We were meaning to get around to writing about the potential candidacy of our friend Chuck Muth against Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, the way our colleagues have done. (Read Anjeanette Damon’s take here and again here.) We weren’t totally sure, however, that this wasn’t one of Ashton Kutcher’s non-hilarious douche pranks, so we held off.

Well, Chuck swears it’s real on his website, where he’s done the serious math about his chances of moving from his home in Carson City to Buckley’s District 8 here in Las Vegas. And he’s definitely not all talk: He once ran against Senate Minority Leader Dina Titus. If anybody would challenge the state’s first female speaker, it’s Muth.

As far as we’re concerned, we don’t think he should do it. First, as Chuck explains in the link above, the math is not with him. He’d need more than 1,100 Democrats to abandon the speaker in a year when Republicans are as popular as Dr. Dipak Desai sipping from the punchbowl with a hepatitis-infected syringe.

Second, we like Buckley. She’s done a good job as an Assembly member, and her tenure as speaker was a good one. Unlike somebody else who we won’t name (hint: it rhymes with Phil Maggio), she actually had the Assembly finished on time during the 2007 session, with a few minutes to spare! So, she deserves another term.

Third, we also like Chuck, and we don’t want him to die. We’re not saying Buckley would intentionally kill Muth just for running against her. Not at all. But let’s be honest: Sometimes, madam speaker doesn’t know the power of the Buckley Stare of Death. You know how the emperor in Star Wars shot lightening out of his hands? That would be like an Asian massage with happy ending compared to being on the other end of the Buckley Stare of Death. (Trust us. We’ve seen in once or twice ourselves.)

But why do we have to choose? Why shouldn’t we be allowed to have both Buckley as speaker and Chuck in the Assembly? (Can you picture that? People would pay money to attend those floor sessions! MUTH: Madam Speaker! May we consider Assembly Bill 432, the Barbara Buckley Loves Taxes Like Eliot Spitzer Loves Whores Act of 2009? BUCKLEY: The chair will entertain a motion for the gentleman from Southern Nevada to blow it out his ass!)

Instead of running in a tough, numbers-adverse district, why not do a cakewalk in a GOP-held seat where the incumbent is, shall we say, lametastic? Let’s see, where’s that Assembly roster? Oh, here is is. Yes, let’s see here. Here you go! District 13, where incumbent Chad Christensen has racked up way more campaign-finance violations than he’ll ever see in bills passed. Why not run for that seat? Or stay up north and run in District 26, home of uber-dick Ty Cobb.

Hell, there’s even an open seat down here, since Assemblywoman Valerie Weber has decided to commit political seppuku and run for the Clark County Commission against heavily anointed Las Vegas Councilman Larry Brown. District 5 is in a nice area, or so we hear.

Our point? Don’t waste the kids’s college fund, Chuck! Save yourself: Move to Southern Nevada, for sure, since it’s way better than Carson City. But don’t run against Buckley!