Colorado Is Blue, But Are We Just Feeling the Altitude Sickness?

Let’s rip off the Band-Aid: Colorado is a deep blue disaster zone, and every election seems to confirm that fact with painful consistency. Once a proud bastion of rugged individualism and conservative values, we have become the Mile High Marxist Outpost. The question conservatives in this state must ask themselves, while dodging the next tax hike or watching kids get indoctrinated in schools, is this: “Is Colorado too far gone, or is there still a pulse under all this progressive rot?”

On Saturday, March 29, the Colorado GOP elected their new leadership team. And by “new,” I mean just old tired establishment hacks or maybe just say it like it is, RINOs. The kind of “Republicans” who will lead the Colorado GOP just like KBB did for 2 years. You know the type, they still think winning means going along to get along and accept what ever scraps the Dems give us.

Let’s be brutally honest: conservatives in Colorado are not losing because of superior Democrat ideas. We’re losing because we allow subpar candidates on the ballots. Instead of fighting for parents, the unborn, small business owners, and law-abiding citizens, we elect state officials (some, NOT all) who are left-of-center Republicans who mostly believe they must play nice with the very people who are burning the house down. You know that age-old phrase, “We must reach across the aisle.” We’re talking about a state that banned gas-powered lawnmowers before it figured out how to fix I-25. Progress!

But is it hopeless? Maybe not.

Look at Douglas County. Yes, progressive lunacy is seeping in, but here, we still have a conservative backbone, except in HD 43, and all of Highlands Ranch is fading blue fast. If we could just convince the DCSD not to run any bond initiatives, maybe we could keep the Denver School Teachers Union crew from walking in HD 43 and other places in our county. We still have active grassroots groups (like this one!) fighting tooth and nail for every inch of common sense left in the public square. The fire is still burning, dimly, yes, but it’s there.

The truth is, Colorado won’t be saved from the top down. The GOP elite (Coup Crowd) have shown us who they are, and it’s not going to change. If Colorado is going to shift red, it’ll be because of real, true grassroot conservatives, the ones who run for school board meetings, city council, and House and Senate districts, along with the all-important task of knocking on doors during elections. We must refuse to hand this beautiful state over to the lunatics without a fight.

So, is Colorado too far gone? Maybe. But if we’re going down, let’s at least go down swinging.