It was one year ago today that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” presented our original profile of Darryl Glenn, the former U.S. Senate candidate from Colorado who was never even supposed to win the GOP Primary to advance, but the GOP’s favored son, Jon Keyser, got caught forging signatures to be on the ballot and got himself disqualified and charged with a crime. So it was that the rabid and radical Glenn was launched into the spotlight, where he embarrassed the GOP while facing off with Senator Bob Bennet. The GOP was going to make sure that Darryl Glenn had the best chance possible to knock off the incumbent, giving him a speech in prime time of the 2016 Republican National Convention (aka the Trumpster Fire Clusterf***ed Total S***Show). Glenn spoke for six minutes… which the major networks chose not to air. In fact, all of the cable news networks chose to skip it, as well, instead having pundits recap events from throughout the day (including Donald Trump appearing on FOX News for a live interview and upstage the other Republicans from Day One), and hype Melania Trump coming out later in the night (which was it’s own disaster because of the plagiarism). But maybe the lack of media attention was for the best, considering the content of Glenn’s uninspiring six minutes in the spotlight. In the little time he took, Glenn took time to lay blame for racial tension in the United States on President Obama, deliver his hackneyed one-liner about Hillary Clinton needing to trade in her pantsuits for a prison jumpsuit, and then take time to address the Black Lives Matter movement by saying, “Frankly somebody with a nice tan needs to say this, all lives matter. Blue lives matter, that’s right, ladies and gentlemen.” Anyhow… after Glenn’s speech, the fact-checkers moved in and pointed out that Glenn’s remarks in it about neighborhoods being more crime ridden were patently false by any crime statistic available. And, the very next day, Senator Bennet wisely decided it was time to drop an ad-blitz on Glenn, before he could build any momentum… Bennet’s ad featured the speech from Colorado’s own GOP convention in April, where he talked openly about a wide variety of topics like accusing Planned Parenthood of “dismembering babies”, defunding sanctuary cities, and asserting that working across the aisle was something he’d outright refuse to do, saying he cuold not name any elected Democrats he could get along with, because he was “running against Democrats. I’m running against evil.” And then, things just got strange. About a week after Darryl Glenn’s slot at the RNC, the Denver Post did a little digging into Glenn’s background, and found out that he previously had been charged with assault against his father in 1983. Rather than own up to the fact that he had attacked his father, Darryl Glenn tried lying… badly. He claimed that the Darryl Glenn in the police report could have actually been another person with the same name as him, or perhaps his half-brother Cedric, who would be a convenient fall-guy to lay blame on, as he died in 1992 and his father wouldn’t be setting the record straight, as he died in 2006. Eventually, Glenn was confronted with the truth and copped to it, saying that he had to maintain the lie or he would have been kicked out of the Air Force Academy because their honor code forbids them from accepting candidates with criminal pasts. But the gaffes still kept surfacing. An interview with a conservative radio station from back in June surfaced on August 10th, where Darryl Glenn claimed that prior to Omar Mateen killing fifty people at the Orlando Pulse Nightclub, President Obama specifically directed the FBI to stop investigating Mateen. It was a bald-faced lie, but precisely the sort of thing you’d expect from the GOP narrative that President Obama secretly is helping Islamic terrorists (even the ones that aren’t actually Islamic terrorists and just bitter closeted homosexuals like Mateen). With the errors from Glenn piling up all within a three week span, national Republicans stopped aiding him financially, and left him for a lost cause.
Now, don’t ask us how, but even though Darryl Glenn trailed Bob Bennet by double digits in the polls, on election day, he still managed to get 44% of the vote in spite of being an uncompromising, chronically lying twit who beat up his father. We thought we would be reporting on the last time you’ll ever hear about Daryll Glenn, but to our chagrin, he has re-emerged to appear as a GOP Primary challeger for the U.S. House of Representatives for Colorado’s 5th District, trying to get to Congress by unseating multiple-time CSGOPOTD Doug Lamborn. Making this race even more hectic is the fact that fellow CSGOPOTD alumni Owen Hill is also in the mix, making his third attempt at trying to slither out of the Colorado state legislature and snake his way to Congress.
Obviously, whoever the GOP end up with in the general election will be too bonkers for us to support, and we’re hoping Democrats field a hell of a candidate to avoid sending any of that trio to Washington, D.C.
One Year Ago, September 4th, 2016: Darryl Glenn (CO)…Original Profile
Two Years Ago, September 4th, 2015: Phillip Hinkle (IN)… 2016 Update Profile
Three Years Ago, September 4th, 2014: Phillip Hinkle (IN)…Original Profile