and take the good stuff. He's still a Democrat; let's not, let's not make up things.

So Ritter's a good guy, but he's a Democrat so he's necessarily a bad guy?

This is more than a monumental both-ways. It's a partisan lie. On the national level, it is Republicans like Bob Ney, Jack Abramoff, Duke Cunningham and Mark Foley who've broken the law. And here in Colorado, Republicans like Joe Stengel, Marilyn Musgrave and Bob Beauprez have made corruption an art form.

It must be scary to be Jon Caldera. He's decided that half the people in America are crooks. And the worst part of it is, he's got the wrong half.