By Brian Ochsner baochsner@aol.com House Speaker Andrew Romanoff recently showed his real opinion about folks who were opposed to Referendum C and bigger government, folks like me and most of you reading this. It happened the other day when he was interviewed on the Gunny Bob Newman show on KOA.

The Gunny first torpedoed the Speaker's arguments about why Referendum C was positive for the state of Colorado. Then, after Romanoff ran out of intellectual ammo to counter Bob's logic, he counter-attacked with the usual leftist strategy of an ad hominem attack -- going after the person, instead of the issue.

John Andrews warns against GOP dissension) The debate over taxes, spending, debt, and TABOR is an important one for Republicans. Our party focuses more on what government might do to you than on what it can supposedly do for you. So we advocate limitations on ever-larger government. But how strict should the limits be? That’s where reasonable people can differ. Yet even when Republicans find ourselves divided over taxes, there are still many strong beliefs that should unify us as a party – and stiffen our backbone against the opposition party.

(News release, Nov. 9) Principle in next year's legislature and victory in next year's elections -- not recriminations over this year's ballot issues -- must be top priority for Republicans now that the C & D debate is settled, according to a resolution passed Tuesday night by the Arapahoe County Republican Executive Committee.

By Dave Crater crater@wilberforcecenter.org Another Colorado election is past, and the state GOP has taken another couple steps downward with the skinny victory of the state’s central tax-and-spend ballot measure, Referendum C, and the skinny loss of C’s sister D. D could easily have won as well. Dismaying to say the least.