The GOP has lost its grip on suburban voters in the Denver and Boulder areas, and there has been a lot of growth of white hippies.
When I read this ... I can't help but wonder ... did the platform change?
Is it the party's responsibility to keep numbers for the sake of numbers?
OR ...
Have people, with increasing numbers, decided to support a different (wrong in most cases) platform?
I understand there's a marketing requirement to communicate and educate ... but ultimately, the voter has a responsibility to be educated in philosophy and issue.
Colorado has become a big-govt state ... taking WAY more than they send to DC. But since government debt is good ... it's not a problem! (smh)
... bit of a tangent ... but after 16 years of gaining "preference points" in the Elk draw ... my younger brother FINALLY, as a non-resident, earned a "restricted area" hunting license (IE ... where all the Elk actually ARE) this year.
So Colorado has ridden the back of the American taxpayer with it's BLM monstrosity ... and then has done everything it could as a State to restrict participation to residents-only. It costs me more as a Texas resident to hunt deer on my own property than it does a Colorado resident to hunt ELK ... in ... National Forest.
I know who really "owns" the mountains ... and the game ...
So we are going to go enjoy a trip together in remembrance of our recently departed father who got us started on these elk-hunting trips ... and we're gonna spend as close to ZERO on anything else in Colorado as humanly possible ... Gonna camp in a livestock trailer ... carry all our food and water. Will haul our own ATV fuel, too. I may even carry enough fuel for the truck ... Top-off in New Mexico ... then use fuel cans to get back to New Mexico.
If we are fortunate to harvest an Elk ... pack that thing out ourselves ... and then goto New Mexico for a processor/taxidermist.
Will be sure to deposit our trash bags in a Colorado refuse can, though.
Colorado ... bunch of entitled pot-cranium hippies.