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October 22, 2010 02:46 AM UTC

What Happened to Jim DeMint's Rally for Buck?

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  • by: Colorado Pols

We’re trying to get to the bottom of something kind of curious–it was our understanding that firebrand GOP Sen. Jim DeMint was hosting a “special event” at Mesa State College in Grand Junction tonight, occasioning the premiere of Colorado U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck’s new ad (see “V.I.P. Pass” flyer below). It was apparently canceled sometime today with little notice.

Now, Buck’s status as a “Junior DeMint,” or a candidate especially favored by the polarizing conservative Senator from South Carolina, is of course well known, as DeMint was behind Buck fairly early in the primary. But DeMint, like Buck, has had a number of recent gaffes in the press, including some fairly regrettable remarks about unmarried and/or gay teachers.

The Spartanberg Herald-Journal described the comments this way: “DeMint said if someone is openly homosexual, they shouldn’t be teaching in the classroom and he holds the same position on an unmarried woman who’s sleeping with her boyfriend — she shouldn’t be in the classroom.” DeMint did not apparently state his position on whether sexually active unmarried male teachers should be similarly removed from classrooms.

Oh, wait a minute, a really good reason to cancel this thing just occurred to us…

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48 thoughts on “What Happened to Jim DeMint’s Rally for Buck?”

    1. Or house shopping is more important than commitments?

      I hear next week’s rallies are actually being replaced by shoe shopping trips (Ken loves him some high heels!).

      If the best you can come up with is nonsense… don’t post.  It’s good advice!

  3. Either the shills don’t know why it was canceled or it must not be good news for Buck, otherwise we’d have 50 comments from the 5 main Buckheads telling us to move along.

    What’s up, fellas and at least one probable lady?

            3. According to the Fort Collins Coloradoan, as quoted by ColoPols a couple days ago:

              After his meeting with supporters, Buck headed to a Loveland fundraiser that featured Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma.

              “Sen. Inhofe was the first person to stand up and say this global warming is the greatest hoax that has been perpetrated. The evidence just keeps supporting his view, and more and more people’s view, of what’s going on,” Buck said.

              Sounds like he was in Loveland, unless I’m reading this wrong.

              1. that I linked to, DeMint was supposed to show up but bailed out due to a “scheduling conflict.” I guess that’s like the temporary version of “spending more time with his family.”

                Buck apparently sent a video tape or something.

  4. He knows when supporting a candidate can bring his “brand” down. In this case, Buck’s gaffes and other bad news could negatively affect DeMint’s kingmaker status in the Republican Party.

    2. Now wouldn’t THAT be funny?

      What’s hilarious is that even though Alvin Greene is the silliest major-party candidate ever – he makes Dan Maes look like Abe Lincoln by comparison – he is still projected by fivethirtyeight.com to get roughly 30% of the South Carolina vote.

      Go figure.

      1. Now there’s a debate I would love to see. Actually, O’Donnell is dumb as a brick but is still the better of the two.

        That’s not saying much.

        1. because he’s managing to stay pretty quiet in his quest for glory.

          Any debate with O’Donnell is worth watching ’cause she’s great @ bringing the stupid.  Give her an audience and a mic and she’s guaranteed to fill any dead air with smug dimwitted espousals.  Expect O’Donnell punditry on Fox come Nov. 3rd.      

          1. “separation of church & state” exchange at the last debate. Apparently she was genuinely shocked to find out she was the ONLY one who thought she came out looking good. Classic.

            And this from a self-styled “Constitutional scholar”. She makes Beej look brilliant.

      1. The building boom at Mesa State has done great things to help move along a school that was little more than a big high school. Foster deserves credit for that.

        But his jobs program for Republicans in need of jobs has gotten old. At least he hasn’t hired Penry (yet).

  9. Just wanted to clarify a few things for all the folks reading this blog post.  This event was not canceled, it did take place — I know this because I was there.  HOWEVER, it did not go down quite like the flyer indicated.  

    After a number of local elected officials in the audience of about 60-80 folks were introduced, State Senator Shawn Mitchell got on stage and “introduced” Ken Buck.  Buck appeared on a projection screen live via Skype.  He talked for maybe 5 minutes, if that, then the feed ended.

    They then showed a number of Ken Buck television ads.  Finally, the event organizer got up and told everyone that because of “logistical” issues with Senator DeMint’s flight schedule, he was not going to be at the event.  I left after that.

      1. The Super Special Guest Douchebag didn’t think Colorado conservatives worthy of his attention. The fucking candidate didn’t even think his own supporters were important enough for him to make a real appearance.

        Nice.

        1. That’s why he kept changing his position on abortion, on taxes, on constitutional amendments, on closing the department of education, on abolishing student loans, on eliminating Social Security, and all the other right-wing fantasy claptrap. He thinks they’re too stupid to notice or care that he’s left them behind.

          Occasionally he throws them a bone like on global warming, and says to himself, “That oughta hold the little bastards.”

    3. The candidate via Skype, and then a bunch of TV commercials? That’s a truly pathetic campaign effort. Why not just put the whole damned political system on autopilot?

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