Saw a post on Facebook upset that one of my colleagues at iHeart was on another station questioning the qualifications of
@victormarx, one of several Colorado GOP gubernatorial candidates. The post says questioning a candidate (which I assume the poster supports) is why the
@cologop is "spiraling" out of control.
What?
If you believe vetting and questioning Republican candidates during the primary season, prior to the general election, is what's wrong with the Colorado GOP, then you have the diagnosis exactly backwards — and the prescription would kill the patient.
If you're upset a radio host is asking hard questions about a Republican candidate before a primary, that's not the problem. That's literally the only time it matters.
Once we hand someone a nomination, the train has left the station. Whatever skeletons are in that closet don't stay there — they just get unpacked by people who want to destroy us instead of people who want to make us better.
The poster invoked 2015 and Trump as if scrutiny is the enemy. Read that back slowly. Trump went through a meat grinder — 16 opponents, a hostile press, debate after debate — and he didn't just survive it, he was forged by it.
That's what legitimate candidates do.
They take the heat and come out harder. If Victor Marx is melting under a radio hosts questions on a morning drive radio show, I have genuine, serious questions about what happens when the Colorado Democratic machine and every left-wing outlet in this state turns its full attention on a candidate in August or September.
You want to talk about the machine that's failed Colorado Republicans for 24 years? Part of that machine is the habit of circling the wagons around candidates before anyone's asked the basic questions.
That's not loyalty. That's negligence dressed up as solidarity.
"Stop playing politics" is what people say when they want the questions to stop. That's not a reform movement. That's just a different establishment protecting a different favorite.
Vet the candidates. All of them. Especially the ones you like. That's how you stop losing.