Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Thursday, September 14, 2006 12:10:50 AM
Medved's
blog alerted me to take a good look at Hugh's column.
Here is Hugh's
latest advice, which I find very sound: "Every vote for any Congressional Democrat is a vote against victory and a vote for vulnerability."
However, just a few hours
earlier, he said: "The Rhode Island GOP voters who voted for Steve Laffey would be well advised to vote for the Democratic nominee in November."
I didn't put this up to embarrass Hugh. Rather, I put it up to try to illustrate that the stakes of insisting on conservative purity are much higher than we will ever care to bear.
Because I am a Beauprez volunteer (though if I used the same standards that Hugh insists on-of only voting or working for someone I agree with completely-I wouldn't be), I am holding my tongue until after the election.
I am spending about $2,000 in gas money this summer and fall, and hundreds of hours to make literally thousands of phone calls. I know first hand the kind of damage Hugh and others with their "my way or the highway" attitude are doing to the Colorado Republican electorate, both conservatives and moderates. Hugh's attitude is so damaging, so destructive, so disrespectful of my efforts that I find it hard to express myself in the calm civil tone that I have tried to establish for this blog.
I said in a
post that "We Republicans are training voters that it is ok to go to the polls and not vote races because this party leader or that party leader is unhappy with the outcome of a primary. Eventually we will teach them not to vote at all."
What I didn't say was that that has already happened. Let me say it now.
That has already happened!