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March 21, 2009 12:44 AM UTC

Why Tom Stone Is Running

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  • by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE: Cast your vote in the poll.

The Durango Herald has a good report up today on Colorado GOP Chairman candidate Tom Stone, who will try to unseat current chair Dick Wadhams this weekend in an election decided by 500 party insiders. Excerpt:

Stone faces a tough challenge from incumbent Colorado party chairman Dick Wadhams. Wadhams is a controversial figure in Colorado politics, not just because he failed to deliver Colorado’s nine electoral votes to John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.

The Colorado Statesman, a weekly newspaper that covers political issues, reported last year that some Colorado Republicans were upset with Wadhams for serving as U.S. Rep. Bob Schaffer’s campaign manager in Schaffer’s unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate while Wadhams was still serving as state GOP chairman.

Stone feels recent losses tell the tale: It’s time for change in the Republican Party.

In an interview, Stone had praise for the president, whom he called an “excellent communicator,” and the civil-rights movement, which he acknowledged was spurred on by the American left.  Recent losses show not a national shift to the left, he said, but a failure to communicate basic conservative “core values” – limited government, limited taxation and policies supporting personal freedom and free speech.

Stone, who referred to his political opponents as the “Democrat Party,” said he felt the recent focus on Rush Limbaugh’s importance in the Republican Party was being drummed up by Democrats and media to distract the electorate and paint the GOP in the satisfying image of a party of boorish know-nothings.

Stone said the GOP was too slow in recognizing both the power of new networking technology and younger voters. Conservative principles, he said, resonate just as loud in young people as they do in their parents.

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  2. Never seen a guy more committed into bring the youth into the GOP then him. The GOP will succeed in having young volunteers and new young republicans if he is elected.

    1. I think he will find he’s wrong about conservative principles resonating just as well with young voters.  At least if conservative principles includes anti gay and and anti environment attitudes.

  5. While I like having us Dems in charge, I also think there is great value in having a strong Republican party – to keep us in line and focused. Plus one party states tend to be corrupt – regardless of which party.

    Will Tom Stone be better than Dick Wadhams? Who knows. But when the known is a failure then the unknown is generally the smart bet – because it’s the only possible route to success. I don’t know squat about Tom Stone, but I do think a vote for Dick Wadhams is a vote for continuing failure.

    1. I think Colorado’s already seeing a weaker, or dumber if you’re mean, majority with a blithering minority.

      Instead of doing what’s best for the state a Dem puts something out there, the GOP sets their collective pants on fire and runs around the chamber, the Dems get mad and remind the GOP that they don’t really need them, so fuck off.  Great for playing in the sandbox, not so much for making law.

  6. and a write up in today’s Statesman

    If elected, Stone may be offering Coloradans a “two-for-one” political deal – Henri-Karen Stone serves as a Colorado Federation of Republican Women third vice president and is an outspoken critic of liberal politics. Last fall, the Vail Board of Realtors nearly snatched her cyberspace soapbox because of her anti-Obama communications.

    One of her e-mails warned, “Obama is coming from a Marxist background and philosophy perpetuated by [community organizer] Saul Alinsky’s radical teachings. That is what Black Liberation Theology promotes.”

    http://www.coloradostatesman.c…

    Sounds like a path to victory defeat to me….

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