Colorado Republican Blogs

This is a list of the blogs we know about, and a quick comment about each.  This will be a reference page and the comments and entries will change from time to time.  They are in no particular order (actually, they are in the order they appear in our favorites list).

Colorado Senate News.  Very new, and may be the best out there.  Not a "blog," but a news source.  We wonder how the search engines treat them.

Rossputin.com  Writes good essays, with some headlines.  Mostly National.  Will likely be ignored unless we see some Colorado stuff.  Good frequency.  Will ignore.

A Line of Sight.  Bob Beauprez  It is good to see a name politician writing on Colorado issues.  It would be only fair if he were as critical of the press and reporters as they were of him.  They provide enough material. Intermittent.  More posts, please, at least one a day.

The Political Pale Horse.  Well written.  Needs more hooks. Seems careful about naming Republicans he is attacking and careless about the Dems, which gives the Dems a free search engine ride.  Get Rid of "RINO." Good frequency.  All Colorado.

Thinking Right.  Well written.  Covers national issues.  Won't be covered unless he starts writing on Colorado. 

To The Right.  Bills self as "Top" conservative news outlet.  Wadhams listed him as one of two "Republican blogs" in a Denver Post article.  On the other hand, The Director of Media Matters and a Rocky Mountain News reporter listed him as the top source of opposition research against Beauprez on Independent Thinking the Friday after the election.  It is hard to see how those two facts match up or how any knowledgable individual could claim he was a Republican blogger.  Two Republicans at the Central Committee meeting told us they were tired of seeing negative stuff written about Republicans. All is forgiven, but not forgotten.  Very short leash.  Appears to have gone dark.

View From a Height.  Good Guy!  It appears that Real Life has gotten in the way of blogging, which is a shame.  Intermittent.  Needs to be more regular.

American Kestrel. Regular, but nothing Colorado.  Won't be covered.

Bestdestiny.  Good Writer.  A lot of national stuff.  Will be covered, but ignored a lot unless he does more Colorado stuff.

Clay Calhoun.  No point in linking.  Gone fishing sign is up.  Catching anything?

Daily Blogster.  Not so daily.  Won't be covered until he posts more often.  Good to have him back.

Exultate Justi. Biweekly poster.  No, not that often.  Four posts in 2007!  Not even worth linking.

Exvigilare.  Monthly poster. No, not that often.  Back.  Will Cover.

Geezerville.  Intermittent poster.  Not much Colorado.  Will be ignored.

Mangled Cat.  One post in two weeks.  A bunch before that, but not much Colorado.  Will be ignored.

Mount Virtus.  Works for one of my favorite organizations.  Good Guy.  Needs to blog more to be included.

Backbone America.  JA will hate us, but he doesn't really write a blog, or often enough to be included on this list.  We will peek in from time to time.

Colorado Conservative Project.  After looking at so many sites in a row that have intermittent posts, it is a pleasure to find some energy.  Drop the RINO stuff, guys.  Will cover.

Colorado Right.  Another energetic blog, but national and international in scope.  Won't cover.

Coyote Gulch.  We are breaking our own rules here.  This is a headline blog with little original content.  However, it follows water issues, and water is important in Colorado.  Will not cover.

Slapstick Politics.  A headline blog.  They have a good sense of what to cover, but don't write much original material. Won't cover

Drum and Cannon.  A headline blog.  Won't cover.

The Outlander. A conservative who no longer considers himself a Republican.  A prolific, original writer and thinker.  Had planned to avoid non-Republicans, but this one is a keeper, if only for variety.  Will cover.  Changed our mind after a week of trying.  An unconventional writer and we are doing conventional blogs.

Law, Lawyers, and Politics.  A townhall.com secret, but then every townhall.com blog that isn't a name blog is a well kept secret.  No surprise there.  Will cover.

Where are my Keys. A Denver blog that doesn't do much on Colorado.  Won't cover.

Clear Commentary.  A really good essay writer who takes the time to write "clear commentary," but not much on Colorado issues.  Won't cover-YET!   Will cover Colorado essays only.  The fact that we don't list him on a sweep on a given day does not mean he didn't post.

Policy Media.  This blog went away and is just restarting.  It has some good think pieces.  Won't cover until it is making more posts.

Republican Study Committee. Not really a blog, but a collection of news releases.  It doesn't compare to the slick production put out by the Senate Republicans.  Pdf files, anyone?  It's not really written in a way that would do search engine damage to Democrats.  Needs improvement.  Frankly, if this were a real blog, we would ignore it because of its infrequency.   Will cover.

The ??? blog.  There is a Colorado Springs townhall blogger who has agreed to start a second (non-townhall) blog on Colorado politics.  Since he is doing it at our request, he will go on this list immediately.  Guess not.

PoliticalLiveWires.com.  Not really a blog, but a very valuable resource.  Its a Republican Calendar!  Will get an unchanging top billing.

LovelandPolitics.com.  Suggested by reader JW who says: I have found www.LovelandPolitics.com to be the best site for news on party politics in Northern Colorado. I know they cover Loveland issues but the Larimer County Republican issue and recent consultant scandal in Ft. Collins has info. on the blog you can't [find] anywhere else.  The Blog is here.  Infrequent posts, Won't cover.

Colorado Charter Schools  Normally we don't take on new blogs until they are two weeks old.  The first post was so breathtakingly good stylewise (we don't comment on content) that this is an exception.  Will cover unless frequency or quality declines or subject matter becomes non political.

Colorado Media Watch  A new blog by an old blogger.  Will cover.  With the name he has chosen, we hope that he will hit the Post and Rocky hard, when they deserve it, and they deserve it often.  He is going after blogs on the left. 

A word about this list.  We found it VERY disheartening to try to compile it, not because there weren't some good blogs to put on it, but because there were a number of good blogs that seem to have died since the turn of the year.  Please don't write us and tell us about the great Republican blog that we left off the list without first checking that it has made a post in the last month.  We grew weary about mid afternoon of providing links to dead or dying blogs, and more than one in that category had archives going back three years plus.

If you have a live blog but didn't make the cut, we tried to tell you why, not to discourage you, but to try to get you to become an effective pro Republican anti Democrat blog.  If you didn't make the list, we probably don't know about you.  If you think we made a mistake, no one could be in more of a hurry to fix it and include you.

One of the most important things about blogging is doing it daily.  It does no good to write occasionally.  You won't have an audience.  Even if we tried to promote your blog, we couldn't prevent the drop off that occurs when readers check your site two or three days in a row and find nothing new.

For those who are curious, it took about eight hours to find and look at these blogs to see what they are about.  We're sure we missed more than one who should be on this list and we want to fix it.  For now, attach a list as a comment.

Edited: 12 Mar to adjust the lineup and add a new blog.  Several have come back to life!  Many strikeouts today, too many to list.  8 Mar to add Colorado Charter School and delete Rossputin  6 Mar to add, but not use LovelandPolitics.com  5 Mar to add Politicallivewires. 

Comments

[John Watson]

I have found www.LovelandPolitics.com to be the best site for news on party politics in Northern Colorado. I know they cover Loveland issues but the Larimer County Republican issue and recent consultant scandal in Ft. Collins has info. on the blog you can't anywhere else.

[Mr Bob]

Here is a new one - http://coloradocharters.blogspot.com
, but judging from your comments, I am guessing if she doesn't post at least 6 days a week you won't cover her.

I've been posting about 5 days a week for 4 years, last couple weeks have been slim though so I don't rate. However, I don't cover Colorado very often anyway, I am a national Miliblog.

Your posts are great, glad you have a lifestyle that allows you to blog everyday signifigantly, some of us get to it when we can.

[Bryan Cary]

Some big government socialists among Democrats (Michigan Sen. Carl Levin’s press release Feb 2, 2007) and some small government capitalists among Republicans (Heritage Foundation’s, Edwin Fuelner, PhD, Feb 2007) use lies to support their beliefs. A lie is anything but the truth or the whole truth.

On Feb 2, Sen. Carl Levin paints this nation’s trade policy as 'failed' and strongly implies it is President Bush’s fault. Both charges are false. The great economy and stock market disprove a ‘failed trade policy’ and it is Congress that approves or disapproves trade policy. However these lies or half-truths have the intended effect of diverting attention away from Sen. Carl Levin’s and Congress’s failure to prevent labor unions from bringing about their own demise. Having a trade deficit with China, Japan and other nations is not bad if you like low prices as well as high quality for cars, clothes, tools and other manufactured items.

Better reasons as to why his State has lost so many manufacturing jobs is because of his strong support for legislation on increasing the minimum wage, improving safety in the work place, environmental protection, capital gain and income tax increases, handicap building codes, small business red tape, pension plans, health care plans, and a myriad of other laws that serve to drive manufacturing firms out of the State and/or Nation. This is not saying these laws are bad but the effect is what Carl Levin judgmentally and falsely claims is an administration caused problem. The truth is that he, Congress and those who vote for and support these laws and politicians are the alleged ‘problem’. We should not be surprised by this ultimate effect caused by these ‘do-good’ laws. When we stop using our common sense, as most socialist Democrats are doing, and let ourselves believe the ‘too-good-to-be-true’ lies, we deserve what we get.

Edwin Fuelner's view from the Heritage Foundation that the government’s unaccounted for $24.5 billion in 2003 was ‘waste’ is misleading and unsubstantiated. Other answers could just as easily have been provided. For instance, it could have been used to pay for non-budgeted program costs related to recovering from 9/11, from some hurricane or tsunami relief effort, or some other non-budgeted Congressionally approved program. Even better is that the cause of the unaccounted for $24.5 billion lies with the bean counters entrenched in the labor-union-protected civil service. These are the Civil Servants who work for and answer to all the elected and appointed officials in Government. The problem is that some are incompetent and lazy as well as politically motivated to discredit the opposition party. Dr Fuelner should investigate how hard it is for elected and appointed officials to remove an incompetent and/or disloyal civil servant. The practice is rather to promote and transfer such people.

Dr Edwin Fuelner also attacks farm subsidies as causing higher taxes. Take a trip to south Texas and you will see 1000's of acres growing cotton, sugar cane, cabbage, carrots, leafy vegetables and other labor-intensive food products. The same is true in most other States, like California, Florida, and Colorado. Subsidies help keep these farms from going bankrupt through the dry spells when natural disasters, mandated wage increases, or increased fuel and equipment prices drop them below the profit-loss break-even point. The only time we see food prices rising is when the supply of the product is cut, as from a frost, higher tariffs on imports, or from increased costs related to getting it from the farm to our tables. The average potato travels 1100 miles getting from the farm to the table.

As voters, we should demand the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Without it we will continue to elect men and women into positions of power who endanger the future of this democracy and the traditional way of life that has made this nation as great as it currently is. God bless us all.

Bryan Cary