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August 26, 2010 10:42 PM UTC

Michael Gerson calls Ken Buck "uninformed, morally irresponsible and politically disastrous."

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  • by: Republican 36

Michael Gerson, an op/ed columnist for the Washington Post, and a former Bush White House aide that included stints on the Iraq Group, speech writer and a Karl Rove recruit to the 2000 Bush campaign, plus a stint at the Heritage Foundation, today called Ken Buck and other “Tea Party” candidates “uninformed, morally irresponsible and politically disastrous” for asserting Social Security and Medicare are unconstitutional in his Washington Post column.

Uninformedbecause the U.S. Constitution gives broad powers to the federal government to provide for the general welfare;

Morally irresponsible because, if adopted, Mr. Buck’s position would immediately push up to 13 million Americans into destitution; and

Politically disastrous because such “constitutionalism will lead Mr. Buck and the Republican Party to oppose, among other things, the federal highway ysstem and even more importantly, civil rights.

As he goes on to point out, people like Mr. Buck do not “reflect a Burkean suspicion of radical social change.”

When people like Mr. Gerson begin to line-up against the likes of Mr. Buck, there is a real chance the real conservatives aren’t going to vote for him or other such candidates around the United States, once these people are exposed for who they really are.

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11 thoughts on “Michael Gerson calls Ken Buck “uninformed, morally irresponsible and politically disastrous.””

      1. He indicated:

        “This view is logically consistent — as well as historically uninformed, morally irresponsible and politically disastrous.”

        Not Ken Buck.

        The title is dishonest.

        I didn’t say repub 36 is dishonest.

        But if the two of you don’t see a difference?

        1. views on social security and medicare that are, in Gerson’s opinion, “historically uninformed, morally irresponsible and politically disastrours.”  Mr. Gerson clearly has good conservative credentials. When people like him doubt Mr. Buck’s fitness for office it isn’t good sign for the Republican senate candidate in Colorado.

          1. Gerson believes some of the views Buck holds are . . .

            I believe some of the views you hold are stupid.  I did not call you stupid.

            Get the difference?

      1. None of the name calling and he says Buck is stuff is accurate.  Read the article and you too will conclude it is dishonest.

        This is just another bennetista hack being dishonest.  I guess they have concluded they can’t win honestly.

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