The New Marilyn Musgrave

Marilyn Musgrave is known in Colorado for wanting to write an amendment banning gay marriage into the US Constitution. Today the Denver Post reports that Musgrave is serving coffee to her constituents and posing for photo-ops with those who would traditionally be seen as her political opponents, such as Rep. Mark Udall, the Democrat from Colorado.

It's all part of Musgrave's bid to appear bipartisan in the run-up to 2008 as she fights for the seat in Colorado's 4th district which she only narrowly kept in '06. Will it work? Musgrave is on Karl Rove's short list of vulnerable seats in 2008, so count on the GOP to fight mean and fight hard if Rove still has anything to do with Congressional election strategies next year.