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Buck regrets disparaging Tea Partiers (CO Senate)
Politico ^ | 07/25/10 | David Cantanese

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: cantbetrusted; colorado; kenbuck; liar; naturalborncitizen; tpino
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I'd say Mr Buck is a dumbasss if he thinks that is what the Tea Party is about.

Say hello to Senator Norton.

1 posted on 07/25/2010 7:01:56 PM PDT by JRochelle
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To: JRochelle

OK CANDIDATES ONE MORE TIME: ALL MICROPHONES ARE LIVE!


2 posted on 07/25/2010 7:03:23 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: JRochelle
Tancredo for Governor.

Nuff said.

3 posted on 07/25/2010 7:03:35 PM PDT by Regulator (Watch Out!! The Americans are On the March!! America Forever, Mexico Never!)
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To: JRochelle

Unlike the left’s rent-a-mobs, the Tea Party actually represents live bodies who will vote in numbers. Probably not a good idea to tick them off.


4 posted on 07/25/2010 7:03:36 PM PDT by relictele (Me lumen vos umbra regit)
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To: JRochelle

The real Ken Buck came out of the closet. I’m glad you exposed yourself.


5 posted on 07/25/2010 7:03:45 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: JRochelle
Dumb Buck.
6 posted on 07/25/2010 7:05:05 PM PDT by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it freedom has a flavor the protected will never know .F Trp 8th Cav)
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To: JRochelle
Too bad Buck, you are a target now. You could always apologize properly by resigning your seat!
7 posted on 07/25/2010 7:05:53 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama .......yes.......is fascist... ..He meets every diagnostic of history.)
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To: JRochelle

A dumbass makes a dumbass remark and now wants to backpedal...heh heh


8 posted on 07/25/2010 7:06:16 PM PDT by FrankR (It doesn't matter what they call us, only what we answer to....)
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To: US Navy Vet

...and they are everywhere!


9 posted on 07/25/2010 7:06:23 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (If leftist legislation that's already in place really can't be ended by non-leftists, then what?)
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To: kbennkc

ROTFLMAO. For some reason that hit the old funny bone.


10 posted on 07/25/2010 7:07:03 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama .......yes.......is fascist... ..He meets every diagnostic of history.)
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To: JRochelle

I live in Colorado ... Norton is going to kick Buck’s ass.


11 posted on 07/25/2010 7:08:47 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: BluH2o

Good to hear!!!


12 posted on 07/25/2010 7:10:22 PM PDT by JRochelle (My predictions on 2/3/2010: It will be Thune/Rubio in '12.)
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To: JRochelle

WTB! What the Buck?


13 posted on 07/25/2010 7:11:23 PM PDT by packrat35 (Planned Parenthood... killing more blacks than the Ku Klux Klan could have ever dreamed of.)
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To: JRochelle

What is a ‘Democratic tracker’?


14 posted on 07/25/2010 7:12:28 PM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: JRochelle

Keep in mind this is Politico of journolist...


15 posted on 07/25/2010 7:13:36 PM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: JRochelle

So much for being the Anti-McCain, Anti-establishment candidate.


16 posted on 07/25/2010 7:14:54 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: Freddd

Yeah, I don’t even want to go there because it just makes me angry to hear inaccurate so-called “reports”. None of the media will ever correct their inaccurate statements, much less report the whole story.

I just don’t even want to hear what they have to say because it’s so frustrating.


17 posted on 07/25/2010 7:17:02 PM PDT by butterdezillion (.)
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To: Freddd

The Dems are desperate to have another ‘mccacca’ moment.

They have trackers out on all the Republican candidates. And Buck said this to the tracker, knowing full well who he was and what would happen.

The tracker was most likely saving this in case Buck won the primary. LOL. Another tracker foiled!


18 posted on 07/25/2010 7:17:42 PM PDT by JRochelle (My predictions on 2/3/2010: It will be Thune/Rubio in '12.)
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To: Freddd

Does the “O” in PoliticO stand for the same thing the “O” in JournOlist does???


19 posted on 07/25/2010 7:18:07 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: JRochelle
Yeah, I'm sure Politico and the liberal Colorado media care about the feelings of the Tea Party.

What Buck said was the truth, and he shouldn't have apologized. Some of the people in the Tea Party are making an ass out of the movement by worrying about Zero's birth certificate.

20 posted on 07/25/2010 7:19:27 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Mexico is the U.S. version of Hamas)
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