Senate Republican candidate from Colorado Ken Buck, another Tea Party favorite, acknowledges similarities of his contest to those of Sharron Angle, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio. Buck has stated that while he’s not for “state sponsored religion”...“we would be much better off with a closer relationship between church and state.” Buck has also adopted other radical Tea Party talking points like eliminating the Departments of Education and Energy and the National Endowment for the Arts.

I think that birth has an influence over it [homosexuality], like alcoholism and some other things, but I think that basically you have a choice.