Thread: Bennet gets a challenger in Colorado

Perhaps Buck is a candidate we can support. Usually a "hardliner" as defined by the MSM is someone who has the audacity to actually listen to his constituents and enforce the law:
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politico.com
Bennet gets a challenger in Colorado
By JOSH KRAUSHAAR | 4/28/09 4:34 AM EDT


Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck, a Republican known for his hard-line views on illegal immigration, is officially running against appointed Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet in the Colorado Senate race.

Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck, a Republican known for his hard-line views on illegal immigration, is officially running against appointed Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet in the Colorado Senate race.

Buck, who launched his Senate campaign website Monday, will most likely face Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier in the GOP primary. Frazier announced earlier in the month that he was forming a Senate exploratory committee.

All eyes are now on former Rep. Bob Beauprez (R-Colo.), who is still mulling over a Senate campaign and has higher name identification than both Buck and Frazier.

As district attorney, Buck has cut a high profile on immigration — a critical issue for another prominent Colorado GOP politician, former Rep. Tom Tancredo. Buck authorized a raid last year against a Hispanic-run tax services business as part of a crackdown against illegal immigrants using false Social Security numbers.

A poll released last week by Public Policy Polling showed that 41 percent of voters disapprove of Bennet’s job performance, with only 34 percent approving.

Bennet trails Beauprez 43 percent to 42 percent in a hypothetical matchup and leads the lesser-known Frazier and Buck by single digits.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21770.html

Americans tend to be stronger "social" conservatives than "political" conservatives. One of the big downfalls of the Bush years, IMO, although now it is largely forgotten, were the serious stock market scandals during his first term. Of course, these were not the administration's fault per se, but I think many people would associate such things with a conservative era. Those events started a major decline in the value of the US dollar---where it dropped twenty percent within six months, because many foreign investors were scared off from investing in US stocks.

Having been the victim of a serious mortgage backed securities fraud I know that these things are very devastating. I remain a political Independent for some good reasons, I think. The immigration issue is of paramount importance and I hope this guy can win. Just a word to the wise, though.....Colorado is such a political smorgasboard it's hard to say who could win.