Nutjob now sick and tired of fruitcakes and wackos

[struggle4progress]

Eric Garcia
2 hours ago

Back when he ran for Senate in 2010, Ken Buck was considered a right-wing extremist. He called being gay a choice and likened it to alcoholism ...

In the subsequent years, he won a seat in Congress in 2014 and briefly served as chairman of the Colorado Republican Party. He has remained a staunch conservative, at one point posting a picture of himself with an AR-15 saying “come and take it” ...

On Wednesday, he finally decided that he had enough with Congress and announced he would not seek re-election ...

Ultimately, Mr Buck found himself in the peculiar position of being in a party where he was gradually more out of place. But he was unwilling to sacrifice anything to steer the ship back onto its main course. He wanted conservatives to balance both the “reasonable” and the “nutjob” parts of the gig but did nothing to tip the scales back to “reasonable.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ken-buck-reelection-january-6-b2439985.html

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Everyone of these repugs retiring complain about the party going in the wrong direction, and then what do

they do? They retire instead of staying and fixing the problem. And you call yourselves Americans yet leave it when America needs you the most?

How American and how patriotic. Sarcasm here by the way if you can't figure it out by now.

[The Magistrate]

3. If Any Of Them Meant It, Sir, They'd Cross The Aisle, Caucus With The Democrats

Have a fling before retiring....

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Good bye. You didn't do much, but you did make the House more partisan.

Bail now before the the voters ditch you for a more cartoonish version of yourself.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

4. I welcome anyone who wants to return to sanity.

People like Kinzinger, Cheney, Joe Walsh, and Buck are needed as we wrestle with the grotesque form of the modern GOP.

[CanonRay]

5. He's always been a milquetoast moron.

But it shows how off the charts crazy right the GOP has gone.