Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colorado) was appointed to the Senate after Ken Salazar left to head the Interior Department. Bennet was a big Obama supporter who got handsomely rewarded with a Senate seat.

We’ll review Bennet’s short, yet extremely liberal record in the Senate later. The good news now is that folks are beginning to gear up to run against him. Last week, Ken Buck announced his plans to run against Bennet in 2010. We don’t know much about Buck or his chances, but he appears to be saying the right things. Here’s an excerpt from the story from in the Colorado Statesman:

On Tuesday, April 28, Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck announced his plans to challenge Colorado’s freshman Democrat senator. Buck, who has long been rumored to be entering the race, telegraphed his punches on April 23, when he registered the Web site promoting his candidacy — www.buckforcolorado.com.

Before facing Bennet, however, Buck may have to win a Republican primary. Other possible GOP contenders include Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier and former 7th Congressional District Rep. Bob Beauprez, both of whom have expressed interest in the race.

Buck did not return an interview request from The Colorado Statesman, but it’s possible to distill his political viewpoint from his Web site, which pushes a conservative agenda stressing lower taxation, personal freedom and smaller government.

“Today, we face a critical choice between bigger government with epic taxation, debt and intrusion in our lives, or a smaller limited government that leaves us with control of our family and business decisions,” Buck writes on his Web site. “The Washington, D.C., politicians try to fool us to hold on to their power by claiming the solution to government’s problems is more government. Nonsense.”