Remembering why the great Ken Buck from Colorado is not in the US Senate at this moment, see comment #1 below.
12/28/11, "The Colorado Model & The Left’s Stratagem For Turning Red States to Blue," LUR, RedState.com
"“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” Sun Tzu
Although it’s being deployed in several states like Florida, Georgia, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and others, there are still many who have never heard of the Colorado Model. What’s worse, despite all the Left’s bemoaning of the “vast right wing conspiracy,” Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, or whatever enemy they can dream up, there is still nothing like the Colorado Model on the Right.
In sum, the Colorado Model is one of the Left’s most effective stratagems that was “built” to turn “red states” into “blue states” in a very short period (with the exception, perhaps, of the 2010 election cycle). When combined with the tactics of Saul Alinsky and his disciples, the Colorado Model is akin to a Soviet platoon armed with AK-47s mowing down a militia armed with slingshots.
According to a 2008 expose in the Weekly Standard, in 2004 and 2006 “routed Republicans, capturing the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, a U.S. Senate seat, and two U.S. House seats.“
Conceived by four rich liberals, the Colorado Model is a fairly simple strategy:
Eric O’Keefe, chairman of the conservative Sam Adams Alliance in Chicago, says there are seven “capacities” that are required to drive a successful political strategy and keep it on offense:
- [1] the capacity to generate intellectual ammunition,
- [2] to pursue investigations,
- [3] to mobilize for elections,
- [4] to fight media bias,
- [5] to pursue strategic litigation,
- [6] to train new leaders, and
- [7] to sustain a presence in the new media.
Colorado liberals have now created institutions that possess all seven capacities. By working together, they generate political noise and attract press coverage. Explains Caldara, “Build an echo chamber and the media laps it up.”
Unfortunately, the Right still doesn’t seem to embrace or, more importantly, understand the Colorado Model. What’s worse, because the Colorado Model requires cooperation, it is unlikely the Right will ever be successful in creating a model similar to that which the Left is deploying across the country.
Unlike Barack Obama’s OFA, which coordinates with the institutional Left, the Moveon.orgs of the world, hundreds of 527s, think tanks, unions, and the like, the Right largely consists of groups who work disparately, in disagreement with, and, often, openly fighting with one another.
- On the Right, we have the Keystone Cops facing the Red Army on the Left.
Again, from 2008:
The Democratic surge in Colorado reflects the national trend, but it involves a great deal more. There’s something unique going on in Colorado that, if copied in other states, has the potential to produce sweeping Democratic gains nationwide. That something is the “Colorado Model,” and it’s certain to be a major topic of discussion when Democrats convene in Denver in the last week of August for their national convention.
While the Colorado Model isn’t a secret, it hasn’t drawn much national attention either. Democrats, for now anyway, seem wary of touting it. One reason for their reticence is that it depends partly on wealthy liberals’ spending tons of money not only on “independent expenditures” to attack Republican office-seekers but also to create a vast infrastructure of liberal organizations that produces an anti-Republican, anti-conservative echo chamber in politics and the media.
Colorado is where this model is being tested and refined. And Republicans, even more than Democrats, say that it’s working impressively. (For Republicans, it offers an excuse for their tailspin.) Jon Caldara, president of the Independence Institute, a conservative think tank based in Denver, says Republicans around the country should be alarmed by the success of the Colorado Model. “Watch out,” he says, “it’s coming to a state near you.”
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Two best comments to above:
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1. "The Blueprint: How Democrats Won Colorado (and why every Republican should care) Wednesday, December 28th at 3:15PM EST (link)
written by Adam Schrager, is an excellent compliment to this post.
HOWEVER, in that states such as CO are allowing the progressive, Marxist movement to gain a stronghold because the GOP leadership so often allows it. At the risk of repeating myself in a post written yesterday, Colorado did not send Republican Ken Buck to the U.S. Senate in 2010 because the elitist, ruling class of the national and Colorado Republican Party prevented it. They preferred seeing Obama’s hand-picked man, Michael Bennet, who went to Washington on ONE vote (that of Gov. Bill Ritter, who had the authority to appoint him after the senatorial absence created when Ken Salazar resigned to become Secy of the Interior).
- Ken Buck was the hands-down people’s choice–the grassroots candidate,
the tea party favorite and the elites in the GOP were ticked off beyond the pale. THEIR hand-picked candidate, Jane Norton, was soundly defeated in the primary by Buck. To retaliate, the GOP, including national leaders such as John Coryn and John McCain, refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of Buck’s campaign and they idly stood by and allowed Bennet to keep his job. It wasn’t just the elite in the GOP–Buck got very little press time and never got air time with Hannity, Rush or Levine. He was ignored and there was an unspoken resignation that Colorado was simply lost; better luck next time. A state’s attorney, Buck would have been a true asset to the U.S. Senate; a man of great character and personal integrity and the father of a West Point cadet.
Whether we talk about the “Colorado Model” or study the well-written “Blueprint..” noted above, it comes down to the grassroots being able to first defeat the insider Beltway Republican Establishment,
- resplendent with their admirers in the Right media.
The problem is clear: there is little daylight between the ruling class of the GOP/career politicians in DC and the Left. Far too little daylight. Nothing will change and the advancement of European-style socialism will march on in this country until enough conservatives see that the path the RNC and country club GOP’ers are taking us down is the road to defeat, after miserable defeat.
We would be wise to study Colorado and yet, its back to basics if we truly want to defeat liberalism. It’s really not that complicated."
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2. "We have a vehicle. It's the Republican Party. We haven't been using it.
Wednesday, December 28th at 3:21PM EST (link)"Half of the precinct committeeman slots in the Party vacant. One third of the precincts have no precinct committeeman at all. If we conservatives would unite in our respective locales at our respective local committee meetings, and fill up all the vacant voting seats — the precinct committeeman seats — we’d be on our way to taking our Party back. The Neighborhood Precinct Committeeman Strategy works — but only if enough conservatives get into the real ball game of politics — party politics —
- and become voting members of the Party.
Here’s the situation and how to change it in a nutshell:
Here’s an example in Utah when enough conservatives get involved in party politics:
http://www.redstate.com/coldwarrior/2010/05/08/2101-of-3500-of-75000-denied-bob-bennett/
Here’s another example in my county and state, Arizona:
It may be much, much harder to achieve these kinds of gains in states such as Illinois, New York, and Virginia, but the numbers are about the same — about half of the precinct committeeman slots, on average, across those states, are vacant.
The “powers that be” in those parties don’t want the “little people” to know that and they sure as hell aren’t going to help them find out how to become voting members of their party committees.
We have to learn how to do that ourselves.
Thank you.
ColdWarrior
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