# Farewell Scott Tipton (R-CO) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 1, 2020, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-scott-tipton-r-co/913898 "2020-07-01T03:48:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-scott-tipton-r-co/913898/1 "2020-07-01T03:48:44Z")
Five term GOP congressman, Scott Tipton, lost his primary tonight in CO-03. He lost to Lauren Boebert, first time candidate and businesswoman. Boebert owns Shooters Grill in Rifle, CO where the waitstaff open carries. Is that #2A enough for you? She’s also super in to QAnon. Good job voters. Tipton defeated [Diane Mitsch Bush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Mitsch_Bush) by 8 points to hold the seat in 2018. DMB will be on the ballot again this fall versus Boebert. Business Insider: [GOP Congressman Scott Tipton was defeated by right-wing primary challenger Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s 3rd congressional district](https://www.businessinsider.com/lauren-boebert-defeats-scott-tipton-colorado-third-district-primary-live-results-2020-6) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-scott-tipton-r-co/913898/2 "2020-07-01T04:36:34Z")
I wonder if this makes it possible Bush can win the seat? She lost to someone who was relatively sane by 8 points though it was a Democratic year. Cook has it Solid-R and Trump won by 12 points over Clinton. I don’t know Colorado politics but it seems like that district won’t care that Boebert is Derpy as all hell. But I can dream… ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-scott-tipton-r-co/913898/3 "2020-07-01T06:27:14Z")
> > Boebert owns Shooters Grill in Rifle, CO where the waitstaff open carries.\<\< How much should one tip? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-scott-tipton-r-co/913898/4 "2020-07-01T12:31:48Z")
Wow. The GOP has become unrecognizable. Time to break it up and let it go the way of the Whigs. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-scott-tipton-r-co/913898/5 "2020-07-01T16:43:46Z")
It looks like nine QAnon candidates across six states have made it through the primaries and will be on the November ballot representing the Republican Party. I may have missed some. CA: Mike Cargile, Erin Cruz, Alison Hayden, Buzz Patterson CO: Lauren Boebert GA: Angela Stanton-King OH: Ron Weber OR: Jo Rae Perkins TX: Johnny Teague ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-scott-tipton-r-co/913898/6 "2020-07-01T18:22:09Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > How much should one tip? 25% for _bad_ service… ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-scott-tipton-r-co/913898/7 "2020-07-01T20:15:45Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > It looks like nine QAnon candidates across six states have made it through the primaries and will be on the November ballot representing the Republican Party. I may have missed some. > > CA: Mike Cargile, Erin Cruz, Alison Hayden, Buzz Patterson > CO: Lauren Boebert > GA: Angela Stanton-King > OH: Ron Weber > OR: Jo Rae Perkins > TX: Johnny Teague Before 2016, I used to joke, when referring to certain elected officials, that even morons deserved representation, but then Trump was elected. I’m starting to think that maybe this whole idea about keeping some people from voting might have some merits after all. Maybe IQ and sanity tests?..(I’m not serious…(or am I?)…) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-scott-tipton-r-co/913898/8 "2020-07-01T21:30:15Z")
Ask your server what THEY would suggest. Then double it. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-scott-tipton-r-co/913898/9 "2020-07-01T22:45:38Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > \<…\> > > I’m starting to think that maybe this whole idea about keeping some people from voting might have some merits after all. Maybe IQ and sanity tests?..(I’m not serious…(or am I?)…) I’ve felt for some time that anyone wishing to vote or hold office should be required to pass the same test given to applicants for naturalization. Unfortunately, the spectre of Jim Crow and voter suppression poisons that idea. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-scott-tipton-r-co/913898/10 "2020-07-01T23:01:55Z")
Hmm… > The GOP primary in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District was more of a surprise, however, with [President Trump’s backed candidate](https://coloradosun.com/2020/06/30/lauren-boebert-scott-tipton-colorado/) Rep. Scott Tipton losing to restauranteur Lauren Boebert [by about 9 points](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/30/us/elections/results-colorado-house-district-3-primary-election.html), 54.6 percent to 45.4 percent. Tipton is now the fourth House incumbent to lose renomination this year,[1](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-went-down-in-colorado-oklahoma-and-utah/#fn-1) and his defeat could make this Republican-leaning seat — Trump won it by 12 points in 2016, [according to Daily Kos Elections](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/11/19/1163009/-Daily-Kos-Elections-presidential-results-by-congressional-district-for-the-2012-2008-elections) — highly competitive in November. Boebert ran to the right of Tipton, drawing on her background as a gun-rights activist ([she runs a restaurant](https://www.cpr.org/2020/06/22/rep-scott-tipton-faces-a-primary-challenger-who-questions-his-record-and-whether-hes-trump-enough/) where servers are allowed to openly carry firearms). But [she’s raised very little money](https://www.fec.gov/data/elections/house/CO/03/2020/) so far, and has attracted controversy for her views on [QAnon](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/qanon-caucus-fringe-conspiracy-theory-advocates-aim-congress-n1231225), a far-right movement [labeled a domestic terrorist threat](https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-documents-conspiracy-theories-terrorism-160000507.html) by the FBI last year that [promotes false conspiracy theories](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-nothing-can-stop-what-is-coming/610567/). So Boebert may struggle to turn her upset primary victory into real traction in the general election. Democrats have nominated former state Rep. Diane Mitsch Bush, hoping she can win after losing to Tipton by 8 points in 2018. > > [FiveThirtyEight](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-went-down-in-colorado-oklahoma-and-utah/) Pleasantly surprised that they think the seat could now be “highly competitive” now! Here’s hoping they’re right. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farewell-scott-tipton-r-co/913898/11 "2020-07-02T17:33:37Z")
In a similar vein, in the Arizona Senate race, Martha McSally has a primary opponent, Daniel McCarthy, for those who don’t think McSally is Trumpy enough. In his list of [endorsers](https://demanddaniel.com/endorsements/), the ones I recognize make me throw up in my mouth a little. Registered as Independent, I can – and have – request a Republican primary ballot. I don’t think he has a chance of winning and am trying to figure whether voting for him will make McSally rethink her position or push her further into the Trumpet camp.