What does Buck mean by that? I keep hearing Jane Norton being dismissed on the grounds that somehow because John Cornyn endorsed her and she’s related to Charlie Black by marriage, she’s inimical to tea partiers — that she’s the establishment and Buck’s the outsider, tea-party candidate. Wasn’t there a time when the “tea party” was all about attracting grassroots enthusiasm? Is the tea party now establishment? Maybe it happened when it became a House caucus?

It’s all a tad confusing. And Colorado politics is certainly a circus lately.