And why not? Aren’t we getting tired of recycling the same old names as potential candidates for a race that, in a perfect world, wouldn’t start for at least another year? Then, let’s add another. This time, to the Republican side of the ledger. ColoradoPols obliges with this report:

Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman is up for re-election in 2018, but she is apparently taking a hard look at running for Governor instead. We hear that Coffman has been meeting with consultants about a potential run for the state’s top job, where she would join a Republican field already likely to include State Treasurer Walker Stapleton and Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler.

Dem-leaning Pols of course couldn’t size up a Republican like  Coffman without including a backhand:

After she was first elected in 2014, Coffman was briefly considered something of a rising star in the Colorado Republican Party. That spotlight dimmed considerably, however, when she inexplicably emerged at the center of a weird blackmail scandal aimed at trying to unseat State GOP Chairman Steve House not long after House was elected to oversee the State Republican Party (Coffman had endorsed House for the role just a few months earlier). The Coffmangate Scandal has never really been resolved, though Coffman is on the record with the media trying to explain why her actions did not constitute blackmail.

Fair to point out, of course – whether or not voters care, or even remember Coffman’s role in a bygone episode of backroom political infighting. Pols does raise another point that voters very well may care about, for better or worse, in two years: “Cynthia Coffman may be trying to be the ‘Trump candidate’ for governor in 2018. That might not be such a great idea 18 months from now.”

We’ll see.