Conservative Blog Scores Exclusive Ken Buck "Interview!"

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by: Colorado Pols

We don't often find content worth noting within our local Colorado conservative blogosphere these days, with some of our favorite classic sites like Face the State and the People's Press Collective long since having gone dark. But we'll direct you to the Colorado Observer's delightfully fawning "exclusive" interview out today with Republican once-and-future U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck. After Buck's string of media debacles undid what might have been a winning campaign in 2010, kicking off his latest run with a string of nice, steady softballs makes sense:

TCO: The Denver Post and many pundits said you committed verbal gaffes and miscues in the 2010 campaign. Have you changed as a candidate in three years?

Buck: Well, the Denver Post has a short memory. They didn’t take to task some of the things (Sen.) Bennet said. I’m going to force them to discuss the issues most relevant to Americans – the $17 trillion debt, the hundred trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities, the more than $1 trillion annual debt Congress keeps passing, and the effects of Obamacare…

TCO: What discretionary and non-discretionary spending programs would you cut?

Buck: I think that’s a discussion that we can have when I get elected to the Senate in November 2014. I’m not going to sit here and talk about (cutting) these spending programs when I have not been elected. [Pols emphasis]

TCO: Sen. Bennet attacked your position on abortion in the campaign. Has your stand on abortion changed?

Buck: You know, what I believe is Congress has voted to ban late-term abortions, and I’m one who opposes late-term abortions, and voted to ban federal funding for abortion, and I’m one who opposes federal funding of abortion. I’m tired of people talking about issues that are not relevant to the public… [Pols emphasis].

Now folks, we really don't know what Sen. Michael Bennet has said that can top…well, half a dozen of Buck's greatest "gaffes" and "miscues," from "I don't wear high heels" to comparing being gay to alcoholism–or the rape victim Buck accused of "buyer's remorse." And Buck certainly used to have specific ideas about what in the federal government he would cut, as in a big chunk of it.

Also, Buck's well-known views on reproductive choice, as our readers know very well, go considerably beyond merely banning late-term abortion: Buck supports banning all abortions, pointedly (meaning he used to say it proudly) including in cases of rape and incest. But is he saying here that the public doesn't care about abortion? Buck obviously knows that he needs to avoid the abortion issue in a General Election, but Republican primary voters aren't going to be happy to hear this.

With all of that baggage, we'd be doing lots of softball-only "exclusives" too…

10 thoughts on “Conservative Blog Scores Exclusive Ken Buck “Interview!””

rathmone says:

August 9, 2013 at 12:46 pm

As soft as those softball questions are, you'll note that he still doesn't answer them. To belabor the metaphor, he's looking for a walk in slow-pitch softball.

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Davie says:

August 9, 2013 at 1:39 pm

Ah yes, the old "Pig in a poke" agenda:

that’s a discussion that we can have when I get elected

Voters just love mystery agendas after the election is over!

I’m tired of people talking about issues that are not relevant to the public

Or in other words, "Gals don't need to worry their pretty little heads about deciding if they are ready to be a mother yet"

that’s a discussion that we can have when I get elected – See more at: http://coloradopols.com/diary/47380/conservative-blog-scores-exclusive-ken-buck-interview#sthash.PBHLPMBf.dpuf

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1. Davie says:
  
  August 9, 2013 at 1:41 pm
  
  Oh for Pete's sake! Where is that WYSIWYG editor?
  
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DaftPunk says:

August 9, 2013 at 4:10 pm

I’m tired of people talking about issues that are not relevant to the public…

After a harrowing and devastating shock of soul-crushing, intense grief, and the urgency of a lifetime to find out everything we could about our son’s diagnosis, we talked to as many people as we could, and pursued every possible option. We ultimately decided our very much loved, very much wanted son should not live under the medical interventions and lifelong illness that awaited him, and that we had an obligation to our oldest child to not consign him to a lifetime of caregiving, as I had experienced with my own mother…

We were very excited about having our first child. At 19 weeks, it was confirmed that our little girl had Trisomy 18 and Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. We were provided with the options to either end the pregnancy, or allow her to die at birth and possibly suffer. We decided to put our angel to rest and out of her misery before it even began…

We began our ultrasound excited but quickly realized there was a problem when, after telling us we were having a boy, the technician got very quiet and told us she was going to have the doctor come talk to us. Usually the techs were very chatty, showing us all the body parts and organs as they went along, but not this time. She was really fishing around his heart, and that made me nervous; little did I know that would be the least of our worries. The perinatologist came in and immediately said “I am so sorry, your son is very sick.” My son had ventriculomegaly (severe swelling in both ventricles of his brain), a hole in his heart, and several other physical deformities. The perinatologist had us do an amniocentesis right away. He suspected from the severity of the problems and deformities that it was Trisomy 18 or Trisomy 13, both usually fatal. He advised us that with that diagnosis, he would recommend termination. We were so shocked we were almost numb. This was not at all how we expected this day to go.

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I think these issues are relevant to the public, and these are not the kind of situations that Republicans should want to be arguing in favor of politicians, lawyers, and courts getting between doctors and patients.

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1. bullshit! says:
  
  August 9, 2013 at 6:52 pm
  
  Stop getting so emotional. The men are perfectly capable of deciding what's best for your body.
  
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  1. DaftPunk says:
    
    August 10, 2013 at 8:24 pm
    
    Sing it sister!
    
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DaftPunk says:

August 9, 2013 at 9:11 pm

Buck wants to be the Republican Tom Strickland.

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1. Davie says:
  
  August 10, 2013 at 7:52 am
  
  Even Dick Wadhams pointed that out:
  
  In 2010, exit polls revealed Colorado women broke heavily for Bennet and proved a vital voting bloc for candidates trying to win statewide office.
  
  Moreover, Wadhams said in Colorado results for candidates who try to run for federal office twice don't often pan out well, citing Democrat Tom Strickland's failed attempts for U.S. Senate in 1996 and 2002.
  
  "Reruns of candidates don't do very well, so we'll have to see how this one turns out," Wadhams said.
  
  http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_23830397/ken-buck-embarks-u-s-senate-run-despite
  
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exlurker19 says:

August 10, 2013 at 7:22 am

Talk about stuck in the past. Buck seems to think he's running against Bennett again. No, Ken, no, you're running against Udall. Try to keep your opponents straight!

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Gray in Mountains says:

August 12, 2013 at 6:25 pm

I'll bet Buck won't go on Meet The Press again

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