March 12, 2008 01:28 AM UTC

Eggs, Meet Basket

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• by: Colorado Pols

Dick Wadhams, the man Republicans brought in – to much fanfare – to head the State Republican Party, has apparently found a better job. As the Rocky Mountain News reports:

To no one’s surprise, Republican Dick Wadhams is now officially campaign manager for Bob Schaffer’s U.S. Senate bid.

Wadhams said today he will remain chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, but he has hired an executive director to run the day-to-day operations.

Wadhams had been performing both the chairman and director roles since being named chairman in March 2005.

Democrats for months have been saying that Wadhams also was pulling the strings for Schaffer’s campaign. Just last month, Wadhams responded to the Democrats’ charges by saying, “That’s crazy.”

He said today he wasn’t running the campaign before now.

The GOP executive director is Mike Britt, who worked in Boston on Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, which ended in February.

That’s swell for Republicans that Wadhams is going to head up Schaffer’s flailing Senate campaign (and it is definitely a boost), but, um, what about the rest of the elephants? This move isn’t going to create a lot of optimism for Republicans hoping to win back some seats in the state legislature. If Schaffer wins the Senate race but Republicans get drilled in every other race, is that really a worthwhile trade-off?