Colorado Californicated

Tuesday was a pretty good night for the nation, but a bad night for a blue Colorado still in love with Obama

I admit it, I'm heartbroken over Ken Buck's loss to hateful serial slanderer Michael Bennet.  Ken's mistake was to actually engage citizens in thoughtful conversation, leaving himself open to the inevitable gaffe, as well as soundbite snippets spun out of context by leftwing propagandists.


Democrat Michael Bennet ran a dirty campaign and won ugly, keeping us with two liberal senators.  His election was a victory for fear and smear.  Hiding out and using outside interests to broadcast lies about your opponent worked for him.  Politicians learn quickly, so we will sadly be seeing more of that in future Colorado campaigns.

It wasn't all bad though.  The GOP took back the State House and closed the gap to two in the Senate.  We also repudiated George Soros's effort to buy our Attorney General and Secretary of State for the Dems.  GOP candidates took both.   

Californication
Coloradans used to complain about the crazy Texas drivers, but for the past 15 years or so our complaints have been aimed at the Californication of our state.

Our new governor, John cHickenlooper, is an Obama fanboy.  He gushed all over enviro-socialist Van Jones, calling him a rock star, and the liberals fleeing the mess they made in California voted for him en mass.  We are slowly becoming California East.  How long before I need some special permit to buy shotgun shells?


A Colorado commenter at the site BigPeace.com summed it all up...

Prof_Turgeson
Colorado's drift from a society of relatively self-sufficient entrepreneurs, fiercely independent individualists, and productive citizens towards an increasingly liberal position began when its rugged beauty was opened up to all by those same original entrepreneurs.

The mountain resorts of Vail, Aspen, Beaver Creek, Copper Mountain, Breckenridge, Steamboat, Winter Park, Arapaho Basin, Keystone, Crested Butte, Telluride, Glenwood Springs, and so many others began with entrepreneurs. What followed were the pleasure-seekers, the rent-seekers, and eventually the looters.
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The City and County of Boulder (rather the People's Republic of Boulder) slapped a building moratorium on new housing. The result was a massively distorted real estate market with housing prices skyrocketing, long-time, middle class residents becoming increasingly unable to pay their property taxes, and the only people able to afford housing became the highly-paid professors at the University of Colorado, the trust-funders who wanted to live like Mork and Mindy, and the high tech execs whose companies in the area were booming. The vast majority of the rest were SOL.

The once-self-sufficient majority had been replaced by those who drift into such locales seeking to feel good about the political correctness of their surroundings, and they bred and multiplied to the point that much of the state is now under the control of sort of a junior varsity version of those who Californicated the Golden State.

You can read the original piece that spurred these excellent comments at BigPeace.com.

On a positive note, the GOP made historic gains in state houses all across the nation...

The National Conference of State Legislatures estimates that Democrats had the worst night in state legislative seats since 1928. With races outstanding in New York, Washington and Oregon, Republicans have flipped at least 14 chambers, and have unified control of 25 state legislatures. They have picked up over five hundred state legislative seats, including over 100 in New Hampshire alone.

This hurts Democrats in two ways. First, it wipes out the prospective farm team for future runs for Congress and statewide office.

But more importantly, it allows a party to control the decennial redistricting. 

 Not only have we kicked over the Democrat Old Guard, we have seized the future.  Want to see conservatism in action?  Look to the states.

We Want to Govern Ourselves

Barack Obama and the Democrats:  Too Extreme for America


Thank you President Obama and Speaker Pelosi for showing us what unwashed socialism looks like.  We experienced the Cass Sunstein buggering nudgery, The Van Jones enviro-ripoff and the Plouffian palaver, and we don't like it.  We have spit you out like a wasted wad of gum.  It tasted sweet at first, but now it's just bitter, rubbery goo... 

Had this pointy-headed band of collectivists not shamelessly ripped off the moderate mask that hid their true colors, we would still be arguing over just how much more government money and intervention we need.

Instead they are a spent force, ideologically, intellectually, morally, electorially.  Obama's "enemies" have punished him.  Harry Reid survives, but Obama and the Pelosicrats are discredited, dyspeptic, dishonored, just plain dissed....  

¡Viva La Reconquista!
We are now the insurrectionists, my fellow libertarians and conservatives, clamoring to tear it all down, man!  Give us back our incandescent lighbulbs!

To the socialists of all parties
-- F.A Hayek, The Road To Serfdom

Don't get too smug, Republican politicians.  We remember what happened last time, and we've got our eye on you.  We don't love Republicans, we love liberty.  We don't hate Democrats, we hate statism!


A Free People Aspire to Self-Governance
This vote was not just a crushing defeat for liberal democrats. It was anti-statist fusillade aimed at the blundering bureaucratic dreadnought that both parties have used to attack the frontiers of freedom.

• 61% of voters believed cutting spending would create more jobs than the president's plan
• 53% want to repeal the health care bill

Here’s the money quote:

Elected politicians also should leave their ideological baggage behind because voters don't want to be governed from the left, the right, or even the center. They want someone in Washington who understands that the American people want to govern themselves  (WSJ Online - Scott Rasmussen)

Do we still know how to govern ourselves?  Will the Republicans give us a chance to find out?

Don't let the crown sit too easily upon your heads, GOP!  The tea parties have just begun to fight.

Democratic Mudslide

The Democratic Party forecast calls for mud and more mud, all the better to smear their opponents with.

As you watch this year's ads -- and I've been watching all too many lately -- you'll notice a striking difference between Democratic and Republican attack ads: Democrats are attacking over personal issues, Republicans are attacking over policy.(ABC News)

Tired of liberals giving you the finger, America?  Vote Republican!

It's an ideological battle

That voters are even considering giving Jerry Brown a chance to finish the wrecking job on California that he started, and the almost certain victory of a lying fake Vietnam war veteran in Connecticut shows that there are still stubborn pockets of ignorance out there.  Not only do we have to reeducate our politicians, we also have to spread the message among fellow citizens indoctrinated by a progressive educational system.





What is our task as Conservatives?

It is always the task for conservatives to insist that money does not grow on trees, that government programs must be paid for, and that promising unaffordable benefits is reckless, unjust and a long-term threat to maintaining free institutions.

Voting Democrat kills Virtue

But conservatives also combat government expansion and centralization because it can undermine the virtues upon which a free society depends. Big government tends to crowd out self-government—producing sluggish, selfish and small-minded citizens, depriving individuals of opportunities to manage their private lives and discouraging them from cooperating with fellow citizens to govern their neighborhoods, towns, cities and states. (Peter Berkowitz - WSJ)

Spending more than we have makes us financially bankrupt.  Legislating every last aspect of our lives leaves us morally and intellectually bankrupt.  Do everything for someone and they lose the ability to do for themselves.

Those of us who can think for ourselves will be voting for the conservative candidate this Tuesday.