4 thoughts on “Buck blames the “left” for making him go off-message, then he goes off-message!”

1. (perhaps some typos?)

    

   But he's right and he's Right.

   The left does distract his message.  And his message is from the right, to the even farther right.

   If he wants the nomination, he will have to prove his hard enough right bona fides.  But in Colorado, can a candidate win a statewide general with just 30% in Denver metro?

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2. Buck wishes he could redo the 2010 race with his knowledge of today.  We've all been there before – wishing that we could undo past mistakes with the greater wisdom that experience often brings.  Unfortunately, Buck cannot redo the 2010 race.  He can only run in 2014 – a different political climate (not clear it will be a wave year even with the Obamacare disaster unfolding), against a different incumbent, and with different levels (lots) of baggage.  

   Moreover, even if Buck COULD borrow Marty McFly's time machine and redo things in 2010, Jason's post indicates that he probably would make similar mistakes all over again. 

   These are the big reasons why Buck is running into resistance this time around in clearing the field despite having huge name recognition. 

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3. Buck said social issues like abortion are "less significant" for a U.S. Senator:

   The Indefensible Filibuster of Nina Pillard

   The evidence that the latest court nominee to be filibustered by the Senate is a radical? Well, she did work to advance women's constitutional rights. And had the support of one of the most conservative Supreme Court justices ever.

   Senate Republicans can barely even by bothered to pretend that Pillard isn't a mainstream nominee, and the arguments they're using on behalf of the assertion are farcical: Pillard’s nomination was easily the most controversial for conservatives in the Senate, who voiced concerns over her “radical” views connecting reproductive rights to gender equality as well as her history working on significant cases such as United States v. Virginia, which opened the Virginia Military Institute to women, and Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs, which successfully defended the Family and Medical Leave Act against a constitutional challenge.

   It's hard to imagine evidence of "radicalism" being much more feeble. You don't exactly have to be Catharine MacKinnon to believe that states denying women the same educational opportunities as men violates the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. Indeed, Pillard's position won at the Supreme Court 7-1. Similarly, arguing that the FMLA—which passed the Senate 71-27—was applicable against state employers is not exactly revolutionary. The Supreme Court agreed in a 6-3 opinion authored by noted left-wing fanatic William Rehnquist (who also voted with the majority in the VMI case.)

   The evidence that Pillard is a radical, in other words, is that she worked to advance views about women's constitutional rights that have won the support of one of the most conservative Supreme Court justices of the last century. To call this argument "self-refuting" is putting it mildly. And Pillard is considered the most liberal of the D.C. Circuit nominees being filibustered.

   If Buck wants to pretend that social issues are not important to a Senator's work, he can commit to letting all of the President's judicial nominees get an up or down vote regardless of their stands on "unimportant " social issues.  If he won't he's a liar.

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4. Saw a GOP woman ( the type truly trying to get some distance from the T) on TV today admitting that Rs should do a better job on "tone" in addressing women and also blaming Ds for using issues like abortion to turn women away from the GOP. As if it's not pretty much every R majority state legislature and governor coming up with draconian laws to limit women's reproductive rights. Dems didn't come up with laws to insert state government into women's vaginas….literally… after all. 

   She says it's a shame because women's number one concern is the economy and Dems keep distracting them with all this abortion/contraceptive stuff. 

   News flash for this lady, Buck and others.  It's you who can't stop not just bringing this stuff up but making it the number one legislative priority wherever you get elected to legislative majorities and Governors' seats.

   If the economy is really your top priority why is it that vaginal probing, closing women's health clinics, making it harder to access safe effective family planning and draconian voter suppression laws are always the first thing on the list when you take over any state? Not economic issues.

   Answer: You know what the wacko base is into and your top priority is giving it to them so they won't primary your asses. 

   We'll see how much longer, demographics being what they are, that's going to work for you. Especially when Big Corporate Sugar Daddies get sick and tired of all the problems your dog wagging tail of a wacko base is causing them. It's not like they can't get plenty of return favors from Dems, too, or that the Tea Party wing is more  friendly to business interests than any faction of the Dems. 

   Koch brothers aside, the Masters of the Universe really don't care about all your social crap. They use it when it helps them advance their own interests but they'll cut you loose if they decide you're not giving them the return they're looking for on the dollar and are actully screwing things up for them.

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