Candidate Ken Buck Clarifies: All Liberals — Not Just Barack Obama — Are America’s ‘Greatest Threat’

[ccharles000]

Republican Ken Buck, who is running for the U.S. Senate seat in Colorado, has been dubbed “the next Sharron Angle” and received far-right endorsements from conservatives like Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and RedState editor Erick Erickson. However, on Thursday, Buck attempted to distance himself from his supporter Tom Tancredo, the former GOP congressman from Colorado, who called Obama “the greatest threat to our liberty” at a campaign event that also featured DeMint:

“The greatest threat to the United States today, the greatest threat to our liberty, the greatest threat to the Constitution, the greatest threat to our way of life, everything we believe in, the greatest threat to the country put together by the Founding Fathers, is the guy who is in the White House today,” Tancredo said in a report by the Denver Post.

Buck said he did not agree with Tancredo, though he’s glad to have his support.

“I was surprised when Tom said that, and I think Tom tends to exaggerate sometimes,” Buck said. “I respect, frankly, President Obama. I disagree with him on a lot of his policies.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/12/buck-tancredo/

[and-justice-for-all]

1. The greatest threat to our liberty is the republiCON party..

and their horde of ignorance.

[jobycom]

2. More of the "To a hammer every problem is a nail" syndrome.

To Tom Tancredo and Ken Buck and simple-minded belly-brained conservatives, I imagine liberals are their biggest threat. Liberals are definitely out to put them into the unemployment line and end their gold-digging way of life. So I can see their fear.

To rational Americans, our biggest threats are things like endless wars, the debt these wars have created, the recessions caused by supply-sided economic policies like tax cuts for the rich and short-term tax rebate plans that fail to stimulate real job growth. All things the Republicans started and caused. The Republicans aren't our greatest threat, but they sure are on the wrong side of the battles against those threats.

[Sherman A1]

3. Good for him

He is entitled to his opinion.

I suspect I disagree, perhaps just a bit, but whatever works for the gentleman.