[colorado tanker]

We didn't have a candidate nearly as bad as Angle, but I knew it was a bad idea to take an obscure D.A. from a middle size county who had never run for statewide office and try to run him for Senate in his first rodeo. He caught foot in mouth disease and lost.

I count five seats that would be in Republican hands today but for incompetent candidates foisted on the party.

[GeronL]

We have a lot of incompetent candidates.... McConnell, Cornyn, Graham, Cochran (incompetent plus incontinent)

[fieldmarshaldj]

I agree. Buck was way in over his head. Jane Norton wasn’t the greatest, but she’d have beaten the seatwarmer Dem Bennet. Hopefully the CO GOP smartens up and gets a decent opponent for him in 2016.

Alas, this seat would never have been lost in the first place in 2004 had Bob Schaffer instead of the incompetent Pete Coors been the nominee against Ken Salazar. Another Rovian choice foisted on us.