Colorado Congressman Ken Buck was someone we profiled in the first year of this blog for his rampant sexism, and vile comments about rape... but now, we're seeing him campaign for 2020 by making vague death threats at Joe Biden and Beto O'Rourke.

On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, as well as 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted profiles of the current U.S. House Representative for Colorado’s 4th District, Ken Buck, who in his original profile, we noted was forced to resign in disgrace from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Colorado in 2001, and in 2005, while working at the Weld, Colorado District Attorney’s office, he would seize the tax information of five thousand people in a raid on a tax service, getting the office sued by the public for violating their constitutional rights by seizing their personal information. Buck is also noted for being terribly misogynist, not just because he supports Personhood legislation or thinks rape and incest victims should be forced to carry any fetus they might end up pregnant with to term… in a 2010 failed campaign for U.S. Senate he stated his superiority because he didn’t “wear high heels”, and because in 2005, while a prosecutor, he refused to charge a rapist who confessed to forcing himself on his victim while drunk with rape because, as he put it, it was simply “buyer’s remorse” from the victim.



Adding to that disgusting moment, Buck also is a Birther conspiracy theorist, a climate change denier, and has compared homosexuality to alcoholism (the latter of which is of course classified as a disease), as well as comparing pregnancy to cancer. Buck has also argued against the United States housing Syrian refugees because, no lie, “BENGHAZI”. Which is remarkable that he’s blaming something that happened in Libya four years ago on people fleeing a country hundreds of miles away for their lives.

Since we last covered Ken Buck, he’s been defending the highly controversial AR-15 assault rifle, justifying its use for killing small animals like “raccoons and foxes” in March of 2018, only days after one was used to commit mass-murder at Parkland High School in Florida. He also literally trying normalizing scenes of carnage like this, saying they “happen all the time”. Classy.



He also has claimed that he sees “not a shred of evidence” that the Trump campaign colluded with Russians during the 2016 election, which doesn’t exactly jive with what Robert Mueller has revealed, or the indictments that have stemmed from that investigation.



Colorado’s 4th District has a +13 Republican lean, and in most years, that would keep Ken Buck plenty safe. But considering he has faced down constituents at volatile town halls where he’s been raucously booed and heckled, that he actually penned an editorial in July of 2017 where he wrote “The Republican Party is dead” because Donald Trump is president, and dodges scheduled interviews with the press, we’re surprised he has yet to consider retirement like so many of his colleagues did. Instead, he ran for a fourth term, had a constituent arrested for leaving him a message critical of Buck for doing nothing about the Trump administration’s “family separation” policy outside his office in sidewalk chalk, (So much for respecting the First Amendment) and went on to win in November of 2018 with 60% of the vote.

And thus, he’s returned to DC, to be a partisan hack:

Bizarrely, Buck, a man who only three years ago declared the GOP “dead” has decided to run to be the chairman of the Colorado Republican Party. Maybe rather than covet some new power, Buck should have been more focused on his home life, as his wife filed for a divorce.

Well, that was in 2019. As 2020 approaches, Ken Buck seems to have calculated that his best take for winning re-election to another term was to make a veiled death threat at Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke for believing that gun control might actually work. We know his district in Colorado trends more conservative, but we can’t help but wonder if this isn’t a winning strategy in 2020.