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September 04, 2013 12:29 PM UTC
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Given that Corporon and Tancredo are BFFs, how did Corporon take those jabs at the Tanc?
How? Oh, easy. He has what's called a spine, and a sense of right and wrong that's not dependent on who his buddies are, or who he wants to curry favor with.
It's not surprising you can't fathom how he could do that.
Because Wadhams is right, and Corporon knew it.
Oh yes, Wadhams is such a savvy strategist, he made many friends for his candidate, Bob Schaffer, with his quote about Udall missing a recess vote:*
Slate has an interesting piece analyzing why Wadhams does what he does. Perhaps his style of angry, over-the-top mud-slinging will finally come into its own. At least with the 33% of voters who love that style. 33% is not enough to actually win a fair election, as Wadhams found in 2008 and 2012.
*Was that a nostalgia tickle just to see the Rocky's logo? I remember when that was the conservative paper in town.
I've known Dick Wadhams for decades and he is no fool. He may not have made the right calls in every election he's been involved in but he has also won some spectacular victories.
The importance of what he said can't be over emphasized. Between his op/ed piece in the Post over the weekend and these comments on radio, Dick is sending a clear signal to the Republican Party that it can't expect to win in Colorado if it continues to nominate candidates like Buck, Tancredo, Schafer and Beauprez. He is tacitly telling the Republican Party here and nationally that being whacko doesn't work and won't in the future. Bravo for him. At least he has the courage, compared to many other Republicans, to say what needs to be said.
Of course, those who control the party will now consider him a RINO and attempt to run him out, but at least he has made it acceptable to talk about the core problem in the Republican Party.
I wonder if Wadhams believes in platform reform, or like the RNC only believes in message reform…
The Republican Party has tried how many times this year to "reinvent" itself? And every time the conclusion is that the messaging is bad, but the values are right – perhaps even a bit moderate…
There's a battle going on in the Republican Party; there are some truly moderate Republicans still out there, and there are a large number of reactionary right-wingers taking over the party, and then there are the folks who want to win elections. The latter are in "control" of the party; they're the ones calling for party reform, backed with the faint hope of the remaining moderates, but at the same time they're the ones calling for a moderation of the message while retaining the goals of the reactionaries. They're trying to hold the party together so they can win.
After Republicans lost the Colorado legislature in the mid-2000's, I believe it was Dick Wadhams who advised moderating the message – but that didn't moderate (and still hasn't moderated) the party's core values.
Now, of course, it's Tancredo acting as "peace-maker"; the more pragmatic Republicans are now the secondary candidates who can gum up the works for reactionaries like Tanc – candidates who are more likely to win primaries these days than people who can actually win elections.
My Facebook query: "Query: If I'm getting accolades for a radio interview from Colorado Pols, does that mean I'm doing something right or doing something wrong?"