Dick Wadhams Thinks the Sunrise is a U-Turn

Mark Udall said it was night time at midnight, but now it's noon and he claims it's day time? That's a U-turn! That hypocrite!

Yeah, not so much.

Dick Wadhams claims Mark Udall has changed positions on the Roan Plateau because he's now trying to get Bill Ritter's incremental-drilling plan written into law when he used to support a total moratorium.

I read it differently. He and John Salazar had the drilling moratorium in the energy bill, but Congress stripped it out because it didn't have the votes. Now they are going for middle ground, just trying to get the most protection for the Roan that they can.

When some people fail, they try again. But Wadhams, reflecting the attitude of his candidate Bob Schaffer (permanently etched in the Congressional Record), thinks 'my way or the highway' absolutism is the way Coloradans want to be represented. In Schaffer's world it's better to be a righteous failure than it is to compromise and get half of what Coloradans want.

Coloradans are tired of ideologues. They want a Senator who is willing to work hard to accomplish what is achievable for Colorado--strong and principled, but willing to be flexible when necessary. Bob Schaffer is not that, and Wadhams represents his point of view well.