Posted on 07/25/2010 7:01:52 PM PDT by JRochelle
Insurgent Colorado Senate candidate Ken Buck is apologizing for a degrading remark he made about the Tea Party movement last month that was caught on tape by a Democratic tracker.
The Denver Post and 9News is expected to report Sunday night that Buck referred to the members of the Tea Party as "dumbasses" after a campaign event in Crowley, Colo. last month.
"Will you tell those dumbasses at the Tea Party to stop asking about birth certificates? Woah, I'm on camera. God, what am I supposed to do?," Buck says on the tape, according to his campaign.
Buck campaign spokesman Owen Loftus told POLITICO that the candidate spent Sunday explaining and apologizing for the remark in interviews with the state's two dominant news outlets.
"Ken points out he does gets frustrated at times with those individuals pushing those issues. He shouldn't have cussed. He regrets the remark. He was venting his frustration to a Democratic tracker and he shouldn't of," said Loftus.
Loftus said that Buck, whose candidacy has been fueled in part by Tea Party members uninspired by one-time GOP frontrunner Jane Norton, was aware he was speaking to a Democratic tracker and simply made a mistake. The birther issue has been a tricky one for Buck to navigate: While he signaled he would support legislation to ensure a presidential candidate has U.S. citizenship at a meet-and-greet in June, he has also stressed it is not a priority for his campaign.
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You are cordially invited to pack
your carpetbags
and return to obamy land.
What a pathetic reply.
I’ve been out of state. Did he make it official?
It’s hard to know exactly what to do. I actually think we need all of it. Hit ‘em from every angle we’ve got.
But I think if they’re going to go for America’s jugular we have no choice but to go for theirs first.
Can you tell I’ve been watching “Braveheart”? lol.
It’s kinda the mood I’m in. The traitorous old guy saying (paraphrased)”It’s easy to admire somebody with courage, who refuses to compromise. A dog has courage. But what makes us noble is the ability to compromise...” (as he betrays his people in order to gain more titles and land)
That just really hits home to me. That’s exactly how I see these politicians who don’t get it. We are fighting for the chance to not be ruled by the lawless whims of the ruling class, and their “negotiations” supposedly on our behalf are for nothing but more trinkets in their media adoration crowns.
Maybe it’s the strong silent type and simplistic, but I want a nation of men who won’t share their woman with another just because the ruling class says they have to, who love their families and homes enough to fight for their freedom and not flinch at the cost.
You know, it’s so ironic that Braveheart is so similar and yet so different from “The Passion”. Both are about a man willing to give the ultimate sacrifice for those he loves. One is a fight against earthly enemies, the other against the power of sin itself. But the basic theme is the same: love means you pay whatever it takes to protect and redeem the ones you love.
That’s what I hear behind the intense words we have here. We just don’t know who to fight and how to fight them.
BTW I’ve never been to Indonesia or Kenya. :p
I'd cut the campaign manager a bit of slack, as he may have said "shouldn't've", (a compounded contraction) which the presstitute urinalist graduate turned into the verbal abortion which offends both you and I.
Yup. Today.
I could care less about the birth certificate argument. But the attack on the tea party movement? Tank you for showing yourself to be someone merely using the movement and not at one with it.
Now riding Jane Norton’s bandwagon. She may be the establishment’s choice but at least she’s not a liar.
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