Referendum C was a major turning point in Colorado Politics.  One of many over the last few years.  With the Republicans being taken out of power in the state legislature, many have expressed the belief that they may not get their majority back now.  TABOR is considered dead.  And they even say Owens' Governorship has hurt them in the state.  They even say Colorado is a blue state now.  This is all in the Denver Post.  The fact is Colorado voters vote in those who they believe will bring home the bacon for them.  It seems that they believe most Republicans don't anymore.  It is also possible that they didn't like power brokers like Grover Norquist poking their noses into our state.  

I just watched this thing with Tom Brokaw about the Evangelical movement.  Having been part of a church for 3 years, it definitely struck chords with me.  I watched them split hairs about how their movement wasn't political and they are not trying to turn America into a theocracy, it is obvious that this is not the case.  Ted Haggard was interviewed quite prominently.  While I don't consider myself anti-God or anti-religion, albiet agnostic, I continue to be offended by what I see here.  It is a macrocosm of my experience and it continues to highlight the hypocrisy I have seen.  The conservative Evangelicals have created their own subculture.  

The way they view the role government not only fails to make sense to me, it is totally hypocritical.  "Conservatives" believe that helping the people of New Orleans is not the responsibility of the Federal Government but the local governments only.  It's just like their views about the health care crisis and the job market.  "Not our problem."  When government talks about dealing with those problems, then it smacks of big brother.  They suddenly become Libertarian in that Government is bad.  Yet they have no problem with the Government legislating morality and interfering in our lives that way.  It is not something I even want to pretend to understand.  Can't think of anything else to say on this.  

They can all shove their opinions up their asses.

From 1997-2000, I attended an Evangelical church.  In my time there, I have dealt with some of the most closed-minded sentiments I had dealt with in my life.   If I wasn't 100% with them, I was against them.  From everything from the theory of Evolution right down to what kind of music I listen to.  As much as they talked about freedom they were very restrictive.  They talked about giving up everything, but still shopped at Abercrombie and Fitch, drove their SUV's and owned their nice houses.   They even got a gymnasium built at the church.  

FYI:  I also wrote this in Daily Kos. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/8/27/143336/685

I have been grappling with this for a while now.  Because on one hand, I think that a lot of people are idiots for voting for a person and a party who, in my mind could not be more wrong for this country.