Is this the new voice of the Colorado GOP?

Meet Ryan Frazier, Aurora city councilperson and potential GOP candidate for the United States Senate in 2010.  He doesn’t have the same name recognition – yet – of some of the other potential GOP candidates like Bob Beauprez but Frazier is quickly being recognized as an up-and-comer in the party. 

The folks over at the People’s Press Collective announced the results of the straw poll at the Douglas County Lincoln Day Dinner and Frazier came in first place – and not by a small margin.  PPC reports the breakdown of the 171 votes cast as follows:

Frazier 102 = 59.6%
Caplis 34 = 19.9%
Beauprez 22 = 12.9%
Tidwell 4 = 2.3%
Buck 9 = 5.3%

Below you will find the video of his speech and it is easy to see why attendees seem so enthused about Frazier.  A two term councilman, the 31 year-old Frazier is a United States Navy veteran and has garnered national attention to go with increasing Colorado focus.  Many within the state GOP are excited about his potential and the opportunity a Frazier candidacy would present to appear to a large swath of unaffiliated voters in Colorado that inherently lean right.  The one strike that may be against him is that he is moderate on social issues going as far as to endorse domestic partnerships - something that may not sit well with the party base. 

No matter what, Ryan Frazier is someone to keep an eye on.

We must fight for a government that protects our freedoms instead of trying to manage our lives.  We are liberators as opposed to those that are administrators.  We want judges that will interpret our Constitution and not legislate from the bench.  A government that respects that this is the United States of America not the European Union.  For we choose capitalism over socialism, freedom over slavery, life over death, and states’ rights over central planning, fiscal responsibility over fiscal deficits.  We believe that you cannot make one man more free by making another man less free.  
- Aurora Councilman Ryan Frazier