13 thoughts on “TrumpWatch: Where Colorado Republicans Stand on Trump”

1. Woods should have kept her mouth shut.

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2. The Republican Party purposefully destroyed the credibility of critical democratic institutions to maintain its ever-shrinking political base:

   What does it say about the Republican Party that its voters spent even a week or two seriously contemplating giving the presidency to Herman Cain? Republican insiders should have realized the appeal of scam campaigns was a symptom of a problem with the way Republican voters evaluate candidates — and that eventually, someone smarter than Herman Cain would come along and figure out how to run the scam long enough to win the nomination. 

   It's not normal for a political party to rent frontrunner status to cranks and charlatans for weeks at a time. Disastrous candidates are supposed to be blocked by validating institutions. Policy experts explain that their proposals do not add up. The media covers embarrassing incidents from their past and present. Party leaders warn that they will be embarrassing or incompetent or unelectable. 

   The problem is that Republicans have purposefully torn down the validating institutions. They have convinced voters that the media cannot be trusted; they have gotten them used to ignoring inconvenient facts about policy; and they have abolished standards of discourse by allowing all complaints about offensiveness to be lumped into a box called "political correctness" and ignored. 

   Republicans waged war on these institutions for a reason. Facts about policy can be inconvenient — a reality-based approach would find, for example, that tax cuts increase the deficit and carbon emissions cause climate change. Acknowledging the validity of complaints about racism could require some awkward conversations with racist and quasi-racist voters in the Republican coalition. 

   And then came Trump. 

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   1. Hey Zap. I put the same article on Monday Open.  Great minds, huh?

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3. "Slumping Drumpfing into the abyss …"

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4. Former Pueblo Commissioner candidate and Republican party chair Tom Ready is a Trumpeter. So is Becky Mizel, also a former Pueblo GOP chairperson. Most of the rest of the Pueblo GOP crowd is all in for Cruz.

   Klingenschmitt went so far as to declare that "Trump is not the Messiah". Good to know.

    

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   1. Here's another reason to hate Tom Brady BTW. Yep. Brady loves him some Trump.

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   2. nice

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5. Ross Kaminsky previously said Never Trmp, but now appears to be wavering since he was fawning all over some Heritage guy last week.

    

   Caplis should say Never, but he'll milk it  through Cleveland.

   Boyles loves The Donald.

    

   Don Maes?

   Tancredo?

   Penry?

   any of the R pack chasing the Senate nomination?

   Suthers?

    

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6. Well this is kind of interesting. And Corey is mentioned as an attendee…

   Billionaires, tech CEOs and top members of the Republican establishment flew to a private island resort off the coast of Georgia this weekend for the American Enterprise Institute's annual World Forum, according to sources familiar with the secretive gathering.

   The main topic at the closed-to-the-press confab? How to stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

   Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder Larry Page, Napster creator and Facebook investor Sean Parker, and Tesla Motors and SpaceX honcho Elon Musk all attended. So did Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), political guru Karl Rove, House Speaker Paul Ryan, GOP Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.), Cory Gardner (Colo.), Tim Scott (S.C.), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Ben Sasse (Neb.), who recently made news by saying he "cannot support Donald Trump." 

   Along with Ryan, the House was represented by Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton (Mich.), Rep. Kevin Brady (Texas) and almost-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), sources said, along with leadership figure Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.), Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.), Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (Texas) and Diane Black (Tenn.).

   Philip Anschutz, the billionaire GOP donor whose company owns a stake in Sea Island, was also there, along with Democratic Rep. John Delaney, who represents Maryland. Arthur Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, was there, too, a Times spokeswoman confirmed. A Politico spokesman refused to say whether publisher Robert Allbritton attended. Allbritton was on a list of people scheduled to attend last year's conference.

   "A specter was haunting the World Forum–the specter of Donald Trump," Kristol wrote in an emailed report from the conference, borrowing the opening lines of the Communist Manifesto. "There was much unhappiness about his emergence, a good deal of talk, some of it insightful and thoughtful, about why he's done so well, and many expressions of hope that he would be defeated."

   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aei-world-forum-donald-trump_us_56ddbd38e4b0ffe6f8ea125d?2oz85mi

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   1. There goes at least two VP names (Ryan, Cotton).If Trump chooses Cruz does Cruz have to resign from his current gig?

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      1. No, not unless elected vp.

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      2. I don't think Trump would choose any of the usual suspects. 

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         1. Once upon a time, he said he'd like Oprah as VEEP. I'm guessing he's over that.

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