Republican Parties of the Western states: Why so conservative?

[Indy Texas]

When a party declines, the only people who stick around are the true believers who can't win and you create a vicious circle effect.

The California GOP is now essentially a social club for Inland Empire fundies. And the Democrats there are drunk on power and seem content to run the state further into the ground.

Oregon hasn't had a Republican governor since the mid-80s. Neither has Washington.

Colorado's Republicans nominated a Tea Party joke for Senate and abandoned their mediocre gubernatorial candidate for anti-immigration lunatic Tom Tancredo. Keep it up and you won't be able to find Republicans in Colorado other than the Bible thumpers in Fort Collins and the farmers in the eastern plains.

[Indy Texas]

Colorado's Republicans nominated a Tea Party joke for Senate and abandoned their mediocre gubernatorial candidate for anti-immigration lunatic Tom Tancredo. Keep it up and you won't be able to find Republicans in Colorado other than the Bible thumpers in Fort Collins and the farmers in the eastern plains.

Huh? Fort Collins is a Democratic-leaning college town.

My mistake. I said Fort Collins and meant Colorado Springs. For some reason I was thinking the Air Force Academy was in Fort Collins and CSU was in CO Springs when in fact it's the other way around.