Holtzman v Beauprez

In some ways, this ought to be a fairly easy call for Rep. Beauprez. He's leaving the House, so he won't have to worry about repercussions when the plum assignments are handed out. He's not pulling in much national money at this point, and his big local donors - who might night like Shadegg's untidiness - are already committed. After all, nobody's gonna get Pete Coors to do this again.

After having kept his head down during C&D, it's a chance for Beauprez to make a clear statement about the kind of party he really wants to inhabit.

UPDATE: A commenter points out that the National Journal is reporting Beauprez as committed to Blunt. The date of the posting is 1/14, which suggests that it was working off a slightly older list than that. This was before, or close to, the time Shadegg actually announced, at a time when Blunt was trying to sell the fiction that he had it all locked up.

Even public committments are next-to-impossible to enforce. Beauprez could argue that he committed too early & he's sorry about that, but that Shadegg hadn't yet entered the race and, after all, it's better to say something publicly rather than do the traditional private-ballot back-stabbing thing and wait until the vote.