I agree. Shades of all the Conn. conservatives who thought it was an awesome idea to run Linda McMahon a second time around after she blew it the first time and lost to an awful RAT. Or, better yet, the West Virgina Republicans who kept running John Raese over and over again, and Illinois conservatives who want to run Oberweis for major office a SIXTH time now. Very definition of insanity...
What really sucks in the GOP establishment will of course blame the loss on Buck being "too conservative", rather than him being a lousy candidate who kept shooting himself in the foot.
At the very least, we have an excellent chance of getting rid of BOTH Udall's, Shaheen, AND Warner, IF the Republicans in those states would just get their acts together and run some decent candidates. At least they seem to have it figured out in NC, and Kay Hagan is DOA.
Buck is weak. He lost a race he should have won in 2010, this is a harder race.
But he has a huuuge edge in recent PPP primary polling (45-8 over his nearest challenger) and none of the other candidates look like world beaters (low name recognition).
Tancredo also leads in the Gov primary with 34% to 15% for SOS Scott Gesler and 9% for State Sen Greg Brophy (little known but polls best in general trailing Hincklepooper by only 1%). I think Buck probably CAN win but I have serious doubts Tancredo can.
More CO polling, GOP leads generic state leg ballot 47%-42%.
Odd situation. The democrats are clearly unpopular in the state but the GOP frontrunners are iffy.
I’d prefer fresh candidates even if they are not well known right now.