Ken Buck is going be a big target for the Democrats, especially on social issues. That could scare away the independents’ votes for Buck. In the eyes of independents, moderates and Democrats, Buck is an extremist on social issues. Indeed, that is how I see him, but I’m willing to put that asside for now because I’m more worried about President Barack Obama’s extremism than Buck’s. The Tea Party didn’t made the difference in the GOP primary. The social issues Republicans did. But nobody but the Democrats want to talk about that. And they already are making it an issue by calling Buck an extremist.

Most Colorado voters are very unhappy with everything Obama’s doing, and outside groups will hammer appointed Obama Democrat Senator Michael Bennet (D-Washington, DC) on that. Obama and Bennet are doing all they can to give the federal government the power to micromanage our lives and limit our liberties, and that should cost them big in the November elections.

At this point Buck has the anti-Obama tide at his back. But Bennet has more money and better name recognition as well as the well-organized and well-funded Obama campaign organization behind him. 

This will be a fight between Buck’s believers and the government employes and unions who want to use Bennet to control the federal government.

Buck’s supporters want to take our country back.

Bennet’s supporters have strong financial incentives to work for them. Indeed, the federal government is paying them to vote for him.

Government employes and unions want to be their own bosses, and they can do that at the expense of taxpayers by electing Obama Democrats like Bennet. If government employes and unions control the Democrats and the government, they write their own rich tickets at the negotiating tables when union contracts with the federal government come up. No wonder federal employes on average make nearly twice as much as the taxpayers they work for.

They negotiate with themselves and give themselves rich salaries and benefits.

As I’ve said before, outside groups will make the campaign vicious and nasty. While that will turn off the non confrontational know nothings in the electorate, it will ensure that most voters will know more about the candidates—including a lot of lies—than they ever wanted to know.

The Buck versus Bennet election will be about values, goals and the future of Colorado and America. It will be decided not by traditional Colorado Democrats and Republicans but by the more than a million of us who’ve moved to the state over the last 20 to 25 years. We’re a Blue, hard left state until the voters change their minds and turn Colorado Red again.

It is in no way a sure thing that Colorado will turn red in 2010. Buck’s extremism on social issues might keep Colorado Blue. And he can’t move to the center on social issues because he doesn’t want to be called “Both ways Ken.”

Republicans’ only hope is that Bennet’s rubber stamping of Obama’s job-killing extremist positions on spending, taxes, health insurance, energy, climate change and union card checks will help Republicans turn Colorado Red.

Bennet is trying to move to the center, but his hard left record is there for all to see. It’s the record of a senator who represents government workers and his home town of Washington, DC, not Colorado values. It’s the record of a shameless Obama rubber stamp.

If Buck’s supporters want me to elaborate on his extremism, I’ll be glad to. If they’re smart, they won’t ask.