August 19, 2010 02:14 AM UTC

It's a Fine Line Between Crazy & Extreme or How to Buck-Track on the Issues

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• by: StrongColorado

( – promoted by Colorado Pols)

Primaries bring out the crazy in politics, sort of like family feuds around the holiday dinner table. But the primaries are now behind us and candidates like Ken Buck will begin their “low crawl”” back to the middle. And we can begin having fun with all our new words: buck-tracking, buck-pedaling,  

The frenzy and lunacy of the Tea Party movement got behind Buck, who is now saying he was NEVER a Tea Party candidate. Huh? Let’s not forget that Buck owes much of his success to the national backing of U.S. Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, who raised money and support for Buck. Didn’t they invent political crazy in South Carolina?

So the question is: Is Ken Buck crazy or just extreme? Let’s review some of his best hits before you decide:

• Buck called the Department of Education “unnecessary and unconstitutional.” (Colorado Statesman, 1/22/10)

• Buck said that Social Security is a “horrible” public policy. (Republican U.S. Senate debate, Colorado Springs, June 29, 2010)

• “We would be much better off with a closer relationship between church and state.” Buck said on the Jim Pfaff radio show on May 21, 2010.

• “We need to make sure that the American public remembers the global warming nonsense that is going on and how now, over and over, it’s being disproved,” said Ken Buck at the Liberty Forum, February 21, 2010.

• “I am pro-life, and I’ll answer the next question. I don’t believe in the exceptions of rape or incest. I believe that the only exception, I guess, is life of the mother. And that is only if it’s truly life of the mother,” Ken Buck told supporters in Meeker, Colorado on August 2, 2010.

• Buck also supports Amendment 62, a proposed amendment to the Colorado Constitution that would give fertilized eggs constitutional rights and ban many common forms of contraception. An almost identical measure was defeated two years ago by Colorado voters 73-27%.

Buck now says he doesn’t remember many of these comments, that they were taken out of context or he just said them during the heat of the primary battle.  Fortunately, they’re all in print or on digital audio or video. So that trip back to the middle is now a voyage.

So – your choice – crazy or just extreme?  

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