Colorado Campaign for Liberty’s ad for Ken Buck is from Ron Paul’s group, Tom Tancredo confirms

Colorado Campaign for Liberty, which is an arm of Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty, is running an ad supporting Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck. Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo told me Thursday night that he knows Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty is putting up the $400,000 that is being spent on the ad campaign for Buck. At an R Block meeting in Littleton, Tancredo told Republican activists that he is supporting Buck because he thinks Jane Norton would vote like a McCain Republican, not like a conservative like him. Tancredo, of course, served in Congress with Paul and campaigned for president with him in 2008. So it’s safe to assume Tancredo knows what he’s talking about.

1. Good.  All the more reason to vote for Ken Buck.  The GOP was wrong when it marginalized the Ron Paul Revolution before ( see http://www.amconmag.com/article/2007/jun/18/00010/ ), but in the wake of the GOP’s defeats in 2006 and 2008, some are now openly admitting that Paul isn’t the “wack job” they made him out to be.  See http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ron-paul2-2010jan02,0,6923745.story?page=1&track=rss

   Ron Paul was right.

   And Tancredo is correct, I believe, in his prediction about how Mrs. Norton will exercise her senatorship.  Those of you who support her are supporting another RINO.  Or maybe that should be “CINO”, since the GOP is increasingly not a conservative party.

   Posted by Snaggle-Tooth Jones  on  01/30/2010  at  09:23 AM

2. The real question is: Could a Ron Paul Republican win in purple Colorado?

   Posted by Donald Johnson  on  01/30/2010  at  10:07 AM

3. No, Mr. Johnson, that is not the real question.  I submit to you, the real questions are, “What is the the nature of conservatism?” and “What is the future of conservatism?”

   If the real question is what you say it is, then conservatism in this country will only continue to follow the path of devolution described here:

   http://coloradoconfederatarian.squarespace.com/journal/2009/1/25/they-call-it-th-center-right.html

   This is why libertarians commonly say that Americans are losing their property and their liberties under the GOP just as surely as they are under the Dems, just more slowly. And as Dabney suggests, the kind of conservatism Mrs. Norton represents means that progressivism’s victory is inevitable.

   Posted by Snaggle-Tooth Jones  on  01/30/2010  at  12:03 PM

4. William Buckley once said that conservatism’s goal was to stand athwart history and yell “Stop!”.  Not “Slow down!” “Stop!”  Jane Norton and the GOP elite to whom you look for temporary hindrances to the liberal-left juggernaut don’t represent that fundamental goal and vision of conservatism.

   As a true conservative, that’s why I don’t give a rat’s patootie about who can win in purple Colorado.  I want to stop the liberal-left juggernaut, not just slow it down.  That’s why conservatism has to find another way than just electing the next Republican.

   Posted by Snaggle-Tooth Jones  on  01/30/2010  at  12:05 PM

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