The Grand Junction Sentinel talks with 2006 GOP gubernatorial candidate “Both Ways” Bob Beauprez (see photo) about his new book, “A Return to Values: A Conservative Looks at His Party.”
The Daily Sentinel: In the book, you say, “It is time for a revolution, and Republican principles must lead it.” However, the principles you cited are traditional party tenets, such as small government and personal responsibility. How is this a revolution?
Bob Beauprez: What we have got to do is return to those principles. Some would say you have to change your ideas, you ought to change your principles, you have to change your focus. I don’t believe that’s the case. I think we have to regain our focus.
TDS: Do you see the Republican Party as a big tent or little tent?
BB: I see it as a big tent party. … We have room within our party for different opinions on some very, very complex issues, but a general overarching sense of what it means to be traditional, conservative Republicans.
TDS: Throughout the book you take shots at Gov. Bill Ritter and some of his ideas, but you don’t talk much about your 2006 campaign.
Why is that?
BB: It really wasn’t the purpose of the book. It wasn’t to rehash a success of mine or a failure of mine. It was to look at a much larger vision: Where does our party go from here? I was one speck on the lens that got pretty cloudy in 2006.
True that: besides, if we’re talking about a “return” to Beauprez’s values, things might get a little complicated between the “Elk Whisperer” training to ‘avoid’ oil drilling sites and the ‘appalling 70% abortion rate’ for African-Americans. And let’s not forget abusing confidential federal crime databases for campaign purposes, the incredible petition-rights backflip, or picking Janet “Bestiality” Rowland to be his running mate to begin with.
Yeah, there’s a lesson here–in the sense that Bob Beauprez is a walking talking cautionary tale. About mistakes you should never make in politics, regardless of which side you’re on.
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posted PRIVATE PARTY NO TRESPASSING (Help please use back entrance)
at the national convention.
Yeah, big if you are white and preferably male.
What a crock of shit, these R’s and their claims of a big tent. “Oh yes, why we have at least ten house ne…. I mean African-Americans who vote Republican.”
it includes everyone who wants to keep government out of individual decisions that affect the public welfare, but deeply involved in personal choices that are no one else’s business but the people who make them.
Republican government is the elephant in the room: It pretends it’s purpose is not to be there, but all of that stomping and trumpeting is hard to ignore.
How can so many clowns keep coming out of such a miniature car?!
Speck on the windshield, Bob. Get your terms right.
He meant log in the eye.
If “small government” is one of the principles Mr. Beauprez wants to return to, does he mean he still supports the roll back of Ref. “C” like he did in 2006 which if it had happened would have meant:
1.Ten of Colorado’s thirteen community colleges would have to close;
2. Tuition at our colleges and universities would rise to the same level as private universities like Stanford, Harvard and Notre Dame within four or five years making it impossible and unaffordable for most of our children to go to college; and
3. The budget for CDOT would shrivel to nothing. Our infrastructure would deteriorate even more.
In other words, does he still favor the dismantling of our government.
Specifically, at this time, what role does he believe government should have and how much money should be budgeted for each function. Once he answers those questions, we’ll know if he has returned to traditional Republican values which, in the past, meant preserving the American way of life, not destroying it based on some newly hatched ideological reason(s).
Is that possible?
A contradiction in terms?
Referring to deep piles of horse manure?