That craggy face. Those Levis (W: 34 L: 34). isn’t the first one to comment on U.S. Mark Udall’s look.
“I mean, Mark Udall, look at this guy,” Morning Joe recently said. “‘Rocky Mountain Man’ here. He looks like Colorado. His opponent looks like a Connecticut guy.”
Not sure what a Connecticut guy looks like, but Udall’s Republican challenger in his tough U.S. Senate race, Congressman Cory Gardner, is actually a fifth-generation Coloradan. If Gardner weren’t in Washington, he might be home in Yuma wearing a Case tractor hat and looking exactly like a Colorado guy. Udall was born in Tucson, but has deep roots in .
Republican consultant Sean Tonner when Gardner got into the race in February, turning Colorado’s Senate contest into one of the hottest races in the country. Tonner spoke to the AP’s Nic Ricardi.
“Mark Udall looks like he’s out of central casting for Western politician — he looks like he was born with a Patagonia jacket sitting on a 14er,” Tonner said, referring to Colorado’s fabled peaks over 14,000 feet.
Udall might look like Colorado but he doesn’t act like Colorado, said state GOP spokesman Owen Loftus.
“Nobody in Colorado agrees with President Obama 99 percent of the time,” Loftus said.
Sen. Mark Udall in Rocky Mountain National Park in August. The place has special meaning for Udall: his maternal grandfather was the park concessionaire in the 1920s and 1930s. (Lynn Bartels, The Denver Post)
