What Colorado Tea Party, 9.12 groups want to do at the caucuses

Nancy Lofholm’s Denver Post article, “Tea Party groups aim to storm caucuses, shake up system,” looks like a fair and professionally reported story that Colorado conservatives will be reading today. That these groups are relatively unorganized and that their followers aren’t contributing to candidates they support still looks like a big problem for those candidates. Gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes and U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck have strong followings among these groups. But their fundraising and organization pales in comparison with gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis and Senate candidate Jane Norton. The caucuses won’t decide who the Republican’s candidates will be. The August 10 primary, where money and organization count, will pick the nominees. What seems important is that these groups already have won. They’ve made themselves heard, and they are making all conservative candidates sound more conservative than ever. Whether that will help Republicans win in November remains to be seen. At the momement, the Democrats are making conservative Republicans look very attractive to independents. And independents will decide the general elections.

1. And indeed many candidates, both real conservatives and phony, are mouthing the platitudes and buzz phrases of conservatism. Voters need to look at the pre-2010 anthropological records of these candidates to see how much they’ve spoken about fiscal conservatism before.

   A life-long career in government can serve as as a surrogate—not dispositive, but a red flag that merits strict scrutiny. In looking at government lifers, focus on voting records if they exist, what they’ve done in executive office with their own budgets if they’ve “served” as executives, and who they are connected with—party RINOS or independent taxpayer rights groups.

   The CUT pledge is a good surrogate, but only if the candidates record is consistent with CUT’s pledges. A failure to sign speaks volumes.

   Posted by Laura Victoria  on  03/13/2010  at  01:22 PM

2. Laura,
   You don’t think people learn from their mistakes?

   Posted by Donald Johnson  on  03/13/2010  at  01:53 PM

3. Oh Donald, you almost cost me a computer screen with that one.

   Posted by Laura Victoria  on  03/13/2010  at  02:20 PM

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