How The West Was Lost

A New York Post columnist is convinced that the GOP has lost the interior west, and that it will only get worse, with Colorado leading the charge into the Wild Blue Yonder:

As Caldara put it: "Colorado is, in fact, the test tube of how to export liberal expansion to the Western states." A moderately conservative state has been turned Blue, Caldara says, because of "the absolute demolishing of what the Right stood for, how the Republican Party turned into something it was never meant to be and went away from Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan ideas."