This is really painful. Not only is the reporter lobbing up beach balls for the Colorado senator to hit, he somehow managed to trip up big time on a simple question then asked to re-tape it…
Via Hot Air:
He’s got most of the policy stuff nailed: Keep Obamacare? Check. Gun control? Check. Path to citizenship? Check. Opposition to the death penalty? Check. Opposition to the ‘personhood’ amendment? Check. More regulations on fracking? Check. Was his answer on Common Core an endorsement of the program, or a rejection of it? Yes. Keep in mind that this is a man running for re-election in a purple state who’s still trying to position himself as a moderate and the White House’s worst nightmare, or whatever. Setting aside his record of voting 99 percent of the time with the president, would O himself have answered any of those policy questions differently? Maybe he’d have hedged a bit on the death penalty, which would place Udall to Obama’s left. No wonder Udall couldn’t name a single Obama proposal he opposes when pressed to do so during a recent debate.