The Rise and Fall of D Brown

[BPTactical]

In the seminal History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon detailed the cruelty and persecution (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/732/732-h/732-h.htm) Nero enacted upon his people. As an anachronistic legend recounted, the emperor fiddled while Rome burned (https://www.history.com/news/did-nero-really-fiddle-while-rome-burned#:~:text=According%20to%20a%20well%2Dknown,i n%20a%20time%20of%20crisis.) down around him.
For the past quarter century, Dudley Brown took similar pleasure in the destruction he wrought over the Colorado Republican Party.The longtime executive director for the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, Brown stepped down (https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/executive-director-of-rmgo-influential-gun-group-in-colorado-steps-down/73-40adebf1-6475-481e-9a1c-9e65e28aceaa) after suffering a string of humiliating losses in courts (https://coloradosun.com/2020/06/29/colorado-supreme-court-large-capacity-magazine-ruling/) and ballot boxes (https://coloradosun.com/2020/06/30/super-pac-cash-statehouse-winners/). After more than 20 years terrorizing Republican candidates and turning Colorado from red to blue, Brown?s departure will come as welcome news to conservatives across the state.




https://coloradosun.com/2020/07/12/dudley-brown-rocky-mountain-gun-owners-politics-opinion/ (https://coloradosun.com/2020/07/12/dudley-brown-rocky-mountain-gun-owners-politics-opinion/)

[Justin]

I have a hard time laying all the blame for Colorado's shift to blue at Dudley's feet.

There was a concerted effort to turn Colorado blue by Jared Polis, Tim Gill, Mary Stryker, and at least one other exceptionally wealthy left wing ideologue. They essentially planned out and funded a multi-year strategy to turn Colorado from solid red to purple to solid blue and dumped a lot of money into making it happen.

Dudley may be a douchebag, but between the plan executed by the people listed above, and a feckless state-level GOP, Brown was nothing more than a sideshow.

[Gman]

I made the mistake of contributing to RMGO once. ONCE.

Hopefully Colorado can have an effective 2A support org. I'm also still hopeful that the NRA will clean house. Wayne and his cronies are a distraction and haven't had the priorities of the membership straight for quite some time.


I have a hard time laying all the blame for Colorado's shift to blue at Dudley's feet.


There was a concerted effort to turn Colorado blue by Jared Polis, Tim Gill, Mary Stryker, and at least one other exceptionally wealthy left wing ideologue. They essentially planned out and funded a multi-year strategy to turn Colorado from solid red to purple to solid blue and dumped a lot of money into making it happen.


Dudley may be a douchebag, but between the plan executed by the people listed above, and a feckless state-level GOP, Brown was nothing more than a sideshow.
Don't forget Bloomberg in that cabal.

I agree that it's not all Dudley's fault, but he certainly was more concerned about himself than 2A advancement.

The CO GOP is an absolute joke. I figured changing my registration to 'unaffiliated' was the only message I could send to those jokers.

ETA: Clarity

[wctriumph]

Fully agree with the above comments .

[FoxtArt]

He probably can't fathom how he lost his arguments on the latest case before the CO Supreme Court. Meanwhile every idgit including myself fully understood he'd lose horribly in advance, and none of us are attorneys. In many ways Dudley reminds me of Ron Paul.... all the utility of a cinderblock.

Immobile, non flexible, hollowed out, and not a component of any successful project, but liked by certain people with a vehicle in their front yard missing all its wheels.

[Bailey Guns]

I have a hard time laying all the blame for Colorado's shift to blue at Dudley's feet.

There was a concerted effort to turn Colorado blue by Jared Polis, Tim Gill, Mary Stryker, and at least one other exceptionally wealthy left wing ideologue. They essentially planned out and funded a multi-year strategy to turn Colorado from solid red to purple to solid blue and dumped a lot of money into making it happen.

Dudley may be a douchebag, but between the plan executed by the people listed above, and a feckless state-level GOP, Brown was nothing more than a sideshow.

Yeah...I agree. He was a contributor, not the architect.

[CS1983]

He probably can't fathom how he lost his arguments on the latest case before the CO Supreme Court. Meanwhile every idgit including myself fully understood he'd lose horribly in advance, and none of us are attorneys. In many ways Dudley reminds me of Ron Paul.... all the utility of a cinderblock.

Immobile, non flexible, hollowed out, and not a component of any successful project, but liked by certain people with a vehicle in their front yard missing all its wheels.

Mobility, flexibility, being filled with whatever will "work" is the incrementalist mindset which led this country to the place it is.

One may not like Dudley, or Ron Paul, but this retarded and milquetoast idea about "working together" with those who don't mind a long march through the institutions, and will absolutely win their war by generational attrition, is exactly why the Neocons and not-actually-conservative Conservatives have lost.

"Working with" Liberals is like a sheep working with wolves on a solution.

That's the reason Pelosi et al., clash with people like AOC: AOC is willing to bear her fangs while Pelosi and those like her want to ensure the long game succeeds.

Liberals concede because they know they can capitalize on human nature's moral devolution. They'll eat the Elephant one bite at a time. "Conservatives" (who conserve nothing, apparently) concede because they either 1) don't actually believe their own bullshit or 2) believe in the absolutely ignorant idea of "human goodness" and the idea of "working together". Liberals believe in their cause. It's high time supposed Conservatives act like they believe in theirs.

[Great-Kazoo]

I have a hard time laying all the blame for Colorado's shift to blue at Dudley's feet.

There was a concerted effort to turn Colorado blue by Jared Polis, Tim Gill, Mary Stryker, and at least one other exceptionally wealthy left wing ideologue. They essentially planned out and funded a multi-year strategy to turn Colorado from solid red to purple to solid blue and dumped a lot of money into making it happen.

Dudley may be a douchebag, but between the plan executed by the people listed above, and a feckless state-level GOP, Brown was nothing more than a sideshow.

It's Pat Stryker and Rutt Bridges They're called the gang of 4 . It shows the D's play the real long game. unlike the R's who take the win and sit the rest of the game out.

https://www.denverpost.com/2007/09/14/gang-of-four-helped-democrats-win-in-04/

[FoxtArt]

Mobility, flexibility, being filled with whatever will "work" is the incrementalist mindset which led this country to the place it is.

One may not like Dudley, or Ron Paul, but this retarded and milquetoast idea about "working together" with those who don't mind a long march through the institutions, and will absolutely win their war by generational attrition, is exactly why the Neocons and not-actually-conservative Conservatives have lost.

"Working with" Liberals is like a sheep working with wolves on a solution.

That's the reason Pelosi et al., clash with people like AOC: AOC is willing to bear her fangs while Pelosi and those like her want to ensure the long game succeeds.

Liberals concede because they know they can capitalize on human nature's moral devolution. They'll eat the Elephant one bite at a time. "Conservatives" (who conserve nothing, apparently) concede because they either 1) don't actually believe their own bullshit or 2) believe in the absolutely ignorant idea of "human goodness" and the idea of "working together". Liberals believe in their cause. It's high time supposed Conservatives act like they believe in theirs.

It's not that I at all disagree, but this is inherently idealism. There's what I want over in that corner, but pragmatically, if it got elected, we'd actually lose ground (just like we could have potentially had a 15 round limit instead of a 10). Realistically, it's not about someone who compromises or is willing to compromise, what matters is someone who actually accomplishes what they set out to do. A lot of people (Ron Paul included) have interesting ideals, but their people skills are garbage among other issues so they go a lifetime without any accomplishment at all. What's commendable about that? The only advantage is I do believe an government that accomplishes nothing to be superior to most others... e.g. sometimes when house, senate, and president are all split among parties, it's a benefit. Everybody argues over their pork, so the country eats white meat government.

Dudley has the same problem Ron does. Unflinching, unflexible, no people skills, no pragmatic nature, unable to predict outcomes, unable to pick their battles. Life is short, it's important to pick winning fights, not just fight everything for the sake of saying you did.

ETA: And we could say staunch 2A is a good thing, but that's not what has caused his track record of failures. It's all the other stuff (unable to pick battles, predict outcomes, etc.)

[hatidua]

Dudley may be a douchebag

may?

[TFOGGER]

I've long held myself to be a libertarian as opposed to a "conservative". I believe strongly in personal responsibility for one's actions, and strongly oppose the government attempting to legislate morality. Most people look at the Constitution as an enabling document, when it was written expressly to limit the power of the federal government to intrude in our lives. Lincoln may have been one of the better presidents this country has had, but his one inexcusable error was the unprecedented expansion of the federal government after the Civil War. Colorado's republican party is out of step, lacks appeal for many mainstream voters, and has been wholly ineffective in energizing their supposed base, mostly because they keep going back to the same tired old formula. Dudley is a symptom of this insanity, not its cause. Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result...