Colorado GOP Chairman Quits: 'I'm Tired Of The Nuts'

[Emit]

Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dick Wadhams dropped his reelection bid on Monday, and fired some parting shots at the Tea Party and the hard-line conservatives he thinks are hurting the party's electoral success.

"I have tired of those who are obsessed with seeing conspiracies around every corner and who have terribly misguided notions of what the role of the state party is while saying 'uniting conservatives' is all that is needed to win competitive races across the state," Wadhams wrote in a memo to the Colorado Republican State Central Committee obtained by The Denver Post.

Wadhams oversaw Republican losses in both the Senate and gubernatorial races in Colorado last fall, races that the party could have conceivably won if the Tea Party-backed nominees in both races hadn't committed some serious errors.

"I have loved being chairman, but I'm tired of the nuts who have no grasp of what the state party's role is," Wadhams told the Post.

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/colorado-gop-chairman-quits-im-tired-of-the-nuts.php?ref=fpblg

[HughBeaumont]

1. Right-wingers too "reasonable" for their party.

Dangerous precedent that's being set here. How much longer before the current Bircher/Theocrat version of the Republican party jumps the fence and starts wearing the white sheets openly?

[tanyev]

2. C'mon, Dick. You're supposed to welcome your new nut overlords.