Posted on 03/04/2024 12:52:36 AM PST by RandFan
Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) said he is not “going to lie” on behalf of the Republican Party when asked why he decided to not seek reelection.
Buck, who announced last November that he will not be running for reelection, said on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday” that while his goals for the country have not changed, the world around him “has changed dramatically.”
“We’ve gone from a time when the Tea Party stood for conservative principles, for constitutional principles, to a time where the [populists] have taken over the Republican Party and are really advocating things that I believe are very dangerous,” he told host Chris Stirewalt in an interview that aired Sunday.
When asked why he decided to leave Congress, Buck said that numerous different factors led to his decision. “The MAGA crowd ran a primary against me last time. I won 75-25. I’m not concerned about [a] primary, I’m not concerned about losing a general election. You know, the time is right. I’m at a point in my life where I want to do different things. I want to enjoy my family more, I want to [do] less business travel and more recreational travel. There are a lot of things that went into the decision,” he said.
“But really we’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,” he added.
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He is quite willing to lie for the dem-o-rats.
If one says he knows the truth, but doesn't speak it, that makes them one of two things. A liar or a coward..
Principles are easily forgotten when you didn’t ascribe to them in the first place. He saw an opportunity and jumped onboard not knowing where he was going, bye, bye loser.
This guy actually said out loud that he would not vote for impeachment motions because Dummy Ken had not seen any evidence of impeachable offenses. It’s time to go away and keep your mouth shut as you clear out your desk, freakin’ mendacious reprobate.
He can go stand by Nikki.
IOW, Buck is Deep State.
Ken, why don’t you Buck off you loser!
Bye bye, Ben Kuck.
Same, Chris Stirewalt is yet another RINO that was a regular on Fox News supposedly to give the appearance of being conservative when in all actuality he was a typical RINO just like someone molded from the same cloth as him Frank Luntz aka Kevin McCarthy’s butt buddy
As soon as they use leftist buzzwords and make vague accusations you know they are full RINO!
There’s the populist plug from mockingbird for yah ,, this dude doesn’t do a damn thing he’s allowed to do on his own. So sad this is what has become of our representatives.
I don’t believe Buck for a minute, but even a stopped clock can be right once-in-a-while. Trump is not a conservative, but he is the only person who can restore some sanity to our country.
The Roberts Court is conservative, but can be about as useless as +!+$ on a boar hog since it is reluctant to make any major reversals to what the Warren and Burger courts did. The conservative legal mind just won’t undo the wrongs of the past. They are too afraid to start a counter-revolution. A counter-revolution is exactly Western Civilization needs now since the RINOS who aided the Marxist Dims let us go full-Venezuela.
I would never have thought, in 2015, that I would enthusiastically support DJT for president, but have done so (without regret). Now, as was said of Nixon in 1972, “we need him now more than ever.”
Bush, Cheney, McConnell, Romney, McCain and the rest of the RINOs are responsible for Trump and what he has had to do. Their die-hard followers need to shut up and take it like grown-ups. Thank God for conservatives like Thomas and Alito who realize that some of the damage from the GOPe HAS to be undone. I can only hope that Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett wake up in time.
Buck off Ken.
“....are really advocating things that I believe are very dangerous,...”
People like Buck make statements like this without specifying those “things” which are dangerous.
What are they????
He’s got TDS.
That’s it.
He’s just making very unconvincing excuse....
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