Henry Herford running for Congress!

[cajuncocoa]

Oh, he's running LP.

I hope you won't put party politics over principles.

 

[torchbearer]

I hope you won't put party politics over principles.

he is a good man. i know him personally.
he let me stay at his home when i was campaigning for congress.
a very principled man that donated to my libertarian campaign when he was a party official in the gop.
he is about the ideas.
he was a brave man at the convention also. that place was terrifying.

 

[torchbearer]

the top two of all of these people will be in the run-off:

• Eliot Barron (Green), realtor[SUP][12][/SUP]
• Tom Gibbs (Independent), oil and gas land owner[SUP][12][/SUP]
• Henry Herford, Jr. (Libertarian), farmer[SUP][31][/SUP]
• Peter Williams (Independent), tree farmer[SUP][12][/SUP]
• Samir Zaitoon (Libertarian), life insurance agent[SUP][12][/SUP]
• Marcus Hunter, State Representative[SUP][1][/SUP]
• Robert Johnson, State Representative[SUP][18][/SUP]
• Jamie Mayo, Mayor of Monroe[SUP][27][/SUP]
• Weldon Russell, former State Representative
• Clyde C. Holloway, Public Service Commissioner and former U.S. Representative[SUP][12][/SUP]
• Vance McAllister, engineer[SUP][12][/SUP]
• Jay Morris, State Representative[SUP][13][/SUP]
• Neil Riser, State Senator[SUP][1][/SUP]
• Phillip "Blake" Weatherly, engineer[SUP][14][/SUP]

 

[torchbearer]

if i had to bet, clyde holloway will win.
he has spoken very sympathetically to our plight in the party.
he is kinda like sanford, but i'm not sure if he understands liberty.

 

[torchbearer]

the top two of all of these people will be in the run-off:

• Eliot Barron (Green), realtor[SUP][12][/SUP]
• Tom Gibbs (Independent), oil and gas land owner[SUP][12][/SUP]
• Henry Herford, Jr. (Libertarian), farmer[SUP][31][/SUP]
• Peter Williams (Independent), tree farmer[SUP][12][/SUP]
• Samir Zaitoon (Libertarian), life insurance agent[SUP][12][/SUP]
• Marcus Hunter, State Representative[SUP][1][/SUP]
• Robert Johnson, State Representative[SUP][18][/SUP]
• Jamie Mayo, Mayor of Monroe[SUP][27][/SUP]
• Weldon Russell, former State Representative
• Clyde C. Holloway, Public Service Commissioner and former U.S. Representative[SUP][12][/SUP]
• Vance McAllister, engineer[SUP][12][/SUP]
• Jay Morris, State Representative[SUP][13][/SUP]
• Neil Riser, State Senator[SUP][1][/SUP]
• Phillip "Blake" Weatherly, engineer[SUP][14][/SUP]

if i had to bet, clyde holloway will win.
he has spoken very sympathetically to our plight in the party.
he is kinda like sanford, but i'm not sure if he understands liberty.

 

[RDM]

Don't give me this comparable bullshit. We are less free now than we were just 15 years ago, and most of that is due to the policies that were dealt to us by the GOP. All the crap Obama is doing is just following the blueprint that George W. Bush and the GOP majority (from 1994-2006 left to him).

THIS^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^^THIS
...and there's a lot of dumbass people on this forum that STILL doesn't get it.
Pft!!! This forum wants to pride itself as being more knowledgable about politics than the average joe? Yeah right!!!

 

[pcosmar]

"When we are successful,, and we will be,"

That is your GOP.

 

[Aratus]

More power to him. If he runs a good campaign he might win. It's a special election

i agree. i hope he wins! after what he went thru... he's being brave and highly principled.

 

[speciallyblend]

wow, that's a bad choice to go to the LP....

better then the gop, the gop is becoming a 3rd party in colorado sooner then later. rand is not even an option anymore. the gop will be the whigs eventually.

 

[Keith and stuff]

better then the gop, the gop is becoming a 3rd party in colorado sooner then later. rand is not even an option anymore. the gop will be the whigs eventually.

Has CO become that socialist? They hate liberty Republicans now?

 

[Matt Collins]

Yet you would have folks continue to slam their heads against the wall trying to change the GOP.

Except that Goldwater changed the GOP, so did Coolidge and Reagan.

 

[Matt Collins]

The true test will come very soon...whether the GOP will allow anyone to get any further than a Congressman or a Senator.

From a political agenda standpoint, it is better to have a good legislature instead of a good executive.

 

[Matt Collins]

That is your GOP.

The Republican Party is not monolithic and more than the Democrat Party is.

 

[Matt Collins]

No. Educating your friends, family, and neighborhoods is.

No, that is incorrect.

Mobilizing people to put pressure on the politicians, and organizing large groups of voters is the best way.

The "educational" path is invalid and nonworkable: http://www.facltraining.org/facl2/info.htm

 

[fr33]

Except that Goldwater changed the GOP, so did Coolidge and Reagan.

A lot of good came from it.

 

[Matt Collins]

A lot of good came from it.

Compared to letting the Rockefeller Republicans run wild? You bet!

 

[fr33]

Compared to letting the Rockefeller Republicans run wild? You bet!

Unfettered spending, printing, welfare, and wars. They got their way regardless. If this is what winning looks like, why bother. I cannot believe you are trying to defend the GOP using history as an example. All of the facts are against you.

 

[PatriotOne]

better then the gop, the gop is becoming a 3rd party in colorado sooner then later. rand is not even an option anymore. the gop will be the whigs eventually.

Colorado
994k Registered Repubs
22k Registered Libertarians

http://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/VoterRegNumbers/2013/July/VotersByPartyStatus.pdf

 

[LibertyEagle]

Unfettered spending, printing, welfare, and wars. They got their way regardless. If this is what winning looks like, why bother. I cannot believe you are trying to defend the GOP using history as an example. All of the facts are against you.

It would have been a lot more unfettered if no one was fighting back. If not for those people, the country would have gone under long ago and we likely would have full on world government right now.

I don't understand people giving up when we have come so far in such a short time. Most of us were politically-ignorant in '08 and now, in a few states we have a decent strategic foothold and it could be much better with more giving it their all. Surely, no one thought what has taken generations to ruin was going to be turned around in a few scant years, did they?

 

[fr33]

It would have been a lot more unfettered if no one was fighting back. If not for those people, the country would have gone under long ago and we likely would have full on world government right now.

I don't understand people giving up when we have come so far in such a short time. Most of us were politically-ignorant in '08 and now, in a few states we have a decent strategic foothold and it could be much better with more giving it their all. Surely, no one thought what has taken generations to ruin was going to be turned around in a few scant years, did they?

We have elected a few good people in a short time. The only way to defend the GOP strategy is to try to convince people that those men will accomplish something in the future; which is a valid way to defend the strategy. You can't rely on any historical data though.

It's not true it would have been a lot more unfettered. You can find a great man or two who fought for liberty but their vision was never backed up or carried on by their party. That is why anyone claiming that we must only be loyal to the GOP is just flat out wrong.