Penry Calls it quits in bid to be Colorado’s next Governor
By Jeff Wright
The GOP establishment and thus, the rank-and-file is falling for it again. Without any serious and visible progress being made towards true conservatism, one-by-one, each of the candidates that even had a semblance of provoking a move towards real revision in the GOP vision, mission and message is dropping out in favor of the hand-picked candidates of the Republican establishment.
The only remaining, non-establishment candidate in a statewide race of any importance is Ken Buck in the US Senate primary race against Jane Norton to face Bennet in 2010. Jane Norton is a loser for the GOP even if she wins the race. Scott McGinnis would prove the same as Governor. He likes to appear as the outsider due to his feud with Dick Wadhams and the state party. That’s window dressing. He’s an establishment NeoCon through and through. His ethical and decisional challenges have already been on display early on in his campaign.
This type of compromise, locally, statewide and federally may allow the GOP to claim some recovery of the legislative majorities and office losses of the last six years in 2010. However, the result for Coloradoans and people of the United States by 2012 and beyond will continue to be disaster, only to a slightly lesser degree than having the Dems in charge. But disaster just the same.
The failure of the Party establishment to recognize the immediate need to dramatically and internally change the course of the GOP from the failures of the last decade is going to complete the split going into 2012. Any wins by the establishment candidates will simply return the party to the status quo, same-ol’, same-ol’, while Rome continues to burn. The wins by the establishment candidates (of all stripes) will be hailed as some kind of huge recovery, when in fact it will it will simply be the extension of the status quo. Apparently nothing is going to change in the GOP until complete disaster overtakes the country and by then it will be too late.
These campaigns, as in the Penry letter, will be sold as campaigns of necessity, made necessary only by the need to win at all costs without taking account of the actual cost. That is a historical failure in the GOP and will insure the end result for America is complete and utter systemic failure.
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