OK, you make distinctions without a difference.
Buck is (was, really) a shrill partisan combatant to elect Obama. He has been somewhat partisan throughout, as all the DEMS were. Now it is breaking up. Reality Bites. We all have to re-assess all the lies constantly these days. The Center is the place to be.
Would Mitt have been better? Or would Mitt the religious peacenick, with no experience, never been in a confrontation on the basketball court, in a long time, if ever.....:
A man who goes out of his way to spend enormous time with infirmed strangers for the Church and his Peace:
A man with the Gold Spoon in his mouth that bad mouth Affordable Care after he set it up in MA:
Better?? I don't think so. Crashed the economy with Union busting, more likely, and would had no support in the Senate.
IAC, I see Buck and myself very close to center, he a little left, me a little right sometimes and far left of Buck on other times.