I wrote an aggressively critical note the other day following Ken Buck’s weak performance on Meet the Press.  But in this emotional election season, I want to take a deep breath and remind myself and readers of these pages what’s important here.

What’s important is that Colorado does not send the spineless and principle-free Michael “Who?” Bennet back to the US Senate.  He’s not a Senator from Colorado; he’s the consummate Senator from Obama.

He votes for every huge expansion of government, then comes back here and claims to be against the growth of government, as if we can’t see and don’t know what he does.  Perhaps he thinks it’s the 19th century and we’d have to wait a month or two for the Pony Express to deliver his voting record to us.

Buck may not be a polished politician.  But in fairness, his lack of political refinement was a noticeable part of the reason many of his supporters preferred him to the “smooth” Jane Norton.

Buck should have given a very different answer on Sunday, or rather not answered that question at all. But not being a great politician in the sense of politicians’ tendency to twist words, well that’s hardly the worst sin one can imagine.

(Mark Hillman has a good analysis of this very discussion HERE.)

Ken Buck’s recent ad, while not quite a “Scott Brown - it’s the peoples’ seat” moment, adequately captures why Buck deserves our strong support:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF_cftQJvmM

Yes, I wish Buck would stick with some of his more interesting positions, like not backing away from at least having a discussion of the impact of the 17th Amendment (direct election of senators), at the end of the day I am highly confident that Buck will be a consistent supporter of a smaller government, lower spending, and lower taxes.

At a time when the federal government is bankrupting my children, that is almost the only thing I care about from a U.S. Senator.

So even while hoping that Buck gets a little smarter about not being baited by a left-leaning television talking head, I want to encourage all of you who care about our nation’s economic future, our health care system, and the level of government involvement in our daily lives, to strongly support Ken Buck as we head into the home stretch of this roller-coaster election season.