Posted on 12/07/2004 3:04:33 AM PST by RWR8189
Unless, of course, there's more than a glimmer of hope that the Bush administration will promote or overlook continued illegal immigration.
?......Must be,......'Boulder'......?
/English as a second language in Colorado?
Dumbass RINOs were so busy selling out the state to developers, they forgot that liberal Californians would be moving there to fill all those shacks the developers were slapping up.
It happened in Oregon and Washington. After leftists soiled their own nests in California, they couldn't stand their own smell and left. They have fanned out to Californicate other states. They will ruin every place they land.
Yep. We took a bushwhacking in CO. You can't beat something with nothing. The Democrats learned that lesson there. We'd better learn it in time for 2006.
It's bad when people make their own state a mess and then just figure they can move out ----- how's it ever going to be fixed that way? It's so common for liberal Californians to complain when they get to a new area how it just isn't progressive like their wonderful California was.
I SMELL FRAUD / sarcasm ;O)
All too true. We have yankees from the northeast who sh!t where they ate (ie elected liberal politician who regulated and taxed everything until the states economies were in shambles) and now they've moved here to GA to befoul this state. Not to mention hundreds of thousands of illegal and a few legal South and Central Americans who bring instant third world mentalitly with them (of course here they get the government to rob the rest of us to pay for their housing, their childrens' education, and their health care)
As a Californian, I sympathize with y'all in CO. I know what its like to be in the minority. But my beliefs are NOT determined by who wins or loses elections.
Since I'm from Colorado, I'll sum it all up for you.
RINO's, Owens, Illegals, Leftist Press, California Transplants.
I may get flamed for this, but I feel the majority of the responsibility goes directly to Gov. Owens and the RINO's that love him. At the Republican State Convention, 68% of the votes went to Bob Schaffer and 32% to Coors. Gov. Owens initially endorsed Schaffer for Senator and things looked good, then he got Coors to run, pulled his support and alienated the base (Owens allready alienated the 2nd Amendment vote five years ago with his "close the gunshow loophole" nonsense). Once the strong right wing base was screwed out of the chance for a real Republican, the support for Coors was only lukewarm and the energy was gone from the campaign.
Then the leftist press went at Coors full bore. Result, we now have to contend with Salazar for the next six years.
As for illegals, this state if filling up with them. I have no proof that any of them voted, but you can be sure that all of their relatives that hide them out all showed up in spades for Salazar.
As for California transplants, (and left coast Boulder types) there are more of them every day. Mark my words, the front range is going to be the next Los Angeles. Why farm in one of the largest irrigated parcels of land in the world if the land can be sold for more than you can EVER make farming. Water is like gold out here and water rights bring huge dollars.
I'm sure the Owens crowd will take great insult from my remarks, but I call it as I see it.
Bump.
I suspect the Colorado Republican Party did a poor job of
selecting cantidates.Colorado citizens seemed have a bit of
trouble with the facts of Coors policy not matching his
talk of Bible and support of the Marriage amendment.
suspect as well the desire of many to stifle Government.
i.e. elect a Republican but put the opposition in to make
the game more interesting. I was not greatly impressed with
any of the choices -but find it impossible to vote for any
Democrat until they repent of their national sins.
I can't picture folks who care about illegal immigration voting Democratic. Democrats have been even more friendly to illegal immigration than Bush.
The real problem, I think, is that the California refugees are moving east. Unfortunately, there are so many of them that it's not just the conservatives moving out of the state anymore.
Actually, not all those leaving CA are left wingers. Some of us went looking for places were traditional morals still hold sway.
I wouldn't have voted for the drug-pusher GOP Senate candidate under any circumstances.
This is what happens when you have inter-party squabbling. If the Republican party here does not start unifying we will end up like the Republican party of California.
I remember being taken to task at a gun show by the Colorado State Shooting Association rep for suggesting that Owens sold gunowners out. His lecture to me was all about the sublime strategery of Owens actions. A true believer.
Like I asked some fellow conservatives before the election, would you prefer a candidate who wants to lower the drinking age to 18, or would you like a candidate who wants to let kids under 18 have an abortion without parental notification? It's an either/or situation. The choice was easy for me.
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