Yesterday I posted this about the GOP infighting in Hawaii.
So what do they do in this present climate where having an (R) after your name alone can cost you 10% in an election? What do you do when your political philosophy has been discredited nationwide.
There’s an election coming in ’08 – how do you respond? — Read below the fold.
Yesterday’s mailer was clever. It was proposing the GOP go in the direction of overwhelming defeat but at least it was clever. Today they sent this out.
Now they just sound like crybabies. They can’t sell their platform even within the GOP (which says very good things about the Hawaii GOP). So they want to commit sepaku. If the government won’t be run their way then no Republicans should be elected.
The pictures on the left? That’s most of the Republicans in the state legislature. They are specifically targeting the Republicans who can get elected. (My mom is second from the bottom on the far left.)
We need to get the GOP here in Colorado to do the same thing – have a full-blown fight for the soul of the party.
It shouldn’t be that hard to encourage. MM, Lamborn, TT, etc are so far to the right that Atilla the Hun would vote Democratic here. But we also have lots of thoughtful, intelligent moderate Republicans here.
So encourage a wingnut today…
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Colorado’s A LOT more conservative than Hawaii. End of story. Republicans in New Jersey, Oregon, and Hawaii need to be as close to the middle as possible to win. And the middle in those states leans towards the left so conservatives are really left out in the dark in those states. In Colorado the middle leans to the right so Republicans can comfortably run as conservatives and do just fine. Musgrave and Lamborn both reflect their districts’ values quite accurately and guys like Bill Owens and Wayne Allard–unflinchingly conservative themselves–represent the state just fine.
The problem is that the Republicans rarely run very comfortably–GOP camapaigns here are more akward than Al Gore’s kiss at the 2000 DNC.