The NRCC: Colorado and The New GOP

Given my blog's focus, I doubt I'll dig in to every primary around the country. But one was brought to my attention recently. Current concerns with the NRCC motivated me to take a look as it seems they are well on their way to backing Ryan Frazier for a House Seat in Colorado.

There's also a Tea Party candidate in the race and my quick take is, it's going to be an uphill battle for him the way the deck looks stacked. Said candidate, Brian T. Campbell, Sr. is on his way to help the Hoffman campaign NY - 23.

Here's my quick take given a quick look. You can judge for yourself. Both candidates look like fine people at a glance. Frazier has a glossy site with all the bells and whistles and fund raising opportunities down. Cambpell's is a humbler effort, obviously.

But what Campbell has that Frazier lacks is a platform link at top. In short, I can click one link and see precisely that for which he stands. With Frazier I get the usual well-crafted language of consultants laced with appealing platitudes but no more than that, not even after clicking around.

Who would you trust and who do you think has an edge? It concerns me that the answer to those questions might not be the same. If we're only going to elect candidates based upon the money behind them and their well-crafted biographies, I'm not confident we're ever going to get the kind of change we need in America right now.

Here is Ryan Frazier's site.

Here is Brian T. Campbell, Sr's.

It doesn't take a lot of money for someone to concisely tell us where they stand on the particulars. And I'm losing patience with otherwise fine looking politicians who seem more and more reluctant to do it straight out. 

Comments

[gary gulrud]

"I'm losing patience with otherwise fine looking politicians who seem more and more reluctant to do it straight out."

Hear, hear!

[Tully]

Offhand I will almost always trust the candidate who takes firm stands upfront, even if I disagree with some of them. And if they get elected and stick to their platform, I'll trust them even more. We need more of that type, regardless of where they fall on the spectrum. I am heartily sick of both the weasels who will flip on a dime, and the fog-spouters who can't take any stand at all.

[Coloradoan]

As someone who actually live in Colorado 7, this doesn't compare at all. Frazier put his ass on the line last year to push a right to work initiative in Colorado and is a proven conservative.

Campbell on the other hand was in the CD-7 race for three quarters, never garnered any support, immediately dug up some left-wing labor union smear on Frazier as soon as he got into the race, and is the only candidate on the record saying he doesn't think there should be a primary.