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September 25, 2012 09:17 AM UTC
8 Comments
“I thought I’d never miss Nixon”
And believe me, it pains me to say that, but it’s true.
of western slope politics, I can certainly support Konolas’ assertions about the Mesa County republican party, and Craig Meis in particular.
There is a meanness of spirit and a bullying mentality that pervades the MCGOP…and it has been that way a long time. Progressives (and Democrats) are treated as unwelcome interlopers in “their” domain, as though we have no right to exist, much less inhabit “Happy Valley”.
The characteristic nastiness and belligerence was recently displayed by a Pols poster who called himself “Junk Town Junket”…regulars will recall our dust-up last week.
Craig Meis is the personification of the Mesa County republican autocrat (or should I say “oil-ocrat”?)…but he is only one of many.
without having proof of it having no negative effects on water quality then he is not “look(ing) out for western slope water”. It can’t be just about keeping water on the W Slope, it also has to be about water quality
into Bat [Shit — c’mon you can say it here] Crazy?”
Nationally, I peg it to just post-Reagan — when the conservatives saw that his proscriptions against unions, top-tier taxes, government as any solution, etc. just weren’t working out as advertised in the real world (. . . because they’re the wrong answers for a democratic country that’s progress has always been pegged to middle class growth and advancement.) When these myths failed to keep the first Bush in office, despite all the Atwater shenanigans and the obligatory war, the dam that used to hold the crazies back and give Republicans any semblance of rationality was busted to smithereens.
But, since this diary seems to be more about our Colorado West Slope conservatives, my response would have to be:
Morph? When did they ever come any other way?
most Mesa County Republicans weren’t this nuts. Many, many contributed money to Bernie’s campaigns. The crazies tried to pass a party by-law change to toss anybody from the central committee who failed to support the GOP candidate. It failed.
Two years later, moderate Republicans were so disgusted when Buescher was ousted by oil-and-gas-funded Laura Bradford that they just quit being active in the party.
That’s where it stands today. The crazies are in charge and have brought us Meis and legislative duds Steve King, Ray Scott, and soon-to-be Rep. Jared Wright.
Scott McInnis made himself fair game in the governor’s race, but as a congressman he was nothing if not accessible. Many Saturdays he’d shake hands up and down Main Street in Grand Junction, and other communities, and just talked to people. Anybody who wanted to see him could. Now Tipton’s whereabouts are some sort of secret, known only to the insiders.
The GOP as a whole has moved crazy right. It just isn’t Mesa County, where reasonable conservatives like former Reps. Gayle Berry and Matt Smith couldn’t make it out of the GOP county assembly.
But it wasn’t always this crazy.
The word you’re all looking for was coined by an acquaintance of mine.The word is “guanopsychotic” = batshit crazy. Let’s see if we can get it to catch on in Pols.
This is a neologism worth promoting!
As for the guanopsychotics, I think you have to look to their "last bastion" mentality in the face of changes around the country. Living in Larimer, I see some of this too. When one sees no way out, the animal within tends to come out.
That said, at least in CO I lay this squarely on the GOPs unwillingness to negotiate a shared future in the previous legislative session (2012). "Never surrender" is great rhetoric, but the more they "defend their islands" the higher the "rising tide" around them. And this time, it's not going to lift their boats, but swamp them until the party is transformed by a flood of Biblical proportions.
In the end, it's not that "power corrupts" as Lord Acton said, but that it magnifies personalities. When the GOP thought that they had a permanent majority nationally in the 00s, they went for it ALL and lost that majority. I think the same thing's about to happen in Texas, and I think it's a point that Dems would do well to remember, too, or we may find ourselves on similar islands around the country in a decade or so.
Contra Acton, I prefer John Donne: "no man is an island." The same principal applies to parties.