We need a better candidate than Ken Buck.
Really. Why put up a guy who lost the last election?
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.
During the 2010 Senate race, The Colorado Independent ran an article entitled “Suspect in 2005 Buck rape case said he knew it was rape,”.[7] The article, about a case Buck refused to prosecute in 2006, included a complete transcript of a tape between the victim and her attacker, including the following dialogue:
Victim: “You do realize that … it’s rape.”
Suspect: “Yeah, I do.”
Victim: “Like in a number of different ways, because I didn’t want to do it and because I was intoxicated and because I was afraid.”
Suspect: “Yes I do. I know.”
The tape, which Greeley police had the victim record during their investigation, was available before Buck made his decision not to prosecute the woman’s admitted rapist. According to a following article in the Independent, “Buck’s refusal to prosecute 2005 rape case reverberates in U.S. Senate race,” [8] the reporter provides a transcript of another tape of a conversation between the woman and Buck, in which “Buck appears to all but blame her for the rape and tells her that her case would never fly with a Weld County jury.”