State Rep. Amy Stephens (R, Colorado) needs to run the state assembly primary gauntlet. #obamacare

I am (mildly) going to stretch a rule of mine and opine about the Coloradan Senate primary.  Specifically, I find I have a problem with one of the candidates’ primary strategy.  Full disclosure: a friend and colleague of mine works for another one of the candidates in that race.

Background: Amy Stephens is a Colorado state legislator who is running for the 2014 Republican nomination.  As that link shows, there is at least one serious issue with her as a candidate: Rep. Stephens sponsored and helped get passed a bill that set up Colorado’s currently-malfunctioning state Obamacare exchange.  As I noted earlier today on RedState, the site is under-performing even the most pessimistic expectations of it; and with end of year deadlines looming, betting that a Democratic-controlled state could handle Obamacare any better than the federal government can is starting to look like a very, very poor call on Rep. Stephens’ part.

None of which would have persuaded me to write on the subject, mind you.  This is why there’s a primary in the first place: let Republican voters decide who should represent them in the 2014 general election. If they want somebody who guessed wrong on Obamacare, so be it. But… there’s a wrinkle. Continue reading State Rep. Amy Stephens (R, Colorado) needs to run the state assembly primary gauntlet. #obamacare