Colorado Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck has thoughtful things to say about gay people and their gayness — which is just a bad habit, like biting your nails or constantly drinking grain alcohol:
GREGORY: In a debate last month, you expressed your support for don’t ask, don’t tell, which we talked about with Mr. Gibbs. And you alluded to lifestyle choices. Do you believe that being gay is a choice?
BUCK: I do.
GREGORY: Based on what?
BUCK: Based on what?
GREGORY: Yeah, do you believe that?
BUCK: Well, I guess you can choose who your partner is.
GREGORY: You don’t think it’s something that’s determined at birth?
BUCK: I think that birth has an influence over it, like alcoholism and some other things, but I think that basically you have a choice.
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Wonkette's gay alcoholics have a choice now. Can we refrain from the buttseks or the bottle for longer?
Bucks looks like there has been too much buttsex with a bottle in his lonely life.
Oh my beloved ex-home-state Colorado, please don't elect this idiot douche bag. And Gregory you pussy, why didn't you ask him when he chose to be straight?
I wish I could give you 1,000 thumbs-up for suggesting that question.
That's the type of million dollar question Mr. Gregory is paid top dollar never to raise.
I was screaming this at the teevee. Or he could have asked him, "so what you're saying is, Mr. Buck, you could quite easily go out and chose a dude, a big, hairy dude with whom to enjoy sexytime." Seriously, Gregory could have asked him that! Which would have forced Buck to confront his asinine idea. Either that or make a wonkette worthy headline for Monday morning.
Gay? Alcoholic? Bottoms up.
Double win?
Shoot, when I came back I didn't see it, so thought I hadn't posted. Gotta stop drinking/start drinking more in the mornings.
He needs to give 'em more credit. It was gay friends' quick-draw sense of humor that got me through many a McJob, family crisis, or other underwhelmingly drama-contrived existence. Lesson learned: Gays help all of us bring out the FUN in dysfunction.
Sounds like Ken Buck wants to put the "bi" back in bi-partisan.
One major difference, though, is that while listening to this guy speak is enough to drive me to drink, it has the opposite effect on any desire I might have had to have relations with, well, anyone.
He's almost right, but in that classic 180 degrees from the right intention way that teabaggers love. The central premise of almost all alcoholism treatment is that it is not a choice or a matter of willpower. Alcoholics don't choose to be alcoholics, but they can avoid certain negative consequences if they don't drink. By the same token, no one chooses to be gay to my knowledge, but people who are gay can avoid certain social stigmas and consequences if they don't engage in the conduct certain aspects of society condemns. So in other words he's admitting it isn't a choice at all.
Of course, this asshole doesn't realize what he said, and neither did Gregory.
No he's saying it can be cured with a twelve-step program that invokes a Higher Power. And probably the Long Stroke also.
As opposed to the Wide Stance, which gets you in all sorts of trouble, although you can still keep your job.
So he doesn't understand AA isn't a cure, either?
Homosexuality is like alcoholism if the main downside to alcoholism is getting beat up by teetotalers.
Just another example of Buck pandering to the dumb-ass birther gay addict coalition that is so influential out there in the Bronco state.
This is why I was rooting so hard for Tim Tebow to have the snot knocked out of him by an extremely large and burly black man in yesterday's game. Sadly, no.
A large and burly black *gay* man would have been funnier. I mean, what could be funnier than 300 lbs of raving queen linebacker?
Well, there's one similarity between gays and alcoholics; the Republican party has a lot of both, who are unwilling to come out of the closet / admit that they have a problem. Many of whom are the same people, Ken Buck.
The Buck should stop.
"For example, I chose Ken Buck as my gay porn stage name, and I liked it so much I kept it when I went into politics."
Hard to sit at a table with David Gregory and make him look like the less douchey person. Bravo, Mr. Buck!
Now the Repubs can claim to be pro-Choice (but only for men).
I'd like to hear what Ken's brother Randy has to say about this important matter.
Some years ago I hearrd Inhoffe or whatever that Okie asshole's name is say on MTP that he thought doctors who perform abortions (and BTW, they're "gynecologists," not "abortionists"–just as they're "surgeons," rather than "appendectomists") should get the death penalty. "He's done for," I thought.
And then he got elected.
Assholes like Inhofe should be subject to the "deaf penalty": they can still speak but we can't really hear them.
This is why Repubs go on MTP in the first place. They know nobody watches it, least of all their base, so saying crazy shit on air is the political equivalent for them of playing "quarters."
The only people who watch Sunday shows are small business owners like the CEOs of Alcoa and Monsanto et. al. And Dick Cheney.
This may explain, finally, why three out of eight Republican candidates said "Fuck no!" when asked if they believed in evolution, back in '08.
Also, Dick Cheney can't watch Sunday morning shows. The sun's out.
I generally view the Sunday morning shows and am not a CEO or Dick Cheney. Since I'm not a church goer, I find it partiially satisfies my weekly requirement of people saying stupid shit.
I excluded people who type on internet sites from my sampling model.
I guess Ken's out to prove that there is actually a dumber and more annoying Buck out there than Joe Buck; tough to do, especially during both the baseball playoffs and football season, but Ken seems to have the right stuff for it.
On the loooong list of "heads I would like to see explode on live TV," Joe Buck ranks within the top ten (top three during playoffs).
To Ken Buck, "choosing" sexual orientation means you can choose to be a bitter, miserable closeted homo (preferably with a proper, shrewish beard), or you can choose to kill yourself. That's the way Jesus wrote it in the Bible.
What I get out of this is that Ken Buck is drunk on cock.
A cock bender.
His name is Buck? And he likes to fuck? Wonder if the tailgate on his truck says "Pussy Wagon."
See I was wondering if he had a childhood friend named Chuck…
I'm Ken Buck, and I like to suck cock. /pachelbel
You all are being too hard on Mr. Buck. All he is saying is that when he drinks, he likes to suck cock. He just chooses not to when he is sober.
Does every conservative deserve that "In what way, Charlie?" pause? All this does is validate their argument that the Lamestream Media™ no longer refudiates™ Gotcha! Journalism™.
Ken Buck is just trying to figure out why all these strange men in his bed keep calling him a "two-beer queer."
Frank the Tank said it best: "once it hits the lips, it's so good."
Ken needs to reflect that back in the day when Britsh navy life was, in Churchill's phrase, an endless bout of "rum, sodomy and the lash," Britain was the greatest naval power on Earth. So, as a pro-defense, pro-American imperialism conservative, Ken needs to rephrase his statement.
Of course gays just like alcohol, doesn't everyone?
Butt fuck a Buck?
This thread demands the following link: http://ww.onion.com/articles/why-do-all-these-hom...
That's one of the funniest Onions of all time. Along with "Christ Returns to NBA." And the entire issue following 9/11, which was an incredible feat to pull off.
This Sunday on Meet The Press, Buck said in answer to the question: "Past the teeth, over the gums… Look out stomach, here it comes!"
Is that why I'm always waking up in the gutter with an empty bottle of "Fighting Cock" in my back pocket?
When the eugenicists get around to eliminating the "gay gene" in utero, whither then Mr. Buck?
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