Colorado GOP: "All Democrats are always poopy."

To date, the Colorado GOP has been utterly unsuccessful in its attempts to smear the 2006 Democratic slate. Weak on national security? Nope. In the southern suburbs and the Springs, the Democrats are fielding Fighting Dems like Bill Winter, Jay Fawcett, Joe Rice and Keely Marrs. Soft on crime? No way. Bill Ritter was one of the country's most successful district attorneys. Dicey on illegal immigration? Nuh-uh. In 2006, the Democratic legislature passed the strongest anti-illegal immigration reform in America.

Raging liberals? Not even close.

So the GOP has opened up a new line of attack. Call it the All Democrats Are Always Poopy strategy.

First we have Mike Rosen in the Saturday Rocky writing about how Ritter might be a moderate with the support of the business comunity, but he's a Democrat, and that's just not acceptable:

Ritter is no flaming liberal of the Pat Schroeder or Diana DeGette variety. I'd say he's a moderate Democrat. But that's not the point. As I've often explained, party trumps person.

(I admit that the hat-tip here goes to the Beauprez campaign, but I'm not linking because I just can't bring myself to do it.)

Down in the Springs, the Gazette headlined an article about Fighting Dems Jay Fawcett and John Murtha, "Fawcett finds a comrade in Murtha". The Gazette headline for an article about the Springs chapter of Drinking Liberally? "Left-leaners find comfort, comrades in Drinking Liberally group."

What's with the word "comrades"? Oh, right, we're Democrats.

I heard a similar theme emerge after listening in on a conference call with Jay Fawcett's team. It seems that Lamborn's campaign is expected to advance the "A vote for Fawcett is a vote for Pelosi" strategy, which may rile up the Republican base, but won't do much to win the moderate votes you need to win elections in Colorado.