I've lost count on Colorado Senate candidate Ken Buck's ever-shifting positions. Seriously, it's been on taxes, on abortion, on repealing the 17th amendment, on privatizing veterans' health care, on whether teaggers are "dumbasses" and on and on. Today, add Social Security privatization.
Last night, Colorado’s Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck became to latest to deny that his privatization plan would actually privatize the system:
"I’ve never said we should privatize Social Security," [Buck] told [Sen. Michael] Bennet, whose committee has made that accusation against Buck in television ads.
Contrary to his assertion, Buck has been a full-throated supporter of privatization, saying, "we’ve got to peg Social Security to individuals so those individuals have the ability perhaps to invest in various funds that are approved by the government. But those individuals also own that fund."
Seriously, if "peg Social security to individuals so those individuals have the ability perhaps to invest in various funds" isn't privatization, what does Ken Buck want to call it? Is he going to take Sharron Angle's "personalization" dodge? Even among all of the teabagger candidates, Ken Buck has emerged as the least principled, least consistent candidate out there. Even Joe Miller always has a consistent answer: "It's unconstitutional."