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Ummm Colorado has alot of wild eyed liberals.
The loss of common sense is not the fault of the GOP.
LOL LOL
I don’t call myself a republican. I am a conservative who up to now voted republican.
Wouldn’t have anything to do with socialists fleeing California, would it?
There are issues you use to roll out the base and then there are the issues of the day that you have to articulate positions and solutions for. Whining about gay people doesn’t solve tax or employment issues.
It is really easy,
we have far left social liberals in the west who have infesting the GOP leadership.
Unfortunatly most of the ones we have managed to purge out over the recent years have now glomed onto el leftst mccainiac in hopes of stopping all the possitive inroads we have made.
(protecting marriage, second amendment, stopping illegal amnesty)
From what little I’ve seen, the explanation is rich liberals looking to move to a chic place to live. The Democrats have become the party of welfare recipients and rich yuppies, and Colorado is one of the fashionable places to build your new dream home. Or to move out of California and escape the mess you have made.
It’s much like people fleeing to New Hampshire from Taxachusetts.
Certainly something did happen after 2004 as well. Bush came back into office on a tidal wave of conservative support, and he immediately started blowing it. There was great discouragement in 2006, and even greater discouragement now, with that jackass McCain as the party’s choice.
Also, Mel Martinez ran as a “conservative,” as did many of the other new Dem senators elected that year, and regretably the voters believed his lies.
The High Court is Democrat? That's so wrong...
It’s simple: the GOP establishment has gotten on small-government fiscal conservatives’ last nerve.
all true!
I am no longer a Republican. I was one when they offered Conservative candidates, but no longer.
Colorado’s moved bluer due to all the Cali and Pac NW folks moving in, not because of an inherent shift of the domestic natives.
This will continue until the 9th circuit is disbanded and reformed to represent real America and not just San Francisco. This and a heavy veto pen should be job 1 for any conservative Presidential candidate. If John McCain added this to his WOT policies he could gain a great deal of support. JMHO.
They imported Mexicans into SoCal to turn it from a conservative base into a leftist province. They are moving to Montana, Colorado, Idaho.
Public education accellerates the process. Children of conservatives can be turned with 12 years of state propaganda and a healthy dose of TV. It takes an extraordinary amount of parenting to raise a child who understands the world from a conservative, pro-family, religious, traditional American point of view when they are 20, and to keep them that way after they finish college.
Conservatives need to understand that their ability to influence this nation is in danger of disappearing. Just a few more states go into lib control, and we will be a permanent minority. The civil war was fought because the south was going to lose ability to control of the federal government, once the territories came in as free states. We are about to be in the same position, but in a better cause.
It is important to have a strategy for reversing this trend while we can. That means gaining control of the federal government with Conservatives in charge within the next few years, before amnesty passes and before another 10 years worth of kids raised at government schools reaches voting age. It means having conservative leaders who are teachers, who explain what they are doing and why, and who convince people of the correctness of their policies. Reagan made people conservative, he didn't get elected because they were conservative to begin with. With a conservative government, we can reform the judiciary, reduce spending, begin a long, multi-generational process of regaining control of the institutions, which are wholly the province of the left. Perhaps, with a little luck, we can take the country back from marxism. But right now, we are not looking like the horse to bet on.
It is a lesson Republicans should learn from. And freepers, too. Give some money to your local candidates...and volunteer for them too. A little time and money can make a lot of difference...especially in suburban districts that are too big for people to personally know either candidate...and where races are are not terribly well covered. A cheerful volunteer walking the neighborhood and handing out literature on behalf of a candidate for the state legislature could be the only personal touch a citizen gets...and he just might remember the candidates name when he steps into the voting booth.
Too often, we get caught up in the national races because they run the ads and get our blood boiling. This year, with conservatives unhappy with McCain, is a good time to concentrate on the local races.
BTTT!
CO was a prime example of BAD RINO leadership. You’d be amazed what one lousy RINO Governor can do to a party in short order. Owens took a Republican state and turned it rodent. Lost the legislature on his watch, the Governorship, and the majority of Congressional seats.
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