Saturday I spent hours of my life at the El Paso County Colorado's Republican Central Committee.
I am a division leader. So I am supposed to be in contact with about 1300 republicans, and six precienct divisions.
If Stalin was alive he would have heartly approved of the substance of this meeting.
We, about a hundred or so, were exposed to candidates for the senate. The speachs were nothing but mindless slogans, utterly devoid of intelligence of any sort save one congressional candidate who mentioned a few items that might be of substantive. The rest of the missives were as empty of meaning as a box of Lucky Charms.
The word "IRAQ" never was uttered from the mouths of the speakers!!!!.Not Once EVER. War was never uttered from the mouth of the speakers.
Folks to to say once more - the central issue of our nation life and times was totally ignored.
So I guess the war in Iraq dosn't exist, at least to the Republican Party Of El Paso County.
When (I was so surprised and pleased, a Ron Paul spokesman appeared) I clapped heartly, as a few others did I was later accosted, in a quite civil manner, by an ex air force guy. We had a pretty good conversation. But his first words were how could I support RP as an isolationist. I replied I didn't think he was an isolationist, and the conversation went from there.
So commend me for going into the belly of the beast and spreading our voice as marginalized as it is into the Leviathan.