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November 05, 2010 05:11 PM UTC

Savoring the Losses

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  • by: JO

Whew! Buck lost in a squeaker. Tancredo-Maes, not quite as close, but close enough.

How odd then to read headlines to the effect that Michael Bennet won his first contest, when the other headlines tell stories of Markey and Salazar going down by fair margins.

My opinion? Not at all! Ask Michael Bennet, he’ll tell you; in fact he spent a few million $s telling you: Buck is too extreme for Colorado.

Message: vote against the other guy. Over and over and over until the fund-raising pitches on public TeeVee began to look intriguing.

For those suffering post polls sniffles out there in the purple majesties and fruity plains, I understand the agony: What if Buck hadn’t said he didn’t support separation of church and state? What if he hadn’t attacked social security? O Great What If, Why? Why did Ken have to practically produce negative commercials for the other side? In a year when the winning candidates were Fear, Ignorance, and Megalies, how could Buckaroo have been so dim as to have fed Fear by making antiquarians worry about their Social Security checks? Repeal health care reform, absolutely, after which go onto what? Medicare? No, Ken, the winning pitch was Fear of Socialism, Tyranny, and a black man in the White house.

[Free idea for the GOP to reduce unemployment without violating your principles: invade a third country–Iran? nah, too big; let’s try Ingushetia; Putin won’t mind, will he?–to provide military jobs for all them lazy, ignorant, useless non-graduates of the 12th grade! Onward Christian soldiers!]

Quite apart from being stuck with the Man Who Won’t Smile for six years, there’s another downside to the outcome: A certain someone who was wrong about the size of the stimulus, past and future, will look in his mirror each morning and declare, “I must have been right! After all, I won the election, didn’t I?”

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  1. Why did Ken have to practically produce negative commercials for the other side?

    Without those kind of inflamatory statements, he never would have beat Jane.   Had he won the primary and then found some wisdom, his supporters would have found the ACP candidate for the Senate and he would have ended up Maes II.

    He said that crap, a.  because he actually believes it and b. his supporters are so bat shit crazy they demanded it.

    I believe the Senator will get up in the morning and try to figure out how he can do something that his children will look back on and be proud of him.

    1. Hi JeffcoD,

      I think Ken Buck isn’t smart enough to be a senator. What killed his race IMO was his public appearances. When asked about the ‘donut hole’ he didn’t seem to know what the interviewer was talking about. When asked if being gay is a choice he said that gay people could choose their partners. Real polticians prepare for questions they should know are coming and they have something to say even if only focus group vetted talking points. Buck comes across as a hick not ready for the job he was interviewing for.

    1. Question: Is it worth the expenditure of energy to lick the mail-in ballot and then to take it to the mailbox to vote:

      For Bennet

      Against Buck

      ‘Twas HighChurchBuckState that swung the tide. No one I know voted for Bennet.

        1. Only 11% of the infantada (<30) managed to turn out, roughly half the percentage in 2010.

          Best line on this topic comes (not unusually) from the NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11…

          The Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski … in what he called the law of the infinite cornucopia, stated that there was never a shortage of arguments to support any doctrine one wanted to believe in for whatever reasons.

          We won! They lost! It was DADT Church and State Abortion Weather Ads Gaffs Cute Little Daughters Diurnal urgin’s, biurnal brain waves, Olderman Youngchick, MissedNBC FoxNots … whatever, let’s do it again next time, same way only different. Meantime tomato soup, after which we’ll call the whole thing off.

      2. In part because of his comments on goals for a national energy policy in response to a question at a meeting in GJ.

        But your claim may still be true, JO, since you don’t know me.

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