I have a confession to make...

I live in Colorado. Yes. It's in the "fly-over zone," some of you may recognize it when I tell you: it's the state where Vail and Breckenridge are.

Why did I consider not disclosing this? Well, because I'm usually in denial about it myself. Colorado is in many ways a microcosm of all the Right-most wrongness in the country. We're home to Focus on the Family, Senator Wayne Allard and this guy. My fiance once joked that he almost broke up with me when he found out I was originally from New Hampshire. This is probably the only place north of the Mason/Dixon line where I can get called a "yank."

But, frankly, there's just so much good material there. And while American probably doesn't need another liberal blogger, it couldn't hurt to have one more in Colorado.

Anyhow, back to Caplis. This is my favorite quote from the article:

Caplis further stated to Silverman, "You don't want to acknowledge that the terrorists themselves -- you know, that [Osama] bin Laden's camp, [Ayman al-]Zawahari has directly sent messages to the Democratic Party in his statements, telling them, we handed you your mid-term victory, now you'd better act right or you're going to lose those benefits."

Seriously? The Democrats have been directly communicating with terrorists? I better vote Republican!

What scares me is that all over this state are people who actually buy that.

And then there's this:

On October 19, 2006, Caplis declared, "If you want America to surrender in this war [in Iraq], then vote for the Democrats. You have a shared interest at that point with the terrorists."

Note the date. Roughly a month later Coloradans elected a Democratic governor and re-elected a Democratic Senator, Ken Salazar. So, also like greater America, perhaps the "overwhelming conservative/moral majority" is largely mythical. Unfortunately we also re-elected Republican Wayne Allard.

Of course, Ken's a very typical "red-state" Democrat. He voted in favor of the monstrous Military Commissions Act of 2006 which stripped habeas corpus rights from from "unlawful combatants."

Note: A bill to restore these rights (and a shred of America's dignity and moral authority) is currently stalled in Congress.

By the way, Colorado made national news this week over a Colorado State University (CSU) paper's printing on its Op-Ed page "F--k Bush" in large letters. Apparently now people are calling for the editor to be fired. Funniest part about this for me? Watching the live anchors this morning explain '...it read "Tase this: F-Bush...only they printed the whole word.' (I'm paraphrasing, but it was funny at 6 AM, trust me)

My generation (yes, I'm revealing that I'm only two years out of college now) would really get taken more seriously if we started using something other than vulgarities to get national attention.

But perhaps I'm putting the chicken before the egg -- maybe we can't get any attention unless we play into the Mass Media need for stories about stupid liberal college students.

Okay, I should say, quickly, that Colorado does have many things to commend it, Colorado College (my Alma Mater), beautiful views, great hiking, skiing, mountain biking, white-water rafting... It's a great place to vacation!