You’re both making the false presumption that I intend to sit out this election.
I don’t. Down ticket I intend to vote conservative, or at least as conservative as possible.
There is a reason CO went for Obama in 08, and that reason is Republican Governor Owen. Owen was someone quite to the right of Romney, none-the-less, his liberal tendencies completely destroyed the conservative Republican movement in CO. We have have a few unorganized pockets. That left the state wide open for any Liberal to take. And take they did.
It wasn’t pretty under Owens, it will be downright unbearably ugly under Romney.
I’m waiting to see who Romney thinks would make a good VP. Based on past experience, all the conservatives will be able to say will be ‘we’ll have to push them to the right’. Well, the time to ‘push to the right’ is BEFORE the VP is chosen.
I wonder how many of Obama's voters in 2008 even knew who the governor was. All they knew was, they were tired of Bush and they were not racist and Zero was their big chance to prove it.
My sister lives in the Springs. After the 2008 election, she emailed me extolling the idealism of her college age daughter getting out and voting for the Won.
These days, her emails are mostly a steady stream of forwarded, supposedly shocking brand-new anti-Obama screeds that are long since familiar to me.