It’s not just the Denver Post editorial board that finds Senator Mark Udall’s relentless, ill-supported “war on women” argument unpersuasive and insulting.

Here’s the Colorado Springs Gazette editorial board:

Maybe Udall finally gets it. Few believe the pretense of a Republican war on women. The message was at first a waste of money and time. Now, it has backfired.
On the average day for the past several months, Udall’s campaign has produced multiple statements with each mentioning his support of “birth control,” “contraception” and/or “abortion” a dozen times or more. They did not come from 527s or other outside groups, but directly from the campaign. One might think Roe v. Wade hadn’t been decided 41 years ago. Or that women had no other pressing concerns.

The Fort Collins Coloradan chose not to endorse a candidate, and complained about Udall’s ads:

This year, the Coloradoan editorial board will not be endorsing a Senate candidate because Rep. Cory Gardner declined to participate in an editorial board meeting. Gardner, a Republican, had scheduled a meeting, canceled it and his team representative said he would reschedule. But emails and phone calls were left unanswered. We encourage voters to eschew the TV ads and research Gardner’s stand on issues and votes in the U.S. House to better understand if he should represent Colorado.
Incumbent Sen. Mark Udall, a Democrat, did visit the editorial board. His answers were direct and forthright, except for his weak justification of continuing abortion attack ads. He chose to blame Gardner.

And the Grand Junction Sentinel, which did endorse Gardner, despite concerns about his position on abortion, also complained about both campaigns’ tone:

Indeed Udall’s campaign and that of his Republican opponent Cory Gardner have both taken to warning voters that each candidate is too extreme for Colorado. Gardner’s incessant drumbeat is that Udall has voted “99 percent” of the time with President Barack Obama. Udall has zeroed in on Gardner’s conflicting and confusing stance on personhood legislation as evidence that he’s trying to hide an ultraconservative agenda.
This fear-mongering, of course, is aimed at independent and undecided voters because those with entrenched party views have already made up their minds.

Of course, the Denver Post’s Lyn Bartels, moderating one of the debates, called the senator “Mark Uterus.”

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The Denver Post editorial board’s endorsement was perhaps the most blunt:

Rather than run on his record, Udall’s campaign has devoted a shocking amount of energy and money trying to convince voters that Gardner seeks to outlaw birth control despite the congressman’s call for over-the-counter sales of contraceptives. Udall is trying to frighten voters rather than inspire them with a hopeful vision. His obnoxious one-issue campaign is an insult to those he seeks to convince.